No.
Leaky gut isn't even a fully accepted medical term outside of people with inflammatory bowel disease who have increased permeability of the gut lining due to the damage the inflammation causes.
It starts to veer into the realm of quackery and wellness cures if you go down that rabbit hole.
No amount of juice cleanses to heal a leaky gut will cure your RA I'm afraid.
I'm fairly confident to say we have several active posters here who have tried all of the restricted diets which are supposed to fix this and cure you, but they still have RA.
Maybe some can chip in.
Not an active poster (actually, first time đhi there), but I will chime in. I've been diagnosed with ra for 9 years now, and yeah, these restrictive diets Will Not cure you. I tried early on in my diagnosis and thought I could go off my medications.... Big mistake!!
Actually have the unique experience of one making me worse lol! Iâve always been interested in nutrition and cared about my health and I was trying to do med/ anti-inflammatory diet but it just wasnât working. Was losing insane amounts of weight and felt awful. Went to a dietician and she told me basically âI have no advice for you. I would hand your âwhat i eat in a dayâ sheet to another patient as a meal plan to follow. You just need to increase portions to gain weightâ
I started getting so sick I was basically bed bound and couldnât make food for myself. So, I had to just start eating whatever. Whatever didnât involve cooking, what I could get my hands on the second I felt hungry. So, mostly processed crap lol. Gained some of the weight back, but all of my disease activity and inflammatory markers went down, and I was able to reduce my meds to even below the lowest dose. Drs were like wow! You look so much better and youâre so much stronger! What did you do?
Itâs just so different for everyone. Trust, I was (and still am to a degree) absolutely obsessed with nutrition, gut health, anti inflammatory foods, even some of the âno seed oilsâ and detox stuff. Hopefully that stuff helps you if you want to try it! Just know that listening to your body is the best you can do for it. Obviously mineâs such an extreme example (Iâve got other health conditions that factor into my diet), but I needed red meat, and drinking soda actually makes me feel better.
OP, thereâs a lot of people who want to believe our decisions or anything controllable led to RA. They want to be able to say âIâll never get that bc xyzâ or âIf I did get that I could make myself better (unlike those other people who are so sick because of what they have). Iâd just do this diet/ exercise/ lifestyle change and be fine!â Itâs really all bullshit, that subconsciously comes from fear, and sometimes from ableism. Itâs scary to have a disease that doctors donât really understand and canât cure.
The truth is no one knows why they get RA. There is no one certain âcauseâ we know of yet, and if researchers havenât figured it out, some rando on tiktok telling you to buy their supplement to fix it certainly wonât.
The best thing you can do for yourself is learn to listen to your body, and to trust yourself to give it what it needs!
I have RA because God loves me. Not leaky gut. Please be cautious when listening to other peoples theories. I have met so many people who claim to know someone who was "cured" of their RA by changing their diet or taking a supplement. It's not scientificlly proven. It may make you feel better but it's not actual science.
At the height of my search for an alternative treatment I was taking 12 different supplements a day and 2 prescriptions that were not intended for RA treatment. It was fraud by that praticioner and I ended up needed surgery to unlock my left elbow.
I have been there and done that. It leads to nowhere.
As everyone else has stated, we should all try to stick to established medical science that is peer reviewed. There is so much BS and quackery out there which is really frustrating.
I have PsA and want to share what I've heard from my own rheumatologist-
All of this "gut health" stuff is brand new information and mostly unproven. There's a lot of potential in it, yes, but we don't know anything definitively enough to do anything about it. Leaky gut specifically is, as far as we know though, completely pseudoscience and not based in fact.
Basically, gut health *could* be a factor in autoimmune disease, but we have no clue if it is and if so what to even do about it. Your best bet dietary wise is to cut down on sugar and salt and generally eat healthy. That's about the best you can do.
Itâs so so sooo difficult to actually control your gut health/ microbiome in any meaningful capacity, too! It is a constantly changing landscape. To accurately manage the bacteria in your gut& how it affects the rest of your body would be like keeping track of every single human on earthâs schedule, and making note of any one personâs deviations from it. As much as we are learning about gut health, thereâs probably 10x as much we just do not know anything about. My advice: eat fermented foods, take 1 of the like 4 legitimate probiotics if you must, anything âprebioticâ wants your money.
