📩 Comment “NEWSLETTER” and I’ll send you the link to my FREE weekly newsletter! After 15 years as an orthopedic surgeon, there are a few things you probably won’t change my mind about… 👇 💪 Muscle is one of your best insurance policies as you age. Muscle helps regulate metabolism and has been tied to longevity in multiple studies. This is why I’m such a big fan of creatine monohydrate, which has been shown in tons of research papers to support muscle growth. 🩻 You should always treat the patient, NOT the MRI. Plenty of people WITHOUT pain have disc bulges, rotator cuff tears, meniscus tears, arthritis, and other abnormalities on imaging. 🦴 Arthritis doesn’t always mean surgery. Exercise, maintaining a healthy body weight, activity modification, medications, injections, and following a low-inflammation diet such as the Mediterranean diet can all be part of managing arthritis and keeping people functioning for years without an operation. 🚶 Rest isn’t always the answer for pain....