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Read our Rheumatoid Arthritis research guide →This study doesn't follow the usual testing phases — it may be an observational study or a different type of research.
Researchers at UC San Diego want to see if changing your diet can help control rheumatoid arthritis. In an earlier study, they noticed that people who ate an anti-inflammatory diet had improvements in their disease activity and changes in their gut bacteria and blood markers. This new study will test whether this dietary approach actually works for more people with rheumatoid arthritis, and explore how it might work by looking at changes in your gut health and blood chemistry.
Diet is a simple, natural approach that people can try alongside their regular arthritis medications, but we don't yet have strong evidence that it really helps. This trial aims to fill that gap and understand the biological reasons why an anti-inflammatory diet might or might not improve arthritis symptoms.
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You will be randomly assigned to one of two anti-inflammatory diet programs and asked to follow your assigned diet while your research team tracks how you feel and measures markers of inflammation in your blood and gut bacteria. You'll attend follow-up visits so researchers can monitor your arthritis symptoms and collect samples to understand how the diet is affecting your body. The study is designed so that the researchers measuring your progress don't know which diet group you're in, which helps keep the results fair and unbiased.
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