Stop Overstressing Your Joints: The Hidden Root Cause Of Midlife Anxiety The biological reason standard fitness advice fails us in midlife and how to rebuild your physical and mental armor. Press enter or click to view image in full size Image created via Nano Banana 2 by Dr Charu Malik You wake up, swing your legs over the edge of the bed, and there it is. Your knees feel like rusty hinges. Your lower back is inexplicably tight. And hovering right behind your ribcage is a quiet, heavy sense of dread. Most people over forty treat these as two completely separate problems. You take an anti inflammatory for the joints and try deep breathing for the anxiety. But what if they are the exact same issue? Over my twenty years in healthcare as a physician and a nutritionist who specializes in root cause personalized nutrition, and now as an Integrative Wellness Coach for perimenopausal and menopausal women, I have watched highly successful people completely burn out because they misunderstand how their bodies age.…