The topic of rheumatoid arthritis
nutrition is two-handed. On one hand, the disease
affects diet and the way the body assimilates nutrients.
On the other hand, diet might actually help alleviate
the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. When addressing
rheumatoid arthritis nutrition, you have to consider
both aspects.
Many people with rheumatoid arthritis
believe that food plays a part in the severity of their
symptoms will try a diet in an attempt to alleviate
symptoms. The problem with taking the diet approach is
that it is a diet and many people find following diets
very difficult.
The Arthritis Strategy Pack becomes an
important component to your rheumatoid arthritis
nutrition and treatment plan. Arthritin complements the
body's natural ability to provide fast, safe and
effective comfort while reducing pain and inflammation.
Arthritin is the component that addresses the present
symptoms. The key to this combination is Buffer pH,
which addresses root issues associated with rheumatoid
arthritis.
When your body's pH balances are off, your health is
off. Rheumatoid arthritis, and all degenerative diseases
for that matter, are associated with excess acidity in
the body. By bringing your body into balance, you create
an internal environment that is impervious to illness
and disease. Buffer pH produces steady and long-term
effects by balancing the internal environment to address
the base causes.
The Arthritis Strategy Pack can be used alongside
medications, or used as a substitute for some of the
prescription arthritis medications. The Arthritis
Strategy Pack is one of the most powerful rheumatoid
arthritis natural remedies.
Most of the drugs used to treat
rheumatoid arthritis have significant side effects
involving the liver, kidneys, gastrointestinal tract and
eyes. There are also rheumatoid arthritis nutrition
implications; altered nutrient absorption, metabolism
and excretion, nausea, vomiting, altered appetite and
taste changes.
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Studies have shown that many of the
symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis may be linked to food
allergies. A good way to determine if your rheumatoid
arthritis is caused by food allergies, eliminate the
above foods from your diet for two weeks. Then begin by
adding one of the foods for one week. If you do not have
increased rheumatoid arthritis symptoms, that food is
probably OK for you. If you have an increase in pain,
redness, swelling, and warmth in the joints, then the
food you added is possibly the cause. You may well be
allergic or sensitive to it.
At the beginning of the second week, add a second food
for another week. Keep adding foods using this pattern.
Foods that can trigger rheumatoid
arthritis nutrition reactions:
- Beef
- Corn
- Coffee
- Eggs
- Grapefruit
- Milk and dairy products
- Nightshade plants - tomatoes, potatoes, bell peppers,
eggplant
- Oranges
- Oats
- Pork
- Rye
- Wheat
Intestinal health also is important
aspect of rheumatoid
arthritis nutrition. With a
rheumatoid arthritis diet,
add essential fatty acids such as
fish oil and evening primrose oil (one or two capsules
three times a day with meals) and black currant oil (one
capsule three times a day with meals). You also may want
to add those tart little currants to your diet to aid
normal intestinal permeability to allow essential
vitamins and minerals to reach your bones and joints
with their healing properties.
A high fiber diet also will improve intestinal
permeability and help overcome rheumatoid arthritis. You
can add fiber with psyllium, oat and rice bran, or
ground flaxseeds. Ground flaxseeds are my favorite. I
mix 2 tablespoons ground flaxseeds with cranberry juice
each morning.
Another important rheumatoid arthritis nutrition
consideration is to thoroughly chew your food and mix it well with saliva.
Don't wash food down with liquids.
You may need to take betaine HCL and pepsin along with
pancreatic enzymes to improve your digestion. The best
way to determine this is to see a nutritional doctor and
have a complete digestive stool analysis performed.
"Leaky gut" syndrome is frequently
associated with rheumatoid arthritis nutrition. The
official definition is an increase in permeability of
the intestinal mucosa to luminal macromolecules,
antigens and toxins associated with inflammatory
degenerative and/or atrophic mucosal damage.
The gastro-intestinal tract
has multiple functions: it digests foods, converts
food particles into energy, carries
nutrients like vitamins and minerals attached to carrier
proteins across the gut lining into the bloodstream,
contains a major part of the chemical detoxification
system of the body and contains antibodies that act as
the first line of defense against infection.
When the intestinal tract is not working properly, the capacity
for the assimilation and absorption of food is
decreased. And, the gut is less able to keep out harmful
substances and what it doesn't need. If the intestinal
lining is raw and inflamed, it causes large spaces to
develop between the cells of the gut wall. are able to
leak through the intestinal wall. The spaces open up and
allow large food antigens, like proteins, bacteria,
food, fungi, metals, toxic substances and other
molecules that are not fully digested, to be absorbed
into the body and straight into the blood stream. Once
in the blood stream our immune system is the last line
of defense to deal with these substances and it will
eventually get overwhelmed if a leaky gut is not
rectified.
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