[matheusmoreira]

Lifestyle changes are the best treatment there is. Shame they can't make a pill out of it. Statistically most people fail to maintain lifestyle changes over the long term. Especially dietary changes.

Pharmacological treatments allow doctors to help those people.

[silexia]

I have never had a doctor recommend lifestyle treatments to me. They don't make any money on those. I have osteoarthritis in my hip and multiple doctors recommended an immediate hip replacement. I did a ton of research and ended up on the anti-inflammatory index diet in combination with changing exercises from running and golf that put high impacts on my hip to cycling which does not. All of my pain was gone in three months and has stayed gone for the last two years.