That was one of the first things I noticed when I started eating low carb and doing IF in June - knee pain is all but gone. I still have a lot of healing that needs to be done in my body, but I'm ticking things off, one by one. Love this way of eating and living, and have lost 52 lbs. already!
I started Keto and IF 3 months ago. Wow..what a difference…My arthritis has improved big time. Weight loss and A1C are dropping…YES -:)I explain this to my 91 year old neighbor all the time. She is always open to learning…Thank you Dr Berry.
Congratulations on shedding so much so fast ! I started at the end of March and have shed 75 lbs so far with A1C now 4.7, so I am happy to have found keto as well. I try not to say I have "lost" weight, because nobody wants to find it again ! My joint pain is less, but it is hard to say whether it is the lower blood sugar or carrying so much less weight around with me.
For 35 years I was a professional carpenter and when I retired a few years ago, if I bent down on my knees, I couldn't get back up again without help. My right hand was so arthritic that I could barely hold a cup of coffee any more. 3 1/2 years ago I started KETO, and I have NO MORE pain in my knees or my hands, or anywhere else in my body! It is TRULY a miracle! And that is just the tip of the iceberg of benefits of eating correctly.
Congratulations, that is wonderful news. I hope that you don't mind me asking as I am new to this channel - Does the good doctor advocate the use of herbs (eg turmeric, ginger, garlic, rosemary, oregano etc) as beneficial for the body? I haven't seen any videos in support of or not supporting herbs.
@@niram6707I've been listening to Dr. Berry for a few years now and he has many videos about all kinds of things, so it's best to go to his you tube page and look at his videos. I'm pretty sure he's covered that subject. Another great keto doctor is Dr. Berg. He's sure to have videos about herbs
You don't think you're arthritis went away because you have retired? How can you know it was the diet rather than the resting of your body from retirement? I am a bricky and i struggle with sore joints so I might give it a try. Do you fast at all?
I'm a 62-year-old retired physician and had bilateral ACL repairs and partial medial meniscectomies 20 and 30 years ago. Increasing knee pain caused me to decrease my skiing and hiking activities In March 2021, I started a very low-carb carnivore/keto diet to lose weight. But just after a few weeks, unexpectedly, my knee pain disappeared. Then I had to taper my high blood pressure medicine down and eventually stopped taking it. My seasonal pollen allergies also went away. I eat one keto meal a day (OMAD) and enjoy multiday fasting once or twice a month. I've lost 40 pounds, my BMI went from 29 to 21, no knee pain and my endurance has returned to what I had 30 years ago. Thanks to the Low Carb Down Under group, Ken Berry, Jason Fung, Sten Eckberg, and many more. You saved my knees and my life.
Did you ever have any loose bone or cartilage fragments floating around in your knee? I’m wondering if prolonged fasting can clean this up without needing arthroscopic surgery.
Well done! I'm 61, and started a keto diet with fasting on July 1st. I'm having very similar results to you. I started keto to lose weight, which is happening, but I find myself to be more excited about the other health improvements. The weight loss has become like a side benefit!
@@JC-li8kk I did have one knee arthroscopy to "clean up" one joint. Didn't find much and it didn't help. My orthopedic surgeon just advised me to ski softer snow. An Rx for powder!
@@cassandrabond2315 I know it helps with arthritic pain because my right knee was scoped when I was 19 & that pain went away after a 3 day fast. I’m wondering if the 3 day fast was in the process of cleaning up my left knee, but didn’t have enough time to finish because my left knee actually got worse (not pain, but more fragments floating around than before). So I guess there’s a chance that autophagy was eating the old fragments & that’s why I’m having new issues if those fragments got smaller or broken up more. I’ll try another prolonged fast to see if it helps.
@@colinreidcr - Whole real food, meat, eggs, healthy oils, veggies, salads. Nothing processed, very little carbs (sugar, grains, bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, etc.). Tons of information all over RU-vid and the internet.
I had to retire early from nursing due to systemic inflammation in all joints but elbows, and osteoarthritis in neck, back, shoulders, hands, hips, knees and feet. Pain ruled my life. Within 2 weeks of beginning keto/IF lifestyle my pain was MUCH improved. Now, 18 months later, I can do yoga, go up and down my stairs, play with my 4 young grandchildren ... I have my life back!
Itʻs amazing, isnʻt it? I too had total body pain in 2016. Started not eating carbs in the middle of 2016, then no carbs AND no sugar in 2017 and havenʻt looked back. I too have my life back!! I feel better than I ever have, even in high school. I was hypoglycemic in first grade.
