I am 36 and think I am developing RA. It comes and goes every few months and I notice flare ups if I eat a lot of processed foods or junk foods in a day. The internet isn’t the best place to search for treatments so I was wondering if any of y’all had suggestions of holistic or underground approaches to help with this. I have been doing keto/ one day fasts the past month and didn’t have any issues until I had a cheat day this weekend which is what cause my suspected flare up.
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The pattern you're noticing - flare-ups with an ultra-processed diet - tells you everything. Processed food is highly inflammatory, as are certain healthy foods. I'd start to make the clean keto and intermittent fasting a lifestyle, or at least lower your carb count and inflammatory food intake (e.g., nightshades, wheat, peanuts, refined vegetable oils) significantly. Have you checked your fasting glucose and A1C recently? Pre-diabetes - T2D has an inflammatory component as well. If the numbers are creeping up there and you notice a difference on the keto-IF routine, you're on the right track to changing it and related issues by changing your diet. But make it sustainable so you can stick to it. Finally, you can request an inflammatory marker test from your doctor, or request/buy one yourself through certain labs. I really think you're on the right track with the low-carb/IF, though.
100% this is worth trying.
Processed foods, wheat particularly gives me the same symptoms.
Stay away from the stuff for like a month, it's not going to fix it overnight. Also you're going to be shocked how many things contain wheat.
I hope you feel better fren.