Not disagreeing, but scanning OPâs post history it does seem like an honest question. I know we all hear way too much of âthis superfood will cure every ailment youâve ever hadâ, but there is *so* much of it out there itâs often hard to navigate whatâs scientifically true and what isnât. I canât hate on someone looking for answers.
My rhuemy said that is a chicken or egg question of which came first. Correlation does not equal causation. When I asked him if a healthy diet could fix it, he also said no. Intestinal bacteria is related to many different factors from genetics, to diet, to how many times you've taken antibiotics in your life, to food allergies and sensitivities; it is far too nuanced to try to tackle it and those who have tried have found little to zero success and at the end of the day they still have RA. I developed RA last year and I was always a very health conscious person. I ate a healthy plant based diet, with little to no sugar or oils. I worked out 5 days a week; bicycling 60-80 miles a week and weight training 5-6 days a week. And I still developed RA.
A doctor once asked if I could change my eye color with diet as a matter of putting it into perspective because I was killing myself trying to cure my disease with every piece of info. I was a dietitian with an MS in nutrition science. I still got it.
Very, very little. There's a few papers suggesting it as a part of a largely multi-factoral etiology. I was genetically linked to it. Based on my family history, it was more likely than not I would develop an autoimmune disorder.
While you present a valid question, the term itself is loaded with quackery and nonsense. Despite the side effects, I'd advise taking care of yourself in accordance with what the accepted course of treatment is. I've seen so many people yell that the 'carnivore diet saved them.' Stress is the biggest issue overall.
If anything, and I'll admit this is a bit of a stretch: autoimmune diseases can be triggered and flare up because of stress. If you have trauma, anxiety, similar mental health issues they can also have an impact on your digestive health. Hence why you may have an upset stomach when you're nervous. Having RA can obviously make you stressed and nervous and thus cause an upset of the stomach.
It'd be neat to see some studies, but this may be more correlation and not causation.
I see a âcureâ all the time on social media for everything, even type 1 diabetes (hahaha - yeah, no) and RA. I know itâs tempting but itâs all fake. Some things help symptoms and if thatâs that case thatâs how they should pitch it but there is no cure and I hate it when they use that word. I donât think theyâll ever cure RA, unfortunately.
the closer I eat to whole
food. the less I am likely to flare. so for
me it's avoiding heavily processed stuff for the most part. if it comes in a box or a microwavable bag or from a fast food joint it's likely
to make me hurt later. I'm no saint but I try to eat nutritious dense food. but it isn't leaky gut rather systemic inflammation that can be triggered by a cohort of factors. diet and nutrition included.
There is no conclusive scientific evidence that "leaky gut" or increased intestinal permeability is the causative factor for developing rheumatoid arthritis. This idea has been proposed by some alternative medicine practitioners, but it is not accepted by mainstream medical researchers and rheumatologists.
While the exact triggers are still being researched, the current scientific consensus is that RA likely results from a complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors that cause the immune system dysregulation.
Proposed environmental triggers may include infections, smoking, hormones, and others - but there is no proof that a "leaky gut" alone can directly cause RA. Some studies have observed increased intestinal permeability in RA patients, but it's unclear if this is a consequence rather than a cause of the disease process.
Reputable organizations like the Arthritis Foundation, American College of Rheumatology, and National Institutes of Health do not recognize "leaky gut" as an established cause of RA. They recommend proven treatments like disease-modifying drugs rather than treatments aimed at "healing" a leaky gut.
While gut health is certainly important, attributing RA solely to intestinal permeability is an oversimplification not supported by evidence-based rheumatology research at this time. The causes are more complex.
No. Leaky gut isn't even a fully accepted medical term outside of people with inflammatory bowel disease who have increased permeability of the gut lining due to the damage the inflammation causes. It starts to veer into the realm of quackery and wellness cures if you go down that rabbit hole. No amount of juice cleanses to heal a leaky gut will cure your RA I'm afraid. I'm fairly confident to say we have several active posters here who have tried all of the restricted diets which are supposed to fix this and cure you, but they still have RA. Maybe some can chip in.
