You saw him first on Waterloo Road. Then you came across him on Emmerdale. Now, Adam Thomas and his older brother Ryan are the co-hosts of ITV One game show 99 to Beat.
Adam called it his “dream” game show, saying delightedly that “moments like this don’t come often”. His kids – Teddy, 13, and Elsie, seven, who he shares with wife Caroline – have even been along and watched him film the show.
However, while Adam may be happy for his kids to follow in his showbiz footsteps, he really hopes they aren’t plagued by the same health condition that he’s suffered with for years.
Adam Thomas on worries about passing on his arthritis
Not only physically painful, arthritis is mentally draining for those that suffer from it. More common among much older people, Adam Thomas is on the young end of the population suffering from arthritis.
He received his diagnosis in 2023, but it wasn’t quite correct. Initially, doctors told him he had rheumatoid arthritis, but he has actually been living with psoriatic arthritis.
They’re both inflammatory joint diseases, but they’re very different from each other. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease caused by the body’s immune system attacking itself.
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Psoriatic arthritis, on the other hand, is linked to psoriasis, which is a skin condition. It often manifests in asymmetric ways, and can make sufferers’ fingers swell up like sausages and their nails flake.
One similarity, though, is that both rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis are hereditary. This means they run in families, and this is what alarms Adam most of all about his condition.
“But it is hereditary, that’s what worries me the most,” he said. “My kids might get this one day. I’m doing everything I can to find a blueprint now so if it does happen I can pass that on.”
Adam’s ‘life changed’ when he switched to a carnivore diet
During a recent episode of This Morning, Adam Thomas told presenters Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley that coming off his meds and switching instead to a carnivore diet was life-changing.
The medication he’d been on was making him sick, drowsy and fatigued, he said. So he looked at ways of managing the condition by making lifestyle changes.
“A couple of weeks into me trying to carnivore diet, my life changed,” he said. “Like, genuinely, I just felt like my knees got a little less tighter, my fingers went down so and I started that just before Christmas.
“Meat and eggs, that’s all I have now.”
99 to Beat airs on Saturday evenings at 6pm.
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