Anti-inflammatory food

Hey everyone,

 

this is a quick note to see whether we can list foods that are considered beneficial for the health of the male urinary tract, particularly prostatic gland and bladder. In particular, I'm looking for those with known anti-inflammatory potential.

 

I don't want to become radical, I simply want to gear my diet - whenever I can - towards these items.

 

Thanks in advance,

Federico

Uva Ursi?

I've used this database from time to time while i was getting acquainted with Josh's 2013 pre-peri and post workout nutrition.

 

it has a neat way of breaking down the contents of foods, and their make up. check it out 

 

here's garlic as an example of an anti-inflammatory food

 

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2446/2

Cool resource. It shows peanut butter as anti-inflammatory and I thought what I read in Paleo literature put this as an inflammatory food.

 

How much do we need to worry about that sort of thing? What are the downsides to eating too many inflammatory foods to often?

none really as long as your nutrition is on point and you're eating plenty of veggies. especially antioxidant and deep green leafy veggies, i remember josh mentioning those two combos pretty frequently and came to that conclusion, i don't know if it's what he originally meant, so its still got a ? at the end of it.

 

 

basically if you eat inflammatory foods and do exercise your body will oxidize from the exercise making tissues get inflamed from the movement and then it slows down recovery. 

 

i don't know the science behind it, so that has a ? at the end  and is more speculation in my mind than scientific and physically fact

Foods to Cure UTI looks like a pretty good resource.

 

I agree with Keilani that a healthy appetite for veggies (especially dark green leafy) and antioxidants is likely to help.

Thanks,

 

spinach, just boiled and drained are strongly anti-inflammatory. Thanks for the other resources, I will have a look at it.

 

For what concern cranberries, I have access only to dried ones, which are ~99% of the time sugar added.

federicoC said:

Thanks,

spinach, just boiled and drained are strongly anti-inflammatory. Thanks for the other resourcesu, I will have a look at it.

For what concern cranberries, I have access only to dried ones, which are ~99% of the time sugar added.

You can find or order online 100% cranberry juice, which is specially good for the urinary tract. You can find an article about it by John Meadows at Tnation.

For the best anti-inflammatory foods, besides fruits and veggies, wild salmon and game meat (specially venison ) are some of the best options. As far as supps, fish oil and curcumin are great.

Domz said:

The problem with salmon and other fish is that the oceans are a dumping ground and there are high levels of various toxins that accumulate in fish such as mercury, PCBs, etc. This seems to cancel any benefits from DHA/EPA

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22534056

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19623203

 

The answer is to choose fish oil which companies guarantee filters out impurities. Just kidding, there's DDT and PCBs in there too.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19265383

 

I'm keen to see any information/sources regarding the anti-inflammatory properties of game meat!

Domz, thanks for cheering me up on this grey January morning.

 

Now excuse me while I go develop prostate cancer, oestrogen-induced manboobs and artherosclerosis. Yum!

Pineapple is loaded with the anti-inflammatory nutrient known as "Bromelaine."

The latter two, however, are very good digestive enzymes but I'm not sure they also exert anti-inflammatory activity.

Since acute inflammation is an important part of muscle growth and generally any adaptation happening in our body, does someone know if anti-inflammatory foods reduce also acute inflammation responses to training (bad thing), and not only systemic inflammation which causes diseases (good thing)?

 

At least practically every good sports nutrition guy nowadays recommends not eating antioxidants to a great degree due to it's suppressing effects on acute inflammation, which might lead to lesser muscle mass and strength increases.

Helander said:

 

At least practically every good sports nutrition guy nowadays recommends not eating antioxidants to a great degree due to it's suppressing effects on acute inflammation, which might lead to lesser muscle mass and strength increases.

notsureifsrs

Edgaron said:

notsureifsrs

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19433800

 

"Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise in humans."

 

Hard to say for sure, but it its a bit gray area. Classical bodybuilding recommendations of overdoing vitamin C and so on might not be a good idea for long run. 

Helander said:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19433800

 

"Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise in humans."

 

Hard to say for sure, but it its a bit gray area. Classical bodybuilding recommendations of overdoing vitamin C and so on might not be a good idea for long run. 

I'm feeling way too lazy to answer this but yeah one thing is for sure - if the so called nutritionists managed to get results to their clients despite the overdosing on vit C and E then it doesn't hinder the progress that much.

 

Besides, those are some freaking huge doses,  basically 20 times the daily recommended dose of both of the vitamins.

 

Eat whole food and only supplement with what you truly lack (blood test anyone?), you're not going to find some magical potion/supplement/vitamin that makes your strength gains go through the roof or make you blow up. You're never going to consistently get that much C and E from your diet without causing other issues.

Domz said:

 

Eggs and poultry are particularly good at increasing your risk, as shown in this prospective study:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20042525

I wish research results would stop sitting on the fence and say 'will' or 'will not', instead of 'may'. :-(