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Diet and Inflammation
Marc Darrow, M.D.
Marc Darrow, M.D.,J.D. Radio Show
Caller: I have been hearing that if you have
arthritis you
should stay away from “Night Shade” foods like tomatoes, (and
potatoes, eggplant, sweet peppers) because they are acidic and can
cause
Inflammation.
Dr. Darrow: It’s very important that if someone has a lot of
pain in their body, especially in multiple areas, that they try to
go on an anti-inflammatory diet.
What we do to check a patient's pH to determine if they are
acidic is to have the patient take urine samples so they can
record their pH and we check to see what the patient’s natural
milieu is-if it is acidic or neutral or alkaline.
If it is on the acidic side we know the patient is going
towards inflammation and chronic disease. So we check that using
alkalizing materials and have them stick to a protein, vegetable,
water diet for a while to help get their inflammation down. We tend
to find that carbohydrates makes the body acidic and then people
hurt.
My own experience was that I use to love orange juice and I would
have it a couple of times a day. I started having really bad
shoulder
pain, I was playing a lot of tennis then and could not
play. I stopped drinking the orange juice and within a day the pain
went away because I was not acidifying my body. Orange juice is very
acidic unless you buy the non-acidic kind.
Staying off red meat is important because it has a lot of
inflammatory agents.
For people who have a lot of pain and have pain all over their body
it can takes months to clean out the toxins and help their pain.
Green vegetables are very good to eat because they are alkaline. Me
personally? I like avocados they have good proteins and the good
fats, and I drink water.
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Caller Question: I’m 40 years old, I recently
gained some weight. If I sit down or lay down for any length of
time I have a difficult time getting up and have stiffness and
pain all over. I'm I just getting old?
Dr. Darrow: If someone says that they have stiffness and
pain all over, one of the things we want to raise the pH in the
body and alkalize it. Acidity in the body causes inflammation
and pain, some people naturally have a very acidic milieu in
their system, so what we do is put them on a lot of green foods
that alkalize or get rid of the acid.
I am on this diet myself, the things
that I eat, and eat many times a day is spirulina, vegetables and a
lot of salads. I don’t eat red meat any more because it is high in
arachidonic acid, an essential fatty acid in small amounts, but in
larger amounts becomes part of the process that creates acid in your
body and inflammatory mediators.
I don’t bread, I don’t eat pasta, I don’t eat any grains because
they have high glycemic index (foods high in carbohydrates that the
body burn's quickly and turns into sugar). I stay away from grains
for several reasons, it turns to sugar, it immobilizes the immune
cells that we need for healing and increases inflammation.
I don’t eat any diary products, anything with "ose" at the end like
lactose, because of the sugar in them. I am also not into fruits, I
am into keeping the sugar out of the body.
Really this is a very simple diet and it will do you a lot of good.
Remember, drink a lot of water, get your body flushed out and your
inflammation will go down, your weight will go down, and when your
weight goes down the pressure on the joints especially the hips,
knees, ankles, feet will be reduced.
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