3 months Formula – remove inflammants — no carbs / sugars; no nightshade plants (potatoes); no alcohol; no excess / intermittent fasting; more turmeric; more exercise, range of motion (swimming but no running/impact; more/tuned supplements. Result 75% better in 3 mos. Can run 6-min mile w/o pain. Cartillage grown back in hip/joints.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpZHKGGCK-o
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My hip joint was so badly damaged there was virtually no cartilage left, and the pain from bone-on-bone was awful. I walked really badly, with a bad limp, and could not run at all (I’ve been a runner for 40 years). The range of motion was severely compromised, and I was taking painkillers to sleep at night. Surgeons told me I was due for a hip replacement, as the joint was so badly worn down and no medication would help.
As my body is made of living, metabolically active cells (unlike a car) I could not accept the assumption that body parts “wear out” and cannot then be repaired by natural processes. I gave myself three months to see what I could do with diet and lifestyle adjustments. After three months it felt a lot better – less pain, more motion, and I even started slow jogging. After a year my hip was fully recovered. X-Rays show a completely normal hip joint, and can run and cycle as before, and there is no more pain. My joint has repaired itself to full function. This video explains what I did.
Here is a bullet-point list of the steps I took:
1) Reduce INFLAMMATION: Cut sugar from your diet – and that means CARBOHYDRATES, as they are all made of sugars (watch my video – link below – on Carbohydrates). Cut NIGHTSHADE vegetables (tomato, pepper, brinjal/egg plant). The science on this is inconclusive, so just cut them anyway. Cut out (or limit as best you can) ALCOHOL. Add natural anti-inflammatories to your cooking (Turmeric and Ginger)
2) Provide your Body with BUILDING BLOCKS: You need to manufacture collagen proteins to build cartilage, so take a COLLAGEN supplement, as well as Glucosamine and Chondroitin.
3) Allow your Body Time to Work: Follow an INTERMIMTTENT FASTING lifestyle (Video link below – it’s not at all difficult!) to activate the process of AUTOPHAGY, allowing your body to clean out the damaged cartilage and replace it with ne cells.
4) Do Gentle, Regular EXERCISE: Just up to the pain point in order to improve the range of motion while the joint is repairing. Walking is good, when you can, and gentle mobility exercises. NO IMPACT EXERCISE (like running).
5) LOSE WEIGHT: This will be easy if you follow Step 1 and cut carbohydrates from your diet. Just increase your fat and oil intake instead. Remember, “Sugar makes you Fat; Fat makes you Thin!”
There will be good days and bad days, don’t let the bad days set you back mentally. Sometimes you might overdo it and hurt your self, but it doesn’t matter – just keep going! And at the end of three months. if there is progress, that should encourage you to persevere for longer: And remember, if it doesn’t work for you in the end, you’ve lost nothing – you can have that hip replacement if that’s your last option, but having delayed it will only mean the technology is now better!
Added Notes, thanks to viewers’ requests: My low carbohydrate, low inflammation diet is based on principles, but it’s not a religion so I’m allowed to “bend the rules” according to what food is available, what I can afford to buy, and what I think I can sustain long term. So, here goes: I eat meat, fish, chicken, eggs; I eat dairy (only full fat) – so cream, cheese, raw yoghurt but I dont “drink milk”, other then a drop in my coffee (yes I drink coffee). I do not eat fruit (way too much sugar) except red or dark berries (see my video on fruit here
• FRUIT – Do We Need It, and How Natura… ) but I eat plenty of veggies, especially green ones. And nuts (especially almonds – I live in the south of Spain, they literally “grow on trees”). I cook with butter or olive oil, and then add more olive oil to the food on my plate (scrambled egg with olive oil poured over is heaven). I only need two meals a day because fat is such an efficient energy source.
LINKS: Tips from a Sports Surgeon on how to strengthen joint cartilage
• How to strengthen your cartilage?
