I have RA – the main guy I follow who has helped thousands with RA cuts out red meat, dairy, oils, sugar and gluten. He says oils (even ‘good’ oils like olive) are probably the worst thing for it, but especially the oxidised and reused stuff like in a fish and chip shop or restaurant.
It is hard to ascertain who to listen to when opinions are so conflicting sometimes, ie. the comment about oats – I’ve heard that oats are one of the good foods for RA also. I have just cooked with water and add frozen raspberries and blueberries… there goes that breakkie lol!
Orange freshly juiced is supposed to be good also. But logically fruit should be good as it is all natural. If only it were all straightforward.
Michaela Peterson eats only meat, as she has specific illness, but it does seem hard to fathom that would be good for you! Apparantly it is, shame butcher box isn’t in Australia!

Sorry I have to be the one to break it to you, but your going to have to start reading the science they are quoting. There is science behind the diet, but it has to be good, logical studies. RCT’s (randomized clinical trials) are the gold standard; trials of sufficient length (because the human body adapts over time 8-12 weeks for major changes in most humans) because you know that the first time you tried to climb the local hill/mountain you were winded, but after 2-3 months of doing it every weekend you got stronger and better adapted; and crossover studies which do the trial twice by switching the trial and control group after a pause between.

I personally found that apparently my genetics (and epigenetics) causes me to have sensitivities to things that others do not and vice versa, pretty common actually. There are plant types that set off my arthritis joint pain & inflammation and stiffness, which I need to avoid in quantity. It is possible that I could slowly reintroduce these things in my diet, possibly cooked differently, and time will tell whether I do that.

My Eskimo friend understands living in a land of no plants to eat, and says “waste nothing”; which means they eat things like organ meats (to get vitamins & minerals) that current folks consider to be “gross” [The dogs get the entrails, but well washed they make sausage casing]. So the ultimate inflammatory elimination of carnivore has been proven to work over generations, but to realize this you are probably going to have to read some science, anthropology, such as Stefannson on the eskimos.

This all speaks to developing new “skills” and/or learning who you can trust to “hold the rope, while I rappel down the cliff to retrieve something”…

I am blessed with a very good Osteopathic doctor whose father is a chiropractor.  He was going to become a chiro and was in his 2nd year at Palmer but got deployed to Iraq with 24 hrs to report.  While there, he learned about osteopathic medicine and changed gears.  This wonderful doctor put me on low carb two years ago.   I go in every six months for a check up.  After a year of surgery (umbilical hernia, R shoulder in April, L knee in Aug), I have gained weight.  A doctor who is a personal friend told me to try intermittent fasting combined with low carb.  What a beautiful combination!  I’m back on a good, healthy weight loss and am at long last back at the gym.  I know my weight will fluctuate as I regain muscle.   It will all level out in time.  Thanks for a very good episode on this subject.