Can eating anti-inflammatory foods help you recover from muscle/tendon injury faster?

Doctor No wrote:

Pajac wrote:

This is correct. Ignore the rest of his post.

You are both wrong. Inflammation is part of the healing process. How much of a lifestyle guru are you guys pretending to be with your fad diets?

Amazing how from my "yes" you know so much about my diet and call me a lifestyle guru.

Bit judgemental, are you not?

The world's top-selling drug is an immunosuppressant which lowers inflammation and the resultant autoimmune effects caused by poor diet. Dr. Berg gives a nutritional protocol which accomplishes this naturally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stoYvGqixTc

Note that meat fish and eggs as well as sunbathing each day during the non-winter months will provide bioavailable forms of vitamin D3 not provided in plant-based or processed foods. Keeping plant-derived carbs low and using intermittent fasting will also suppress inflammation associated with illness and injury. Field tested, and this is why I am now on the low-inflammation carnivore diet and as a result have experienced a 180-degree turnarund in my own health as thousands of others on the diet have as well.

Tattoos and diet, the 2 things that get the most posts on the LR board... next is usually something to do with teachers/education.

I'm American but spend a lot of time in Greece. At least these days most Greeks don't eat the supposedly "Mediterranean diet." They eat a lot of meat. For around a decade I was vegetarian and always had a difficult time eating in Greece. Practically everything available at restaurants and cafes has meat in it, including virtually all traditional Greek dishes. (I'm including fish and white meat as "meat," although many Greeks refer only to red meat as "meat"). Even if the "Mediterranean diet" refers to the way Greeks supposedly ate several generations ago, when they supposedly ate a lot of fish but little other meat, the rest of their diet (then, supposedly, and still) includes lots of dairy and olive oil. I've never understood why people think it's an anti-inflammatory diet. But anyway, I don't actually have anything substantive to add to the original question of this thread.

YMMV wrote:

The world's top-selling drug is an immunosuppressant which lowers inflammation and the resultant autoimmune effects caused by poor diet. Dr. Berg gives a nutritional protocol which accomplishes this naturally:

Yes, take medical advice from an anti-vax, supplement-selling chiropractor.

Pajac wrote:

Doctor No wrote:

You are both wrong. Inflammation is part of the healing process. How much of a lifestyle guru are you guys pretending to be with your fad diets?

Amazing how from my "yes" you know so much about my diet and call me a lifestyle guru.

Bit judgemental, are you not?

Yes.

Inflammation is the first phase of wound healing. During the inflammatory phase, damaged cells, pathogens, and bacteria are removed from the wound area. These white blood cells, growth factors, nutrients and enzymes create the swelling, heat, pain and redness commonly seen during this stage of wound healing. Any attempt to lessen inflammation will slow down the healing process, e.g., ice. The body knows how to heal itself.

Hazel wrote:

Let's say you were diagnosed with a tendon or calf strain. Doctor says the area is inflamed..does that mean you could theoretically recover from the injury faster if upping anti-inflammatory foods into your diet?

Eat more jello for tendinopathy...

markboen wrote:

Inflammation is the first phase of wound healing. During the inflammatory phase, damaged cells, pathogens, and bacteria are removed from the wound area. These white blood cells, growth factors, nutrients and enzymes create the swelling, heat, pain and redness commonly seen during this stage of wound healing. Any attempt to lessen inflammation will slow down the healing process, e.g., ice. The body knows how to heal itself.

There is a huge difference between localized inflammation for the purposes of wound healing and systemic inflammation due to metabolic dysfunction. The latter is what can lead to a fatal "cytokine storm" with covid infection, for instance. Chronic systemic inflammation is a hallmark of diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune and many other diseases of modern society, virtually unknown before 1900.

Can you please show me where the OP was referring/asking about "chronic systemic inflammation"? Perhaps you wanted to discuss chronic systemic inflammation, but no one was talking about that on this thread.

crazy talk wrote:

Is this a troll post. Carnivores eat only meat. Omnivores eat meat and other stuff. A human who ate only meat would become very sick in short order.

