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DID YOU KNOW that more and more US adults are turning to complementary medicine therapies to manage pain?

New research published in JAMA reports a 36.7% increase in the use of therapies such as nutrition, yoga, acupuncture, chiropractic, massage, and naturopathy for pain management over the past 20 years, as increasing numbers of people seek natural alternatives to highly addictive opioid painkillers, NSAIDS, and more.

Specifically for knee osteoarthritis, a new study from Arthritis Care and Research shows that inflammatory eating habits greatly increase pain. After subjects were put on an anti-inflammatory diet for 10 years, their level of pain was reduced significantly.

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Steve: An intelligently planned caloric restriction eating style can be very effective for the long-term. The key term is intelligent, because if you do not work with a qualified health professional to make sure you are covering all bases, there could be negative effects. However, this eating style is not for everyone, although the research is leaning towards more all-encompassing than in the past. It's certainly much healthier than drug therapy. Here's the latest.

Reducing overall calorie intake without depriving the body of essential vitamins and minerals may rejuvenate your muscles and activate biological pathways important for good health, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health publishing in Aging Cell. Moreover, researchers in Nature Communications demonstrated how caloric restriction not only delays aging, but slows the progression of neurodegenerative diseases.

A study from Nutrients found that in terms of gut microbiome diversity, several caloric restriction strategies were equally successful in the overall taxonomic structure of the microbiome composition across all participants.

A review from Frontiers in Nutrition suggests time restricted eating could offer several health benefits for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) patients, such as improved liver health indicators like liver stiffness and intrahepatic triglyceride levels.

A study from The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests time-restricted eating may be an effective approach to reduce the inflammatory cytokine TNF-α in the general adult population. Moreover, research published in Cell Reports, found that fasting raises levels of a chemical in the blood known as arachidonic acid, which inhibits inflammation.

Type 2 Diabetes While caloric restriction is not an option for type 1 diabetics, it seems the research is trending more positively for type 2 diabetics. A study from Frontiers in Nutrition found that fasting blood glucose, glycated hemoglobin, and insulin resistance improved with a twice-per-week fasting intervention.

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Caloric restriction does not work if you eat late at night. A study from Nature Communications found that if the time of one's last meal was after 9 pm, there was a 28% higher risk of cardiovascular disease than if before 8 pm. The study also found that consistently waiting to eat your first meal beyond 10AM can be detrimental to one's health.

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