Hip pain and stiffness are some of the most common complaints of people as they age. However, these are less age related or genetic problems and more about bad habits or past traumas catching up with you.

Our bodies are very resilient. They cope with a huge amount of abuse. But they can’t do this indefinitely. At some point, your body will start to object and it does this by signs and symptoms.

Your doctor will tell you that the only way to go is down the drug and surgery path. But this doesn’t heal the problem or deal with the cause. This process only masks the problem. Drugs will only work for a while. There is quite a short life to replacement joints. After one, others are normally needed.

And the toll on your immune system is immense. You will be much more likely to succumb to passing pathogens that you were previously immune to.

Doctors like to blame genetics on every chronic disease, but this is far from true. Certainly they do have an effect on you, but it is tiny compared with other factors.

Genetics tend to have an influence on the expression of your problem, not on the cause. For example, you may have hip pain and stiffness, whereas your brother may have a renal issue. The genetics are the same, the expression is different.

Another aspect that you're never told about, is that by suppressing your natural signs and symptoms, your body deteriorates. Joint replacement tends to lead to heart problems in a few short years.

Diet is so often overlooked, yet it is the key to good, or bad, health. The advent of non-nutritious fast food has done nothing to support this.

It is also toxic.

Yet, you have a lot of control over both your diet and the toxins you absorb or ingest.

The common western diet is a sad story. It is nutrient deficient and highly toxic. By the time you reach 40 or 50, you have a lot of accumulated toxins in your body and it has been struggling for decades without the nutrition it needs.

No wonder hip pain and stiffness, along with every other problem, ensue.

So what can you do?

The first things you need to do is to get rid of the toxins and start eating nutritious food. Just doing those alone may be all you need to do to free yourself of pain.

The foods humans should NOT be eating include:

• processed, packaged, ‘dead’ food
• junk food
• fast food
• dairy, which can contain up to 60 hormones
• animal products are carcinogenic to us

The foods humans evolved on and so should be eating in abundance include fresh fruit and vegetables, whole 

grain and legumes with nuts and seeds in more moderate amounts.

The China Study shows clearly how such a diet sheds chronic disease and improves longevity.

Changing to such a diet over night would not be possible for most people. But the faster you can the better your health will be. 

Starting with lots of fresh fruit and vegetable juices and smoothies is one of the best ways. Because they are nutrient dense, you will not be craving your normal food as much. Even if you do still eat badly the rest of the time, you are giving your body a chance to de-tox as well as increasing the nutrition.

The second area you have control over, at least to some extent, is your environment:

• do you use toxic cleaning products
• new furnishing tend to be very toxic
• does your garden contains toxins substances
• stress from family or work
• medical drugs are toxic

Genes do affect your health, but they affect it more in the expression of the disease you have, rather than in the cause. For example, if you take ten people of similar background, age and gender, and they all eat the same diet and have the same stresses and toxins in their environment, they will all have health issues. But in different areas. One may have hip pain and stiffness. Another a skin rash. Another a respiratory problem. Another may get a UTI. Another may come down with digestive issues.

It isn’t your genes that are at fault. They simply give your ‘dis-ease’ an individual expression. It’s your diet and your environment that are the causes. And you can change those easily.

One of the best ways to eliminate toxins as well as to make dietary changes easy and to restore health, is to use homeopathic treatment. This wonderfully effective and totally natural therapy can have your total health well on the way to recovery in a matter of months. And it will stay there, unless your diet slips back or your are exposed to toxins anew.

Whether you suffer with hip pain and stiffness, UTIs, digestive issues, respiratory problems, mental or emotional ails, skin complaints or any other area that adversely affects you, good homeopathic treatment can free you from them and restore your health and your vitality.

Suitable hip mobility exercises should always be part of your healing protocol.

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