YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS IF YOU ARE THINKING OF DIET TO HELP RA

Arthuritis
Arthuritis Member Posts: 563
edited 10. May 2025, 08:20 in Food and Diet

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/zoe-science-nutrition/id1611216298?i=1000696532853

This will tell you evidence based research on how diet impacts your RA activity. Please remember there are no RA magic healthy foods or bad foods lists, it just depends on what YOUR specific immune system & gut biome has decided to blackmark or anoint.

Take me for example, I was off MTX & symptom free as verified by the hospital tests, but bizarrely that was only possible if I avoided most fruit, sandwich meat, dairy, poultry, salmon & cod, they all triggered flares.

BUT!!! McDonald’s Big Macs we’re ok, no flares.

You will have to find your own “safe list”, and the podcast tells you about the research that tells you how patients did it, just like me. Do not assume just because it’s listed as healthy in a book or everyone says so, it will be healthy for you. Baked beans gave me almighty flares, even on MTX, as did supposed recovery foods like Complan, which before RA I absolutely loved.

But please get your RA under control with meds before trying the dietary support. It’s like having a deep cut, you need proper conventional med care like stitches for a cut to start, but you use the diet to help the recovery. Hopefully it helps.

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  • noddingtonpete
    noddingtonpete Moderator Posts: 1,401

    Good advice as always, thanks @Arthuritis

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  • MissA
    MissA Member Posts: 59

    Very helpful advice, I waited for my RA to be under control with meds before embarking on a healthier eating regime & daily low impact exercise for the over 50s, which I would not have considered without the help of conventional meds to calm the inflammation. Let's face it, when you are hit with a RA flare it's hard to be motivated or think positive about anything.

    I agree you have to find what works for you personally, there is no miracle cure or one size fits all solution. Since reducing my carb intake, keeping hydrated with water (very important), steering away from highly processed food my gut feels much happier, my flares have reduced, l've lost some excess weight I was carrying & even my aura migraines have lessened considerably(I hope I'm not speaking too soon over that one).

    Good luck to all on your journey to find the best solution for you.]

  • fred890
    fred890 Member Posts: 20

    That’s wild about the Big Macs, just goes to show how personal RA triggers can be.

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