Eating Ketovore/Carnivore has eliminated 99.9% of my Osteoarthritis pain. It’s great to be pain free, especially in the mornings and on cold, rainy days 🥰
@@timratcliff6590 EVEN BEFORE I started Keto/IF, I raised my 8ng/ml low D level above 40ng//100nmol. All my arthritis, backpain & depression completely, blessedly subsided! REPLETE☀💊D is also completely anti-inflammatory, anti-weight-gain, anti-diabetic, anti-insulinemia, ANTI-CANCER, anti-viral, anti-Alzheimer's . . .among so very, very many others! Once my D was REPLETE, I found the hope & motivation to begin the long, hard, full-year+ path back to my pre-↓D healthy metabolism & fit physique, lost when a new carbamazepine Rx dumped my D level! I've already lost 30 of the 125 pounds I will lose by sometime next Summer! Replete D levels would have saved all 700,000 of our lost American souls to Covid! But PHARMA prefers vast profits to our health & happiness!
@@timratcliff6590 I talk about D because, before I successfully began Keto/IF, Replete Hormone☀D>40ng ALREADY FIXED MY PAINS! So even knowing some foods make arthritis worse, they no longer can affect me!🎉 But on Keto, I do stick to the lowest carb green veggies with a daily serving of brassicas. Men can eat far more ant-cancer brassicas than women, without issues. I love my broccoli sprouts! (Mixed with a more fiery blend.)
I had chronic spinal lumbar arthritis at age 35. Now 43 and just after 2yrs of keto, carnivore, and supplements my spinal discs grew back. Bone spurs gone. Doctors were shocked but never asked me how I did it.
Aarrggh! Since you didn't use drugs or have surgery, there's not a lot of profit in it for them or the hospital.... Doctors lack of curiousity infuriates me!
@@hecate235 Oh believe me they made a ton of profits from me for 5 straight years. Chiropractic, physical therapy, pills up the wazoo, weekly specialist appointments, steroid injection outpatient surgeries, etc. Cost me about $20k out of pocket not including hundreds of thousands they milked from insurance. It was only when I began to lose hope and stumbled onto RU-vid for answers. But I agree with you. When I went back for followup, xrays none of them were interested in how I healed myself unless it was healed by a pill, potion, or surgery
Been doing ketovior for one and a half months and my blood pressure is so low I don't have to medicate nearly as much. I'm 66 with advanced osteoarthritis and can testify that my pain has lessened a great amount. I've lost 18 lbs and can now comfortably tie my shoes.
I am living proof that you are 100% correct Dr. Berry. My knees were diagnosed as bone on bone. I was on 200 mg of Celebrex once a day for over 10 years. After 6 months of Ketovore, I quit taking the insaid and there was no pain. UNBELIEVABLE! I have now been off Celebrex for 2 months...still no pain. 🙂
I needed knee and hip replacement for 5 years and I got the cortisone shots like most people! I put hip and knee replacement off because because of covid! I started keto over two years ago not knowing it would help but after a year I do not need hip or knee replacement anymore! It also helped me lose weight and I feel so much better! I wish we had more doctors like you!
@@ralphfuller718 I have bone on bone in my right knee because it has already been scoped. That pain goes away with fasting, but the problem is my left knee has fragments floating around which is I guess harder to get rid of. Idk if the autophagy cells would see it as a foreign object & try to eat it away or not attack it because it’s bone & cartilage. Obviously you don’t want your body attacking your bone & cartilage. But it does get rid of old cells & produce new cells so I’m curios to know how it goes about destroying & replacing old bone cells (I heard it does create new bone cells after day 3).
Wrecked both my knees skiing in my early 20's, then popped a disc in my back in my 30's, then in my 40's developed hand/wrist pain with RA. This lead to decades of swollen and hot hands and knees and the associated pain. I did the glucosamine chondroitin for years with no improvement, Voltaren offered some relief but didn't fix anything. I then got hit with an autoimmune disease, PMR, which only made matters worse. Then 17 months into my PRM treatment, which wasn't working, I discovered Keto and 3 months later was done with PMR, and a year later accepted Dr. Berry's carnivore challenge, and 30 days later was off methotrexate for my RA. Now, 4 years later, and 68 years of age, I can do ladder work all day with no knee pain. I used to have not just the swelling and pain, but I'd often have a "pinching" in the joint that would drop me to the ground. Now at 68 I can do more with ZERO pain than I could in my 40's. Thank you Dr. Berry.
Did you ever have bone or cartilage fragments floating around in your knee? I have to move them back into place or out of the way by hand to keep mobility. I’m hoping a series of longer fasts will dissolve the fragments through autophagy. Any chance?
@@JC-li8kk I had orthoscopy done on one knee, improved things but I could tell it still wasn't "normal", but I have no issues at all now. I doubt autophagy would clean up the joint.
