Inflammation diet advice

[avrose90]

If anyone has a good and tasty diet for helping bring down inflammation can you please let me know? I suffer from chronic back pain and the inflammation in my back makes it worse.

[andyswarbs]

To my mind a good and tasty diet - and inflammation do not sit well in the same sentence. Most people's idea of a good and tasty diet involves heaps of sugar, oils & fats and salt. To conquer such a problem one has to become the master and put health needs above what is commonly thought of as tasty. Sugar, oils/fats and salt intake have all exploded since the second world war and are at the heart of many modern long term illnesses, including my own rheumatoid, osteo and psoriatic arthritis.

Easter 2016 I put myself on a whole-food plant based diet with minimal oils along with the process of an elimination diet and through my own re-education process I have largely conquered my condition and am now on zero medication, zero pain, zero inflammation and alongside serious cardio exercise my body is healing apace.

In my new world I have no interest in sweet puddings, though yes I might have one on occasion (a vegan one). My eating thinking is about what is healing my body. So that means I so much thoroughly enjoy raw broccoli, florets and stalk as an example.

But whatever I don't expect that to be on most people's radar of good and tasty. To me though it is fabulous food that is bringing my body alive.

[deejames in reply to andyswarbs]

Hi Andy.I wonder what your condition was in the first place. I have had a very good diet for many years yet the inflammation in my spine from L4 to S1has led to a chronic condition that I manage with medication and a programme of pacing and gentle exercise. I am very active but it is through constant pain. I have virtually no disc space between my vertebrae in that area. The constant rubbing creates inflammation.

I am a vegetarian who cooks all food from scratch including my own sourdough bread. What else can I do ?

Dee

[Activity2004 Administrator in reply to deejames]

Did you see a doctor about a possible herniated disc, deejames ?

[andyswarbs in reply to deejames]

Dee, I lived for 40 years on a whole-food vegetarian diet that I thought good if not excellent. But it did not stop RA from taking hold and bringing my life to a near self-propelled end through depression, pain, brain fog etc etc...

When you are that close you will do anything. I did "anything" and thank goodness for seeing the light about the difference between food for eating because that's what most people do and food that actively supports life which is what I do now.

I had spine problems. Indeed I still struggle bending over and must do it slowly. But my daily Bikram Yoga routine (which I cannot recommend highly enough) has helped restore physical health beyond my wildest dreams. Slowly yes. Every so slowly. But persistently daily yoga. Right now my back comes upright leaning over the left every time. But in the 40degree temperature daily (well min 4 days per week) now I do that coming upright in the same time as other yogis. That has taken 8 months to achieve.

For the first four months in my yoga I could not kneel at all, having been in a wheelchair. Instead I sat on my bum and mimicked yoga poses. Then one day I thought "f**k it", and having knelt once I was not going to go back to sitting on my bum.

That first time I wondered whether I was doing something totally stupid to my knees. I had not knelt on them for 40 years. What the heck was I thinking!

But almost daily yoga practice (my local studio is Yoga Venue in Cowley Oxford) with very supportive teachers who know there stuff has made all the difference to my physical health.

Bikram Yoga is not for everyone. It is a love or hate relationship, like marmite! I preceed every 90-min session with 20-30mins of my own pre-session warmup. At the end I am so completely bushed (now there is a polite word!) all I can do is sit for around 20 mins before getting showered and dressed.

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Check out this link

health.harvard.edu/staying-...

Hope it is useful for you.

If you try anything on the link can you let us know if it helps please.

Good luck 🍀

[Paul12]

Please google Dax Moy Elimination Diet. It is free. Follow that and you'll be doing the best diet-wise you can.

[deejames]

Unfortunately it's impossible to rebuild discs. I am unlucky in that my spine at 67 is more akin to someone in their 90s. I attend the pain clinic, have had several MMRs . No bulging discs just extreme wear and tear. I also have SI joint difunction from a bike accident 9 years ago.

I am working with an excellent chiropractor who tweeks and modifies various exercises to help me improve the muscle atrophy from when I was in acute stage and movement was limited.

I've tried magnesium to no avail. It's a one day at a time.

I recognise the value of a non processed largely plant based diet but bone will not regrow or 'uncrumble' itself.

Thanks for all the advise

Dee

[cryst4l]

Try adding trumeric to your food - it is an excellent inflammatory herb providing a heap full of benefits. I have just started drinking hot water with tumeric in the mornings due to severe endometriosis pain I suffer from. You can also try it with warm milk. Available in most asian grocery stores or sometimes in a supermarket that has the asian grocery isle

[DCarrier]

Low carb diet is supposed to reduce inflammation.

[Activity2004 Administrator in reply to DCarrier]

Can you please explain how LCHF does this?

[DCarrier]

Diet & Weight Management Reference

Anti-Inflammatory Diet: Road to Good Health?

What to Eat What Not to Eat

If you have a condition that causes inflammation, it may help to change your eating habits.

While medication and other treatments are important, many experts say that adopting an anti-inflammatory diet may help, too. If you have, say, rheumatoid arthritis, changing what's on your plate won’t be a magic cure -- but it might lessen the number of flare-ups that you have, or it may help take your pain down a few notches.

An anti-inflammatory diet is widely regarded as healthy, so even if it doesn't help with your condition, it can help lower your chances of having other problems.

What to Eat

In a nutshell, anti-inflammatory foods are those that any mainstream nutrition expert would encourage you to eat. They include lots of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, plant-based proteins (like beans and nuts), fatty fish, and fresh herbs and spices.

Fruits and veggies: Go for variety and lots of color. Research has shown that vitamin K-rich leafy greens like spinach and kale curb inflammation, as does broccoli and cabbage. And the substance that gives fruits like cherries, raspberries, and blackberries their color is a type of pigment that also helps fight inflammation.

This was taken from WebMD.

I have stopped eating bread and sugar and I can tell a world of difference. Ask Nurse Cindy (Facebook) has some really good videos for explaining how this woe helps with diabetes, why we don't lose weight as fast as we think we should.

I'm no specialist, I read to find out if these things are true or just a too good to be true scheme. LCHF is not a temporary diet it's a way of life. When the Doctor told me I was pre pre-diabetic it scared me and this is the solution I found for me. You can also read about Keto diets, where you lower your carbs more.