Many women over 40 suffer from a condition experts often misdiagnose as arthritis because the symptoms look the same. Researchers are calling it the Joint Decay Cycle — when your body’s natural repair system runs out of energy. It causes that deep dulling pain that seems to be spreading throughout your body.
Your joints depend on your cells for two things: keeping your estrogen balanced, and repairing daily damage. After 40, your cells start running low on energy for both. The molecule behind that energy is called NAD — and by 50, your levels can drop by nearly half.
Your cartilage is now breaking down faster than your body can repair it. This is what causes that deep, radiating ache millions of women have to deal with everyday.