So, a few months ago , I was struggling to get below 2 mgs of prednisone. I have had pmr for 4 years.
I did the keto diet, vegan diet, gluten free, and every other diet, to control my inflammation.
Two months ago I started the Carnivore diet. I eat steak, chicken, all fish, eggs, and some dairy. I also eat two servings of fruit a day. Melons, berries and cherries.
I am 61 years old and I feel 20 years younger. Inflammation is 80% gone. Joint pain gone! Stuffiness gone! Sleep better!
1/2 mg of Prednisone and tapering to zero.
There are many you tube videos to help you start this diet and see if it works for you. I weigh less than I did 25 years ago. I was NOT trying to lose weight but it happened.
Carnivore diet helps with a lot of autoimmune issues.
This is my story...peace my friends.
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Hats off to you to have tried different diets and lifestyle changes to help with your condition! It’s different for everyone but the mindset and attitude of trying alternative initiatives and not just reaching for drugs is commendable!!!
There is a place in Scotland & also London, who of course charge a fortune. I might try this after my knee replacement op as apparently you can’t take opiates while you are on it.
I’ve no idea, I was following another thread. Apparently it is being removed as it is an unlicensed drug. I’m using my iPhone which could be a problem, rather than my desktop.
It was Charlie892 who said you could purchase it on the internet. Where I suggested I believe you have to provide a prescription & get it direct - could turn up & collect it. Haven’t done it myself, yet.
Hi, I ate carnivore for 6 months last year. I think I stopped because of Christmas. I, too, felt wonderful, or actually normal, regained strength and muscle, didn’t feel I was toppling over sideways, blood pressure came down. I think I’ll go back to it. Thanks for the inspiration!
Congratulations on finding a diet that you enjoy and helps with your PMR. I cannot say to what extent it is relevant - if at all, but the cholesterol in your diet may be helping to increase your cortisol levels as you reduce your prednisone. Cholesterol is the precursor for cortisol production. (E.g. see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol - the section on biosynthesis.)
I have been struggling to get below 7mg and have only ever managed to get to 5.5mg without flaring. I have looked at Ken Berry, Richard Mathews, Sarah Myhill etc. and am going to try the carnivore diet again - although it seems 'unnatural' - especially after it was drummed into us as children that we should eat our greens! My hesitancy is over digestion - last time things were very loose and very dark, which alarmed me although I felt OK.
Can you tell me, how long was it before you noticed any benefit? Also, what difference, if any, with your digestion?
So, the carnivore diet is the way humans ate for centuries. There were seasonal fruits and berries, but they survived on a diet of meat and fat. So not truly unnatural.
I have been constipated my whole life. Not on this diet though. That is a blessed benefit of this diet for me as well.
Dark and loose is okay. After a couple of months, your stomach gets adjusted to this way of digestion. So I am "normal" now it that area. I have not used any fiber in months!
That being said, I also eat two servings of fruit a day. Melon, berries, grapes or cherries.
I would say that I started feeling changes after three weeks. My inflammation is low and I do the press test. Press my muscle and no pain. I am on 1/2 mg of pred now. Going to stay there for a month and then alternate days.
I eat all meats, chicken, fish, lamb and beef. Organic or grass fed. I have a subscription to ButcherBox.
I was 170 lbs at the height of my treatment, 15mg pred. I am now 130 lbs and the weight loss was just a side benefit, much like the "digestion" issue I suffered from.
I also eat eggs, I have chickens, and some cheese. You need to experiment with these foods and see how they make you feel. I usually "feel" the difference the next few days.
Some people need to do only meat, fat, salt and water. I am good eating meat, salt , eggs , fruit and some dairy. Look at the Peterson videos on YouTube. They have had success with disease and mental health issues on carnivore.
As for it being a strange diet, I would eat bricks if I felt this good doing so.
It is a small commitment for your health!
Good luck and let me know in a month how you feel😀
Ha, ha! Love your 'I would eat bricks ...' and completely understand it! I don't think one diet suits everyone but I am going to give it another go. I am sure, for others, vegan works as well - they both cut out any UPFs etc. which is probably at least half the answer.
I have seen the Petersen video and read/seen a lot of Ken Berry, plus Richard Mathews FB group. Whilst humans would have eaten a lot more meat/fish/eggs there must have been lean times as well when they would eat anything that they could get hold of, i.e. berries, roots, foliage etc. They also lived an entirely different life. I think one has to try everything until, like you, we find what suits our particular body.
Comforting news re digestion. Like you, I have suffered constipation all my life and remember being taken to hospital at a pre-school age due to a blockage. After that my mother, never interested in food herself, filled me with prunes, castor oil, senna, ex-lax chocolate - in fact everything she could think of. No wonder my digestion struggles when I think about it.
I shall try to follow your progress. Long may the diet suit you.
The orignal hominid diet was plant-based. Adding meat was an extension so it is wrong when anyone says we evolved to eat only meat. Not saying YOU are saying that but many do.
Early hominins ,were similar to chimps. Hence the fruit, veg and bugs. When they started eating meat, their brains grew and developed into what is the current human brain. Speech, reasoning , etc. That is the research I have found.
Dear Paloelady. So pleased the carnivore diet works for you. Like many though you seem to conflate this to explain why we have large brains as opposed to chimps etc. Chimps are known meat eaters and have even been filmed killing and eating weaker chimps. There is no proven correlation between eating meat and higher brain function. Lions, tigers, domestic cats don't have higher brain function. Corvids eat carrion are long lived and are quite intelligent and social. parrots don't eat meat and are equally long lived and intelligent. It is most likely purely a freak of nature that some had an improved brain that gave them an evolutionary advantage that self selected when breeding and developed that way. Eating meat didn't make us cleverer. Sorry
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