A Cure for Golfer's Elbow & Tennis Elbow
NUTRITION THERAPY
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As I get older, I truly see the disproportionate impact of proper nutrition on everything. Whether it’s bodybuilding, weight loss or cancer, I have become a firm believer that proper diet will drive more than 50% of the success.
Right smack in the middle of my golfer’s and tennis elbow ordeal, I was told by my doctor that my blood sugar level was elevated. I am pretty active and have a normal BMI, so the idea of high glucose and being considered pre-diabetic was very scary.
The combination of the hunt for golfer’s elbow and tennis elbow cures and being diagnosed with pre-diabetes rapidly led me to many theories and ideas about nutrition. The dubious website I mentioned claimed to have not just a proven cure for elbow pain but an instant one. At the same time, I was learning that changes from my diet of high carbohydrates to less sugars and processed foods would be the key to reducing my blood sugar levels.
Given I was headed down the path of making some serious dietary changes, I figured why not try everything? After many trap doors and hidden passages, the miracle tennis and golfer’s elbow website showed me the foods extremely high in anti-oxidants as the basic gist of what would cure the epicondylitis.
So I tried it all – less sugary foods, less carbohydrates, more anti-oxidants combined with more cardio exercise. And my blood sugar went down! But it did nothing to my golfer’s elbow and tennis elbow.
But if you know anything about me by now, I don’t give up easily. I wasn’t done with what would be a much preferred way to fix my golfer’s elbow and tennis elbow over surgery or worse – food. Again from the Internet and actually doing research for seizures in dogs, I learned about a highly convincing but hidden field of nutrition called NRT, nutrition response testing. If you haven’t heard of it, Google it – at least you’ll be entertained.
In a nutshell, nutrition response testing is the idea that the body is out of balance due to lack of certain nutrition or too much of certain toxic elements. To test for what’s missing or what there is too much of in the body, an NRT specialist tests you by the physical resistance of your limbs with different elements and toxins inside vials touching your body.
Now there may be true science and proof behind NRT for many things, but it turns out there wasn’t any for me personally when it came to curing my golfer’s elbow and tennis elbow. It’s always so convincing when you’re lying on a medical table with someone who acts like a doctor pushing on your limbs testing various vials of elements against your body. I bought into it enough to purchase a lot of overpriced, only available at the NRT center supplements and detox flushes.
I was religious in keeping a food journal, ensuring that I followed the NRT specialist’s recommendations on what I put into my body and shoving pill after pill of supplements and detox potions daily.
And after a couple of months of an unsustainable eating lifestyle, hundreds of dollars and elbow pain as bad as ever, I once again came to the conclusion that I had dove head first into the wrong rabbit hole.