@@richardmathews8250 I had my right knee scoped when I was 19 (Osteochondritis Desecans or OCD). I knew my left knee had the same issue but it was an earlier stage (even though the doctor did not believe me. Said the chances of having it in both knees is astronomical). The bone/cartilage broke off in my left knee in my mid 20s. I just moved it to the upper left side of my knee near my thigh. That worked for about 10 years & was still less pain the the right scoped knee. Now I think another part may have broken off on the right side of my left knee. Some days it doesn’t bother me. Other days I spend hours trying to move it around to see if I can move it out of the way, but seems to always want to go back into the middle of the knee. Really don’t want to go back into surgery. Just checking around to see if anyone has tried long fasting to get rid of fragments.
@@JC-li8kk My son has that. He had surgery to repair it as a teen, now mid 30's. It's bothered him off and on, mostly when he works the knee really hard. My son doesn't do Keto but he has reduced his carb intake and lost weight. Diet won't fix that, but if you can keep your carbs low, enough to be in ketosis most of the time it should help to take some of the inflammation away.
@@richardmathews8250 I’m guessing he played sports. Mine happened from basketball & playing through the injury. I think if I stopped playing as soon as I got pain then it probably would have healed itself & never gotten to stage 4. Too bad all the adults in my life at that time just pushed me to play through it. Wish I wasn’t so ignorant & easily pressured back then. Sad though because I loved basketball & now it ends up being the worst thing I ever did to myself. Hope your son doesn’t have any other issues with it.
I can attest to this. When people ask me why are you on keto my answer is “MY KNEES DON’T HURT ANYMORE” I am so happy of that fact. I go up and down the stairs like I used to even I was in my 20s; I’m in my early 50s now. For me losing weight on keto became secondary once I realized that my KNEES DON’T HURT ANYMORE!!!
Thank you Dr Berry!!!! At 25 I injured my knee pushing my car out of a brutal Chicago snowstorm, requiring a trip to the ER, after reading my X-ray , the ER Dr entered the room and said, “ wow I thought you were going to be an old person!!” I already had advanced arthritis in one knee. My legs looked like they belonged to two different people. Now at age 60 , following Very low carb and IF for 2 years my legs ( knees) MATCH!!! I’m down 65 lbs, and I am so much more flexible ,energetic and happily raking in the compliments I get seeing family and friends again post covid isolation . Please please listen to this incredible doctor ( and his beautiful intelligent wife!!). Many family members, after initially scoffing, have adapted the low carb( keto) IF lifestyle with their own amazing results!!!
This almost made me weep with despair . The amount of patients who are coming for medical imaging for non traumatic knee pain / knee problems in the uk is just frightening . The amount of human misery associated with this is unquantifiable . People are hoping that cortisone injections or a knee replacement will solve their problems , but the waiting lists for these procedures in the NHS are very long now . So many patients can't tolerate the powerful anti-inflammatory meds , and of course many of the patients have multiple medical problems so can't take anti- inflammatory meds anyway . Here's the thing - today I was listening to a re-run of an old radio series called ' Dr At Large ' . This series was based upon books by Dr Richard Gordon who wrote semi autobiographical accounts of life as a doctor in n the UK in the 40's/50's . In today's episode I was surprised to hear one doctor say to another " not to put sugar in his tea because sugar is high in carbohydrate and high carbohydrate leads to obesity " . This book was written in 1955 , so that important knowledge was out there amongst medics in the 40's/50's !.
Thanks for that information! Nina Teicholz, an investigative journalist, has been ferreting-out the origins of the gigantic system of lies which have led to our overconsumption of "vegetable oils" and carbs. It's nice to have another information source, to corroborate what Teicholz has been saying. People DID know better, but a greed-driven campaign of disinformation, has caused us to collectively "forget".
I started eating keto a week ago after finding you on RU-vid and after checking you weren't talking bias. One week on and my gout problems are going away. It's a miracle. I can get down on my knees as well. Haven't been able to do that in year without a lot of pain. Thank you so much for informing and guiding me where my doctor throws pills after me. All the best to you from Norway.
That's funny, becouse acidic foods like proteins is said to couse gout problems, overloading the kidneys, nope its the insulin that's overloading your kidneys and messing up your hormones, before keto, I was on blood pressure pills, sleeping pills, gout medication, depression pills, all in the trash now, no pills needed and I can eat all the salt I want to on keto, when I started keto, I was still not using salt, felt tired and ask my doctor, why? after some lab work he told my I was low in sodium, Salt don't increase your B.P.. if your in normal health, best to use Himalayan mined salt, if doing keto you need more salt, also I recommend Electrolytes 10 drops to a drink or coffee per day, its can also effect your heart health if you don't have enough salt, it has a bad rap
That's great!!! I lost 90 lbs this year. I have had gout for 25+yrs. I am finally getting gout a lot less. I am not sure if or which of the following helped me but.... I stopped all seed oils, eat carnivore (lower insulin level), or just getting the lbs down, but I thank Dr. Berry for his advice. It has helped tremendously.
