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The 5 Amazing Foods That Can Help Arthritis (Reduce Inflammation) | Dr. William Li
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Kind: captions Language: en today we're going to talk about five foods that can actually help arthritis arthritis is a group of conditions that are characterized by joint inflammation swelling and pain and it can be very disabling and uh the thing to know is that there are two flavors of arthritis there is the autoimmune type rheumatoid arthritis uh psoriasis can cause it so they psoriatic arthritis and the other kind of arthritis is called Osteo arthritis and this is really where kind of the bone grinds on the bone uh with age wear and tear type of arthritis all these arthritis have swelling and Joint in the pain uh osteoarthritis as I mentioned to you is wear and tear so our bones are connected together by joints actually cushioned by joints uh and they're kind of like the shock absorbers and over time with age as we do our activities walking around running if you're R er uh climbing stairs if you're a mountain climber if you're an athlete the more you wear and tear your joint the thinner the collagen uh that actually aligns that joint is going to be and eventually it gets so thin that really the bone kind of grinds on the bone that causes intense pain and a lot of inflammation and that is actually called osteoarthritis the other type of arthritis the autoimmune arthritis is really an autoimmune disease so as We Know autoimmune diseases our immune system which is intentionally trying to protect us from Invaders from the outside of the body like bacteria and viruses and Invaders inside the body like cancer cells that in autoimmune diseases are immune system gets tricked and they actually recognize healthy tissues as the enemy and begin to attack it and this is what happens in rentoid arthritis is that our joints get recognized as foreigners that need to be expelled and attacked uh and so it's an autoimmune condition R toward arthritis in which our joints are being destroyed by our immune system all right very unfortunate and very very painful and disabling okay now what is the effect of all of this joint destruction which is the common denominator right joint destruction pain and swelling well all arthritis can limit movement they impair your activities not just of walking or running or physically uh being active but even everyday activities of daily living like tying your shoes or brushing your teeth if you think about all the things you need your joints to be able to do cooking sewing uh anything even reading turning the pages of a book or typing on a laptop they require your joints to be functioning properly and if your joints are swollen and they're painful you can't even perform these regular activities and it's the pain that's the most debilitating now there are doctors that are specialized in both types of arthritis the osteoarthritis and the rheumatoid or autoimmune types of arthritis and they're called rheumatologists so if you have uh a symptom uh that is similar to arthritis your regular GP your general practitioner your family doctor your primary care doctor will probably uh do a few blood tests and then refer you to a rheumatologist that's a specialist in arthritis now there's a lot of medicines that have been developed to treat arthritis different types of arthritis and some of them are super powerful they're intravenous they're monoclonal antibodies they work really well but they're expensive um you know you got to be on them longterm and some of them can actually have bad side effects as well so since I study food as medicine what I want to share with you is that in addition to seeing a medical professional and in addition to whatever your doctor might recommend that you do all right and I do suggest strongly suggest that you talk to a doctor about how to manage arthritis you need a team your doctor is part of your team what you can do for yourself what you the kind of health care that you can do at home is actually use food as medicine to address the inflammation all right don't forget arthritis no matter what kind it is is really characterized by inflammation that causes swelling and causes pain so what are some of the ways to actually lower uh swelling well there foods that you can eat that have been shown in clinical studies to lower inflammation and then of course you should um definitely know that good gut health is important your gut health means that your microbiome your gut bacteria healthy gut bacteria 39 trillion bacteria in your gut mostly in your colon and mostly in a part of the colon called the seeum uh they when they're happy and and content uh and well fed meaning that what we eat feeds not only our human selves but feeds our bacterial selves when we feed our bacteria good things they pay us back U by producing short chain fatty acids these are metabolites from what we feed them and these short chain fatty acids actually are anti-inflammatory so they actually make us feel better and lower inflammation so you got to protect your gut health if you've got um arthritis and you're trying to control the swelling and the pain because