“inflammation is now understood to be a key mediator of OA that contributes to cartilage loss and progressive degeneration of affected joints… OA is no longer considered a noninflammatory arthritis or a ‘wear and tear’ disease”
I heretofore thought age-related cartilage loss was the cause of osteoarthritis and inflammation. Turns out it’s the other way around: the inflammation degrades cartilage. Okay, no more slogging through joint pains for me, regardless of how small.
Edit: added a phrase for clarity
Same, tried the AID diet first without significant effect. Two weeks of beef salt water got me there and I started identifying foods ([chicken] eggs and [cow] cheese being worst, but carbs being problematic in general, hence AID failure). I now do it yearly after Christmas to check foods I’m suspicious of. It’s extreme, but pretty much guaranteed to work, barring Lyme disease, basically no-one has an inflammatory reaction to beef.
For those of you contemplating this, trick I found is when I eat an inflammatory food while hydrating properly I put on a Kg + of water weight within 24 hours (remember, inflammation of an injury makes it swell, with water). Easy to measure.