@@pgjc756 You should have stopped the seed and hydrogenated oil from the beginning, make sure your eating steam vegetable greens, organic salads use grass fed Ghee for a topping, when you say carnivore, sounds as if your only eating meat, go on RU-vid and learn in depth about Keto, I had a bad knee and after 10 days on keto its was completely gone, you should not have any gout
@@geraldarnoult I started watching Dr. Berry in Dec. that is when I went to Carnivore and learned to cut out seed oils. I don't eat veggies much at all because I mainly eat beef, eggs, bacon. I use a lot butter and salt. personally for me I have less inflammation in general from eating carnivore as opposed to keto (which I have ate keto in the past).
@@pgjc756 That's good, but puzzled to why you can eat greens, that's strange, its seems it would be heather to add greens, its very low curbs and maybe a few barriers, I understand you have tried it in the past, maybe you can revisit later, it just to don't sound like the best way of eating, only meat, if it works, it work, but feel like your missing, I'm sure people whos main food was meat always found vegetable and some berry's to eat, make sure you keep your supplements up also
I took stairs one at a time due to pain. I now run up the stairs like I used to do. 66 and starting 5th year keto. No meds. My former doctor said the only option was to see a surgeon.
I also noticed cutting caffeine out of my diet also helped with my arthritis and knee pain in particular significantly, I didn't realize how stiff and painful it made my joints until I stopped drinking it
This is absolutely true. I thought I needed knee surgery and replacement for the last three years and always wore a knee brace until three months ago when I went on a zero carb diet for 2 and 1/2 months and now a keto carnivore style. I no longer need a knee replacement. And almost zero pain in it.
I'm full carnivore 99% of the time I dabble with a little bit of fruit meaning strawberries blueberries. But I find if I eat too many of them too many days consecutive it will bother my intestinal tract. I've had many improvements in my life physically, mentally and spirit.
I have been keto mostly carnivore for about 4 years. It's sad how many people are suffering needlessly when simply removing sugar and carbs fixes almost everything. When I cheat I immediately pay for it and am reminded how miserable I used to be.
I can vouch for what he's saying. Two years ago, I was in the same predicament concerning my right shoulder joint. The physician that gave me PRP therapy was most adamant about this. It's not just the shot that will improve your condition but the ketogenic diet as well. At first, it took me a month to convince myself in order to go down that path. Almost two years have passed (23 months to be precise), and I haven't looked back. Suffice it to say: You can't knock it unless you've tried it. A side note, this channel heavily influenced me in taking this decision and I will never be grateful enough to Dr. Berry for providing this knowledge and wisdom.
I had a heart attack in January, I started seeing a new anti aging doctor who does not recommend the carnivore diet, I don't have high blood pressure and I don't have high cholesterol, but my cardiologist put me on blood thinners, blood pressure meds, and cholesterol meds. my anti-aging doc is trying to get me on a plant-based diet. but I would rather go carnivore because of all I have learned from you and others on youtube
Don't use the keto/carnivore/intermittent fasting terms with your docs. Just tell them you're eliminating sugar and processed foods. Then reap the rewards!
Plants are food for the animals we eat. Humans are made of protein and fat, so you are what you eat, or maybe eat what you are 🤔 I wish you success in improving your health by avoiding the numerous plants that give us no benefit, while enjoying those that do.
I had knee replacement surgery on my left knee in 2019. Now my right knee is hurting all the time and inflamed. I’ve noticed it getting worse when I slip and eat peanut butter and/or donuts. As of today I’m starting the sea lion diet with carnivore Kipp and I’ve added magnesium supplements.
Peanut Butter? What kind do you eat? I can't imagine PB being a culprit but I'm not a doctor. I've only eaten organic PB for the past 10 years, peanuts & sea salt, nothing else.
I also had severe knee pain. Standing from a lying position was very painful. Been on the Keto for 11 months. Knee pain dissapeared soon after starting diet
In March of 2019, after nearly three years of walking/working with a bad left hip, I got an x-ray on my hip joints. My left side was gone (bone to bone), and my right was slightly arthritic already. Even though I ate the S.A.D. diet for 56 years up to that point, my years of working in construction, and using a shovel, helped to take out that joint. I was also hiking and backpacking ten plus years previous to this diagnosis. I had to quit hiking in 2017. Fast forward to January 2020, I got my left hip replaced. I also began my strict carnivore way of eating, which I was beginning to transition into before surgery. I healed very well through 2020 and started to get my legs back. As of now, I function much better metabolically, and body performs well. My goal is to keep my right hip intact for the remainder of my life. Heavy sugar/carb consumption destroys cartilage within the joints.
I started Keto and within a week or two my knees stop popping. Before Keto, my knees would pop and crack every time I sat down. Not anymore. Interesting.