your gut is one of the most powerful anti-inflammatory mechanisms defense systems that we actually have all right let's talk about five food number one food is really a category of food anything that's high in dietary fiber for the same reason I just talked about it's good for your gut microbiome good for gut health lowers inflammation so let's talk a little bit about what some of these Foods actually are because I mean obviously if you're eating whole grains and you're eating you know stringy broccoli or celery you're going to get dietary fiber right or kale you know you're going to get dietary fiber they call that roughage but there are other Foods there's a wide variety of foods that have dietary fiber avocado did you know that that soft avocado that you might actually uh spread onto a toast you might have turn into guacamole uh you might eat a scoopful for um for lunch slice into a salad avocad is packed with dietary fiber all right mushrooms packed with dietary fiber pears I love pear uh in the winter peaches in the summer they both have dietary fiber beans now I like white beans but if you like black beans or kidney beans or red beans or lentils they all contain a healthy dietary fiber as well okay tree nuts what are tree nuts we're talking about walnuts pecans pistachios uh almonds Macadamia even pine nuts those are all tree nuts tree nuts contain dietary fiber the leafy greens obviously the things you'd find in the grocery store produce section your broccoli your kale your uh cauliflower your cabbage your Swiss chard um your end dive all these things um contain good sources of dietary fiber and what about the old breakfast standby oatmeal oatmeal also contains dietary fiber all right all good for your gut microbiome you feed your gut well treat your gut well and it it it pays you back by producing substances naturally in your body that lower inflammation these are these short chain fatty acids acetate proprionate and berate okay you don't have to remember all the details just know that if you've got good gut health your joints are going to be less inflamed now there's some other foods that I think are noteworthy for being anti-inflammatory berries are anti-inflammatory strawberry blueberry raspberry Blackberry you name it these berries the colorful berries have uh have dietary fiber as well apples great source of diet diary fiber in the fall and of course dried fruits contain the dietary fiber from the whole fruit just kind of reduce down so you can actually get you know in a bite uh uh something that's in the whole fruit like dried cranberries dried apricots great ways of actually getting uh the dietary fiber as well and that's actually a good snack so think about it dried fruits like dried apricot dried cranberries dried blueberries dried cherries you want to mix that with some tree nuts your pecans walnuts pistachios almonds now you got trail mix that's a good way to get dietary fiber when you feed yourself dietary fiber it feeds your gut microbiome your gut microbiome helps you lower inflammation in your body and this can be really important if you are suffering from arthritis um now I like to cook so I always like to give people little tips on things um I like white beans we talked about beans being a good source of DIY fiber I love beans white beans uh uh by the way beans are one of the core four foods that are found in people in the blue zones these are people that live long and they live well so they live for a long period of time and they live a good quality of life during that period and one of the common denominators of what Everybody Eats in these areas are beans so I like I told you I like white beans soak them overnight that gets rid of some of the Fates which are perfectly fine when you soak them off like that and cook them I like white beans cooked in a a stew you know you make your little Mir pie chop up some carrots and onions and celery chop them really fine um you cook it down in some stock if you're a vegetarian use vegetable stock you can add some herbs like Rosemary and then cook your beans in there and cook them down you want to throw a little white wine the heat will cook off the alcohol and you've got yourself this incredible white bean stew great source of dietary fiber in fact let me tell you for white beans uh uh researchers from the University of Toronto have shown that even eating one can of white beans five days uh a week for a month actually not only lowers your inflammation but it improves your metabolism as well because a healthy gut microbiome fed by dietary fiber which comes from Beans in this case white beans actually lowers visceral fat in your body and visceral fat tends to be inflammatory and you've got arthritis you got enough problems with inflammation you don't need visceral fat the fat that's deep inside the tube of your body to make everything worse so beans actually not only lower inflammation overall but they also lower visceral fat so you've got less of that inflammation going on as well all right food number two eat foods that are rich in vitamin C C as in Charlie now vitamin C is anti-inflammatory so what are some of the foods that are vitamin C rich foods strawberries Tomatoes broccoli