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<blockquote data-quote="librarising" data-source="post: 356117" data-attributes="member: 41957"><p>Hi Kerrie</p><p></p><p>I haven't posted here for some time, but was checking recent posts, when I saw yours.</p><p>It's truly a sad story, and I'm posting in case anything I have to say helps.</p><p></p><p>I have a good friend who suspected he had AS (ankylosing sponylitis), so I did some googling on his behalf, and discovered that there was a London hospital who used a low starch diet in their treatment of this condition.</p><p>Whilst his brother definitely has AS, he does not, but I passed on the information in case it helped his brother.</p><p></p><p>I've just googled some links for you, so you can see that what I'm saying is kosher, NHS-related, and not just some theoretical quackery. Intriguingly, the first link talks about both AS and CD (Crohn's Disease)</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.discoverymedicine.com/Taha-Rashid/2011/09/12/gut-mediated-and-hla-b27-associated-arthritis-an-emphasis-on-ankylosing-spondylitis-and-crohns-disease-with-a-proposal-for-the-use-of-new-treatment/" target="_blank">http://www.discoverymedicine.com/Taha-R ... treatment/</a></p><p></p><p>"One of the main candidates for this new therapeutic protocol is the use of a low starch diet."</p><p></p><p>"In the AS patients attending the “London AS Clinic” at the Middlesex Hospital for the past 20 years, it has been found that normally it takes around 6-8 months for the diet to show its effects, and that the majority of AS patients could be treated with dietary manipulation and exercises without the requirements for supplementary pharmaceutical treatments (Ebringer and Wilson, 1996)."</p><p></p><p>"Based on these data results it is suggested that a low starch diet intake could help in the eradication of Klebsiella and other related enterobacterial species from the bowel and might lead to a decrease in the activity, progress, and full development of AS, CD, and possibly other disease entities of SpAs."</p><p></p><p>"We suggest that, together with the currently used treatments, inclusion of a low starch dietary intake in patients with AS and/or CD could be beneficial."</p><p></p><p></p><p>In a much more readable (yet reduced)article, I found the same treatment referred to on an AS support site :</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.kickas.org/londondiet.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.kickas.org/londondiet.shtml</a></p><p></p><p>And a third link for you (be warned - some here will try to discredit Barry Groves, but remember - I'm not using him as my authority. He's just passing on information, not proposing a theory) :</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/ank-spon.html#.UTT-sDCeOJu" target="_blank">http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/ank-sp ... TT-sDCeOJu</a></p><p></p><p>I was intrigued by a comment that follows the article :</p><p></p><p>"Anyone with AS should take this diet very seriously . I am a 57 year old man who has had this disease since I was 22 .A year ago I was taking 8. 500/30 cocodomol daily , a fortnightly injection of anti TNF and various other medications . I read about the London diet , low starch , I started it in Feb 2012 , I lost 3 stone over the next few months , but more importantly after thirty years of suffering I am pain free and medication free . I did make a few other modifications like only eating natural unprocessed foods , but basically I believe starch is the problem as it feeds the klebsiella ."</p><p></p><p>As an added benefit, some diabetics find that a low starch diet helps them to control their blood sugar levels.</p><p></p><p>Wishing you relief in your search for what will work for you</p><p></p><p>Geoff</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="librarising, post: 356117, member: 41957"] Hi Kerrie I haven't posted here for some time, but was checking recent posts, when I saw yours. It's truly a sad story, and I'm posting in case anything I have to say helps. I have a good friend who suspected he had AS (ankylosing sponylitis), so I did some googling on his behalf, and discovered that there was a London hospital who used a low starch diet in their treatment of this condition. Whilst his brother definitely has AS, he does not, but I passed on the information in case it helped his brother. I've just googled some links for you, so you can see that what I'm saying is kosher, NHS-related, and not just some theoretical quackery. Intriguingly, the first link talks about both AS and CD (Crohn's Disease) [url=http://www.discoverymedicine.com/Taha-Rashid/2011/09/12/gut-mediated-and-hla-b27-associated-arthritis-an-emphasis-on-ankylosing-spondylitis-and-crohns-disease-with-a-proposal-for-the-use-of-new-treatment/]http://www.discoverymedicine.com/Taha-R ... treatment/[/url] "One of the main candidates for this new therapeutic protocol is the use of a low starch diet." "In the AS patients attending the “London AS Clinic” at the Middlesex Hospital for the past 20 years, it has been found that normally it takes around 6-8 months for the diet to show its effects, and that the majority of AS patients could be treated with dietary manipulation and exercises without the requirements for supplementary pharmaceutical treatments (Ebringer and Wilson, 1996)." "Based on these data results it is suggested that a low starch diet intake could help in the eradication of Klebsiella and other related enterobacterial species from the bowel and might lead to a decrease in the activity, progress, and full development of AS, CD, and possibly other disease entities of SpAs." "We suggest that, together with the currently used treatments, inclusion of a low starch dietary intake in patients with AS and/or CD could be beneficial." In a much more readable (yet reduced)article, I found the same treatment referred to on an AS support site : [url=http://www.kickas.org/londondiet.shtml]http://www.kickas.org/londondiet.shtml[/url] And a third link for you (be warned - some here will try to discredit Barry Groves, but remember - I'm not using him as my authority. He's just passing on information, not proposing a theory) : [url=http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/ank-spon.html#.UTT-sDCeOJu]http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/ank-sp ... TT-sDCeOJu[/url] I was intrigued by a comment that follows the article : "Anyone with AS should take this diet very seriously . I am a 57 year old man who has had this disease since I was 22 .A year ago I was taking 8. 500/30 cocodomol daily , a fortnightly injection of anti TNF and various other medications . I read about the London diet , low starch , I started it in Feb 2012 , I lost 3 stone over the next few months , but more importantly after thirty years of suffering I am pain free and medication free . I did make a few other modifications like only eating natural unprocessed foods , but basically I believe starch is the problem as it feeds the klebsiella ." As an added benefit, some diabetics find that a low starch diet helps them to control their blood sugar levels. Wishing you relief in your search for what will work for you Geoff [/QUOTE]
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