NSAIDs: A Daily Kidney Punch
Over the years, I've been surprised by how many people casually tell me that they take ibuprofen (or any other NSAID) every day as part of their routine. Friends, that's not a good strategy for long-term kidney health. There are some concerning cardiovascular side effects of long-term use of NSAIDs, too.
This is on my mind because, a) I'm writing a book on how to live healthy and well as long as possible that has a supplement chapter, and b) I had someone have tummy troubles taking Nutradisc while we were doing decompression for a two-level disc herniation (the discs got much better--we actually got a rare "after" MRI that showed huge changes). I swapped her supplements and took the Nutradisc home for myself.
You see, back in April I started having some foot pain on the medial/arch side of my foot from popping out of the Peloton pedals (side note — I just hit my 700th ride). Foot pain can be hard to beat since the tissue is being loaded with every step. It got so bad at one point that I sent myself for an X-ray to make sure I didn't have a stress fracture, which, thankfully, I didn't.