Diet & RA

A study some years ago showed that half of RA patients could improve and even eliminate their joint pain by a very strict vegan diet - but it returned as soon as they reintroduced even small amounts of animal protein. The diet may improve symptoms - it doesn't cure RA, it just gets the autoimmune part to be less active or even go into remission.

However, most people will feel better when they remove the junk food from their diet.

Hi there,

I've been on an anti-inflammatory diet for just under a year, since my RA diagnosis. Before I started the diet I was in terrible pain and could hardly walk. Sleeping was impossible and I was constantly exhausted. 

The immunologist-nutritionist that I went to see does regular testing which informs which supplements she advises me to take and the diet too. 

My diet is free from gluten, grains, legumes (apart from fermented tofu/tempeh), dairy and nightshade vegetables. I am also vegetarian. I eat lots of vegetables (apart from potatoes, peppers, aubergines, tomatoes), several eggs each day, plus nuts (soaked and dehydrated), fermented foods such as sauerkraut and some fruit (not oranges). I use coconut oil to cook with and make cakes using almond and coconut flour and just a little sugar or honey. I am quite used to the diet now, just need to be organised so I don't end up in a cafe with nothing to eat. I also take probiotics, digestive enzymes and various vitamins and minerals including MSM. 

This diet has given me back my life! I am no longer in pain, just the occasional twinge, I can walk and cycle and I take no medication.

It's all about healing the gut which will hopefully permanently reset the immune system. 

Good luck with your journey. 

Hi, yes following the therapeutic diet has helped me incredibly. If I introduce sugar, milk, coffee ( caffeine triggers anxiety or faster heart rate, which then triggered emotional changes, which then triggers fight or flight mechanism, which then changes hirmones, which then creates stress, which then triggers chemical changes and need for higher magnesium, b complex, vitamin D , etc which then comes back around to absorbing enough vitamins and nutrition in the proper balance), soy, tomatoes (including tomato sauce), and gluten and some other grains, pork, and beef) all going back to gut health and ability to absirb in the right denominatuons. Also for me, methotrexate and the RA biilogics were not the correct treatment and induced Lupus like symptoms. 10 to 12 hrs of night sleep is crutial which is helped immensely with magnesium glycinate and calcium (1:1 ratio) twice daily, but at least 1/2 hr apart, taken with 2000mg of D3 for the body to use them properly. I still have RA but it is managed well, and without methotrexate or biologics. I was in a wheel chair for 6 months, confined to bed for 4 .onths, and a cane for 2 yes before researching and making the above changes. Medications are plaquinal (anti malarian killing stomach bacteria, mobic (anti inflammatory). Tramadal, and 5 mg prednisone. Flares are infrquent, but when they happen are treated with a short term prednisone pac, and reassing my sleep, dietary, stress and balance of vitamins and minerals. Important also is generous water with body cleansing and pH balancing lemon.

OOPS! Sorry Emis Mod, I didn't realize I had named what I did. Sorry about that, it won't happen again

 

Well if you get to where you don't have to take medicine, doesn't that mean you don't have RA? Does it still keep eating at your joints and you don't know it?

Why has my comment been moderated?? There is nothing that violates in my posting.