Dr Berry’s wonderful video on joint repair with nutrition:
• ARTHRITIS: Is Your Diet Causing It? […
More on Inflammation:
• CHRONIC INFLAMMATION is making you si…
More on Intermittent Fasting & Autophagy:
• YOUR HEALING SUPERPOWER – Enable AUTO…
Why you should not be eating Carbohydrates:
• CARBOHYDRATES ARE SUGAR – How they sa…
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ANDREW TUNSTALL is a Lifestyle and Nutrition Coach, Biologist, Teacher and International Athlete who avoided Heart Surgery and a Hip Replacement by changing his lifestyle and eating habits and losing weight, before starting SHAPEFIXER to help others harness the power of knowledge to lose weight, improve health, fight disease and slow ageing.
DISCLAIMER: I am a Coach and an Educator; I am not a medical doctor. All videos are for information and motivation purposes only and not to be taken as personal medical diagnoses or advice. Speak to your own, trusted medical professional about all decisions you take regarding any aspects of your health or medical conditions – Andrew Tunstall.
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Hey there, I’ve been wanting to make this video for quite some time and I’ve had a lot of people
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asking me to make this video. I want to talk to you about how I healed my damaged – very
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badly damaged – hip joint without any surgery. without a hip replacement um all just treating
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it myself at home, even after I’d been told by surgeons that I needed a hip replacement. So
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if you are in line for a hip replacement. or you’re considering a hip replacement,
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please take the time to just listen to me and watch this video so that you can understand what
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I did and what worked for me, because this is what you need – you need information: you need options:
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you need ideas. Now this is not to say that a hip joint is always a bad idea … a hip joint
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replacement… because obviously there are times when that’s just… there’s nothing else to be
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done. and they are usually quite successful operations. The problem is that major surgery
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like that should, to my mind, be the last option and if you haven’t gone through the other options,
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or you haven’t considered the other options, then you’re probably rushing into something
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that is quite traumatic and takes a long time to recover from. I mean the whole… the whole idea
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of having your thigh cut open down the length of it, and your bone pulled out and the top of your
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bone cut off, and metal put over the top of it, screwed back in and… I mean it’s just horrific
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as an idea to me. So when I was told I would need a hip replacement I thought “okay um I can get how
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that might be the only option” because my life was pretty miserable uh and I could hardly walk. I was
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limping really badly, I definitely couldn’t run – and I’ve been a runner my whole life – I could
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ride a bicycle but getting on and off the bike was very very difficult because I didn’t have
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the range of motion to swing my leg up and over the bike. So I was lying the bike down on the
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ground and standing over it and then lifting it up between my legs. It was ridiculous. I was in pain
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at night, I couldn’t sleep without painkillers, I couldn’t lie on that side. I went for X-rays,
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there was hardly any gap anymore between between the femur and the and the um the pelvis where
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they join because all the cartilage had been worn away. And we are told – and I was told,
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and I’ve believed I guess most of my life – that cartilage wears down over time and when you get to
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50 or 60 very often the cartilage is worn away to the point that you’ve got bone on bone and
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there’s no option but to have a hip replacement. And then the comparison is always made between
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your hip (or your knee joint, I mean sometimes it’s a knee) and a car! People talk about the
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joints of a car and the the metal wearing away and that eventually you have to replace it of course.
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And I thought “Well I’m not a car! All my tissues – all my body parts – are metabolically active,
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living tissue! A car is not. I’m made of cells – human cells, living cells! Living cells reproduce.
