I'm so glad to hear that you are looking into this. Medications don't cure the condition and they can be so destructive. I was already on a whole foods plant based diet (see Drmcdougall.com) and it helped a lot with the pain and stiffness. Meat, eggs and dairy products are huge triggers so, following Dr McDougall's plan kept me going for 20 years. Now, during isolation, I seem to have been doing something that has caused a flareup. The new list I got from Dr Barnard includes corn, wheat, rye, oats, citrus fruits, potatoes, tomatoes, nuts, coffee and sugar. I'm two weeks into it so, at the end of a month, I can start adding them back, one at a time, to see what happens. After just a few days, I was feeling so much better. The power of food is quite amazing.