The Worst Foods for Joint Pain (Stop Eating These!)

Arthritis Types and Root Causes00:00

The foods that are destroying your joints. I'm specifically talking about arthritis. There's two main types of arthritis. You have rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. Both of these conditions are expressed in your joints, but the real problem is not happening inside your joints. They did one of the largest meta-analysis studies that included 115,000 people relating to knee pain and they found that only 3.5% of them were runners actively creating compression on their joints. Yet, 10.2% of them were sedentary. So, osteoarthritis is actually not a wear and tear disease. It is a metabolic disease.

If we contrast that with rheumatoid, rheumatoid arthritis also is not a joint problem. You feel in the joint, but it's an immune problem that actually originates in your gut. Now, it could occur in the mucous membranes of your mouth if you had an infection or you had a problem with the root canal that got infected or an abscess, but typically it's going to show up in the mucous layer in your gut because the antibodies involved in rheumatoid originate from the mucous layer of your gut.

They did this fascinating experiment on mice where they isolated these antibodies from real people and then they injected these germ-free mice. They're sterile. They have no microbiome at all. And then within 14 days, they end up with swollen joints, which gives us a clue on what food is destroying the joint and is behind rheumatoid because anything that destroys the gut could potentially lead to this type of rheumatoid arthritis.

Rheumatoid Arthritis Triggers01:30

So, let's just talk about rheumatoid before osteo. Number one would be sugar-sweetened foods or high fructose corn syrup. They've done some research on this and they found a high correlation between people consuming just one soda a day increasing the risk of rheumatoid by 63%.

Number two, modern wheat, the so-called healthy whole grain that has the gluten in it, right? So, gluten is one of the only proteins that our bodies can't digest. So, a lot of people that are consuming modern wheat products end up with inflammation in the gut, and it creates leakiness, and then all sorts of things can leak through and create immune reactions. And that's what ends up in the joints expressed as an autoimmune condition.

Believe it or not, corn is also correlated to being a trigger for rheumatoid. Now, corn is in virtually everything. And if someone has rheumatoid and they start eliminating corn, they start getting relief. So, apparently, there's a correlation with corn and rheumatoid.

Number four, conventional A1 dairy. I'm talking about the milk that you get at the store, but not just that. There's another extract of dairy called sodium caseinate, which is a protein that anyone with rheumatoid should be avoiding this because this is going to tear up the lining of the colon.

And eggs. Now, eggs are not a bad thing, but think about it. If you have leaky gut, and some egg protein gets through that gut, and then your immune system attacks it and tags it as something bad, this can be also a trigger to rheumatoid. So, just think about how many people have allergies. A lot of those allergies start in the gut because the person has leaky gut.

Number six, emulsifiers. Emulsifiers are certain compounds in foods that keep food in a certain state of consistency, okay? And I'm talking about things like polysorbate 80 or carrageenan. If you look at the back of the label, there's quite a few ingredients that are emulsifiers, not good for that mucosal layer.

Supplements and Diet Recommendations03:30

So, a lot of people ask me, "What supplements do I recommend?" Now, of course, I'm not biased of my own high-quality supplement line, but if you go to Amazon and type Dr. Berg Supplements, you'll find more information.

Now, let's switch to osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis, from recent research, has indicated that this is a metabolic disorder. And other types of metabolic disorders would be like Alzheimer's, type 2 diabetes, a fatty liver. And what's really interesting about osteoarthritis is they actually can predict it based on if someone has more visceral fat.

So, then if we ask ourselves, "Well, what causes metabolic problems?" It's usually three things. Sugars, and that could be a lot of different types of things, industrial sugars. It's constantly creating a chronic increased insulin level, okay? Which then starts creating problems with insulin resistance and metabolic issues, where the actual cell itself doesn't get its nutrients.

And then starch, what's a starch? Hidden sugar. Typically, people think, "Oh, starch, potato, rice." But, really most of the starches that people consume are industrial starches. Seed oils, they're highly inflammatory. They can penetrate the membranes of joints, get in there and create this inflammatory state.

A rheumatoid patient would benefit way more on a carnivore diet. Why? Because we're eliminating so many things that are triggers, and you're consuming more meat and protein. Of course, you wouldn't want to do eggs unless you're okay with them, but some people aren't. But, you would want to do more meats and seafood and things like that. In addition to something that's super anti-inflammatory, which is fasting. In fact, I did a video on this before, and the comments were just mind-blowing of how many people actually applied this and started getting results.

And so then what would be the diet for osteoarthritis? You want to do a keto diet which is low carb, but when we're talking about a metabolic disease, we're talking about a low carb diet, okay? Of course, carnivore is super low carb. It's zero carbohydrate. So you really just need to test it out. What would be better for you? Just a regular healthy version of the ketogenic diet or the carnivore? But of course, fasting would be super important in bringing that metabolic condition under control.

So you no longer have visceral fat. It's not even the weight that you should be concerned about. It's what's happening deeper in the cells with your mitochondria. I have a free download that I want to give to you. This free download is my daily routine in a checklist. This is a routine that I use every day to feel like I'm 18 years old even though I'm 60 years old and I want to give it to you for free. And so there's a little link down below. Click it and definitely download that.

Nutritional Support for Arthritis06:31

Now, as far as nutrition, you may also greatly benefit from higher doses of vitamin D3, at least 10,000 IU's, but probably you're going to need more because the receptor for vitamin D is usually downgraded when you have that much inflammation. And there are certain doctors that can help give you therapeutic dosages and monitor it for you. In order for vitamin D to work, magnesium is also necessary.

There's one more clinical trial that I read up on that was quite fascinating in helping turn off this inflammatory problem, omega-3 fatty acids, which is EPA and DHA, but higher amounts of them, 5.5 g. So you'd have to get a super concentrated high dose omega-3 fatty acid for this condition right here.

Over here, osteoarthritis, since we're dealing with calcification of the cartilage, we want to make sure calcium doesn't build up in your joints. And there just so happens to be a certain protein involved in protecting you against developing calcium in the joints as well as in the arteries. And that is vitamin K2. Just to keep that calcium in control.

Now, just as a side note, warfarin, which is a drug that they use as a blood thinner, people who take warfarin are three times at a greater risk for developing calcium crystal deposits, okay? Which happens to be something you don't want in your joints if you have osteoarthritis.

The actual cartilage does not have a blood supply. It gets its nutrients from compression and decompression, aka exercise. And this is why with osteoarthritis, the worst possible thing you can do is be sedentary. Exercise is a super important factor in osteoarthritis.

Now, I created a video, which I think is a really good video, on a type of exercise that you can do for arthritis, where you're bringing your joint to the very end point of range of motion, and then you're kind of stretching into that direction that you can't go into, and then back the other way against resistance. And it's an incredible way to pump more nutrition into the joint. If you haven't seen that video, I put it up right here. Check it out.