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✋TIPS FOR MEDICATION PAUSES✋ _ 🥳FINALLY finished my course of antibiotics (Doxycycline) yesterday, and I’m now going to be doing what I can to recover my gut. _ Here’s some things I have been doing whilst I have been off my medication and on the antibiotics: ✋@westlabsalts Epsom salt baths/filling the sink up for my hands. ✋@flexcompression gloves. ✋Heat packs for my ankles and left knee (from Amazon). ✋@omgmatchatea matcha smoothies EVERY morning for a boost of antioxidants and energy for the fatigue. ✋@signature_cbd drops, when taken daily and religiously they do ease off the pain. ✋@maripharm topical coconut oil CBD to rub onto painful areas. ✋@westlabsalts muscle spray for quick relief. ✋@yourbodhiuk natural curcumin tablets. ✋Pain killers when it’s all too much (Arcoxia and cocodamol). *** _ ➡️I’ll be taking my medication (Humira, Methotrexate, and Folic Acid) again this week. And recovering my gut by getting in those probiotics! Slide to see pictures. _ 🌈 Kombucha, trying flavours from @hummkombuchauk at the moment! 🌈 @optibac probiotics - I recommend the pink, blue or orange ones! 🌈Kefir - my fave so far is @ki.kefir. 🌈Pickles. (Who doesn’t love pickles? Mmm. I have homemade pickled red cabbage in the fridge!) 🌈 Apple cider vinegar. _ More about probiotics: ⭐️Probiotics include "good" bacteria. These are live microorganisms that restore the natural balance of gut bacteria. An imbalance is when there’s more bad bacteria than good, which can be due to illness, medication (ie antibiotics), poor diet and more. ⭐️ Probiotics may help give your immune system a boost and reduce the bad bacteria. Some probiotics promote the production of natural antibodies in the body and boost immune cells: from HealthLine. ⭐️ According to @arthritisfoundation the beneficial bacteria in probiotics appear to have an impact on inflammation, reducing the biomarkers, such as the C-reactive protein. _ ‼️ I’ve had more than a week off my meds, with a week on antibiotics and by gosh I have felt both. It’s made me even more aware of how much my gut impacts my swelling and pain, alongside my meds (for the better!) ***I have discount codes for brands so message me! _ #ArthritisFoodie
🔋SELF CARE SUNDAYS🔋 _ ➡️ What do you do to recharge your battery? _ 🌈Just a little note to say that I hope you’re remembering to recharge and recuperate this weekend 🥰❤️ _ 🌈We always remember to charge our devices, but the priority must be charging ourselves. Our minds, our bodies, and our wellbeing. _ 🌈Whether that’s allowing yourself some extra hours of sleep, going for a walk or to the gym, reading a book or watching something (my go to is @friends even though I’ve seen it thousands of times). _ 🌈After an exciting first week in my new job and recovering from a chest infection, it’s safe to say I’ve been plugged in to self care all day today - and I’m so glad I have! _ 🌈Comment with your self care charging tips below 🧘❤️ and stay tuned to IG stories, as I’ll be uploading polls made up of your questions later! _ #ArthritisFoodie
🧄Vegan Spiced ‘Sausages’🧄 _ #Veganuary is here! Spicy tomato tofu “sausages” with a tomato garlic sauce, roast sweet potatoes and a side salad. Garlic is SO GOOD for the immune system (more detail below), and I try to get it into my diet as often as I can. _ 🌈 You will need: @tofooco spicy tomato ‘sausages’ 3 beef tomatoes 1 large roscoff onion (or 2 small red onions will work) 3 garlic cloves 1 courgette 1 sweet potato Bag of salad Cherry tomatoes (for the salad) _ 🌈 Method: 🧄Pre-heat your oven to 190-200°, peel and chop your sweet potato, place on a tray. _ 🧄 Add your seasoning to the sweet potatoes, I went for chilli salt by @jamieoliver with some black pepper too. Place into the oven for 35-40 mins, turning half way through. _ 🧄Chop 1 roscoff onion (these contain the sweetness of a sweet onion and the robust aftertaste of a red onion). _ 🧄Peel and chop 3-4 garlic cloves. Heat in olive oil with the roscoff onion! Fry up gently for around 5 minutes. _ 🧄Chop 4 beef tomatoes and add in with the garlic and onions. _ 🧄 Fry the tofu spicy tomato sausages whole for 15 minutes. _ 🧄 Chop and lightly fry the courgette. _ 🧄 Blend the sauce mixture in a blender with 100ml water and add back into a pan, chop the cooked tofu sausages and add these in with the courgette too! _ 🧄 By this point the sweet potatoes should be done! Plate everything up along with a side salad. _ 🌈GARLIC🌈 _ 🧄 Garlic has been used for centuries for its antibacterial and antiviral properties. 🧄 In the season of cold and flus, a study found that a high dose of aged garlic extract (2.56 grams per day) reduced the number of days sick with cold or flu by 61%!! 🧄 Garlic contains antioxidants that support the body's protective mechanisms against oxidative damage. 🧄 Garlic contains more than 100 biologically-useful chemicals (including alliin, alliinase, allicin, S-allylcysteine, diallyl sulfide and allyl methyl trisulfide), which do everything from lower cholesterol to fight off viruses. _ #ArthritisFoodie
