Welcome to Nutrition Facts.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger, and I'm here to ask you, what is the most important

decision you'll make today?

Is it how you'll get to work, who you'll set up a meeting with, what friends you'll

call for lunch?

Well, as it turns out, probably the most important decision you'll make today is what to eat.

What we eat on a day-to-day basis is the number one determinant of our health and longevity.

Literally, most premature deaths in the United States are preventable and related to nutrition.

So we're going to explore some smart nutrition choices based naturally on facts.

Here we refer to the science, the research, the available data published in the peer-reviewed

medical literature right now.

That's why I wrote my book How Not To Die and why I created my non-profit site NutritionFacts.org

and now this podcast.

Maintaining joint health means stopping the chain of events that causes joint disease.

Joint disease has many triggers, including injury, infection, and inflammation, often

leading to a painful arthritis.

A key to joint health is minimizing inflammation.

Many studies show an anti-inflammatory effect of a more plant-based diet, whereas many animal

and junk foods appear to have pro-inflammatory effects.

Certain meats in particular can lead to high concentrations of uric acid in the blood

that can end up crystallizing in our joints, causing a painful condition called gout.

Rumiotroid arthritis may be triggered by autoimmune friendly fire against a urinary tract infection

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