Anti inflammatory diet

FacilityGuy

Has anyone tried an anti inflammatory diet to cure pain. If so what were your outcomes?

nellooo

Hi @FacilityGuy - I also want to hear how people have approached this. To add my personal experience, I have RA and for me, cutting out gluten was so effective - and I noticed a difference less than a week after strictly cutting it out. This was a really sad realisation for me, as i love bread and beer, but it makes a HUGE difference to the pain I get on a daily basis.

Nurina

Cutting bread, sugar, high carbs and processed foods work very well in me. It's hard but it's harder to live in pain.

FacilityGuy

Hi Nurina, do you have osteoarthritis that your diet helps with?

frogmorton

Where's @Arthuritis he definitely tried the anti-inflammatory diet.

I BTW am vegan and have an inflammatory arthritis and OA now and find it helps. I think meat and dairy are quite naughty for inflammation.

Best of luck and let us know how you get on.

Toni x

jonr

Yes and some things have worked more than others such as Olives and eggs, both helped with inflammation and its associated symptoms but no diet will help with the pain of bone-on-bone stage 3 and 4 Arthritis as far as I know.

Arthuritis

@frogmorton @FacilityGuy A diet that’s anti inflammatory is unique to everyone as my experimentation shows it depends on your gut and “leaky/damaged” it is in letting through unwelcome proteins that your immune sys reacts to badly and starting a war.

For me it was fructose, beans + wheat plus all meat in the “healthy” category, hence having to become a medical vegan.

more here:

https://youtu.be/mjQZCCiV6iA?si=zzsl1EuA5-eRffa4

Hope you are all keeping well !

Nurina

@FacilityGuy I have RA since I was a child and I've been diagnosed with OA recently. I need both hips replaced. After too many years, I know that the things that works for me are a low weight, exercise, a low carb diet, zero sugar, non processed food. If I have a slip, I have a flare up 100% guaranteed, all my body hurts and I can't move. I don't have a scientific explanation to this. It's what happens to me and it'll be completely different to other cases. I'm totally sure that my illness is gut related, like @Arthuritis said.

Arciere

+1 to cutting gluten. I felt hugely better in less than 2 weeks.

There’s a brilliant documentary on Netflix called hack your health - it talks about gut health and inflammation.

I learnt about this from reading an anti inflammatory cookbook.

I now avoid:

• gluten
• Artificial sweeteners
• Potatoes, tomatoes, aubergine
  

I’ve lost weight and feel great. I also inject a biologic medication for RA - could be a coincidence - but worth a try I think.

the whole approach to diet needs a rethink. I ate a good diet before - but mainly wheat based (bread pasta beer etc) and a lot of tomatoes and Diet Coke.

Alipen

Hi, It is a good idea to try to improve diet. I try eating 30 plant points every week to help my gut. I am hoping that by helping my gut I will be helping my health in general.

Glad your diet is helping you to feel better.

Best wishes,

Ali