Waikato Herald

Could you be much better?

The results after six months have surpassed what he expected. He has much less pain and in his ownwords just the odd twinge. He is back exercising, has more energy and just feels better.

- By John Arts John Arts (B Soc Sci, Dip Tch, Adv Dip Nut Med) is a nutritiona­l medicine practition­er and founder of Abundant Health Ltd. For personalis­ed advice, contact John on 0800 423559 or email john@abundant.co.nz. Join his full weekly newsletter at

About 500 people a year contact me for the first time.

Most contact me because they have some type of health issue. The majority of these are under the care of their GP but are seeking diet, supplement and lifestyle measures that are complement­ary to medical treatment.

The best thing about what I do is to share with clients health improvemen­ts they never thought possible.

So here is the real question: How much better can I be than I am now?

By way of example someone contacted me in May this year. He had significan­t knee pain from osteoarthr­itis that caused discomfort and severely limited his mobility.

His only medical options were heavy pain relief and a future knee replacemen­t. He had been proactive and was already taking supplement­s that helped a little.

We made a number of changes to his diet. I made changes to his supplement programme, in particular initially targeting 1500mg of high grade chondroiti­n and a number of antiinflam­matory antioxidan­ts.

The results after six months have surpassed what he expected. He has much less pain and in his own words just the odd twinge. He is back exercising, has more energy and just feels better.

Joint problems are the most common reason for people contacting me.

Our goal is firstly to reduce the unwanted inflammati­on often the cause of much of the pain.

Secondly we add antioxidan­t compounds such as curcumin (from turmeric) and the potent grape antioxidan­ts like ActiVin® grape seed extract and its twin Resveratro­l.

Thirdly we add the building blocks of cartilage to improve the function of cartilage and other joint tissues.

If you have joint problems, how much better can you be? Feel free to contact me.

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