Dr. Joshua John‑Ram Schacter explains that treating spine-related arthritis requires both direct, expert-led interventions and concurrent metabolic optimization. He emphasizes that arthritis has an inflammatory (often metabolic) component and that health coaches, functional medicine providers, and inflammatory-marker labs are used to optimize metabolism and aid healing.
We can make a change. We do need to do direct treatments for arthritis, and that's where we have the expert. But doing the other work with the metabolism, I think makes a huge difference as well. Okay. What we'd love to do with spine patients is anytime we have arthritis, there's an inflammatory component. Right. And so that's usually that's metabolic. So where we can help is with metabolic optimization to a large degree to get things to heal, we need to optimize the metabolism, and that's where our health coach comes in. That's where our functional medicine providers come in. That's where we can certainly do a lot of labs, inflammatory markers, and where we can make a change. We do need to do direct treatments for arthritis, and that's where we have the expert. But doing the other work with the metabolism, I think makes a huge difference as well. Okay.
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