The BEST Foods for Arthritis

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today we’re going to talk about the best foods for arthritis talking about osteoarthritis rheumatoid arthritis in fact any ideas so the first thing you want to do is you want to go and search out the official recommendation for foods for arthritis so there are many different official sites but the one we’re going to go to today is probably one of the most credible sites according to Google and that is the Arthritis Foundation and then what you’re going to do is take a look at all the foods that they recommend okay now we’re not going to use this list of what to eat we’re going to use this list on what to avoid because usually whatever the consensus is of what you should do medically you should go in the opposite direction so let’s see what they say to do well for starters our diet rich in Whole Foods fruits vegetables fish nuts beans whole grains Okay and of course avoiding the saturated fats now there is a few things on this that I do agree with number one fish and of course vegetables except there’s some caveats to that which I’ll explain so when you have arthritis you have inflammation right so we’re trying to get rid of inflammation so when you consume a lot of fruits you’re going to generate a lot of sugar and this is going to bump you out of ketosis and this is going to create more inflammation and of course their explanation is that fruits are high in antioxidants well that’s true but they’re also high in sugar as well now they also recommend nuts because nuts have antioxidants well there’s really only one nut that I would recommend if you have arthritis and that would be walnuts because it gives you the precursor it’s called ala that turns into EPA in DHA which is the omega-3 fatty acids now you’re not going to get a lot of conversion but you’ll get some but unfortunately the rest of the nuts are high in omega-6 fatty acids and they can be inflammatory especially if you’re doing like the nut Butters now what about beans okay aren’t beans good for arthritis because they are also high in antioxidants well the problem with beans is they’re also high in lectins and oxalates which are anti-nutrients that can aggravate arthritis not to mention they’re a bit high in carbs and they can really interrupt your digestive process and I would venture to say that a lot of arthritis has to do with inflammation in the gut now of course the next big one that the Arthritis Foundation recommends is these whole grains right whole grains because they’re loaded with antioxidants but they’re also loaded with carbohydrates they’re loaded with gluten they’re loaded with oxalates so all of these are going to aggravate arthritis but the big problem with grains is that they’re very high in the omega-6 fatty acids so this leads to the next topic what they say to avoid they say red meats eggs and dairy okay well let’s talk about these three things right here what you need to know about this to make it really simple is that when you eat animals that are fed with grains you’re going to get a much different profile as far as the omega-6 to the omega-3 ratios so the question is is red meat bad it depends on what the animal ate now what about chickens well chickens are probably one of the most highest sources of omega-6 fatty acids so if you get chickens from the farmer’s market you’re going to get a much better profile you’re going to get less omega-6 because they’re free-ranged hopefully and so they consume more bugs maybe less grains and so when you have pasture-raised organic eggs you’re getting a much better profile with these ratios now what about Dairy where does dairy come from cow milk conventional cow milk can turn into a good product if you ferment it I’m talking about like grass-fed plain kefir wholemeal kefir I think that can help your gut and help arthritis if you can find cheese from grass-fed cows that’s made from raw milk cheese like they do in Europe that’s much better than American cheese so again you just have to differentiate the source of what that animal ate same thing with fish right we have farm raised fish versus wild caught big difference in the omega-6 to omega-3 ratios so to keep this really simple you want to have wild caught fatty fish like salmon sardines Cod Liver you can get it in a can while Cod the cool thing about cod liver or cod liver oil is it’s very high in omega-3 but it’s also high in vitamin d and vitamin A whereas fish oil doesn’t have that but fatty fish is really important farm raised fish is not a good deal Seafood actually is a good source of Omega-3 omega-3 is anti-inflammatory pasture-raised organic eggs is a good source of not only Omega-3 but vitamin D the problem with getting Vitamin D from our Foods it’s just very difficult to find foods high in vitamin D vitamin D is a very powerful anti-inflammatory for arthritis so you’d want to consume the foods that align with that like even with pork for example Pig set free range that go outside the barn that gets Sun have a much higher level of vitamin D then the pigs that are confined to a physical structure and they can never leave now fermented vegetables are good for arthritis especially cabbage as in sauerkraut or even cabbage juice is really good for the gut and it’s also good for arthritis but vegetables in general is a crap shoot sometimes it can help your arthritis sometimes it can make it worse it’s all dependent on how much inflammation you have in your gut because a lot of people have arthritis have itis in the colon too and if they do more fiber even vegetables that can make things worse so some people that have arthritis will do very good if they completely eliminate any fiber and do the carnivore diet which is a lot of saturated fat and protein which is interesting and of course on the avoid list avoid sugar refine grains avoid whole grains which have gluten in it that turn into sugar really quickly avoid trans fats anything with the word hydrogenated whether it’s partially hydrogenated or just hydrogenated you want to avoid that seed oils are really bad for arthritis and so that would include the soy the corn the canola the cotton seed even the peanut oils safflower oils these are all seed oils and our bodies are not designed to consume this refined concentrated oil they’re very susceptible to oxidation and they can create a lot of problems especially for arthritis so a much better Source would be coconut oil grass-fed butter using actual lard or Tallow to cook your food in and of course avoid things like canned foods unless those canned foods are sardines or Cod Liver I would avoid them another interesting thing to avoid would be the powdered protein okay both plant-based protein and other types of of lean protein powders your liver just does not do well on them and you may find that it stirs up your arthritis especially whey protein and soy protein isolates and even pea protein can do it you want to consume protein that normally comes with the fat so a natural whole food source of protein now a couple additional things if you’re on the ketogenic diet you may find that the oxalates in the food are stirring up your arthritis and the foods that are high in oxalates are in spinach rhubarb chocolate kiwi almonds but I think if you follow the information in this video if you have arthritis you will see a dramatic decrease in inflammation within a couple days the last very important point is doing intermittent fasting because the more times you eat you’re going to create this interaction with food in your gut and create more problems it’s a natural anti-inflammatory so it’s not just what you eat it’s also the frequency of eating it’s very important in getting rid of inflammation now if you want more details in what to eat and you haven’t seen this video I put it up right here check it out