@A MySpondylitisTeam Member. You can have the best diet in the world, but if your gut isn't absorbing the nutrition it won't matter what you eat. It won't get absorbed. Get a gut mapping test to reveal to you what is going on in your gut. A functional medicine practitioner or dietician can order this test for you or you can order it on your own. I ordered mine through Life Extension.com and the one I did was their Gut mapping 360 test, the most extensive. Very revealing, informative and results come with recommendations how to remedy problems found. Also, it doesn't matter what you eat or take, as long as you dont eliminate the triggers to your body's inflammation you will still have pain. For example, my gut mapping test revealed, among other things, a high level of klebsiella pneumonia. I had to take colloidal silver, targeted probiotics scientifically proven to attack klebsiella and a binder to eliminate it from my gut. Yes, it worked.

For energy, try to consume one gram protein per pound of body weight every day. Your body needs about a third of that amount just to breathe, beat your heart, and digest food efficiently everyday. It needs another third to heal the years of accumulated damage. That doesn't happen overnight. If you want energy to do much of anything else than exist, you need the last third of that total daily protein. That's tough to do, eat that much protein. Look for clean high quality protein powder to help you shore up daily shortages. I put it in my morning coffee, lunch smoothies, and evening herb teas. Yours in better health P 😌 🙏

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Anti-Inflammatory is similar to the Mediterranean diet - a lot of fresh, frozen, or canned (look for sugar content) fruits and veggies, olives and olive oil, fish and seafood, whole grains, beans and lentils, herbs and spices, and nuts and berries. We keep it easy as I never know if I have the energy to cook after work. I try to keep it simple and have as much grab and go items available - Greek yogurt with nuts, berries, sunflower seeds; seasoned chicken with one of those steamable bags of veggies or with a packaged salad. My rheumatologist recommended shopping the perimeter of the store and decreasing processed foods.

I have never had any luck controlling pain with diet. Granted there are things they say will benefit you and things that will worsen your pain
I guess I just never ate enough of any one thing to notice any difference. 🥴