Surprising Diet Solution TARGETS Psoriatic Arthritis
If you’re living with psoriasis, you know that this condition can impact your emotional health just as much as your physical health.
The autoimmune skin disease causes skin cells to build up and form scales and itchy, dry patches. If you’re one of the approximately one-third of psoriasis patients who develop psoriatic arthritis, you also experience painful joint inflammation.
While there’s no cure for either, there are ways to reduce the pain and severity of the disease.
In fact, researchers have just uncovered a new one. This surprising diet solution can dramatically reduce markers of disease activity in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, offering REAL relief.
Researchers recruited 26 patients with either psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis for a study.
The volunteers followed either a Mediterranean diet or a Ketogenic diet (keto) for 8 weeks. There was a 6-week washout period, and then they switched diets for the next 8 weeks.
Both significantly improved several vital health markers, including reductions in…
- body weight,
- body mass index,
- waist circumference,
- total fat mass,
- and visceral fat.
All of these factors can make psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis symptoms worse. So, we’re off to a great start.
But even MORE impressive were the improvements in painful inflammation and other markers of disease activity.
Those on the keto diet had reductions in the Psoriasis Area and Activity Index and the Disease Activity Index of Psoriatic Arthritis, along with a drop in inflammatory markers like IL-6, IL-17, and IL-23.
Interestingly, the Mediterranean diet did NOT improve these critical disease markers.
The Mediterranean diet focuses on whole foods like fruit, vegetables, grains, beans, legumes, and healthy fats. It also includes moderate amounts of chicken, fish, eggs, and dairy and is low in red meat and processed food.
Keto, on the other hand, is a high-fat, moderate-protein, and low-carb diet. And because less than five percent of this diet comes from carbohydrates, your body breaks down your own fat for energy through ketosis. Then, the liver turns the fat into ketones that your body uses for energy.
The keto diet is heavy in meat, fish, cheese, oils, avocados, butter, cream, nuts, seeds, and low-carb vegetables.
Both diets can have significant health benefits. But if you’ve been battling psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, switching to a ketogenic diet may help with your symptoms.
P.S. This SURPRISING natural anti-inflammatory directly reduces inflammation while safely improving pain in patients with osteoarthritis, psoriasis, osteoporosis, and more.
SOURCE:
Lambadiari, V., et al., “The Effect of a Ketogenic Diet versus Mediterranean Diet on Clinical and Biochemical Markers of Inflammation in Patients with Obesity and Psoriatic Arthritis: A Randomized Crossover Trial.” International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(5), 2475. Doi .org/ 10.3390 /ijms25052475
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