DR. SHAWN BAKER: So when you're eating the sugars and the starches and refined grains and things like that, that drives high levels of insulin.

Andrew Tunstall reversed severe bone on bone hip osteoarthritis

And a NEW study detailed how Mitochondria might be the key in speeding up cartilage regeneration

That links with this clip of Dr. Shawn Baker.

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The University of Alabama a few years ago it did a study looking at specifically knee osteoarthritis, and they found that they compared a low fat versus low carb group and by far the low carb group was much better for osteoarthritis and they just had better symptomatic relief.  There was also another study looking at insulin levels, and people that had high circulating insulin levels activate something called a fibroblast like synovia sites. Synovia sites are the cells that make the synovial fluid, the liquid that's inside of our joint that lubricates it.  It's a lubricant.  So when those cells are exposed to high levels of insulin, and the biggest driver of insulin in the body is largely carbohydrates, particularly refined carbohydrates, right?  So when you're eating the sugars and the starches and refined grains and things like that, that drives high levels of insulin. High levels of insulin then lead to an increase in these synovial sites secreting inflammatory cytokines which will damage the joints that they live in.  So we get the acceleration of arthritis.  

Andrew Tunstall.