My husband’s lost 80 over the last year with keto/low carb. His knee arthritis was so bad before the diet change he was using a cane/walker during a bad flare up. Now he’s doing so well and is no longer prediabetic and walks fine with no assistance. He’s turning 60 soon and we’re so grateful Dr Berry for your life changing information!
Fantastic video Dr B! Before 2017 I was obese at 212 pounds. Woke up after another failed “diet”. Sad that WW failed me. Didn’t understand why every joint in my entire body hurt. (Seriously: EVERY DAMN JOINT) Googled “inflammatory foods” and was shocked! Every food I ate daily was on the list. Learned how to go about fixing me. So grateful I decided to go keto and found you. My pains are all but gone. I’m not 100% pain free but it’s livable and no more anti inflammatories! I’ve followed many along my keto journey but I kept coming to your page to “see what Dr Berry has to say on this”. You’re the only doctor I’ve seen who go above and beyond in a no nonsense way. I feel like we’re all neighbors having a friendly chat over coffee. You and Neisha give us hope and inspiration. You let us know that we can fix ourselves. Nourish ourselves. Love ourselves. THRIVE EVEN! Keep up the good work! I’m here for the rest of my life. ☕️ pass the HWC, would you? 🤣
I confirm this. After following your guidance for 4 months now, I am pain free in all of my joints (which are plagued with injury), skin conditions are gone, A1C is now 5.6 down from 12 - and lost 30lbs. Much gratitude Dr. Berry!
I had one pain and after I lost 40+ pounds my knee pain went away. I thought it was the weight but I see it could also be because of what you are talking about. Thanks, Dr. Berry
I was told I would have to have a knee replacement very soon. I had injections in my knees with very little benefit. I started keto and IF in January this year. I have noticed a remarkable improvement in my inflammation overall. I have much less knee pain and can now enjoy activities I struggled with before. You have to choose how much you love sugar or carbs or how bad you hate the pain they cause in your body.
I was a paratrooper and had arthritis all over my body but really bad in my knees carnivore along with mountain biking and I have no knee pain whatsoever! This is true
Dr wanted to replace both my knees but after a hip surgery that went wrong, I decided to do something else and that was Keto with the Berry’s. No knee problems now. Thank you Dr Berry and Neisha.
Understanding how the body works is the key to good health. I am into my third month doing OMAD and cutting out virtually all Carbs, sugar too but that has been less of a problem for me over the years. Apart from losing weight, I feel so much better generally, my sleep is dramatically better and I am so happy to report that I am walking more and more quickly too. I have less pain in my knee that allows me to walk a lot more, however, the stiffness is still there - particularly after standing for a while. I am trying to be patient and look forward to enjoying the benefits of this new lifestyle as time goes by. I absolutely agree with Dr Berry, it works...even after a relatively short time..... knowledge is everything and I regret that the health authorities at the top failed to let the public know that the diets we were consuming, are basically crippling us and eventually killing us. People seriously need to wake up to the fact that we can heal ourselves by taking back control of what we eat and how we eat......the benefits are real and I look forward to six or twelve months from now, when I am confident that I will be a different person to the one I was when I started out on this. I don't see myself going back to eating the garbage I used to eat....unless I want a very unhappy life being overweight and being riddled with inflammation and pain.
As I was retiring from the army after 35 yrs, I went to see a specialist for my knee arthritis. He said I could get painful injections but they'd be temporary. Surgery was inevitable sometime in the future. He never said a word about diet. He prescribed a more powerful Ibuprofen that I discovered gave my mother an ulcer. I heard about carnivore and started that. Miraculously... arthritis went away!
Thank you for great information about arthritis and a simple way to help improve the pain. I've been on a carnivore diet for 6 weeks and already feel relief in my knees.
This channel rises above other health channels in the that it gifts us with fresh, newer, unique info. Many of the others either overly repeat topics or overly copy each other.
Such a great video. Thank you Dr Berry. From Allison in South Africa. I've got a floating ligament in my left knee. After a fall in 2012 and an MRI, an Australian GP yelled, "Bone on bone! When you get back to South Africa you'd better see an orthopaedic surgeon for a knee replacement!" I never did. I've found that losing weight is key. And walking. And being on a low carb diet. However, it's not been low enough, and just this week I've changed this drastically. I've already lost more weight, I've got more to lose. But I feel so energised and purposeful and encouraged. The knees are much better. I even stood up yesterday without a prop!
A lot of people do look at study’s and research that doesn’t mean it’s correct what works for someone doesn’t necessarily work for the next person we are not all the same.
