This is very true. My mother had osteoarthritis and it's a worry for me. Five years ago, at 62, I lost over 30 pounds by walking daily and modifying my eating habits (mostly, cutting out processed foods). It made a huge difference in the chronic aches and pains I was experiencing. Now, if I stop walking for a few days or gain five pounds, I feel it in the knees, legs, hips, and even shoulders. It affects my sleep and my agility. It's hard for women at my age to keep the weight under control, but walking daily really helps.
The coefficient of friction in a healthy human joint is roughly 0.003. For context, Teflon on Teflon is 0.04.
We are walking around on engineering miracles that make our most advanced industrial bearings look like gravel.
Arthritis is rarely just "bad luck." It is often a maintenance failure. It is the moment when the system's inflammatory load—the internal noise—exceeds its structural repair capacity.
We treat these biological assets like rental cars. We fuel them with inflammatory inputs and sedentary stress, then act surprised when the gears finally grind.
Pain is just the dashboard light flashing. Respect the mechanics.
Thank you my friend. Yes, getting ourselves back into alignment, or even get into alignment for the first time, is the solution to many of our problems.
This is very true. My mother had osteoarthritis and it's a worry for me. Five years ago, at 62, I lost over 30 pounds by walking daily and modifying my eating habits (mostly, cutting out processed foods). It made a huge difference in the chronic aches and pains I was experiencing. Now, if I stop walking for a few days or gain five pounds, I feel it in the knees, legs, hips, and even shoulders. It affects my sleep and my agility. It's hard for women at my age to keep the weight under control, but walking daily really helps.
I often see how easy it is to treat friction as failure.
Especially when the body, or a system, no longer moves as freely as it once did.
In the 5 Voices Lens…
Friction is felt differently across the voices:
Nurturers feel the emotional toll of strain.
Guardians notice limits and thresholds.
Creatives experience constraint as both challenge and signal.
Connectors sense how friction affects shared rhythm.
Pioneers feel impatience when momentum slows.
Naming these responses helps people read friction rather than fight it.
The coefficient of friction in a healthy human joint is roughly 0.003. For context, Teflon on Teflon is 0.04.
We are walking around on engineering miracles that make our most advanced industrial bearings look like gravel.
Arthritis is rarely just "bad luck." It is often a maintenance failure. It is the moment when the system's inflammatory load—the internal noise—exceeds its structural repair capacity.
We treat these biological assets like rental cars. We fuel them with inflammatory inputs and sedentary stress, then act surprised when the gears finally grind.
Pain is just the dashboard light flashing. Respect the mechanics.
Thank you my friend. Yes, getting ourselves back into alignment, or even get into alignment for the first time, is the solution to many of our problems.