Ep. 67 - Fasting and Osteoarthritis, Reducing Knee & Joint Pain by Losing Weight and Lowering Inflammation | Improving Orthopedic Surgery & Physical Therapy Outcomes with Fasting | Mobility and Quality of Life | Free Intermittent Fasting Plan

Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Get your FREE BOX OF LMNT hydration support for the perfect electrolyte balance for your fasting lifestyle with your first purchase here! In this episode, Dr. Scott and Tommy discuss the ways that fasting can improve clinical outcomes for people suffering with knee osteoarthritis, as well as many other bone and joint ailments. Excess body fat puts an immediate physical overload on our joints, but the metabolic inflammation that is seen in osteoarthritis can also be greatly improved through fasting. They discuss how to make significant improvements in quality of life and mobility through fasting, which is just starting to gain support in the orthopedic world. Babu S, Vaish A, Vaishya R, Agarwal A. Can intermittent fasting be helpful for knee osteoarthritis?. J Clin Orthop Trauma. 2021;16:70-74. Published 2021 Jan 23. doi:10.1016/j.jcot.2020.12.020 Leyland KM, Judge A, Javaid MK, et al. Obesity and the Relative Risk of Knee Replacement Surgery in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: A Prospective Cohort Study. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2016;68(4):817-825. doi:10.1002/art.39486 Messier SP, Gutekunst DJ, Davis C, DeVita P. Weight loss reduces knee-joint loads in overweight and obese older adults with knee osteoarthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 2005;52(7):2026-2032. doi:10.1002/art.21139 Have a question you'd like us to answer? Click here to send it to us or leave us a voicemail we can play on the show! Show Transcript: www.thefastingforlife.com/blog If you enjoy the podcast, would you please tap on the stars below and consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to bring you the best original content each week. We also just enjoy reading them! Sign up for the Fasting For Life newsletter at www.thefastingforlife.com Join the Community on Facebook! Follow Fasting For Life: www.facebook.com/thefastingforlife www.instagram.com/thefastingforlife

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Scott Watier.
0:03.4	And I'm Tommy Welling, and you're listening to the fasting for life podcast.
0:07.1	This podcast is about using fasting as a tool to regain your health,
0:11.9	achieve ultimate wellness, and live the life you truly deserve.
0:15.0	Each episode is a short conversation on a single topic with immediate actionable steps.
0:20.0	We cover everything from fat loss and health and wellness to the science of lifestyle design.
0:25.0	We started fasting for life because of how fasting has transformed our lives and we hope to share the tools that we have learned along the way. Hey everyone,
0:34.0	welcome to the
0:35.0	and
0:40.0	everyone, welcome to the fasting for life podcast.
0:42.0	My name is Dr. Scott Waddier. I I'm here as always with a good friend and colleague Tommy Welling good afternoon to you sir
0:47.6	Hey Scott how are you rock and roll man let's do it. I'm doing great
0:53.0	Today's conversation is one that I can relate to personally,
0:57.0	that I can relate to personally, also professionally,
1:02.0	and it is a subset of something I don't think we've ever
1:05.8	directly talked about but it is incredibly encouraging that fasting is going to be able to benefit kind of the the
1:17.7	overall population that suffers with knee osteoarthritis so if you're coming to the fasting podcast, you're new to our
1:25.3	podcast, you've listened to some of the episodes maybe and you're like, wait a minute. So today they're
1:29.7	going to talk about osteoarthritis of the knee.
1:34.9	And we are, and we're gonna back it up with some statistics and most definitely some action steps
1:39.8	or something that we can do, a big takeaway
1:42.1	in the fact that fasting can be helpful.
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