Hi Ken, Thanks for doing these tutorials for us! I have been eating low carb and moderate fat for decades and the improvements to my health were very noticeable, but when I went strict carnivore a few years ago, I went to a new level of health and wellbeing. My major influencers were you, Dr. Shawn Baker, Dr. Paul Saladino, Dr. Ben Bikman, and many other notable researchers. I'll be 68 in November and I still bow hunt my home mountains of Wyoming for elk, deer, and antelope and walk miles with my bird dog hunting sage grouse, sharptailed grouse, Hungarian partridge, chukar, and pheasant, almost every day, and I DON'T HURT!. The health benefits of a human appropriate diet are manifold and benefit mind, body, and spirit. Once a person has known the true sustenance and satisfaction of a balanced carnivore diet, there is no going back. Thank you so much for your contributions to our knowledge and welfare!
@@vivienneellis2228 appreciate quick reply. I have osteoarthritis in my knees, bad back issues, started keto few days ago (did prp both knees also few days ago). I am ready to go 100% at this to get my life back.
@@kmichaelewis Yes, barely register unless I've worked out too hard. There will come a point a few months in when you realise you no longer endure this pain - or I sincerely hope so.
I completely cured my knee arthritis and torn meniscus with a series of 3-5 day water fasts. I declined the cortisone and knee surgery the Dr. was offering. I knew the body was designed to repair/restore itself instead of being "worn out" at 40 or 50 years old. My Dr. was condescending so I didn't go back. Now, if I feel a tight or painful joint, I jump into a fast so my body can go to work on cleaning it up!
Excellent video! I've been eating the ketogenic diet for 9 months now because I have debilitating arthritis in my neck. I had to leave my desk job as an engineer because the pain was so bad. I noticed an improvement in my pain symptoms within one week of starting keto! 9 months later my neck hardly ever hurts at all now. My neck used to make a "grinding" sound when I turned it right to left. Now it's smooth. I think removing the chronic inflammation has allowed the cartilage to start to rebuild. It's very slow, but I predict that within another 6 months or a year it will be fully recovered! I might even be able to return to desk work! However, I'm never going back to eating vegetable oils, sugars and carbohydrates.
I found a similar video of yours from about a year ago and it changed my life completely, after knee surgery. I was icing at least 2x a day and taking naproxen. No more of either!! I’ll never go back!
I have been low carb and now ketovore for 3 years this month. The first thing I noticed was joint pain in my fingers disappeared - like magic. I used to massage and pull on my fingers every night. I had to know more and dove into learning all I can about low carb. I haven’t stopped and study and practice it daily.
Completely reversed my “degenerative meniscus tear” & near future knee replacement in 2019 with ketogenic Saipan diet! High on red meat. Yep, ACL c PTL graft as well in 1980’s. Life is good & now training with KAATSU.
Thank you for a very informative video. I was hurt at 18 and after numerous surgeries on my knees compounded with developing type 2 diabetes I understand all that you’re saying. I’m slowly moving over to a keto diet and for the first time today I was not in agony when it rained. Amazing, thank you
Dr Ken you sir are exactly on point with this, I have had ACL and meniscus repaired in left knee and MCL Repair in the right. I started a low carb diet in January 2021...... my knee pain is non existent now. Feel like I’m 25 again and just turned 50. I look forward to your videos, and been a fan since I discovered your channel. Cheers from Alberta Canada. God bless.
Iv been on keto for a while now and even though I feel better in other ways (no more stomach pains), extreme pain and stiffness has not gone away. My joints always hurt so much.
Yep. I can confirm this. I now do low carb with intermittent fasting. Knee pain is gone. If I eat fruit it comes back for a couple of days. I was able to make a direct correlation
I’ve been on keto since March of this year. I’ve lost over 40 pounds, am at my goal weight. My knees were bad before I started keto. My left knee has improved but my right knee that I had a hyaluronic gel injection isn’t much better. I think the damage was already done though. I love the keto lifestyle so I’m staying on it.
I just had meniscus surgery on May and since then my knee still hurts until now. My orthopaedic insists to give me that injection but I still think about it. Would you recommend? Does it help with hyaluronic gel to improve cartilage?
@@PattiJuni7 I am no doctor but can share my experience. I have had gel injections in 2018 and 2019. Did really well with it. Decided to skip them in 2020 and boy am I in bad shape this year. Hence, getting the injections again beginning 10/5.
@@sonumitts Thank you so much for sharing. I’m kind of scare tho. As I realised that all my orthopaedic cares is about money, so I don’t wanna stuck with him all of my life. 😔
Has the weight loss helped your right knee at all? I was thinking the gel + weight loss would be the perfect formula for getting rid of most of that knee pain?
@@PattiJuni7 Be very careful with injections into the joints. Almost all work by dissolving the surface of the cartilage. That will reduce inflammation - short term - but it also reduces the amount of cartilage, basically speeding up the destruction of your joint. Your best course of action is always to find out what's causing the inflammation, and change that. Diet will be part and also the functional movement of the joint. If you have weak feet, start by strengthening them as they are usually the cause of poor knees.
