If you use your joints too much, you’ll wear them out, right? This is a very common belief, even amongst doctors, and others who should know better. There is no evidence showing that using your joints causes them to wear out quicker.

Your joints, if fed the proper diet, can renew, rebuild and rejuvenate the tissues that lead to optimal function for your age. To say otherwise, especially if you’re an orthopedic surgeon, is to be disingenuous. Joints don’t have to wear our, or be chronically inflamed, if you treat them right.