This is an interesting thread. Thank you for posting, thankful.
I wonder, too, if alcohol drinking later in life is connected to our aging joints.
I say this because we visited some friends a couple of years ago, and I was struck by how much one of them drank.
Fast forward to present: we saw them again and I was struck anew by how much one of them WASN’T drinking.
The difference? She had had a much needed hip replacement.
Just a thought.