Rheumatoid arthritis

[raw-al]

Is anyone aware of or know of any improvement in symptoms of RA in relation to a raw diet?

Or in any diet?

I know some people report that nightshades aggravate RA.

[TylerDurden]

Advanced Glycation End Products are implicated heavily in rheumatoid arthritis:-

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22168993

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1756-185X.2011.01679.x/abstract

 The key point is that heat-created toxins in cooked foods all create inflammation, and inflammation is the main problem for older people.

It wouldn't surprise me if the other heat-created toxin types also aggravate the disease.

[raw-al]

Excellent Tyler.

I was hoping you would answer. I read an article in a local paper about a girl that has the issue and I wanted to check before I responded. This is better ammo than what I contemplated.

She is buying into the Arthritis society story, trying to raise money for them. She is taking strong drugs

http://charlenehittingthewall.blogspot.com/view/flipcard

Comment on her blog if you wish.

[PaleoPhil]

There's lots of info on cooked Paleo helping rheumatoid arthritis (and raw Paleo would likely work even better)...

RA success stories--Ray Audette and Joseph Hackett:
> Ray Audette (author of NeanderThin, http://crossfitbirmingham.ning.com/forum/topics/neanderthin-paleo-diet)
> Recovery from Rheumatoid Arthritis, Joseph Hackett, http://jhackett_ra.tripod.com/

Rheumatoid Arthritis, Molecular Mimicry, and Diet as a Possible Therapy
by Ron Hoggan
http://www.gluten-free.org/hoggan/ra.txt
You Are What You Eat: New Theories About Rheumatoid Arthritis
By  Elizabeth Tracey MS
WebMD Medical News    
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/23/1728_56722

April 18, 2000 -- Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers take note or take it with a grain of salt but eating cereal grains such as wheat, rye, barley, oats and corn, or legumes, such as beans and peas, may produce changes in gut structure that promote the development of the disease in susceptible people. That's according to a paper published in the current issue of the British Journal of Nutrition.

"Our theory helps us begin to understand the connection between joint inflammation and gut inflammation that's been a universal clinical finding for years," lead author Loren Cordain, PhD, tells WebMD. He and his colleagues have developed a theory about "how diet can interact with gut tissue as well as components of the immune system to promote the development of [rheumatoid arthritis] in certain individuals," he says. Cordain is a professor in the department of health and exercise science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. ....

Red Meat does NOT Cause Rheumatoid Arthritis:

From Food and Western Disease by Staffan Lindeberg, page 213:

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"The hypothesis that meat contributes to rheumatoid arthritis [...] is not substantiated by intervention studies. [642. Hagen, K.B., Byfuglien, M.G., Falzon, L., Olsen, S.U. & Smedslund, G. (2009) Dietary interventions for rheumatoid arthritis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev, CD006400. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2484438/pdf/jcca00067-0031.pdf] In contrast, a relationship between rheumatoid arthritis and the intake of meat products has been observed in an epidemiological cohort study and an ecological study. Countries with high meat consumption also have a high prevalence of HLA genotypes with a tendency for rheumatoid arthritis. However, an observation that is inconsistent with meat being a cause of rheumatoid arthritis is that the disease has become considerably more common among modern Eskimos, despite a markedly lower meat intake than in the past." [1413. Peschken, CA & Esdaile, JM (1999) Rheumatic Diseases in North America's Indigenous Peoples. Semin Arthritis Rheum 28, 368-91. 1414.] [1588. Schaefer, O. (1971) When the Eskimo Comes to Town. Nutr Today 6, 8-16.]

Rheumatoid arthritis in American Indians and Alaska Natives: A review of the literature http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049017204001805

[svrn]

5 months of 100 percent raw paleo helped what i think was my arthritis (i never got it diagnosed by a doctor, what do they know anyway) a bit. What really got rid of the pain for me though though was leeches. Iv only done one leech therapy 2 months ago and I had virtually no pain since then. The pain is only just now beginning to return a tiny bit and I will repeat this. You are supposed to do the therapy several times for a total cure but I stopped after one because I got such good results but no im gonna do more to defeat it once and for all.

there is a thread on this here. Search leeches.