Cure Your Knee Arthritis Pain with Healing Power of the Sun

There is one often overlooked but simple supplement that may help ease your knee pain but first it's important to understand...

Why Does Your Knee Arthritis Hurt so Much?

All arthritis pain ultimately is caused by knee cartilage damage with inflammation and knee swelling which fires your pain nerves. In some severe cases, you may also lose the natural painkillers produced in your brain and spine making your knee pain even worse.

Your cartilage damage results from two problems - trauma and poor joint health.

Trauma

If you have knee arthritis now, then your articular joint cartilage was damaged many years ago, either from general wear and tear over time (called micro-trauma) or from a specific trauma like a sports injury - possibly, it's the result of both.

Your damaged cartilage causes inflammation and knee swelling that fires your pain nerves. Damaged cartilage is like having sandpaper on the ends of your knee bones, rubbing together, constantly wearing away your joint - day after day, year after year - until there is little or none left.

Poor Knee Joint Health

Knee cartilage is full of essential nutrients like Glucosamine, Chondroitin, Hyaluronic Acid, and Collagen type 2, along with certain vitamins and minerals - all needed by your joint cells to maintain and rebuild healthy cartilage. Vitamin D3 is needed along with all those nutrients for your joint cells to grow and maintain healthy cartilage.

Vitamin D3 to the Rescue

If you're vitamin D3 levels are low, you may sleep poorly, have chronic arthritis knee pain with inflammation and a reported up-to-threefold increase in cancer risk and heart disease. Your skin synthesizes Vitamin D when exposed to strong UVB sunlight. Many people slather on sunscreen that effectively blocks the very UVB rays needed for the synthesis of Vitamin D3.

And with so many of us working indoors, we often don't get out in the sun enough. Even worse you may live in a northern climate that offers limited, ineffective sun exposure in the winter. My suggestion is get a blood tests for 25-OH Vitamin D3 and aim for a level between 40-100. Here are some of my general Vitamin D3 recommendations for your knee arthritis:

• If you have a good tan, you do not need supplementation
• If you have dark skin, unless you enjoy 8-10 hours a day in the sun - youll need supplementation
• Take 4,000 8,000* IU at night depending on how deficient you are
• Take capsules not tabs - for better absorption
• Use a quality product like Now, Carlsons or Solgar capsules 1000 or 2000 IU

*4,000 to 8,000 IU may sound like a lot but its really only 2 to 4 mg. If youre light-skinned, you generate up to 50,000 IUs or more of Vitamin D3 in just half-an-hour of strong sunlight. Most people sleep well after taking Vitamin D3 while the rare individual gets insomnia. If that happens to you, take your Vitamin D3 in the morning. Youll still get the sleep benefit at night.

For best results combine vitamin D3 with other clinically proven effective knee treatments.

Please always check with your doctotr before making any changes in your supplementation, diet, exercise and medication.