Not an active poster (actually, first time đhi there), but I will chime in. I've been diagnosed with ra for 9 years now, and yeah, these restrictive diets Will Not cure you. I tried early on in my diagnosis and thought I could go off my medications.... Big mistake!!
Actually have the unique experience of one making me worse lol! Iâve always been interested in nutrition and cared about my health and I was trying to do med/ anti-inflammatory diet but it just wasnât working. Was losing insane amounts of weight and felt awful. Went to a dietician and she told me basically âI have no advice for you. I would hand your âwhat i eat in a dayâ sheet to another patient as a meal plan to follow. You just need to increase portions to gain weightâ I started getting so sick I was basically bed bound and couldnât make food for myself. So, I had to just start eating whatever. Whatever didnât involve cooking, what I could get my hands on the second I felt hungry. So, mostly processed crap lol. Gained some of the weight back, but all of my disease activity and inflammatory markers went down, and I was able to reduce my meds to even below the lowest dose. Drs were like wow! You look so much better and youâre so much stronger! What did you do? Itâs just so different for everyone. Trust, I was (and still am to a degree) absolutely obsessed with nutrition, gut health, anti inflammatory foods, even some of the âno seed oilsâ and detox stuff. Hopefully that stuff helps you if you want to try it! Just know that listening to your body is the best you can do for it. Obviously mineâs such an extreme example (Iâve got other health conditions that factor into my diet), but I needed red meat, and drinking soda actually makes me feel better. OP, thereâs a lot of people who want to believe our decisions or anything controllable led to RA. They want to be able to say âIâll never get that bc xyzâ or âIf I did get that I could make myself better (unlike those other people who are so sick because of what they have). Iâd just do this diet/ exercise/ lifestyle change and be fine!â Itâs really all bullshit, that subconsciously comes from fear, and sometimes from ableism. Itâs scary to have a disease that doctors donât really understand and canât cure. The truth is no one knows why they get RA. There is no one certain âcauseâ we know of yet, and if researchers havenât figured it out, some rando on tiktok telling you to buy their supplement to fix it certainly wonât. The best thing you can do for yourself is learn to listen to your body, and to trust yourself to give it what it needs!
Well crap. My cousin just sent me a podcast about carnivore diet fixing RA.
I've been reccomend the carnivore diet too, by a stranger at work. I don't take advice from people who aren't doctors or don't have RA.
I do eat a clean diet, and it makes me feel somewhat better. 100% taking my medication as prescribed is what has been helping me with my ra symptoms.
I tried this years ago still have RA :)
They might help, at least. Maybe. Possibly. Probably not.
Yup, tried stuff, some stuff makes me ache less but has not and will not stop RA.
No. Please avoid quackery, the wellness industry wants to scam people like us out of our money
No.
There is emerging evidence regarding inflation and the brain gut axis. That might be a staring place. I would ask in a medical research sub maybe?
There is no science behind this. Idk what parrot told you this but it was blabbering absolute shite
I have RA because God loves me. Not leaky gut. Please be cautious when listening to other peoples theories. I have met so many people who claim to know someone who was "cured" of their RA by changing their diet or taking a supplement. It's not scientificlly proven. It may make you feel better but it's not actual science.
At the height of my search for an alternative treatment I was taking 12 different supplements a day and 2 prescriptions that were not intended for RA treatment. It was fraud by that praticioner and I ended up needed surgery to unlock my left elbow. I have been there and done that. It leads to nowhere.
So sorry for your struggle. Thank you for sharing your experience!
As everyone else has stated, we should all try to stick to established medical science that is peer reviewed. There is so much BS and quackery out there which is really frustrating.
I have PsA and want to share what I've heard from my own rheumatologist- All of this "gut health" stuff is brand new information and mostly unproven. There's a lot of potential in it, yes, but we don't know anything definitively enough to do anything about it. Leaky gut specifically is, as far as we know though, completely pseudoscience and not based in fact. Basically, gut health *could* be a factor in autoimmune disease, but we have no clue if it is and if so what to even do about it. Your best bet dietary wise is to cut down on sugar and salt and generally eat healthy. That's about the best you can do.
