Hello and welcome to Zoe Recap, where each week we find the best bits from one of our podcast episodes to help you improve your health.

Today, we're talking about arthritis.

It might not sound as serious as cancer or heart disease, but arthritis can have a huge impact on your quality of life,

turning simple movements into painful tasks.

But here's the good news.

Emerging research suggests that diet can have a huge impact on the symptoms of arthritis,

helping to lower inflammation and even reduce the risk of the disease developing.

I'm joined by Dr. Tamiko Katsumimoto to explore how simple changes to what's on our plate

can help protect our joints.

It's been eight years since I co-founded Zoe, and I think every year I've just got more

and more shocked at the way in which the food that we're

eating across the Western world is making us so sick, but also just discovering each year

about ways in which it affects us that I had no idea about.

So today we're talking to you as a professor of immunology and rheumatology at Stanford about

arthritis and how it's linked to food.

And I never would have guessed when I found it, Zoe, that it could have anything to do with food.

In fact, I would have said that was, you know, like crazy, totally non-scientific.

So it's amazing how much I think my understanding has changed.

What is arthritis and how does that relate to this concept of

inflammation, which I know is a lot about what you study? I'm a rheumatologist. So I take care of

patients with arthritis, with a lot of other inflammation of other organs. So rheumatoid arthritis, lupus,

vasculitis, you know,

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