I’m a retired 77 year old man living in Thailand , I’m generally fit and try to watch what I eat and don’t drink alcohol , smoke or use drugs. I use my home treadmill most days to slowly walk a few kilometers.

Over the past few months Ive started to notice that when I physically try to do some thing, like bend down to pick some thing off the floor, or when getting out of bed in the morning, or other normal physical activities, I get what I can only describe as aches and pains , mainly in my arms , legs and back .

I understand what I’m now experiencing may be due to my advanced age , but I’m hoping I can in some way try and reduce the annoying feeling of aches and pains . I was wondering if taking some form of natural supplement would help reduce my aches and pains. Ive looked and searched on the internet for an answer, but it seems to be flooded with far too many advertising generated recommendations .

So has any one here experienced any thing similar ( aches and pains ) and may have found some thing that helped .

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Try yoga or Taichi, anything that involves stretching.

Keep moving for sure, and you can try Glucosamine Sulfate, Chondroitin, Shark Cartilage and Msm for joint support, as I'm thinking that's where you're having the pain and not the muscles themselves. You can find them in a combination instead of separately.

If you can get some weights or go to a gym a couple of times a week, you can build a little muscle, that will help support those joints.

I have pains in my joints at 69 and have for a decade or so, mostly coming from lifting extreme weights for decades, but most everyone experiences these things after 40.

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I am 73, have had a spinal injury from my 40's, I am used to having pain 24/7 sometimes mild other times pretty bad but mornings are by far the worst, lots of trouble just standing. I do have meds for when the pain is very bad but try to avoid it if I can, was on opoids for 20 years till I weaned myself off them. I have a bike machine I can peddle for short periods of time and do walk but need to be on even ground but we had to buy a quad bike to enable me to get around our land(seperate blocks) and only walk when on the ground around the trees. Knees are getting bad too but again age tends to do that, the walking does help and we bought a walking machine so I can walk more at home,I also try various sitting excercises as well, my back restricts me but without any injuries you should be able to do more than me, look up sitting excercises as they can help build up your legs/knees etc with reasonably gentle work but walking does tend to be the best excercise, painful mornings are just something we need to adjust too as we age.

As I approached 80 I started to get the same kind of aches and pains OP describes. Over the previous year I had started doing more walking and exercises.

Long story short, some online research showed that some of the "old school" exercises I was doing, such as stretching down to touch toes, did more harm than good. Also, that at my age, most exercises should be done slowly with fewer reps.

I'd suggest OP do some concentrated research as to which exercises are best for his situation.

Not that I no longer have aches & pains...get rid of one, find another. Part of the adventure of ageing