Inflammation is a culprit in many of the diseases today- can it be decreased without meds?

[Simba1992]

There has been a lot of discussion on this forum around how we can or cannot decrease inflammation with dietary manipulations. This article by a known heart surgeon pinpoints certain aspects in our normal diet that in fact accelerate and keeps inflammation going. His view is on how inflammation affects our heart arteries. Since RA patients have a systemic inflammation and therefore a higher risk for heart complication, this may be of interest?

myscienceacademy.org/2012/0...

[Hidden]

Thanks. Very interesting. Sounds like I've pretty much stuck myself on the right kind of diet!

[Simba1992 in reply to Hidden]

I thought so too when I went through your diet. The sensitivity to dairy or not is ofcourse something else.

[Hidden]

Thanks for posting simba. I strongly agree with him about the causes of inflammation and diet. "Inflammation is not complicated — it is quite simply your body’s natural defence to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus".

The case for a good diet is strong in science. Carbs convert high to sugar, sugar fuels inflammation etc. Our diet can determine how good our gut flora is. We know unhealthy guts can have devastating consequences (Nutritional deficiencies, allergies, poor gut flora, acidity or lack of stomach acid etc). Diet is a major player in preventing and fighting disease.....

[Simba1992 in reply to Hidden]

Pinpointing the effect of unbalanced omega3/omega 6 ratio in our diet and the connextion to inflammation as well as the processed sugars that are everywhere, is an important thing to remember when we think about what we eat.

[Hidden in reply to Simba1992]

Definitely. Sorry i skimmed over the last bit .I am out at the moment x

[Hidden]

Hi

This is a great read, thank you.

I've also just come across Dr Eric Berg, who says much the same thing but he specialises in the liver instead of the heart - but the same conclusions!

It'll be interesting to see what impact this diet change will have and how long it might take to reverse the harm already done. I start in 2019, once I've figured out an easy and sustainable diet plan.

[Simba1992 in reply to Hidden]

It is also interesting that saturated fat infact has so much less omega6 than vegetable oils and that there is very little research on the inflammatory effect of saturated fats( from the animal world). When diet otherwise balanced .

[Mmrr]

Interesting read, thanks.

[Simba1992]

There are so many stress factors both internal and external that may cause ongoing low grade inflammation and when the amount reaches a certain level, I would imagine this results in a metabolic crisis where the immunesystem no longer can function normally to get ridd of the bad stuff causing inflammation.

[New50]

Cbd it’s the future

[Simba1992 in reply to New50]

How do you mean? Good for stress yes.

[New50 in reply to Simba1992]

No and yes. It’s available in health food shops it works on the brain ie nerve systems it calms the mind and body, it cannot on its own it’s down to each individual how much they are exposed to physically mentally emotionally situations. Food water environmental factors. It doesn’t make you high it is natural pacifier. If your receptive to peaceful thinking being and like to be positive happy it just assists that. Don’t quote me but anything that makes me feel calm is good because if your going through Anything that alarms you negativity isn’t good xxx

[New50]

I don’t like the drugs they dish out but it’s better than feeling your helpless. But we can do simple things that make ourselves feel good despite circumstances 😀

[Simba1992 in reply to New50]

I am so with you on this. There are a lot of simple things that can make us feel good and every good feeling is good for our health.😊 This is where the effect of life style comes in. If we see the main causes of stress this is one of them. The other one being what stress factors the food we eat containes the third being genetics a fourth is seen in the infections we are attacked by.xxSimba

[hawker955]

Evening Primrose oil contain essential fatty acids that have a well-established and scientifically proven anti-inflammatory effect known to be steroid-sparing, ie reducing the amount of steroids required for a given anti-inflammatory effect. Note that using this obviously boosts the fat intake in your diet which you might not want? . Note that the effects take weeks or even longer, unlike steroids that work very fast! Good luck

[daisychains58]

Look up Moringa Farm Australia, what a fantastic plant, definitely worth a look, the nutrients are to many to list. I’ve been taking it for about 2 months now but like everything, it takes time, I’ve certainly got more energy, shame I can’t utilise it better. 😘. Time will tell.

[Simba1992]

The point about cholesterol that the doctor made, I feel to be very relevant in RA. In other words that the cholesterol is not the culprit it is the inflammation in the arteries that is fed and caused to a great extent by the food we eat. Especially if the ratio between omega6 and omega3 is in favor of omega6. In other words if the food we eat supports this state of affairs. Cholesterol only cloggs arteries that are already injured.

[MissMinto]

I just posted this article which also discusses the role of sleep in reducing inflammation, as well as other factors:

mindbodygreen.com/articles/...