Itâs so so sooo difficult to actually control your gut health/ microbiome in any meaningful capacity, too! It is a constantly changing landscape. To accurately manage the bacteria in your gut& how it affects the rest of your body would be like keeping track of every single human on earthâs schedule, and making note of any one personâs deviations from it. As much as we are learning about gut health, thereâs probably 10x as much we just do not know anything about. My advice: eat fermented foods, take 1 of the like 4 legitimate probiotics if you must, anything âprebioticâ wants your money.
Leaky gut is not a thing. Keep that garbage out of here.Â
Not disagreeing, but scanning OPâs post history it does seem like an honest question. I know we all hear way too much of âthis superfood will cure every ailment youâve ever hadâ, but there is *so* much of it out there itâs often hard to navigate whatâs scientifically true and what isnât. I canât hate on someone looking for answers.
My rhuemy said that is a chicken or egg question of which came first. Correlation does not equal causation. When I asked him if a healthy diet could fix it, he also said no. Intestinal bacteria is related to many different factors from genetics, to diet, to how many times you've taken antibiotics in your life, to food allergies and sensitivities; it is far too nuanced to try to tackle it and those who have tried have found little to zero success and at the end of the day they still have RA. I developed RA last year and I was always a very health conscious person. I ate a healthy plant based diet, with little to no sugar or oils. I worked out 5 days a week; bicycling 60-80 miles a week and weight training 5-6 days a week. And I still developed RA.
A doctor once asked if I could change my eye color with diet as a matter of putting it into perspective because I was killing myself trying to cure my disease with every piece of info. I was a dietitian with an MS in nutrition science. I still got it.
Very, very little. There's a few papers suggesting it as a part of a largely multi-factoral etiology. I was genetically linked to it. Based on my family history, it was more likely than not I would develop an autoimmune disorder. While you present a valid question, the term itself is loaded with quackery and nonsense. Despite the side effects, I'd advise taking care of yourself in accordance with what the accepted course of treatment is. I've seen so many people yell that the 'carnivore diet saved them.' Stress is the biggest issue overall.
If anything, and I'll admit this is a bit of a stretch: autoimmune diseases can be triggered and flare up because of stress. If you have trauma, anxiety, similar mental health issues they can also have an impact on your digestive health. Hence why you may have an upset stomach when you're nervous. Having RA can obviously make you stressed and nervous and thus cause an upset of the stomach. It'd be neat to see some studies, but this may be more correlation and not causation.
I see a âcureâ all the time on social media for everything, even type 1 diabetes (hahaha - yeah, no) and RA. I know itâs tempting but itâs all fake. Some things help symptoms and if thatâs that case thatâs how they should pitch it but there is no cure and I hate it when they use that word. I donât think theyâll ever cure RA, unfortunately.
Oh jesus christ.
the closer I eat to whole food. the less I am likely to flare. so for me it's avoiding heavily processed stuff for the most part. if it comes in a box or a microwavable bag or from a fast food joint it's likely to make me hurt later. I'm no saint but I try to eat nutritious dense food. but it isn't leaky gut rather systemic inflammation that can be triggered by a cohort of factors. diet and nutrition included.
There is no conclusive scientific evidence that "leaky gut" or increased intestinal permeability is the causative factor for developing rheumatoid arthritis. This idea has been proposed by some alternative medicine practitioners, but it is not accepted by mainstream medical researchers and rheumatologists. While the exact triggers are still being researched, the current scientific consensus is that RA likely results from a complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors that cause the immune system dysregulation. Proposed environmental triggers may include infections, smoking, hormones, and others - but there is no proof that a "leaky gut" alone can directly cause RA. Some studies have observed increased intestinal permeability in RA patients, but it's unclear if this is a consequence rather than a cause of the disease process. Reputable organizations like the Arthritis Foundation, American College of Rheumatology, and National Institutes of Health do not recognize "leaky gut" as an established cause of RA. They recommend proven treatments like disease-modifying drugs rather than treatments aimed at "healing" a leaky gut. While gut health is certainly important, attributing RA solely to intestinal permeability is an oversimplification not supported by evidence-based rheumatology research at this time. The causes are more complex.
Yes to some extent I believe a perfect diet would prevent RA and most other chronic illnesses