[mladenkovacevic]

This is merely an anecdote but I've had knee pain most of my life (since age 8 or 9).

I started doing squats in my late 20s and by the time I reached my body weight I've never had knee pain since. I'm in my mid-30s now.

I do recognize that with bad form and overloading your knees in the wrong way the result could easily have been completely blown out knees.

[jeffdavis]

I use squats as part of my exercise routine to keep my knees in shape.

Mostly near my body weight but lower recently because I haven't been doing it regularly enough. So pretty low weight.