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Researchers from Norway in 2006 published in the British journal Gut additional new evidence of the link between foods and rheumatoid arthritis. The measured these antibodies in blood and intestinal fluid in people with rheumatoid arthritis compared with healthy people.
The results, in their opinion, indicate that measuring blood antibodies to foods in rheumatoid arthritis provides little information about the role of foods in rheumatoid arthritis. However, intestinal antibodies not only show a “striking” pattern of elevation consistent with adverse food immune reactions but also that there appears to be a potential cumulative effect of multiple foods.
That is, not only may some foods trigger an abnormal immune response resulting in joint inflammation but the combination of multiple problem foods may be a key component to this link. Their results support the connection of mucosal (gut) immune activation from cross reaction of foods to rheumatoid arthritis in at least some people.
Multiple commonly eaten foods frequently linked to food allergies and sensitivities may be contributing to inflammatory and/or autoimmune conditions. These common problem foods or their lectins are likely contributing to the process of gut inflammation. This is likely causing gut injury resulting in leaky gut.
This injury and leaky gut, especially in genetically predisposed people, may, in the setting of altered gut bacteria (dysbiosis), predispose to further injury. This then allows the entry of toxic food protein (lectin)-bacteria complexes into the body, especially the blood stream. The result is inflammatory and/or autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis.
The associated food protein (lectin)-bacteria immune reactions in the gut are increasingly being blamed for the development of a myriad of diseases.
June 1st, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Anxiety, stress and depression were once associated with the elderly but now it is the curse of young executives. In this fast moving, information overload age, anxiety and depression seem to be the consequence for this accomplishment. Living in a stressful environment is the price one has to pay say high achievers. But constantly feeling anxious and depressed is a pointless, nonproductive and draining state of mind. Unfortunately too many sufferers are turning to addictive substances in the false belief that they will soothe their anxiety and lift their depression.
April 20th, 2011 at 2:45 am
As a sufferer from ankylosing spondylitis and veteran of 6 hip joints, I have met many rheumatoid arthritis sufferers over the decades and I must they they suffer greatly. I found with my own condition that the anti-inflammatory drugs just added to the problems, and it was through suffering from ulcers that I became interested in diet and the link between food and my symptoms about 30 years ago. I have never looked back since. I came off all the drugs, focused on what I ate and drank, and my symptoms disappeared. Too late to save my hip joints, but no more side effects from those awful NSAID’s.
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