Hard to believe, but less than 2 weeks into low carb meals, my joints stopped hurting. Amazing! Also noticed I'm not hungry all the time. In fact, I'm pretty close to being comfortable skipping a meal here and there. Very motivated to continue. May not go full Keto, but low carb is great so far. Thanks for the helpful information!
I started carnivore in May bc I didn't want to take the biologics/DMARDS too many toxic side effects. Stopped humira ( for PsA, RA, OA, spondylitis hashi's, fibro)in March, started carnivoe end of May, no pain😁 praise Yahuah!! Waiting to see if colder weather has any changes for me, Thanks Dr Berry🥰
Rheumatoid arthritis runs deeply in my family and i had hurt often all throughout my 30's and 40's and when i went septic i was forced to change everything about my diet i had bone spurs everywhere then i discovered cutting out sugar and i took 7 times the the recommended dosage of vit. D3 and K2 mk-7 version for ten days it expelled all the calcium deposits in my body after i got rid of sugar and all the calcium deposits throughout my body the pain disappeared completely im now almost 58 now and am completely pain free due to my diet change dr. Berry is absolutely correct in this video i was told id go blind in my right eye and all it was is a calcium build up in my eye and when it got expelled im almost at 20/20 vision again
An amazing experience, had bad joint pain in my right knee, especially going up stairs, after 10 day on Keto, like magic it disappeared, not better gone, not even a trace of pain even today one year later, not a trace of pain, anti-inflammable, that's the keto way.
I know it sure helped my knee. Is the pain completely gone, no but it's not often and major inflammation has been gone almost from the beginning of my keto journey. My degenerative disc condition has eased tremendously as well.
Hey I'm 17 I've had roumatoid juvenile arthritis since I was 9. The doctors wanted me on medication that wouldn't help, they tried different kinds of shots, prednisone to get pain to go away. 😫 I went dairy free soy free and gluten free and I'm almost 100% better don't listen to all doctors say you have to be on medication the rest of your life, or you need surgery. Diet is everything! Thanks for this video!
Thanks doctor Berry. My joint paint was better 95% with low carbs. Buckwheat which I loved so much was giving me wrist pain the very next day, had to go with other grains.
Soak it in acidulated water at least overnight, rinse well and cook w/fresh water in a pressure cooker. Reduces oxalate and lectins. Or if it’s flour, soak n continue on with recipe next day. Sourdough will also help. But best of all-go grainless.
I’ve been on Dr. Ken’s Keto regime for two weeks now. My work in Cardiothoracic surgery requires me to be on my feet for long periods of time. I have been suffering from increasing bilateral knee pain making taking the stairs at the hospital, and at home, very difficult. I have already noticed a decrease in knee pain, enhanced flexibility and less stiffness after stepping away from the OR table. Thank you Ken!
@@kmichaelewis I am great! I don’t have any pain, can ride my bike pain free, and stand for hours. I’ve lost 34 pounds since early February and have more energy than ever before. I haven’t taken one Motrin since early March. Total Keto, or total carnivore is the absolute way to good health.
I've been on a very low too no carb diet for about 10 months, I also make my own bone broth and drink it regularly. Nothing has relieved the pain, swelling, and stiffness in my right knee. So I guess I'll just have to live with it.
I noticed this when I started eating low carb as well. My knees were painful and stiff but after just a week inflammation down and pain gone. Great info I'm glad your putting it out.
Stiffness is due to vitamin, mineral deficiencies, or bad blood quality, low trombosits etc... All my stiffnesses have gone after fixing, but the damage is there
I can vouch for this. I have been on ketovore diet for about 2 weeks now and I no longer get acute pain in my knees. I still have a low chronic pain but it feels like it's slowly going away. I am curious to see if it will recover completely but the improvement is much appreciated!
@@ladybooksmith3347 Yes. I no longer feel any pain in my knees. I still have some pain in my wrists but it's very mild 1/10 and it's mostly in the morning after waking up. During the day I don't feel it unless I concentrate on how I feel. This is very likelly linked to my neuropathy that I developped with my type 2 diabetes. Keto and carnivole helped a lot!
I've had terrible knee pain when sitting in chairs\cars\trains\etc for most of my life, 30 minutes max before needing to stand. That shit went away completely after being on keto for maybe a month. I wasn't expecting it, and I'm still amazed 2 years later.
This is what will make me go back to keto lol. I've got to make it work because otherwise, my joint inflammation gets out of control. I'd be crippled after long enough on a high carb diet.
Dr Berry is unequivocally on point! I am strictly carnivore but have experimented with adding some carbs like honey or even zevia. I'd be damned if it didn't cause my knuckle, back, hip and neck arthritis to go off ( accordingly with dosage of carbs). Thank you again Ken!
