“inflammation is now understood to be a key mediator of OA that contributes to cartilage loss and progressive degeneration of affected joints… OA is no longer considered a noninflammatory arthritis or a ‘wear and tear’ disease”
I heretofore thought age-related cartilage loss was the cause of osteoarthritis and inflammation. Turns out it’s the other way around: the inflammation degrades cartilage. Okay, no more slogging through joint pains for me, regardless of how small.
Edit: added a phrase for clarity
When I started on a low inflammation elimination diet it did wonders for my joint pain. Can recommend.
This.
Have met people in the coeliac community that had their arthritis go away entirely after strictly stopping gluten
May I ask what a low inflammation diet is? Wild Mexican yams? I say that because yams have corticosteroid precursors in them, they first created corticosteroids from Mexican wild yams and that is the go-to treatment for inflammation.
In short, no processed foods or highly refined oils
I took that a step further and eat only beef, salt, and water, but if you figure out what causes the inflammation you don’t have to go this far.
Same, tried the AID diet first without significant effect. Two weeks of beef salt water got me there and I started identifying foods ([chicken] eggs and [cow] cheese being worst, but carbs being problematic in general, hence AID failure). I now do it yearly after Christmas to check foods I’m suspicious of. It’s extreme, but pretty much guaranteed to work, barring Lyme disease, basically no-one has an inflammatory reaction to beef.
For those of you contemplating this, trick I found is when I eat an inflammatory food while hydrating properly I put on a Kg + of water weight within 24 hours (remember, inflammation of an injury makes it swell, with water). Easy to measure.