Leading a life with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can be challenging, especially when conventional treatments don’t seem to provide full relief. In this post, we’ll explore what might be missing from current RA management plans and how focusing on health can make a significant difference in your quality of life.

We discuss in this episode:

• Conventional treatments often fail to provide complete relief for RA symptoms.
• A focus on overall health is crucial for improving RA outcomes.
• Health includes factors like diet, exercise, and stress management.
• A balanced nervous system helps minimize RA symptoms.
• Gut health, including a diverse microbiome, plays a key role in managing RA.
• Physical strength boosts antioxidant levels, crucial for RA patients.

If you do everything the rheumatologist tells you and you still feel like crap, this video is for you because I want to show you what is simply missing, what you need to be focusing on so that you can lead a happy, wonderful life.

My name is Clint. I’ve had RA since 2006 and have helped people in the past 16, 17 years throughout the world improve their lives with rheumatoid arthritis, following a process that I went through to get out of pain and get off my methotrexate. And you can look at this channel, Rheumatoid Solutions or Paddison program YouTube channel, and find hundreds upon hundreds of success stories that we’ve shared over the years. Today we’re focusing on why does the medical system have limited outcomes with rheumatoid arthritis, even with the greatest possible touted drugs on the market? Well, I’m going to get into that in a second, but you’ll know if they’re not working for you effectively. If you’re still waking up with symptoms in the morning, or you still have a joint that hurts, or multiple joints that hurt, you’ve got the morning stiffness, you’ve got some pain. You’re still reacting from Thanksgiving meals or Christmas delights with the family afterwards and paying for it. You’re still on a trajectory of a reduced lifespan of RA patients of 7 to 13 years. You still aren’t physically strong. You’re still fatigued. Okay, so how is this an extremely wonderful solution if you’re in that situation and you’re doing everything the rheumatologist tells you? And let me pause here and say, this is not an attack on the system. It’s not an anti-drug message. I’m saying if you’re doing that and things still aren’t really great, then what is missing?

When I first was diagnosed, I went to the rheumatologist. I looked around, and I saw people in the waiting room and they did not look great. These are people who clearly it wasn’t their first time. These are people who the rheumatologist knew as he greeted them one by one, and it was good to see you again. These were people who looked exhausted, who looked weak and fragile, who looked physically affected by the disease, and as a newcomer into this environment, I did not look upon that and think if that is the future that is a working system. And again, no judgment, just calling it out and saying there must be more that can be done. And the more that can be done, the missing piece in all of this is to get healthy, and health is what is missing because the system doesn’t focus on health. You may have even been told by a rheumatologist, don’t worry about changing your diet, it doesn’t matter. Or don’t exercise if it hurts because you know that might make things worse. Or you could take some supplements, but you know, reality is it’s probably not going to do much anyway. This kind of messaging is putting an atmosphere of let’s just try and maintain the disease with drugs. But the truth is vastly different as to what’s possible when you focus on health.

What health looks like is the minimum dependency on anything else, because your body is functioning in a way that isn’t broken. What health looks like is vitality and energy and joints that move through a great range of motion, a body that is physically strong, fists that form into a wonderful tight grip. Muscle mass that’s on your body to protect your joints. A nervous system that isn’t so out of calibration that a small event, let alone a big event, causes you to have more symptoms. And these things are all related to health. And so what health is, is a diverse microbiome that’s producing so much short-chain fatty acids, that’s keeping the integrity of your bowel in place. It is a nervous system that’s heavily active in the parasympathetic state which means digestion and all the functionality that it influences is optimized. Which also includes the diverse state of the microbiome and the gut barrier integrity. And it’s a physical strength that raises glutathione so high that it works against the depleted antioxidant state that comes about by having a long term chronic autoimmune condition. And so what the treatment protocols are, which are steroids and disease modifying drugs and biologic drugs, they are symptom relief. But where the joy and the future lies to people who want to have a euphoric life, who want to be in control of their disease management, is one that is focused on health. And it seems so simple, but it’s so horribly missed. And so we know that if you eat more fiber, you’ll have a better bowel. And you can have less symptoms. We know that if you exercise regularly and you build strength, you build fitness levels that you can have less symptoms. And we know that if your nervous system is way out of whack, you’re going to have worse symptoms; therefore increasing your ability to be stress resilient, that you can have less symptoms. So the studies exist equally well in these areas as what the research and studies show for what’s done with the medications. But if the messaging isn’t there from just the standard RA management approach, then how are you ever going to get healthy? Health is the solution. If you have maximum health, then you simply have minimum symptoms and the need for the least amount of external interventions.

So that’s my invitation to you if you’re already dabbling in some of these sort of areas of life. You’re testing some changes of diet. Maybe you’ve added a salad here and there, and you’ve got the intent to want to do things across the board as well, with physical therapy and stress reduction and vitamin D and B12 and outdoor exposure and earthing, all the things that may make you feel better. Then click the link on this video over my left shoulder here, because this will show you how to put in place these pillars of health that are so desperately missing from what you’re currently doing. Meaning that with low health, the drugs don’t work as well. With low health, you still feel fatigued. With low health, you’re still weak and with low health, the future therefore still doesn’t look great. So I hope this video has been helpful. Please like, share, comment, subscribe of course and I’ll see you in the next video.