Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Hi All,

I have a friend who has been diagnosed with RA. It may have been there

undiagnosed for a while but she does have a firm diagnosis now.

She is oriented towards alternative treatments and diet as a way to manage

this but is open and trying to learn about all her options.

Her preliminary research seems to imply that red meat is a bad thing for RA

patients and that people who go down the vegetarian path do better.

Like most of you, I am extremely wary of the mainstream diet recommendations

that often come with disease since most are based on non organic feed lot

foods and AMA myth.

I have suggested that a diet that is more NT/Paleo in nature consisting of

range fed meats and dairy and no grains might make more sense.

Another friend of ours has found a study that seems to indicate this is true

since it apparently indicates that with respect to arthritis issues positive

results are shown (and I quote here) " not only by the increase of o3s in the

diet but a proactive and concentrated effort to reduce the o6s so that the 6s

and 3s assume a more natural relationship...4 or 5 to 1, being " ideal " for

humans.

Simply increasing 3 is not anywhere's as effective in reducing the

symptoms as is lowering the 6s and also upping the 3s.

So range-fed/raised red meat, would

apparently be at least one appropriate way to reduce the inflammatory

effects of excessive 6s in the diet.

So people who across the board nix red meats are not actually

addressing the real issue, which is life out of balance. This " baby

out with the bathwater " response is no more accurate than saying

fatty foods cause pancreatitis. "

Do any of you have any experience dealing with RA and diet? And do any of

you have any treatment thoughts/suggestions.

Thanks,

Alison