red bell pepper these are some great examples of foods with vitamin C and I'll tell you there is a really important study that was done to show just how powerful vitamin C containing foods are for lowering inflammation so you know there's another autoimmune disease kind of like rheumatoid arthritis called lupus lupus uh is a kind of a very very tricky and dastardly disease it's very uncomfortable again autoimmune uh reaction your own immune system attacking all kinds of tissues in your body and there it's been studied um in Japan by a group of researchers in Miyagi Japan and they were studying women who were uh older than 40 so middle-aged women who had autoimmune highly inflammatory lupus all right and they looked at 196 women from 21 hospitals all throughout um this Miyagi area of Japan and they track their diet and they track their autoimmune symptoms and here's what they found they found that those women who ate the most foods containing vitamins C all right they had a 74% decreased risk of having a lupus or an autoimmune inflammatory flare up that's pretty big all right that's prevention of the flare and what they found was that the amount of vitamin C that was beneficial was about 154 milligrams per day all right and that you go like okay so Dr Lee how much is that 154 milligrams a day vitamin C is pretty easy to achieve eating Whole Foods so what are some examples of that well if you want to get 154 Mig of vitamin C that's equivalent to eating 1 and a half large oranges a cup and a half of sliced strawberries not very much two cups of broccoli or eight cups of uncooked cherry tomatoes now you might say look I'm not going to eat eight cups of cherry tomatoes no way don't worry if you took eight cups of cherry tomatoes and you put them in a sauce pan with a little bit of olive oil a little bit of garlic Cho them up and just slow simmer them guess what you would reduce that down to about a cup of tomato sauce all right and that you can actually easily put on some pasta and now you've gotten the amount of you 154 milligrams of Vitamin C you can also get vitamin C by the way in tropical fruits like guava you can get it in grapefruit uh and and there's something called the West Indian Cherry acerola okay sometimes you can see acerola products being sold as well and so how does Vitamin C work well vitamin C um increases your body's immune cell called the t regg t as an Thomas reg reeg it's a regulatory cell and what t-regs do is they turn down the immune and inflammatory system they're like the volume control but they work by turning things down so by eating foods with vitamin C you're you're actually turning down the volume on inflammation in your body and although this was some of the studies I just talked about were in lupus arthritis like lupus is an autoimmune inflammatory condition all right food number two broccoli I want to focus in on broccoli for a second because broccoli is kind of like a triple whammy a triple threat of benefit when you actually talk about anti-inflammation so here's what broccoli has it's got a bioactive that's called isothiocyanate ITC all right and this is powerfully anti-inflammatory broccoli is also a good source of vitamin C as I mentioned earlier that's number two a second benefit and broccoli got dietary fiber good for the gut microbiome which then lowers inflammation ISO thiate vitamin C dietary fiber a triple wh That's good for you all right now I'm going to give you some Pro tips when it actually comes to eating broccoli uh most of us grew up eating broccoli and uh getting used to the fact that you eat the fettes those are the tree tops right the Little Green Tree Tops at the at the top and of course fettes do have ITC fettes do have vitamin C and fettes do have dietary Fiers so florettes are good all right um that's that's what you normally see uh in a restaurant but if you went to the farmers market all right and you took a look at what broccoli really looks like broccoli has got Treetops the fettes but it's got a really long stem all right make sure that uh if you are buying whole broccoli get the stem too because the stem has twice as much of the isoo twice as much of the bioactive that lowers inflammation and the stem is also really really packed with dietary fiber as well so I would definitely use the entire broccoli now to cook pieces of broccoli you can slice up the stem into medallions and actually cook with those stir fry with them uh saute them best way that I like to cook broccoli get a pot of boiling water like a pasta pot get water boiling and and clean your broccoli and cut it up prepare it and literally just throw the broccoli in the boiling water blanch it for one minute maybe even less you will see the natural green color of your fresh broccoli suddenly get greener and Greener and brighter and brighter and you want to fish it out of the water before it gets super bright you leave it in there it'll get brighter and that'll get duller because now all of a sudden pretty much you've cooked out all those bioactives you know that's the stuff that your grade school cafeteria serve don't go there blanch it that's like 60 seconds in boiling water or water that was boiling you turn it off you put