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They have mechanisms to repair themselves, so it’s not obvious logic that any part of my body
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can wear out and never repair. Now maybe that’s the case, but I wasn’t happy with it. So before
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I went through with having a hip replacement I thought “Okay let me see if there isn’t something
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else I can do” and I started researching it – or studying it rather – um and I’m not a doctor;
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I’m a patient, or a potential patient, who managed to sidestep the thing, and I think… I think
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we’ve got to be very careful with doctors, because we say “Oh well you’re not a doctor so you don’t
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know what you’re talking about” but if all doctors always knew what they were talking about we would
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never be going for second opinions! And yet we go for second opinions quite a lot when something’s
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really important, and you can talk to two or three doctors about your issue and get two or three
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opinions – so clearly they don’t always know. They’re educated, they make educated guesses,
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sometimes they’re more sure than other times, but at the end of the day it’s your body and you need
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to be happy that you have as much information as possible so you can make your decisions. So please
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let me explain to you what I did because from not being able to run, from barely being able to walk
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and not being very mobile, I mean it was… my quality of life was a disaster. I have to say it
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even affected my sex life because I just couldn’t move properly. And now a year later I am not only
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walking really fast with no limp, I am running again and if you are a runner you’ll understand me
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when I say I am running 4 minutes a km, or 6 and a half minute miles. That’s what I’m running now,
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I’m really running well. Getting on and off a bike is a complete and utter non-issue, I have no
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more pain at night, I have nothing – everything is fine: I went for a follow-up X-ray – not because I
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felt I needed an X-ray to prove to myself that my hip had recovered, because for me that was obvious
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and I wasn’t bothered – I had an X-ray because I was out on my bicycle and I got hit by a car
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and I landed on my hip and it was really painful so I went to have an X-ray to make sure it wasn’t
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broken. And that X-ray – my doctor looked at it and was really confused because that was the same
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hip that I had X-rayed 9 months previously when the arthritis was so bad it was bone on bone and
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there was no gap, and it was completely back to normal! The cartilage has regrown and filled up
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that gap and there’s a nice big space between the bone and the pelvis. She couldn’t believe it was
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the same leg. I said “I believe it because I know – because I can feel that it recovered completely
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with no surgery”. I have to give a big shout out to Dr Ken Berry whose YouTube video inspired me
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to try this course of action. So what does it mean at the end of the day? um I’ve got a few
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notes here I don’t want to miss anything. I gave myself a three month challenge first,
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and I was quite public and I past posted a video every single day on on my progress so that all my
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friends could follow and said “For 3 months I am going to cut out every bit of inflammatory
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food so that I can get my inflammation down as much as possible to give my body a chance
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to heal if it’s going to”. That meant CUTTING OUT QAQLL SUGARS and CARBOHYDRATES because it’s
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very inflammatory. I’m generally a low carb eater anyway but really being strict and really cutting
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out all carbohydrates and all sugars. I also cut out NIGHTSHADE plants (potatoes, tomatoes,
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brinjal or eggplants, peppers). The science is kind of half-half about them, that in some
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circumstances they can be inflammatory in other circumstances maybe not, and Okay so I cut them
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out anyway. And I cut out ALCOHOL for 3 months, which was quite tough but I did! I said “Okay
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you know what? I’m going to do this, I’m going to do it properly, it’s 3 months, cut out alcohol,
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really give my body a chance”. Not overeat, so cut out… make sure I don’t eat breakfast – so
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INTERMITTENT FASTING was a big part of the regime to give my body chance to rebuild. it isn’t just
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digesting food all the time! Increased NATURAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORIES like turmeric and ginger
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in my food. For the first week of the project I actually took an anti-inflammatory medication,
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and after that I didn’t because long-term they’re not good and they’re not good for your stomach.
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I thought if I’m not inflaming myself by eating the wrong foods I’ll probably be fine, and that
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worked fine. uh and then EXERCISE. Now exercise is a tricky one because it hurts like hell and
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you don’t want to do more damage, but you do want to maintain your range of motion and increase the
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range of motion so that if your cartilage is able to grow back and if you are able to activate your
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stem cells (which is ultimately what you need to do) then it needs to grow back giving you the the
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space for the motion that you need. If you just have it is immobilized it’ll just grow back all
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over the place and it’ll be stuck, so you want to keep it moving, but not with impact. So ranges
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of motion… walking was very good um and just striding… into the length where it just catches
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and it’s a bit sore. It’s a little bit sore, just you know at the the limit of where it can
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comfortably go and over time that increased and eventually I got my range of motion back. Swimming
