Good morning! I love your comment “I know we are aging gracefully, but the body sometimes seems to be aging aggressively!” Isn’t that the truth?!? 🙄

@sueinmn had some great suggestions for increasing leg strength and asked me to join in the conversation. At this time I don’t have spinal stenosis but I did suffer spinal cord damage a few years ago, which significantly affected my walking. I felt like a toddler! With the help of my PT, as Sue mentioned, I’m back to my 20 year old self in a 68 year old body! 😅
I’ve posted a link from last year where I gave my detailed exercises. The side benefit is that it also helped reverse the osteoporosis in my hips to osteopenia by strengthening the muscles, encouraging new bone growth. Only do these if you are comfortable!
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/638759/
One more that I’m going to add is a good video for strengthening core and our glute muscles. All of these together can help keep the muscles around our spine strong and in good alignment for less pain. https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t-s&ei=UTF-8&p=glute+exercises+for+senior+women#id=1&vid=d75954b17136d9d2dcde966e5e053294&action=click

I think you also really nailed a cause of pain with the realization that certain foods can increase your discomfort. What foods have you found which cause you issues with inflammation?