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How to Start An Anti-Inflammatory Diet | Ask Cleveland Clinic's Expert
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The foods you eat (and the ones you avoid) can help soothe and even prevent inflammation by quashing your body’s inflammatory responses. This video shares why and how you can begin an anti-inflammatory diet.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:08 How can you tell if you have inflammation in the body?
0:51 Symptoms of inflammation
1:04 What is an anti-inflammatory diet
1:57 What's the best way to start an anti-inflammatory diet?
2:55 Is there a way to figure out your specific triggers?
3:39 How can a dietician help you on your journey?
Resources:
Anti-Inflammatory Diet: What To Eat (and Avoid) – https://cle.clinic/3tze7Uk
Why and How To Start an Elimination Diet – https://cle.clinic/3xN7yhb
Inflammation: What Is It, Causes, Symptoms & Treatment – https://cle.clinic/3FfgHSi
The information in this video was accurate as of 10.11.2023 and is for information purposes only. Consult your local medical authority or your healthcare practitioner for advice.
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– Hello, my name is Julia Zumpano. I'm a registered dietician for the Center of Human Nutrition at the Cleveland Clinic. How can you tell if you have inflammation in the body? Inflammation in the body is a reaction to a toxin or a foreign body that the body tends to attack so that attack response creates inflammatory responses in our body that can be acute, meaning just short term or can be chronic or long term. The chronic inflammation is the concerning kind, which leads to several disease states, if not treated and handled well. Some people may not associate the symptoms they're experiencing with inflammation. Inflammation can present itself in many different ways. It can come in the form of body aches or muscle pain, migraine headaches, general headaches or fatigue, allergies, an allergic reaction to food or the environment. What is an anti-inflammatory diet? An anti-inflammatory diet is not a diet per se but more of a style of eating. It is designed to reduce inflammation in the body therefore entails whole foods, minimally processed foods, one-ingredient foods. When you think of one-ingredient foods it can be a little bit confusing, but we really wanna focus on very simple foods such as an apple or grapes or avocado, chicken, extra virgin olive oil. So simple ingredient foods that you can place together to create a meal, but really wanna focus on minimizing any processed ingredients. Now, you can place all those whole foods together such as in a chicken vegetable soup, where there's more than one ingredient, but everything that is put in that chicken vegetable soup are one ingredient items. What's the best way to start an anti-inflammatory diet? The best way to start an anti-inflammatory diet is to look at the foods you're currently consuming and focus on beginning to cut back on the processed foods, sugary foods or sugary beverages that you're consuming. That is really the first step is to pinpoint which foods are highly processed and could be contributing to the inflammation. A great example of an anti-inflammatory diet is the Mediterranean diet because it really encourages omega three fatty acids and we know through proven research that Omega three fatty acids suppress inflammation. They combat that inflammation in our body and omega threes are mainly found in fatty fish which is of staple of the Mediterranean diet. You don't have to specifically follow a Mediterranean diet but that is one good example. Is there any way to figure out your specific triggers? Oftentimes people may have specific triggers that trigger inflammation for their body. An elimination diet is really the best way to pinpoint what those food triggers may be for you. An elimination diet is where you eliminate what you feel may be the potential triggers for a period of time. I generally recommend at least three weeks where you completely eliminate the food from your diet. It can be tricky. It has to be very personalized, so I highly recommend seeking help from a health professional or specifically a registered dietician. How can a dietician help you on your journey? Registered dieticians do this all the time so we really understand what ingredients and what foods could be triggers. We help give you guidelines and lists of foods to eliminate. We are there to support you throughout the way and we're also there to help you understand your reaction to the food. (upbeat music)
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I have arthritis, fibromyalgia, gastroparesis, fatty liver, and now no gallbladder. AND I'm allergic to sulforaphane. Is there any diet that has foods I actually can eat to help resolve all the issues at once?
Thanks for sharing this video. I truly enjoyed it.
I am asking for a diet to heal breast cancer?
Very informative thank you.
Wouldn’t a blood workup be a good place to start, to see how your blood is, as well as, kidneys, liver, etc?
Absolutely best talk about dieting..
Thanks…
Appreciate the information. The meat source that comes from factory farming or fish from fish farms also has toxins that can trigger inflammation. Would like to here you input on meats , poultry and fish that are not harvest in its natural state.
Thank you. This will help me when I go back to my dietician.
Rhis is rough. The people that are suposed to know. Know nothing and the more research i do only tells me there is nothing to eat on an elemenation diet.
MEAT is good for inflammation? Animal proteins are unhealthy. Period. It is high time we stop killing billions of FISH for Omega 3s. I use Krill oil capsules as fish get their Omega 3 from krill.
Can oatmeal give you inflammation?
I eliminated flavored coffee creamer and felt better in one week. It motivated me to keep going and removing other non food items.
I had a friend that was assigned a dietitian as part of his cancer treatments. Everytime he reached out to her for advice she just sent him a website. She was worthless.
Thank you so much, Dr. Jo! This helped, and Ill try to do it more often
I have a few pressing questions, if anyone can help, please. I'm asking because I periodically have joint pain but can't get any decent information from my doctor. I really would like answers but don't know how to find out. Thanks in advance.
1) How do you know if you've got inflammation? If my CRP is less than 1, does that mean that I don't have any inflammation in my body?
2) About 20 years ago, I had "Reactive Arthritis" following tonsillitis. Every joint was absolute agony – for more than a year – but every blood test was normal and no inflammatory markers were ever shown to be present. How is that possible and is a CRP therefore meaningless?
3) Finally….I've had tendonitis in my shoulder for a decade. Now my elbow and thumb are also very painful. On the basis that anti-inflammatory pills (eg Ibuprofen) are very effective for the pain, should I conclude that it's caused by inflammation? If the answer is yes, would that suggest general inflammation throughout my body or could it be confined to the areas mentioned?
I’m a cancer survivor I think my medication cause side effects causing inflammation or joint pain. I’m also a nail tech. I’m exposed to chemicals.
I’m changing careers soon I feel it bad in my hands and Achilles tendon
Get to the point dah!
I would highly suggest anyone trying yet another fad diet such as this to make sure your fruits and vegetables are low oxalate foods. If you're going to eat a diet high in oxalates and call it it an anti inflammatory diet you are fooling yourself and wasting your time and money.
GreatInfo! Thanks.
Likely the clearest and easiest explanation of the diet.
I got rid of chronic inflammation by eating the lion diet/the carnivore diet in just two weeks. Beef, salt and water. Before that, I suffered from inflammation throughout my body for two decades. That caused me joint pain, headaches and migraines with aura, swollen legs with pins pinching like pain that I could barely walk or sleep, felt exhausted even right after waking up, irritability. Because of that I did not leave my house for many years, could not even go to the groceries store. Was even hard to clean my house. Inflammation took the best years of my life but now I'm back to normal, all the pain I experienced was due to inflammation. Once that was gone, every symptom I described was magically gone. Two weeks, that's all it took. I also lost weight and now I have so much energy and good sleep, mind is sharp, I wake up like I did in my early twenties full of energy ready to work out.