Arthritis and Nightshades - Foods to Avoid

I damaged both of my knees when I was in myyou are affected by these vegetables is to cut
late teens. After months of therapy for athem out of your diet and see if your arthritis
dislocation and multiple tendon stretches, I startedgets better. If it has no effect, continue to eat
having arthritis pain. My wife also suffers fromthem.
arthritis in her hips. Lucky for me, when myAfter a dietary change where my wife and I
arthritis is at its worst, all I need to do is get offstarted eating more vegetables and reduced our
of my feet. When my wife's flairs up, she is inamount of red meat, we found out that we are
pain even when she is sitting down. I have done aboth highly susceptible to nightshades. While
ton of research to find ways to live with ourtending to my father's garden while he was out
arthritis and many of them have helped us a lot.of town, my wife and I were eating handfuls of
Unfortunately, I have also learned that we are inhis cherry tomatoes every night. Once my
the percentage of people that have our arthritisarthritis flared up to a point that even my daily
aggravated by nightshade plants.consummation of Glucosamine and Chondroitin
What are nightshades and how do they hurt us?seemed to have no effect and my wife couldn't
Well, nightshades are a number of different plantseven get any relief from pain killers, we decided
that contain a high amount of alkaloids.to stop eating nightshades for a few weeks.
Unfortunately, nightshades include tomatoes,After just a few days, both of our joints stopped
potatoes, eggplant and even peppers. Thesebothering us. We both found this very
vegetables are extremely healthy for almostdisheartening as we have been trying to live
every part of your body, except for your joints.healthier for a while now.
Now, if you are lucky, you will have no adverseI keep looking for other ways to remedy our
affects from any of these vegetables. But, if youarthritis. I keep searching for new ideas on the
are part of the majority, these vegetables canInternet and have a friend who is currently
cause arthritic flair ups and can even causeinvestigating bee-sting therapy for arthritis.
arthritis in your joints. The only way to know if