Arthritis and joint pain are the leading causes of disability.

And today's show, we're going to talk about the changing landscape when it comes to

managing arthritis, looking at it from my metabolic perspective.

So it's been long recognized that osteoarthritis specifically, which is a subset of arthritis, is common wear and tear.

You overuse your joints over time, so your hips, your elbows, your knees, your low back, and your shoulder start to break down from where and tear the old

thinking goes but the new science is suggesting that this disease

osteoarthritis specifically is has a lot of metabolic origins and in today's show we're going to talk

about some of the research validating this new concept and it turns out that exercise walking, supporting metabolic

health with a low-carb diet, for example,

are some of the best ways to support the health of your joints.

So one of the papers we're going to talk about today is titled

Biomarkers for Austroarthritis Current Status and Future Updates

that was published in Best Practice and Research Clinical Rheumatology.

So as I mentioned the landscape of Arthritic Treatment is changing. The investigators say for many years Austroarthritis was described as a non-inflammatory wear and tear disease

because it was perceived to be a slow-burning disease that typically

develops over a long period of time due to the natural wear and tear in sonovial joints.

However, this wear and tear model falls short of describing

all inflammatory disease mechanisms,

and thus the description is no longer used since it prevented the field

from moving towards more innovative treatment options. The wear and tear

disease concept is also antagonistic to data emerging from recent advances in

our understanding of the crucially important

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