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with actual plans that are associated with it, exercise plans to really go about and grade eight up, in that case knee and hip muscle strength.

We know that the AAOS, the orthopaedic surgeons and the Arthritis Foundation also have some really good resources online about how to maintain some of this muscle strength.

And we don't need to go overboard with the protein either, but we certainly need to have enough to be able to fuel that muscle maintenance.

Sometimes there's a bit of talk about ketogenic diets and whether they're superior in this context.

Kurt Hauer has spent more than 35 years at Advance Local, building a reputation as a leader in the media industry and his community.

He has been at the forefront of guiding the print industry through a rapidly changing landscape and has served on several boards such as the Central Pennsylvania Chapter Arthritis Foundation Board of Directors.

There he was chairman of the board development and served on the Public Policy and Advocacy Committee.

Living with ankylosing spondylitis, power encourages others to focus on what they can give to society rather than their challenges or limitations.

Amazing.

You mentioned that I think at some point another family encouraged you to get involved with the Arthritis Foundation.

Tell me a little bit about, Molly, going from patient to advocate.

What was that like? What was the meaning or the importance of meeting other people with arthritis and sort of becoming an advocate for the community?

What's your experience like? You know, where do you live? And just kind of bringing newly diagnosed kids out of their shell, you know, to see, you know, to make connections.

And that alone was very, very powerful.

And then to be able to go up to Albany while she met our senator because we had done a car wash for the Arthritis Foundation.

And we met our senator and the senator said, come up to Albany.

I love Matt Eisen.

I think he was an outstanding choice, and he was so passionate for the Arthritis Foundation because he has arthritis, and that, I think, was his burning desire, which is always an indicator of, I think, who's going to get there.

He's just a great guy, so I was very happy about that.

Awesome, and we can pick up your latest book as well, Lisa, right, on Amazon and all finer bookstores for sure, and where we can find more information on you, where's the best place we can go?

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I love to help people.

I had a job a year ago where I was director of the Arthritis Foundation.

That was my favorite.

I like to be busy.

And so it's a more connected world that we live in.

So I would really encourage folks to find people like themselves, right? Like when I was a kid with arthritis, it was great reaching out to the Arthritis Foundation.

And, you know, they had a big campaign about children get arthritis too when I was a kid or later on in my life.

And so it was great having those organizations that were championing that cause, right, that were bringing young people together that had similar diagnoses or similar lived experiences.