Fight arthritis with an anti-inflammatory diet

Have you been diagnosed with arthritis? If so, you should know that, in addition to medication, there are other resources that can help you improve your health. Food is one of them. Avoid certain foods with inflammatory action and opt for an anti-inflammatory diet can be of great help to improve your quality of life.

What is the relationship between diet and arthritis?

Rheumatoid arthritis is a condition which is included within the so-called autoimmune, in which the body attacks itself.

exist many hypotheses about. Naturopathic medicine works above all with the idea that increased intestinal permeabilitymainly due to an inappropriate microbial flora, product of a diet excessively rich in animal products, causes small fractions of proteins to enter the bloodstream that being considered strange they are attacked by our antibodies.

The problem is that if they are very similar to human proteins, and this provocation is repeated daily, they can confuse the immune system and cause it to damage its own proteins

thus generating the autoimmune disease.

From this perspective the foods that provide the most human-like proteins are meats obtained from mammalsespecially pork ones. Here we also include the milk protein animal.

Exists proven relationship (since the rheumatoid picture improves by suppressing it), between cow’s milk and this disease.

In the albumin of milk there are protein fractions somewhat different from human albumin, and that’s why our antibodies attack it. But on the other hand they are very similar to human collagena protein present in our joints, which causes confusion and these are attacked by the antibodies themselves.

Afterin order from greatest to least similarity, and following the phylogenetic scalewould be the poultry and fish.

Based on this approach it is essential for a person with an autoimmune condition to follow a strictly vegetarian diet. With the protein fractions of fruits and vegetables, confusion is impossible.

What foods to avoid to reduce inflammation

Foods that have an inflammatory effect include:

He gluten and the wheat. You can eat gluten-free cereals (millet, corn, rice, quinoa, decorticated buckwheat…). Sugar. Dairy products. refined foodssuch as flour, salt and oils. Transformed fats: hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated.

In addition, it is convenient to remove from your diet peppers, tomatoes, aubergines and potatoes due to its solanine content, a substance that favors joint inflammation and loss of bone mass. Above all, do not eat them out of season (which is typically summer), nor raw or with the skin on. The best is eat them cooked and peeled.

Is essential avoid in addition coffee and alcohol.

Prioritize anti-inflammatory and antioxidant foods

The foods and products that you should prioritize are those with an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effect. In general, you can follow the following recommendations:

Increase the consumption of healthy vegetable fats such as avocado, extra virgin olive oilthe one of linen first cold pressing, seeds, etc.As antioxidant foods you have the berriesthe whole family of cabbagesthe onions and the garlicthe orange foods (carrots, pumpkins…) and the Green Tea. Also apples and grapes. In general, vegetables are beneficial for your disease. You should not ignore the anti-inflammatory action of aromatic plants and spices, such as turmeric, ginger, Ceylan cinnamon, rosemary, basil or coriander. Add them to your infusions, creams and salads.

Natural treatment for arthritis crises

In acute phases a recommended fast.

As symptomatic treatment you can go to plants and phytotherapeutic preparations (cat’s claw, devil’s claw, willow, meadowsweet, evening primrose…), which relieve inflammation and pain and reduce the intake of drugs, which can cause side effects.

The wet steam baths they are also effective.