What we’ll cover in the hour

• Why rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia and dozens of other conditions share one underlying thread, and what that means for what you can do
• The four pillars of The Inflammation Practice, Food, Movement, Relaxation and Sleep, and why they work better together than apart
• Why food is the place most people should start, and the changes that carry the most weight
• How a lifestyle approach sits in parallel to standard medical care
• What we learned running this with patients in the Netherlands, including the parts we didn’t expect
• Your questions, answered live

Who this hour is for

• You live with arthritis or another inflammatory condition
• You’re doing everything your doctor asked and still feel it every day: pain, fatigue, no energy, stiffness
• You’ve tried cutting something out on your own and weren’t sure if you were doing the right thing
• You’d rather understand why something works than be handed a list of rules

Who it isn’t for: anyone looking for a way off their medication. That’s not what this is, and we’ll explain why on the call.

Who you’ll be hearing from

Dr. Carlijn Wagenaar, MD, PhD

Physician and researcher focused on why lifestyle works, including mechanisms like the microbiome that turn out to have a great deal to say about inflammation. Carlijn went plant-based overnight and has the athlete’s temperament to match. She will explain the mechanism, and why it isn’t magic.

Dr. Wendy Walrabenstein, PhD

Dietitian, registered in the Netherlands, with a PhD in lifestyle medicine. Wendy has spent years studying how the way we live shapes how we age. She is the one who will explain that 80–90% might be the sweet spot, and that a pastry in Copenhagen every now and then is not a failure.

Together they built The Inflammation Practice, the four-pillar approach they developed and tested with patients in the Netherlands and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.