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My rheumatologist wanted to put me on methotrexate but I declined out of fear if the side effects. He never mentioned anything about diet, but clearly a dietary intervention worked for me.
Paywalled. How legitimate is this? As a young sufferer
been on an elimination diet for a while, because if I'm not, I get depression and suicidal ideation. I don't have a diagnosis for arthritis, but I'm testing around a lot and maybe this info helps you in your journey: I make gelatine from pig's feet occasionally, when I make it with just salt and some lemon or vinegar, I don't have problems. Last time I thought, maybe try bell pepper, haven't tried for a while and I s…
Very interesting. Have you tried consuming beef liver to see if that helps? I was able to completely stop my VitD supplements after consuming liver.
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> It sounds like, even in the best case scenario, the drug doesn't really cure arthritis but just blunts the pain. > I was thinking it would be something that helps the worn ligament grow back. That I would consider a real cure. As far as I can tell, that is what it does: > The drug is based on a molecule he discovered while working at Pfizer, and can be delivered via a once-a-month EpiPen-style injection, where it r…
The featured article contains mixed messages: It is hoped the drug — which is not a cure but will make the condition much less painful for sufferers — could also be used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and chemotherapy-induced pain in the future. As a writer myself who has watched journalism dying, crap articles being written by underpaid freelancers, the enshitification of the internet while everyone objects to any me…
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The featured article contains mixed messages: It is hoped the drug — which is not a cure but will make the condition much less painful for sufferers — could also be used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and chemotherapy-induced pain in the future. As a writer myself who has watched journalism dying, crap articles being written by underpaid freelancers, the enshitification of the internet while everyone objects to any me…
"not a cure" means that if you stop taking the drug, the condition comes back, at least as far as I can tell. Which checks out given the other information given by the article.
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"not a cure" means that if you stop taking the drug, the condition comes back, at least as far as I can tell. Which checks out given the other information given by the article.
Well, going off that, it sounds to me like it's probably mostly pain relief and probably doesn't meaningfully regenerate tissue.
(It sounds weird to me that tissue can just disappear from that area so I think this might be wrong?)
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Well, going off that, it sounds to me like it's probably mostly pain relief and probably doesn't meaningfully regenerate tissue.
I thought tissue degeneration was part of the issue here? Having regenerated tissue doesn't necessarily help if you stop taking the drug and the tissue just goes away again. (It sounds weird to me that tissue can just disappear from that area so I think this might be wrong?)
This looks more promising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ1CLtc8oIk
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If I was in your position, I would ease in to a whole food, plant based diet. What this means is a lot of cooking from scratch, which means hands! So how about a whole food, plant based diet that requires very little preparation? This is serious, so please do not waste time with 'cut out teh carbz' bro science. Do not take advice from anyone that talks of 'seed oils' and other keto talking points. Keto and carnivore…
> Keto and carnivore diets are fad diets that are just another way to get to calorie restriction I wouldn't be so confident in publicly discouraging my fellow human beings from trying these diets. Speaking personally, I tried various diets -- raw milk diet (drinking 4L of raw milk a day), vegan diet, fruitarian diet, keto diet, caloric restriction, etc. -- before discovering that the carnivore diet helped my own cond…
Yet others believe that you should be eating all of these fancy probiotic and prebiotic foods to maintain 'gut health' of this lower intestine, as if your life depended on it.
Assuming that both a keto/carnivore diet and a WFPB diet eliminated the food that was causing inflammation, let's say it was sugar, to relieve the arthritis flare ups, then you would think that it would not matter which solution was chosen by the OP.
Well no. The WHO do not list carrots, potatoes and tomatoes as carcinogens. They are not so kind on meat products though. Or alcohol, for that matter. In my own situation, I have a heavy meat eating relative that is having another part of his digestive tract or waterworks operated on every year to remove cancer. He insists on all of the tests, PSA etc., however, I am not willing to just eat steak and get drunk every evening, dutifully getting my nether regions screened for cancer. He would have me believe that it is genetic and not to do with consuming carcinogens. I beg to differ. He has eliminated fibre from his diet, I have eliminated carcinogens.
Fundamentally, our digestive tract is not that of a true carnivore, and, even if it was, there is a price to be paid for consuming animal fats and proteins. This is in the arteries. They get clogged, leading to strokes, heart disease and much else, including cancer, according to some. True carnivores don't live that long, compare the lifespan of the lion to that of its prey. This does not matter to them as they only need to get to reproductive age and procreate.
After getting past the procreation age, priorities change at the individual level. I don't want to die of a heart attack in my fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties or nineties. There are two options for solving this problem, my relative with the cancer woes, steak in one hand, beer in the other, takes a smorgasbord of pills ranging from blood thinners, to statins to much else. He has had the heart bypass operations and more stents than I can count.
Me, I see prevention as better than cure, so that means maintaining a BMI between 19 and 20 with optimal blood pressure, with no cause for blocked arteries due to a diet free of animal products combined with active travel (cycling rather than car dependency).
My relative sees this as no fun at all. Yes, diets are personal. He sees a good weekend as down the pub eating steak and drinking beer, with good company. You can't argue with that, particularly if you are in your twenties. But, I don't want that to be the only option open to me. I like to be able to cycle near effortlessly, to go places and do things during the weekend, even if the only company I get on the way is at the acquaintance level.
Each to their own, I get it. But I am not advocating anything weird. Raw milk, keto, fruitarian, carnivore, junk food vegan and plenty of other diets are weird. You need to be secretly wanting to be in a cult to sign up to these things. No processed food, no refined sugar, no animal products and no alcohol is not how I lived in my younger years, but the fate of my relatives and ancestors has made me embrace the WFPB diet.
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Interesting - this looks like Beransa[1] (Librela) which is a monthly injection for canines that have osteoarthritis. My dog did not have any noticeable changes to pain after using this for 2 months so I've decided to take him off of it. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedinvetmab
I thought the same. My dog's been on it since last October, and it's made a big difference for him. Sorry to hear that it didn't help yours. I've been wondering how long it would be before something similar was available for humans.
On the bright side, I also have mine on Pentosan which did have a noticeable difference for him so that's great
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Interesting - this looks like Beransa[1] (Librela) which is a monthly injection for canines that have osteoarthritis. My dog did not have any noticeable changes to pain after using this for 2 months so I've decided to take him off of it. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedinvetmab
My cat has been in the feline equivalent (Solensia/frunevetmab) for about two years, and although it had a huge positive impact for the first 12 to 18 months, it seems to have suddenly completely stopped working in the last little while. One theory is that the immune system eventually starts attacking the monoclonal antibody med itself, another is that as in humans, the OA progression might accelerate under the drug.
I actually (anecdotally) heard a similar issue with Pentosan that it stops working after 12-24 months due to the immune system so you have to "time it" at an appropriate time in a dog's life. To be blunt, by appropriate I mean you'd want to start using it 12-24 before the dog is expected to pass and not at the first sign of osteoarthritis.