Short excerpt from a YouTube video in which Dr. Joshua John‑Ram Schacter explains the basic nature and drivers of arthritis: cartilage covering bone wears away over time, and progression is influenced by personal health factors such as hormone levels and certain medications.
Arthritis is very simply just.
I think that's important for people to recognize that arthritis is a progressive problem, that there's a lot of factors in our own health that can contribute. We know that things like hormone levels, estrogen and testosterone levels can affect how your joint progresses. We know that, you know, different medications that you take can affect your arthritis progression levels. But when we get right down to it, arthritis is very simply just that the cartilage surface overlying the bone has been damped over time and it goes away.
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