Wear and Tear: Stop the Pain and Put the Spring Back in Your Body

Feeling old and creaky? Everyday wear and tear can erode your joints and stiffen your ligaments and tendons, and can even lead to arthritis. Bestselling author

Dr. Bob Arnot designed a revolutionary program to overcome his own advanced case of wear and tear, and his findings can help you get on the move too.

His exciting new blueprint will dramatically improve your strength and vigor, help you become more supple and limber, and put the spring back into your step. Whether you are sixty years old or twenty, this book can help you beat wear and tear.

Based on the latest scientific research and decades of Dr. Arnot's own experience, Wear and Tear includes easy-to-follow guidelines to help you select the right shoes, incorporate highly effective new supplements into your diet, and kill the pain associated with sore joints and even moderate arthritis. For the more athletic, Dr. Arnot provides a regimen of nutrition, diet, and exercise to reverse joint damage. You'll even find customized yoga poses and a chapter on joint-friendly sports.

Dr. Bob Arnot will show you how to slow, stop, or even reverse the effects of wear and tear.

Dr Bob Arnot presents the complete anti-aching programme to help your body regain strength, flexibility and energy.

Experts suggest you should exercise a minimum of three times a week, especially as you grow older. But active people, including many professional athletes, find their bodies are worn and torn down over time. Neck pain, backache, stiff joints and old sports injuries conspire to keep them on the couch. In WEAR AND TEAR, Dr Bob Arnot has put together a concrete programme that shows how to become even more limber, flexible and energetic than before. From the earliest stage of wear and tear to the most severe, Dr Arnot provides powerful and highly effective steps that will help fix the damage and eliminate the pain. Along the way, he explains the science behind the steps - the physiology, the mechanics, the supplements and medications, the self-tests - that lead to a more energetic, flexible, limber body. Normal wear and tear often results in arthritis. Proper care of your wear and tear can help you slow, stop, or even reverse arthritis.

Bestselling medical expert Dr. Bob Arnot presents a program to help your body regain strength, flexibility, and energy. The ever popular Dr. Bob Arnot has come up with a solid program for dealing with the wear and tear on the body that usually results in arthritis. Although professionals recommend exercising three times per week, pain from stiff joints, back, and neck, as well as old sports injuries, often prevent people from following through, even with the best of intentions. Dr. Arnot outlines the essential steps necessary to achieve a more limber body, while repairing the damage already done. Along the way he explains the science behind his program--the physiology, the mechanics, supplements and medications--in his familiar, accessible style. Here at last is the expert advice that will help counteract and even prevent the inevitable. Wear and Tear is an invaluable book for just about anyone who wants to improve the quality of their bodies and their lives. Praise for Dr. Bob Arnot:

Dr. Bob Arnot is currently an NBC news correspondent and one of the most recognized names in the medical and health professions. A bestselling author, Dr. Arnot has published nine books, including Wear and Tear, The Prostate Cancer Protection Plan, The Breast Health Cookbook, The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet, and The Biology of Success.

Contents

Introduction: Wear and Tear

The Road Map

PART ONE

Problems: What Causes Wear and Tear

1. Heel Pounders

2. Stiff Man Syndrome

3. Fatal Flaws

4. The Weak Link

5. Overload

PART TWO

Solutions: Beating Wear and Tear

6. Kill the Pain

7. Protect Your Joints

8. Fix the Flaws

9. Restore Your Joints

10. Build Protective Strength

11. Put Back the Spring

12. Lighten the Load

13. Play Joint-Friendly Sports

14. Conclusion

Appendix: Joint Nutrition

Glossary

Selected Biographies

Bibliography

Index