Thank you Doctor 🙏 Two years back I was told to go for knee sugary by three different doctors!! But I didn't do it and started keto diet.. Till now I have no pain or any other issues... I used to take 5 tablets for blood sugar and 2 for high B. P. Within 3 months of starting keto I stoped all thoes medications!! Last weeks my A1C came out 6.1❤❤❤ thank you to you and doctor EKBERG❤❤❤❤
The standard response is, 'Wear and tear, part of aging'. For my PhD I looked at knee osteoarthritis in obesity. Considering that obesity is a state of chronic inflammation it's not surprising that it is related to so many metabolic processes which become dysregulated, and in turn, lead to chronic diseases. Low carb seems to be the way to go to relieve this state.
It's true. Been keto with intermittent fasting for 3 years. No more arthritis pain, swollen joints. No more medication actually no need to see a doctor at all. Everyone wins except the krapy food and pharmaceutical industries!
That’s worrying, if the vast majority of population opt for a healthy diet and fasting, they will find a way to make us sick and dependent of the health (sick) care system to make profit out of it.
Thank you for the information. I had a partial knee replacement in June due to lack of cartilage. It was very painful to walk but now I feel better. I try to stay away from carbs and sugars.
i use to take 3 to 4 advil a day to make it through the day . now after doing keto & I.f liberating 108 lbs only 1 or 2 Advil a week , plus for me cut way back on tomatoes i seemed to have flare ups. still have more to liberate but enjoying the journey. thanks for your videos and support
I did carnivore at the end of 2019, fell off the wagon during Covid but I can’t stand beef any more! Gotten to the point I’m sick of food period! I’d eat cassava chips, hummus, olives and guacamole the rest of my life if I could! Help!
Your brain has you carb addicted! You’ll need to suffer for a while. Maybe a month. Try more sardines and wild caught salmon. Remember, with pain there is gain...
Could be thyroid, and/or parasites. I had same issues after 3 years strict keto/carni. Turns out, going more than 6 months with almost zero carbs can really do a job on thyroid--body thinks its nuclear winter or apocalypse if doesnt get fruit now and then, dials metabolism waaay down for survival. So I learned that my body needed low carb with carbs from fruits and more fruit-like veggies (not starches much except occasional potato). Took about a year to correct things...and I self-treated for paradites with various horse remedies. Flukes in particular will coopt hormones to deliberately cause carb cravings AND if you dont feed them carbs they can suppress beta cells of pancreas...causing T2D insulin resistance and raising your blood sugars...they eat your sugars to survive. Parasites is the HUGE x-factor none of the keto community has adequately or thoroughly addressed yet. I suspect many fail to thrive on keto/carni because of parasites. Tricky af to treat, do tons of research first!!!! Must do antibiotics at same time or end up with SIBO or worse (dead) because the wee bastards are themselves hosting nasty cocktail of pathogens! Which they dump into your bloodstream upon demise. This can make one really sick--so no joke to treat. Research first.
I had knee surgery and it didn't work well. Constant pain and very limited range of motion for 4 years. I found out about keto from Dr. Berry's and Dr. Bosworth's videos. Within a month of keto my pain began to lessen and after 3 months I was 90% better. It has also helped many other aches and pains. Thank you Dr. Berry.
I'm 30F and just got out of the pcp's office where I was told that most likely I have rheumatoid arthritis along with other conditions. Yet to be confirmed by rheumatologist. I've been suffering since childhood. I will heal my body from everything.
I have been on Keto for years and my joint pain is gone. I'm more flexible at 61 then I was when I was 50. In many ways I'm in better health than I was in my 20s.
Same for me. Carnivore and now the more relaxed ketovore way of eating, plus IF, made a massive difference to my joint pain. I recently ate bread for a few days and suffered the consequences.
I had 2 knee replacement about 12 years ago.....had a lot of pain for about 10 years and got pain if did too much work.... Now on Keto Carnivore I think of the pain I used to get in my knees ... The change to eating better has so much going for it... If the world of food does not come to realise there is a better way ,well we are all...(was going to swear) going down the plug hole... Thank You AGAIN Dr Berry...........
You know, all of us in America, just don't eat right? The other day, I got out and started looking at people (And I in there too.) How many are overweight, walking with a walker, or crane? You know, I going to get everything ready for me to start the KETO. It time to move forward? Who knows, if my Arthritis goes away it will be a blessing!!!
I'm... CLOSE to healing my arthritis with dietary choices COMPLETELY. I'll share this segment with my neighborhood PT at my Ivy League health care facility.
I have rheumatoid arthritis. I was suppose to have knee surgery 2 years ago. I went on keto and also stayed away from night vegetables and the pain went away within a week and have no pains anymore. I am now 75 and took A reserve in my body pain. I feel lIke I am in my 30,s. Hope I stay like this until I pass. Feeling good