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was good, um running was out. I mean there was no way I was going to be able to run but I could
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ride. I was riding a bike. And the other thing of course is to LOSE WEIGHT because the less
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weight you carry the less impact on that joint and the more chance it has to recover. So anyway
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that’s the process I went through for 3 months and after 3 months I would say I was 70 to 75%
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better which was amazing. Now I did have people – doctors in particular – saying “Ah, you’re just
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feeling better because your inflammation is down. It’s probably not better.” Well, feeling better
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is… I’ll take it you know! I’m not going for a hip replacement now when I’m feeling better; I’m
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going to keep going! So I kept going. And I kept going for a year and like I say now, a year later
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of cutting out sugar (because it’s inflammatory) cutting out every other kind of inflammatory food,
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adding anti-inflammatory like turmeric to my diet, taking supplements (okay so Collagen, Glucosamine,
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Chondroitin – anything like that to help give your body the raw materials it needs to build
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the new tissue and to build the cartilage because your body needs to manufacture collagen) Did you
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know that collagen is a protein, and that of all the protein in your body about 80% is collagen? I
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don’t know, it’s mad, it’s not just in your skin and your nails and your hair; it’s everywhere! So
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I needed to be able to build a lot of collagen um so I took collagen supplements and I took
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chondroitin and glucosamine as well which helps towards the construction of collagen. And with
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the gentle exercise and the regular movement after a year, like I say I’m running 6 Minute
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miles – I’m running 4 minutes kays! I can really, really run now without any pain whatsoever. I’m
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completely flexible, I can get on and off my bicycle without any trouble. I have no pain,
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I sleep absolutely perfectly and the doctors are amazed at how the cartilage really has
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grown back in my hip joint! Now you could say um I’m a one-off; you could say maybe I’ve got some
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kind of genetic freak ability to get my stem cells to rebuild – something that most people can’t do;
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you can make up all sorts of stuff: I don’t know, okay? I’m just telling you my story and I’m saying
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to you that if you are really suffering from a bad hip and you’re worried about a hip replacement and
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you’ve been advised to get a hip replacement, get another opinion. But what have you got to
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lose taking 3 months to try this? Just 3 months! Give it a shot, see what happens. Three months.
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Lose weight, cut out sugars (carbohydrates), cut out other inflammatory foods (I’ll put a list of
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them in the description down below of the things that I did and the things that I cut out) take
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the right supplements, make sure you fast (so you go 16 hours a day – I’ve done a video about that
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actually, I’ll put a link to that here) Make sure you fast long enough in the day to give your body
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a chance to rebuild and your stem cells to fix you up. Do your exercise – gentle exercise – and
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give it 3 months and see. And if it’s 50% better then you know there’s progress, you know you’re
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going in the right direction, and you can put off the decision to have major surgery which of
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course as much as anything else could potentially cost you a lot of money if you know if you’re not
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fortunate enough to have a a government service or a medical aid that’s going to cover it. Um but…
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it’s been unbelievable to me to realize that Yes. you really can grow your joints back! You
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can grow your cartilage back! You can rebuild a hip joint! And if you can rebuild a hip joint, you
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can rebuild an elbow or a knee they’re smaller and I guess the same physiology applies… the same
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metabolic processes apply. It can be done. You can do it. You don’t necessarily have to have surgery.
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Now if you don’t want to take responsibility and you don’t want to change your lifestyle,
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lose weight. be dedicated and apply yourself then please by all means go and have a hip replacement.
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But this is not the end. A hip replacement is not the end of your problems, it’s probably the
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beginning of a whole lot more problems because we all know that hip replacements never last forever.
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Invariably at some point you’ll have to have them redone. And whatever it was that damaged your hip
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and got you to the point where you needed a hip replacement, you’re probably going to need to get
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another one on the other side as well. So it’s entirely up to you but I would highly recommend
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that you at least give yourself three months to test it the way I tested mine, and to find
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out for yourself that you can rebuild a hip joint contrary to what we’ve always believed. Contrary
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to what most doctors will even tell you, and what most of them actually think – they are wrong,
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it CAN be done because I’ve done it so I know it can be done. And I’m not the only one. There’s
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plenty of science out there, there’s plenty of research out there, and there’s plenty of evidence
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out there to show that people have done this. um it’s amazing, it… my whole life… I feel like
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I’ve got my life back again! So please go and give it a try if you are suffering from hip issues,
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joint issues and if you want to ask me anything please comment down below and I’ll get back to you
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as soon as I can. Anyway thank you for watching um and good luck and I hope this is able to help you.