Help for cracking grinding knees

Are you taking any kind of joint supplements? Eating certain foods that help support cartilage development?

That's the direction I would go in.

glucosamine sulfate is also good.

I second the collagen.

Most of the popping and grinding noises you are experiencing is from the nitric oxide gas being eliminated back into our tissues. It is a direct response to having pathogens. I found that eating an alkaline diet of less acidic foods helped. These foods tend to have lower amounts of nitrogen and reduce our microbiome's quantity of gram negative anaerobes. These gram negative bacteria utilize nitrogen in their energy production and are considered normal flora. In our situation, their numbers often get too high and when too many are present, our nitrogen levels increase, they spread beyond their normal containment in the GI tract, and our immune response must fight them as well as our other pathogens. This taxes our immune response. The popping is our body putting nitric oxide in our synapses in excessive quantities to lower pathogen growth. The extra acid lowers the pH slightly in our synapses which allows the bacteria a foothold. Raising the pH helps slow their growth and get rid of them.

Hyaluronic acid is recommended by Buhner to help replace damaged cartilage. Bart and babs are less likely to attack the cartilage like borrellia does, but the inflammation will still exacerbate the wear and tear.

I sure wish all of these ortho doctors would stop recommending knee replacement surgery for everything related to knee pain. What I would like to know is what type of shots are they using now for knee pain? When there is a problem with cartilage, what is new on the market? I am in Chicago and my hospital is University of Chicago but I have not been there in a year since the pandemic.