Food And Arthritis

Add the RIGHT foods to your diet to REDUCE arthritic pain and inflammation.
Include the WRONG foods to your diet and INCREASE arthritic pain and inflammation.
My choice? A life-journey based on a low-oil whole-food plant based diet.
Whatever your current state of health, make yourself healthier - you deserve it. Start your plant based diet journey today.

Sunday 7 April 2019

Two toes change in my body because of yoga

I have been trying to think of some way of documenting the beneficial changes in my body because of my Bikram Yoga practice at Yogavenue in Oxford.  Now I think this blog is the right place.  Bikram yoga is a static yoga, that is you get into a pose and hold it, thus strengthening the muscles under focus for that position.  With this yoga you do the exact same 26 poses day in day out, wherever you are in the world.  This means you can see the microscopic improvements.  Such changes mean little to someone else, but to the individual they can be enormous.

The are huge because they are solid improvements across the body that accumulate over time.  So one recent example was my two left toes beside my big toe.  Suddenly I felt them "grounding" on the floor providing greater more stable support to my standing poses.  It is not as if I had not thought my left toes were not doing anything before, but suddenly, and permanently, they are going to provide my standing poses with a much more solid foundation.

Saturday 6 April 2019

Still going strong

I have not posted on this blog for a couple of years and guess some people might think that is because my health might have deteriorated.  The opposite is true.  My body has been in a healing groove, as I like to think of it, and continues to repair itself.  I still do my Bikram Yoga and stay true to the Paddison Program.

I write this now, prompted by a couple of posts on the NRAS forums on HealthUnlocked.  There is a strange buearocracy on HU which prevents me responding directly.  The problem was caused by my rejection of NRAS policy that "diet has no effect."  And since this is my first post for a long long time let me address that subject again.

"Diet has no effect. "  That's completely wrong in both my experience and understandinf of the science.

Yes, had I just adopted a whole food plant based diet then I would not be where I am today.  The key benefit of Paddison Program is that it is about the process.  It is about self-education and learning what foods trigger arthritis in your body.  That is a huge lesson to learn and not an easy one!

For some people, perhaps many people coming from a heavy meat-based diet they could very further complications such as one or more of a range bowel issues.  For example they may have trouble digesting oxalates.  So some vegetables are high in oxalates and so part of the eduction is about reducing those foods while increasing others.  Such a restriction may be needed for one or more months.  You can get blood tests to help identfy issues, but with so much else going on, including arthritis looking at the overall picture is a key strength of the paddison approach.

Let me pin this one down.  Modern society is fixated with a pill mentaltity.  We are inundated with media messages, if not eduction, that there is a magic pill that can make us right, possibly overnight.

And so on that kind of note I agree with NRAS.  There is no magic pill.  But Paddison Program first and foremost is a process, a process about self-education.  No-one, and I mean no-one comes out of PP eating the same as anyone else.  Everyone is different.

But that difference is based on them finding their own healing groove.  A healing groove where they feel better almost each and every day.  Yes some days might be tough, but the general trend is that healing is taking place.

That's where I am.  My body was totally wasted. I mean life in a wheelchar is not exactly conducive to good physical health.  So now, following the trend I started October 18th 2016, I continue my Bikram Yoga regime.  My physical body continues to improve, slowly, steadily.

I continue to research, daily research and modify my diet slightly to improve the nutrition I consume.  This I will do to my dying breath.  I also hope to live to a 100 and be doing my yoga at that age.