Can Changing When and What We Eat Help Outwit Disease?

I also have a very strict microbiota tailored diet and do intermittent fasting (5:2). I do this to naturally manage Graves' disease. I also have to exercise regularly and I use blue light therapy to regulate circadian rythims. It's not easy but it really works.

The alternative was to remove the thyroid and replace the hormones with synthetic. Unfortunately you body needs different amounts for different things at different times of the day. It is a constantly moving target and in many cases you never really feel right again.

The special diets were known to the Graves community when I started 8 years ago. Later on I learned and incorporated microbiota theory and used that as a basis for experimenting which has worked well. I only recently started intermittent fasting and feel even better for it.

Interestingly I started intermittent fasting after reading Nassim Talebs book Anti-fragile. He and I share the same opinion on the medical establishment (I won't bore you with my details) so I figured I'd give it a go and it helps.

Not more than 20 years ago Gout was a disease caused by what you ate, the only problem was that wasn't true. It turns out its not red wine and red meat that causes Gout, its metabolic and mostly genetic in nature. You can make it subtly worse with foods that break down to high amounts of Uric acid in the body but people who suffer with it have a metabolic issue they can nothing about and need drugs to manage it.

We look for correlations with food until we truly understand what is going on with diseases and their true triggers and "cures". It feels like something is being done when someone says "you should be eating healthier", like in some way that has an impact on the disease. Alas it doesn't, it is infact just another way in which people treat others with prejudice, its all part of the fat shaming culture. If you have cancer its your fault, and if you die from it you didn't fight hard enough. People are often cruel to each other and make stuff up in the absence of the facts.

From personal experience, yes.

I cured a congenital gastrointestinal condition simply by introducing a couple of food items into my diet. I wish somebody had told me about them when I was much younger.

I was hoping the article would do more then just ask the question. I'll be interested in the result of the study once it comes out.

Is anybody else vaguely disgusted that this headline is not a joke?

Psoriasis + Arthiritic Psoriasis + GERD + some IBS symptoms for me. Was on proton pump inhibitors, antiacids and all that shit for a time. Said fuck this shit and started experimenting my diet.

Now I'm down from 2 PPI's a day to one every now and then when I get stupid and eat something that irritates my digestive system. Also my skin condition is a lot better now.

I cut out wheat, sugar, (shitty light roasted) coffee, broccoli, raw tomatoes and most artificial sweeteners.

I hope the answer is yes! My doctor recently ran tests showing that my mildly high cholesterol and glycemic index have become a worse. Rather than go on prescription medicines, I started the Eat to Live diet a week ago. This diet initially eliminates all oils, meat, dairy, sugar that is not in whole fruit, and in general no processes foods. All the veggies, beans, and whole fruit that you want with also lots of seeds, nuts, etc., with a strong emphasis with getting a lot of Omega 3 fat in the diet. After 6 weeks, then the diet lightens up a bit. I felt like crap the first 4 days of the diet, but now am feeling great. This food is starting to taste very good also, which surprised me.

EDIT: I should add that this diet contains a very wide variety of foods, but they are all plant based.

Tibetans believe it can. Traditional Tibetan medicine emphasizes changes in a diet as an adaptive answer to some symptoms. Obviously, Tibetan medicine is unscientific and based on superstitions rather than biology, and to some extent the method of trial and error with arbitrary interpretation instead of controlled experiments, but the idea that food could be the cause and the answer is general and reasonable.

There is absolutely no doubt that a diet is a major factor. Vitamins are the obvious example - processed, overheated foods with destroyed structure of the molecules, which in the long run could lead to deficiencies. Tibetans would use animal blood and organ meat, which could make sense in this context.

Humans are not evolved to eat processed foods.

Here is a science-backed video talking about the benefits of a substance found in broccoli sprouts w.r.t. cancer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4YVJ4aRfg

I've read various accounts online about ketogenic diet being beneficial for mood disorders. Here is one such example [1]. I'm not sure what to make of it, but I'd say it would be interesting to test this in a clinical trial.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/1rclay/my_severe_soci...

The answer is no, because disease is just too damn smart.

ive noticed atleast for me that when im sick, ice cream always makes my illness worse. coincidence?

mucus free diet - arnold ehret, his work is very enlightening regarding health. Should be more popular, considering ;) it's important that one read his work thoroughly.