it in there then fish them out and now you can cool them off if you want with some water now you can cook with them and now it's the perfect thing sauté you can cook it really quickly right otherwise you'd have to cook the broccoli for a lot longer but if you want to sauté uh quickly or if you want to actually walk SE or something that's the quick way is to blanch the broccoli first all right that's a typical thing that I do if you're going to cook it in a walk for example a little bit of uh oil little bit of garlic or or shallots all right um stir fry it you can put a little bit of rice wine in there don't worry the alcohol Cooks right off and then add a little soy sauce low sodium soy sauce please and then if you want you could actually put some oyster sauce on there after basically everything's done and we're talking about like less than 2 minutes you'll be finished put some oyster sauce in there stir it around a little bit and serve it what an amazing Umami flavor and you get all the benefits of the broccoli including the stems if you actually are stir frying with the stems you're getting the vitamin C you're getting the isothiocyanates you're getting the dietary fiber you're getting all these components that can lower inflammation if you have arthritis so that's a tasty way to actually lower inflammation okay now if you're going like all right I'm not going to go to all that trouble what can I do with the stems look you can actually make a soup out of broccoli stem all right put it in a blender add some vegetable stock oregano uh and you've got a broccoli stem oregano soup I got a great recipe in the book that I wrote called eat to beat disease and by the way it only takes 20 minutes from start to finish all right that's pretty good and you can make a match of it so you can have it over for lunch the next day all right now here's a pro proo tip if you want to get all those isoo but you want to get like the really superhero punch of it like the really potent amount use broccoli Sprouts these are the three or four day old tiny little Sprouts of baby broccoli and they are packed with isothiocyanates in fact baby broccoli Sprouts have 100 times the isothiocyanates that adult broccoli does all right so you really get a lot of potent you you get a little potency with broccoli Sprouts you can use them to make a broccoli sprout shake or you could sprinkle them on a salad or virtually any dish that you're making you can take make use of broccoli Sprouts you can find them in farmers markets you can usually find them near the herb section of a grocery store they're not very expensive they don't taste a lot like broccoli they're mild they're slightly nutty flavored um and they're delicious so I recommend that food number three Citrus right oranges grapefruit Citrus are really great again vitamin C um you know uh oranges are kind of a fall winter fruit but you can get them all year around a mandarin orange is actually a great way to peel you can peel off the the the skin and then you just pull off the the little slices that's a great way that's kind of almost self-contained because the slices are small the peel comes off easily toss the peel away eat the whole thing like you leave no trail that you actually of your orange eating uh and I like to eat that in the morning uh when they're in season and I like to eat a single orange better than I like to drink a tall glass of orange orange juice right so you guys know you go to a hotel if you're traveling on vacation in a hotel and you're eating the breakfast of the hotel they usually offer you orange juice and you know they get a big tall glass of orange juice here's the thing I would rather eat a whole fruit because I peel it I eat it it's fresh I get the whole thing I get the sweetness I get the tanginess I get the vitamin C I got the dietary fiber all right uh of oranges and I'll probably eat one orange and I'll be good all right but if I have a tall glass of orange juice you know how many oranges it takes to make a tall glass of orange juice it takes eight oranges to make a tall glass of orange juice that does get you the bioactiv you can usually get some uh dietary fiber from that but you're getting a lot the sugar as well from eight oranges that I don't need sugar from eight oranges so I prefer to eat the whole fruit in order to be able to get all the fiber all the fiber nothing gets strained out uh which they do when they are squeezing fresh orange juice and less sugar uh as well now if you want to eat a bigger orange you know that's sliced and you want to eat the slice uh um you can do what they do in Asia you know like after a banquet in Asia you know what they serve they serve oranges uh it's a great way to actually kind of light up your pallette at the end of a meal you get a little hit of sweetness which you get all of that dietary fiber and and the bioactives as well so oh a little other thing about oranges I can I like to use the zest of oranges for cooking all right not not mandarins but like regular oranges and for example uh you can light up any vegetable dish with some orange dust like if you like I would make asparagus right blanch some asparagus sauté it cook it you can even Grill some