And this we'll see with a lot of brain fog, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, there'll be a lot of weight gain, especially around the abdomen, and people will experience a lot of inflammatory symptoms, so that's when we'll see
joint pain and muscle aches and, potentially,
worsening of depression as cortisol can kind of motivate us and get us going, because, if you think about it, when we're
in a state of fight, flight or freeze, that's an action - oriented state, once our body stops responding to that, we enter this kind of burnout and exhaustive phase.
Whether it's an old injury that begins to flare up more often or arthritis that continues to
worsen,
joint pain can cause a number of problems for an older dog from difficulty getting into the car or down the stairs to being able to move around
in cold weather.