🥳 CHRISTMAS CASHEW 🥳 _ 🎄This Christmas the very versatile cashew sauce made an appearance in 3 different dinners during my time at home, because: 🙌 Easy to make. 🙌 It’s dairy free. 🙌 The sauce is creamy without the dairy. 🙌 Vegan and plant based, in preparation for #Veganuary that I will be starting in 2 days! 🙌 A great base (like a white sauce is) so you can add the flavours you want! _ 🌈 The 1st photo recipe is leftover cashew sauce from the night before (2nd photo) with mushrooms and lentil pasta. The 2nd photo is the sauce with salmon and veg. The 3rd and 4th photo is from yesterday, where I made a version of my Nanan’s chicken and broccoli bake! _ 🙌 FOR THE GARLIC MUSHROOM PASTA: 🎄150g (two portions) of red lentil penne pasta, we used Napolina. 🎄1 box of closed cup mushrooms (250g) FOR THE CASHEW SAUCE: 🎄150-200g of plain 100% cashew nuts (nothing added just the plain wholesome nuts!) use more if you want the sauce to be thicker. 🎄1 tsp garlic granules or 1 cooked fresh garlic clove chopped up 🎄1 tsp black pepper 🎄1/2 salt 🎄150ml oat milk 🎄Add water after blending if it’s too thick _ 🌈 Method: 🎄 Place the cashew nuts into a bowl of water making sure all of the cashew nuts are covered. Leave them to soak for 25-30 minutes. 🎄 Wash and chop up the mushrooms and place to one side. Also peel and chop the garlic at this point if you’re using fresh. 🎄Measure out the pasta and place to one side. 🎄 After the cashew nuts have been soaking for 15 mins, cook the mushrooms (and garlic) in some olive oil, and in a separate pan, cook the pasta in hot water for around 7 mins. 🎄Drain the pasta when it is ready then turn down the heat on the veggies, before draining the cashews. 🎄Add the cashews to a blender with the oat milk and spices (I use @breville). 🎄Add the cashew sauce from the blender into the veggies and then put the pasta in there too and stir it up until it’s hot. _ There you go! And it’s DF, GF and RSF. QUESTION: who else is going to be doing Veganuary this January?? _ #ArthritisFoodie
🦢🎄HAPPY CHRISTMAS🎄🦢 _ “How do they look so together and perfect?” asked the boy. “There’s a lot of frantic paddling going on beneath.” said the horse. _ 🌈 However many swans you can see on your social media, I hope you know that they are all frantic, messy and imperfect beneath the surface, a surface you may not see. _ 🌈 Life (and Christmas) isn’t perfect, so I hope you’re all having a perfectly imperfect one wherever you are. Our family had some moments yesterday - believe me 🤣 would be a dull day without them eh? _ 🌈 @charliemackesy’s book is so beautifully written and illustrated - full of reminders to live courageously with kindness for ourselves and others. _ 🌈 Ps. I was about to post this yesterday and the Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special came on so I was perfectly distracted!! _ 🎁 Pps. Randomly generating the winner of the hamper later today! _ #ArthritisFoodie
🍋 TURMERIC TEA 🍋 _ Anti-inflammatory, soothing, warming and full of natural goodness for supporting your body when it’s full of cold!! Hope it helps. _ 🌈 You will need: 🧡 1/2 tsp turmeric 🍋 Slice of fresh lemon 🍯 1-2 tsp honey (see how sweet you like it) 🟠 1/2 tsp grated ginger 🤎 1/4 tsp cinnamon (optional, fine without!) 💧 Hot water _ 🌈 Health benefits: 🧡 TURMERIC 🌈 Curcumin is the main active ingredient in turmeric with powerful anti-inflammatory effects, it is also a very strong antioxidant. 🌈 In a study in people with rheumatoid arthritis, curcumin was even more effective than an anti-inflammatory drug. 🌈 If want to experience the full effects, you need to take a supplement that contains significant amounts of curcumin (I’m currently trying @yourbodhiuk #gifted, but I left them in London 🤦‍♀️) _ 🍋 LEMON 🌈 One lemon provides about 31 mg of vitamin C, which is 51% of the recommended daily intake. 🌈 Regular supplementation trials have shown that vitamin C reduces the duration of colds (Cochrane Systematic Review). 🌈 Contains protective antioxidants called flavanoids. _ 🍯 HONEY 🌈 Honey has antioxidant, antimicrobial, and soothing effects. 🌈 Research has shown that raw honey can kill unwanted bacteria and fungus. It naturally contains hydrogen peroxide, an antiseptic. 🌈 It’s been used in medicine by humans for over 5,000 years! But, heavy processing destroys valuable nutrients, so try and buy organic if you can! _ 🟠 GINGER 🌈 Gingerol is the main bioactive compound in ginger, responsible for much of its medicinal properties with powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. 🌈 In a controlled trial of 247 people with osteoarthritis of the knee, those who took ginger extract had less pain and required less pain medication. 🌈 It belongs to the Zingiberaceae family, and is closely related to turmeric, cardomon and galangal. _ 🤎 CINNAMON 🌈 Cinnamon is loaded with powerful antioxidants, such as polyphenols. 🌈 The antioxidants in cinnamon have anti-inflammatory effects. 🌈 Cinnamaldehyde in ‘true cinnamon’ has antifungal and antibacterial properties, which may reduce infections. _ #ArthritisFoodie

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Arthritis Foodie is a place to discover healthy ways to live with arthritis, alongside medication. It's a community of people trying all kinds of natural remedies to make us feel better and more in control of our chronic illness. Founded by Emily Johnson, the aim is to build a positive community, raise awareness and change perceptions - that arthritis can happen to young people too.

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