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I am having some low back pain and pain in my hip joint. Both are on the same side and they do not necessarily hurt at the same time. The hip pain comes and goes and ranges from dull to extreme and is emanating from the hip joint. I had a MRI and the Occ Med Doc said it was either arthritis or a torn whatchamacallit. Next step is to see a specialist. Getting old is really starting to be a PITA especially with hunting season starting Sept 12 for me. I guess I'll get a emergency locator and crawl if I have to. Anyone here have similar hip pain?? Thanks, Ken

I am having some low back pain and pain in my hip joint. Both are on the same side and they do not necessarily hurt at the same time. The hip pain comes and goes and ranges from dull to extreme and is emanating from the hip joint. I had a MRI and the Occ Med Doc said it was either arthritis or a torn whatchamacallit. Next step is to see a specialist. Getting old is really starting to be a PITA especially with hunting season starting Sept 12 for me. I guess I'll get a emergency locator and crawl if I have to. Anyone here have similar hip pain?? Thanks, Ken

Most such pain (assuming the serious stuff has been ruled out) comes down to inflammation. Inflammation could be a reaction to some sort of trauma, but it could also be due to your metabolic process. If the latter, an alteration in diet would be very helpful.

While starch is a major part of the modern diet, it's not a natural part of a human diet. As such, our bodies weren't designed to handle very much of it. While a tiny minority can tolerate it for their entire lives without ill effect, most will at some point succumb to a generalized inflammatory reaction to it, which can show up as an inflamed joint here or there causing joint pain, an inflamed prostate causing frequent urination, inflamed arterial walls leading eventually to arteriosclerosis and heart attack, etc. The constant inflammation due to your metabolism's inability to deal with the starch interferes with the body's natural healing processes. Remove the cause, the starch in the diet, and your body's healing processes can function normally again, reversing many if not all the ill effects of the inflammation.

Starch in the modern diet is primarily found in bread, rice, and potatoes. Cutting them out will dramatically reduce your starch intake. Other sources are cakes, candies, cookies, and the like.

You'd think that this means you need to eliminate sugar from your diet, but it turns out that this is not the case. Reducing it is helpful, but the amount of table sugar people typically put in coffee or tea, for example, has not been shown to cause the metabolic malfunction caused by dietary starch.

Another exception that's surprising is pasta or noodles, so long as not over cooked. These are technically starch, but because their molecules are more securely bound together than those in rice, bread, potatoes, cake, cookies, etc., they break down more slowly, at a rate most human metabolisms can accommodate.

Address the inflammation pattern, and most inflammation-related medical syndromes clear up on their own, sometimes as quickly as a week or two after starch has been eliminated from one's diet.