Overcoming Rheumatoid Arthritis with Food
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
How much impact does our diet have on rheumatoid arthritis? More than you might think!
One morning Dr. Monica Aggarwal found herself on the floor and unable to move. Her joints had grown so inflamed and stiff that she felt nearly paralyzed. When the doctor diagnosed this young cardiologist with the debilitating form of the disease he said that she needed to get used to the idea of living in pain. Although medication would provide some improvement, this would be her fate and there was nothing she could do to change that.
They were wrong.
On this episode of The Exam Room™ podcast, "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll is joined by Dr. Aggarwal who shares her inspirational journey back to health. Her secret weapon in the fight against arthritis? Improving her diet!
Today she is a workout warrior and living pain free!
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Dr. Aggarwal's Book: Body On Fire
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Dr. Monica Aggarwal
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| 0:00.0 | He told me that I had a poor prognostic form or a devastating form of rheumatoid arthritis. |
| 0:07.2 | He said that the disease was incurable, that I will be on medications for the rest of my life. |
| 0:13.7 | He painted a very grim picture. The waiting room was grim. It was hard to walk through the waiting room |
| 0:18.7 | where everybody's in wheelchairs and canes and such a difficult moment. And hearing all those things, |
| 0:25.5 | I remember when I asked, well, what if I try other things? He said, well, you can try anything, |
| 0:30.7 | but nothing's going to work. And this is the future. This is what you have to get used to. |
| 0:43.6 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:47.5 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for giving the show a |
| 0:52.4 | listen or a view or a download, wherever it is in the world that you are. We appreciate the |
| 0:59.4 | fact that you are here. Imagine if you will that you are trapped on the floor. And your body is |
| 1:11.8 | an excruciating pain. You're unable to move. Now imagine that this is happening to you and you're |
| 1:21.3 | a young doctor, a cardiologist even, and you have young children at home. |
| 1:29.4 | You're trying to do it all and now everything that you have been juggling has fallen to the ground. |
| 1:40.0 | Worry then begins to creep in. What does the future look like? What is going on? |
| 1:48.4 | For Dr. Monica Agarwal, that was reality. A pain that began as a simple stiff shoulder quickly |
| 1:59.5 | spread throughout her body attacking joint after joint after joint. And even before she lay a |
| 2:06.1 | mobile on the floor that morning, just walking felt like sharp shards of glass were cutting into her feet. |
| 2:18.7 | You see, Dr. Agarwal have become one of the more than 54 million Americans living with arthritis. |
| 2:26.0 | HERS a crippling form of rheumatoid arthritis. And so today you will go on a journey with Dr. Agarwal. |
| 2:39.5 | She and I had a chance to talk about that fateful day and what led up to it and how this journey |
| 2:46.2 | that started as one of simple survival through traditional means quickly turned into a search for |
| 2:53.0 | better answers. Answers that would afford her a higher quality of life and answers that |
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