This comes from someone who has serious MS compromises and has enthusiastically embraced the diet. He writes us on a regular basis and with his permission, allowed us to post this latest email. Note especially his discovery that fruit has been a big problem for him (sugars of all kinds) and that he has found out from listening to his own body feedback what his particular triggers are. A most welcome improvement has been the gradual relief from agonizingly painful leg spasms and reducing the amount of drug he used to take a lot of. Grain fed meats also used to set him off. Judi
Well it has been a long month but well worth it. I eat no fruit at all but I am eating loads of tomatoes and raw vegetable and my plumbing is working 100% better. I am extremely sensitive to many nuts and nut butters; wild salmon and sardines are ok. Your recipe for cauliflower bake is very nice. The other day my wife made some roast vegetables with roast turnip and can you believe? I got a spasm from what I think was the turnip as it was quite a sweet turnip. You get a very refined sense of taste after a while. I think it was the high-glycemic value that was setting off the cramps. They only lasted a little while but the next day I had some elimination troubles.
I think I am really starting to understand my body a lot better. It's the body that is giving clues but the brain is a victim of past appetites. I always want what I shouldn't have so I really have to be vigilant and not stray. I am feeling very good. I still feel the hot spots in my old injuries but they aren't so severe and the spasm intensity has gone down so much since I started that I know we are on the right track. I feel that the real key to my healing is giving up the sweets, i.e. the fruit. My gut starts to heal but feedback is very extreme if I stray from the plan.
I am so glad that I found your book as it's really changing my life. I feel so much more positive and I am almost off my Gabapenten. I only use 100mg and that is good for the night. I usually wake up around 5:30am needing to use the john, and I can even lay back down afterwards for a little while, until maybe 7:15am. Oh, life is great when you have a little hope and that's what your diet is giving me .
Thanks again.