I also have eaten mostly meat only for about 21 months now and my health has been returned to how I felt when I was in my early 20's (I'm 44). I was very dubious when I started and couldn't believe how much better I felt within a few months. I have been trying to understand why since.

Hunter gatherers focussed on getting as much meat as they could. Plants were back up food for when hunting was unsuccessful. Meat provides all the necessary vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and amino acids we require. Plants do not. Prior to supplementation, humans could not survive without animal products as it is our only way to source Vitamin B12.

In my last blood test everything was normal. An inflammatory marker C-Reactive Protein was tested and was 0.4, which is very low.

In theory the carnivore diet doesn't work. In practice, it does. Maybe our theories are bullshit.

YMMV wrote:

Chronic systemic inflammation is a hallmark of diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune and many other diseases of modern society, virtually unknown before 1900.

Whatever youtuber you got this info from is completely false. For example the autoimmune disease known as psoriasis is well documented going back thousands of years.

markboen wrote:

Can you please show me where the OP was referring/asking about "chronic systemic inflammation"? Perhaps you wanted to discuss chronic systemic inflammation, but no one was talking about that on this thread.

Your muscles and tendons are part of a larger biological system that provides the context for healing, and even more important, for prevention of problems proactively. In my case it involved going from 1-3 significant injuries or illnesses/year to zero over the course of the last ten years, despite training increasing in volume and intensity. This is a huge underlying aspect of why some athletes seem to be "injury prone" compared to their cohorts who are doing the same program.

crazy like a fox wrote:

Prior to supplementation, humans could not survive without animal products as it is our only way to source Vitamin B12.

B12 is found in soil and waterways. The only real reason we need to supplement it now is because of sterilization.

crazy like a fox wrote:

In theory the carnivore diet doesn't work. In practice, it does. Maybe our theories are bullshit.

Also, the likely reason it 'works' is because of the cessation of consuming something on a regular basis that was causing an allergic type reaction. Its not so much the inclusion of nothing but meat but rather the exclusion of something(s) causing a food sensitivity issue.

This is why many people find an elimination diet helpful.

You may wish to start your own thread regarding chronic systemic inflammation. But the OP was asking about a strain and not massive inflammation swelling. After posting to this thread over a half dozens times so far, I have to wonder if you're a troll?

false wrote:

crazy like a fox wrote:

Prior to supplementation, humans could not survive without animal products as it is our only way to source Vitamin B12.

B12 is found in soil and waterways. The only real reason we need to supplement it now is because of sterilization.

Most of the B12 in the soil and waterways is from animal excrement.

If you are suggesting we used to get B12 from eating dirty vegetables, soil samples taken in the 1950's and analysed for B12 found humans would need to eat between 160g and 1.2kg of dirt per day to get our B12.

Or, you could eat a small amount of meat / eggs / fish.

markboen wrote:

You may wish to start your own thread regarding chronic systemic inflammation. But the OP was asking about a strain and not massive inflammation swelling. After posting to this thread over a half dozens times so far, I have to wonder if you're a troll?

After failing to comprehend my reasoned response, I have to wonder if you're rather thick?

false wrote:

crazy like a fox wrote:

In theory the carnivore diet doesn't work. In practice, it does. Maybe our theories are bullshit.

Also, the likely reason it 'works' is because of the cessation of consuming something on a regular basis that was causing an allergic type reaction. Its not so much the inclusion of nothing but meat but rather the exclusion of something(s) causing a food sensitivity issue.

This is why many people find an elimination diet helpful.

Form an autoimmune perspective, carnivore is the ultimate elimination diet, since you are eliminating all plant toxins. The other piece however is that it had all nutrients in their most bioavailable form, so perfect nutrition is possible, this being the foundation of rapid healing and intrinsic durability and resilience to injury in the first place.