Study: Low-carb diet provides relief from knee osteoarthritis
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https://www.uab.edu/news/health/ite...-osteoarthritis |
Wow, this is something.
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turning sad to glad. i love it!
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Interesting. I have knee osteoarthritis and often have a fair amount of pain. I wonder if the pain would be a lot worse if I was on the SAD diet!
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I have knee pain that is probably osteoarthritis and I notice that it improves quite a bit being on low-carb. I also have a hand problem that presents like arthritis and the pain from that improves as well. I've heard similar anecdotal evidence from lots of people that their joint pain eases moderately to significantly on low-carb, so this doesn't really surprise me.
However, I just always assumed that it had to do with reducing inflammation, rather than a direct pain marker. That's great news. |
More details on the adipokine leptin in this three part series on Keto and Chronic Pain. https://crownmd.net/the-ketogenic-d...d-chronic-pain/
https://www.dietdoctor.com/is-a-ket...l-pain-reliever |
I’m fascinated by the “excitability” angle. That makes a lot of sense.
Amy Berger’s series on mitochondria had a lot about signaling, and how running on sugar creates all kinds of distorted signals. Not to mention the pain of inflammation itself. |
Atkins did a lot for me versus chronic pain. I used to get a stiff neck and back, couldn't sleep on my side, starting in my 20's. Most of that disappeared, and what was left totally dissipated once I went to high-fat keto.
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Low carb must lubricate the joints because I noticed it right away when I first went low-carb and taking the weight off of the joints is a huge benefit also.
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I had a lot of mostly mild joint pain that completely disappeared within in the first 7-10 days of going low carb. This is one big reason that this WOE will be a permanent WOE for me.
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There's stuff (that's about as science-y as I can get on my lunch break) about fat composition and cellular permeability that is pertinent about that. |
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I hear you on the stuff and it must be good stuff too! :lol: :lol: I have these stairs, split with a landing and I use to fly up and down them. Then one day I thought I felt grinding in the knees and though oh no!!! not me! Later after starting low carb, I realized nothing was grinding anymore! :D |
While in college I managed to lose some weight (via low carb) and keep it off for a few years. I lifted weights and jogged regularly during that time. But I never ran in any official race. In 2016 I did my first ever 'official' 10K after not having jogged a step since college (nearly 30 years ago). With only 1 month of prep I managed to jog every step. Muscle pain? Yes. Joint pain? Not much. Even though it took a day or two to recover from that event it was so worth it. I had done something that was unimaginable for most of my adult life. Much to my surprise, I've kept on doing it. Next month I'll be running my 4th annual Richmond 10K.
Frankly, I'm shocked on so many levels. I can't believe that I've taken up jogging again. The last thing that I want in life is a knee replacement. I did that first 10K thinking that it would be a one-and-done -- a bucket list thing. I worried about what running would do to my knees at my age (52 at the time). But it went so well that it has became an annual tradition. For the 2017 & 2018 10K's my times were a little faster than 2016 and the recovery time after the race was much less. I've now made jogging a regular part of my fitness routine (2 or 3 times per week). Yesterday I jogged nearly 8 miles on paved roads. No joint pain today and really no muscle pain to speak of. Yes, the legs are a bit sluggish today, but that is about it. I may still be technically "overweight", but I have not been this "running fit" since the mid 1980's. Currently a 10K distance feels like just another workout. So again, where is the joint pain? If I were doing damage surely I'd be feeling something by now. I have injured myself lifting weights since going LCHF. I have not had any joint issues at all, even with all of the pavement pounding that I am doing. If issues come up I'll stop. So far... nothing bad has come from it. My doctor (a jogger herself) is fine with me taking up jogging. However, several family members, neighbors and friends (many of whom have had knee replacements) have warned me that I'm not doing myself any favors by taking up jogging. Based on my experience, I think that they are wrong. I've read news articles that blame the 1980's "jogging craze" for the myriad of knee replacement surgeries taking place in recent decades. But I'm more inclined to believe that a bad diet of excessive carbs (sugar & grains), processed food & vegetable oils are more to blame. Straining your joints while eating a highly inflammatory diet appears to be a bad thing to do. Minus the inflammatory diet, moving appears to do a body good. That's been my experience so far. |
I drastically reduced my carbs 4 years ago. My joint pain vanished along with the pounds. Arthritis runs very strongly in my family, particularly among the women. My mother and older sister have gnarled fingers. The prediction in our family from my teenage years was that among the sisters, I would have the worst arthritis because I would have bad joint pain on rainy days.
This Christmas I went off low carb and joint pain and mobility loss came back with a vengeance. Lesson learned. Truthfully, the lack of joint pain on low carb is what keeps my eating on the straight and narrow. I don't need a study to know what works for me. My mother has given up bread and potatoes. Her arthritis has improved. My arthritic sister has not given up the carbs. She's very thin, but she's on high blood pressure meds and has the hands of an 80 year old woman (she's in her mid 50's). |
Eliminating an inflammatory diet is key. Before I went strict low carb, I was waking up with sore finger joints and needed to stretch them to enable them to function. After about 6 months of consistent low carb, the joint pain and inflammation was gone. It's a WOE that can reduce inflammation, and my very low scores with hsCRP tests prove this is now the case.
I, too, have resumed running over the past 6+ months, as a visit to Dr. Mark Cucuzzella's running store in WVA resulted in a gait analysis and a recommendation of well-designed pair of running shoes to suit my style. Spurred by Mark's enthusiasm for running, I now mix in a cross country routine of running in a hilly environment where I take a run/power walk approach, and it's ideal for me at this stage of my life. No post-run pain and a fast recovery time indicates that the days of being hampered by inflammation are gone. I won't be doing the marathon distances that I ran back in the day, but these shorter runs are an excellent complement to my weekly workouts. I firmly believe the referenced study has merit based on my experience, and the WOE recommended isn't simply limited to the knee joint. Good stuff! Dr. Mark's website has lots of good information for those who haven't yet paid it a visit: https://www.drmarksdesk.com/ |
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