Knee Replacement Prevention for Pain Free Knees

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It may surprise you to learn that dieticians and nutritionists can help clients prevent knee breakdown that requires knee replacement surgery, but your nutrition has a big impact on the health of your joints. If you want to prevent or postpone a knee replacement, this information is for you and you can start now! In this episode, we’ll cover what causes the cartilage in the knees to deteriorate, briefly explain different types of arthritis, and discuss how food plus some key supplements can help support cartilage health and reduce pain.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.
0:04.6	As you are listening to the show this morning, do you have some pain in your left knee,
0:09.5	or maybe your right knee, or maybe both? You may be surprised to learn that 800,000 adults have
0:17.4	knee replacement surgery every year. The average age of a patient who gets
0:23.2	knee replacement is about 65 years old. I think it's getting even younger.
0:29.9	Surgeons consider anyone younger than 50 to be too young for knee replacements. By 2030, knee replacement surgery is projected to reach 3.5 million, which is an increase
0:45.7	of 673 percent listeners.
0:48.8	Wow.
0:50.1	Yeah.
0:50.5	Wow.
0:51.3	A 673 percent increase in knee replacements. That's kind of scary. Wow. A 673% increase in knee replacements.
0:56.3	That's kind of scary.
0:58.1	Well, the question is, what is happening to our knees and what can we do to support our
1:05.6	knees and prevent surgery?
1:08.8	I'm Melanie Beasley, a licensed and registered dietitian. I've worked with several
1:13.4	clients to help them change their eating habits so that they could avoid or postpone knee replacement
1:20.9	surgery. And I've worked with soldiers and veterans, volleyball players, hockey players, dancers, and many other older adults
1:30.1	that have knee problems. And they are all surprised to learn that what they eat makes a
1:36.3	difference in the health and comfort of their knees. Joining me today is Brittany Vincent,
1:43.3	who's also a registered and licensed dietitian.
1:46.3	Good morning, Brittany. Good morning. I think a lot of people are surprised to learn that dietitians
1:52.9	and nutritionists can help clients prevent the knee degeneration that requires knee replacement
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