Alternative Help for RA Community Group

This group is intended to help those who either want to take less of the conventional drugs they are taking, or to gain more control over their illness through alternative therapies. This group is mainly focused on alternative medications, alternative supplements and alternative foods that I have found beneficial for RA through both research and trial and error.

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nancyfoco 02/22/2014

I have been reading The Paleo Approach (http://www.thepaleomom.com/). This book is amazing. It's not often that I sit with a book and take notes! I've got notes. I have come to realize that my attempt at paleo/primal eating was not complete. The Paleo Approach explains the paleo way of eating in terms of autoimmune diseases.

This weekend is going to be devoted to cleaning out my kitchen of foods that I will not be eating. I'm going to tweak my supplements a little. I have joined veggie and poultry CSAs. Although summer seems like a long time away, I am lining up health food choices for summer and fall.

I highly recommend The Paleo Approach by Sarah Ballantyne to anyone curious about autoimmune diseases and nutrition. Also on her website there is an article about the first clinical trial using a paleo diet:
http://www.thepaleomom.com/2014/02/first-clinical-trial-using-paleo-diet-autoimmune-disease.html

Nancy

deleted_user 04/24/2015

I have changed my diet completely and have been off methotrexate for almost three months. So happy to be off the meds.....

2scicrazed 05/04/2015

I've already identified an inflammatory reaction to red food coloring.. As for meat, chicken and pork inflames me, while steak does not. Go figure.

Now chocolate...sigh.... If I want to look and feel crippled, a good quality dark chocolate bar from a gourmet store - will swell my fingers up and lock me up in agony within 1-4 hours... I miss chocolate... It just shoots up those IL6 inflammatory biomolecules crazy fast.

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