asparagus asparagus is great source of dietary fiber now you take you want light it up okay take a zester and take an orange and zest that orange and sprinkle it on the asparagus then take you know you can squeeze a little bit of the orange juice right on and now you've actually created a citrus summery asparagus absolutely delicious and you actually get um some dietary fiber and you get the bioactives from the oranges if you're going to do that though I strongly I insist that you actually get or organic oranges you know why because you got to be using the skin the zest of the skin that's a part that's exposed to any chemical that's sprayed on it and it's very very difficult to wash off uh chemicals from the skin of fruit you can you can do you can wash off some of it very difficult to wash off all of it hey just a quick note here if you're looking to eat to beat disease on a budget check out my free list of five affordable foods that you need to add to your next grocery shopping list what's exciting is that we now live in a time of enormous and fast scientific progress and food is medicine research is showing us that good health is within the reach of everyone with the rising cost of healthcare the very best way to save money and gain quality of life is to make those healthy food choices every time you're at the store get my recommendations for the five budget friendly foods to fight disease right now in the caption below now back to the video food number four green tea all right green tea has lots of benefits including um helping people with inflammation like people with arthritis why because green tea has a bioactive natural chemical called egcg that's epig Gallo caken 3 gallite egcg don't bother memorizing everything but you should know that's one of the cagans is the polyphenol found in green tea comes right out of the leaves when you actually um uh when you actually uh steep of uh some tea leaves and guess what that egcg is anti-inflammatory all right one of the ways that it's anti-inflammatory is that egcg turns down your body's immune system when it comes to inflammation and it makes more t-regs remember I told you these t-g cells are the volume switch that turns down the volume on inflammation so it makes it quiet sh less inflammation please so green tea will actually do that green tea is also good for your gut microbiome right so again uh you're drinking sipping green tea it makes you relaxed it tastes great lots of other health benefits that activates your all of your health defense systems at the same time including your gut microbiome gut microbiome appreciates you feeding a green tea what do they do they pay you back by making those short chain fatty acids that are anti-inflammatory this is food is medicine this is the health care you can do for yourself at home you don't need a doctor's office you don't need infusions but this is stuff that you can actually take action on all right um oh by the way green tea also has another bioactive in addition to egcg called called lanine lanine t h a n i n e eleanine guess what eleine does when studied in the lab it causes bacteria to make short chain fatty acids so another thing besides egcg prompts your gut microbiome to release these anti-inflammatory natural uh substances uh like short chain fatty acids proprionate berate acetate okay uh and by the way this is has been studied in humans as well researchers in Iran studied green tea in 86 women all right and this is a big broad range of women they were aged 15 to 55 right kind of like the first half of life or so these women had an autoimmune inflammatory disease lupus just like the women I told you earlier lupus is a great way to study inflammation in the body all right uh and what they showed is that women who got five cups of green tea a day the equivalent of five cups of green tea a day reduced their symptoms of this autoimmune inflammatory disease of Lupus by half cut it down in half all right now one of the groups in this research study got a placebo and they had no change at all so this is an example of a clinical study where green tea with its anti-inflammatory turned the volume down inflammation cut down the symptoms of an inflammatory autoimmune disease and by the way the group that also got the green tea had an improvement of 30% Improvement in their quality of life after all look we all want our quality of life to be as good as possible and green tea was able to do that in this research study the other thing that green tea does is that you know the bioactives in green tea can prevent destruction uh of your joints now let me explain to you what happens in both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis with all this inflammation that's happening on the joint whether it's attacked by your immune system or with this wear and tear grinding in against each other you got inflammation inflammation releases these growth factors it's kind of like natural fertilizer and you know what it does it attracts blood vessels to grow into the joint kind of a wound healing response gone wild and when blood vessels grow into the joint they're not normal because this arthritis uh any kind of arthritis is not in a normal situation so even