Achy and sore joints can make your life horribly inconvenient, if not unbearable. Many are under the assumption that it is an inevitability with old age, yet there are plenty of younger individuals who develop it as well. Is there a reason why arthritis strikes the way that it does? What, if any, are effective at home options for grappling with arthritis? We discuss this and more in today's episode.

Shows Notes:

0:08 - National Statistics - https://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/data_statistics/national-statistics.html

6:30 - Effect of Dietary Sugar Intake on Biomarkers of Subclinical Inflammation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Intervention Studies - https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/10/5/606

6:30 - Alcohol, inflammation, and gut-liver-brain interactions in tissue damage and disease development - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842521/

11:50 - Joint distraction in treatment of osteoarthritis (II): effects on cartilage in a canine model - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1063458499902637

11:51 - Clinical relevance of the hip joint: Part II–Importance of joint distraction - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/1753614615Z.000000000115

13:06 - External Rotation Strengthening With Manual Distraction for Individuals With Glenohumeral Osteoarthritis - https://journals.lww.com/nsca-scj/fulltext/2015/08000/External_Rotation_Strengthening_With_Manual.12.aspx

15:48 - Genetic and environmental risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726551/

16:45 - Etiology and Risk Factors for Rheumatoid Arthritis: A State-of-the-Art Review - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.689698/full

17:35 - The Effect of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Rheumatoid Arthritis - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7362115/