6 Diet Tips to Treat Ankylosing Spondylitis

What is the relationship between ankyosensing spondylitis and diet?

ankylosing spondylitis It is within the group of diseases considered autoimmune.

As the cause of all these pathologies is not clear, there are multitude of hypotheses that would explain its appearance, and therefore many different treatment proposals.

One of the most widespread ideas among medical options or unconventional therapies is that antigenic substances that enter the body (remains of peptides or proteins from viruses, bacteria, food…)attached to own substances or by similarity with them, provoke an antibody response that end up attacking the tissues themselves.

These substances enter the circulation through the intestinal mucosa. (fact that in normal situation should not happen) due to an increase in its permeability. This increase is due to a common type of diet today that develops a intestinal flora where putrefactive bacteria predominate (aggressive for the intestinal wall) over the usual and beneficial fermentation.

Specific, seems to be due to an excess of animal protein and gluten from hybrid cereal flours, modified by man.

Gluten is normally attached to starch, perhaps that is why you have read that it should be avoided. But it is gluten that is most associated with these health problems.

the habit of eating refined cereals, in addition to reducing the amount of fiber that is ingested increases its proportion of starch.

What to eat to improve in case of ankylosing spondylitis?

As Dietary proposal for ankylosing spondylitiscontrasted with positive results, followed for at least a year, I summarize the one indicated by the Dr Jean Seignalet in his book Food, the third medicine (RBA-Integral Ed.):

Elimination of cereals, with the exception of rice and buckwheat (quinoa is not a cereal and soy is a legume, so you can eat them).milk suppression animal and its derivatives (yogurts, cheese…). Consumption of foods preferably raw (if they are cooked, better steamed). Consumption of organic products or biological. Consumption of oils obtained by first cold pressing. supplementation with complexes of vitamins and minerals.

There are those who, to improve the results, also suppresses proteins of animal origin. The objective is to avoid the possible confusion of the organism with the entry of polypeptides more similar to humans, which would occur mainly due to the increase in the permeability of the intestinal mucosa.

Although it seems difficult to follow such a diet, this includes all fruits and vegetables, legumes, nuts, rice, buckwheat, and quinoa.

At first, the effort required to respect these dietary restrictions may seem great, but the improvement in the quality of life usually compensatesand in the end the diet is not lived as a sacrifice but as a healthy habit that allows controlling the disease.