though the blood vessels intend well by growing to the Joint they're never quite normal and these blood vessels are leaky and when they leak in way they're leaking they're leaking fluid causing joint swelling now you know one of the reasons why the joints swell but the joints are further destroyed by the blood vessels because the blood vessels deliver enzymes enzymes into the joint you don't want that all right now you're destroying the joint by the way normal joints healthy joints don't have blood vessels they're avascular but when you actually have grinding osteoarthritis or autoimmune attack on your joints in rheumatoid arthri or psoriatic arthritis blood vessels grow in because of the inflammation and they deliver they leak they're leaky they deliver fluid so the joints swell and they deliver enzymes to destroy the joint even further green tea anti-androgenic so it actually cuts off these blood vessels it makes it harder for them to grow uh and that's actually a good thing when it comes to arthritis all right anti-inflammatory anti-angiogenic that's a field that I actually uh help the Pioneer and study all right food number five bone broth what's bone broth listen bone broth you've seen it advertised everywhere this is a broth like a soup that contains collagen from animals like beef chicken pork turkey any animal that has connected tissue and a little bit of meat cooked down the collagen comes out into the broth and by the way collagen which is what your joints are made out of anyway that's what gelatin is made out of remember when we were kids we were fed Jell-O jiggly stuff fluorescent green fluorescent red ditch the color ditch the artificial flavoring and the added sugar but I'm just telling you collagen this is actually what bone broth is has got in bone broth now why is bone broth healthy it's got collagen in it when you uh drink it what actually happens the collagen in the bone broth actually goes into your stomach now your stomach has got stomach acid and it's digesting everything including chopping up the collagen right and so I used to think well if that's happening which we know it does then the collagen is no good right you're not really getting collagen into your system but research has now shown that when you cut up and chop up and digest the collagen into pieces this is known as collagen fragments and collagen fragments getting absorbed into the bloodstream do wind up activating certain cells including joint cells to secrete more collagen and it can be anti inflammatory and joint and collagen fragments can also be anti-angiogenic and so bone broth contains collagen when you drink it your stomach digests it into pieces fragments these collagen fragments get into your body and they actually go to your joint cells and they actually activate them to uh do all these beneficial things anti-angiogenesis uh anti-inflammation uh and actually stimulate the cells to actually produce more collagen here here's my um recommendation when you're actually buying bone broth pick it's us it's often found in a box nowadays pick it up please look at the ingredient label you want to know everything that's in there you want to make sure there's no added sugar no added artificial preservatives no artificial flavoring just be careful because manufacturers to save money they'll add all kinds of things to make things taste good be a little bit cheaper more cost effective they make more money on it or more shelf stable when it comes to your own body you need you are in charge of what you put inside it you want to know everything so it's up to you to go check that out okay now if you got bone broth you can actually make it even better for you because why why you can um use it to make stews you can make it to use it to make soups you can add your own vegetables to it your own garden vegetables your produce um it so you can make take something that's already good and make it even better you may put broccoli in it for example now you're actually adding all the other good stuff or any um other uh vegetable that contains dietary fiber or polyphenols and you can also um have Jello because I did mention to you that um collagen is what Jello is gelatin is actually made out of but again you're going to have Jello-O don't do it the way your grandmother served it to or the school lunch cafeteria lady served it to you know and a mold it into a cup jiggly red green I just that's what I remember from my childhood tasted pretty sweet sometimes they had like canned fruits floating in it don't do that if you're going to make your own Jello get plain plain flavor okay make it yourself uh cut up your own fresh fruit fresh ripe fruit and don't add any sugar to it and you know you can actually play with some different flavors uh out there great recipes you can just search them online to make healthy Jello-O that's what I would do but bone broth is the kind of the source that you can actually make savory uh foods with as well hope you learned something from this thanks for watching watching Dr Lee out hi there if you enjoyed watching this video I know you'll love the next one stay here and check it out and I'll see you there
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