Hi, Wally:
I have thought about this quite a bit, but have come to a different conclusion based upon my axiom that once in full flare nothing can make it worse. It takes ten days to clear the system of the offending IgA; most people's 'event horizon' is much closer. How many ten day periods does anyone accidentally go without starch? I had the advantage of having fasted for many days (up to 20) and it takes patience. Most of us are not experimental types and all the protesters have to do is ask their doctors about fasting--they will hear the lies they want to hear; the white stick brigade marches onward--destination doesn't matter. The individual might conclude, as an addendum to the Paleolithic diet, that people evolved feasting and then fasting; everything has a natural cycle.
In 20 years and over 450 patients Ebringer did not find one person with AS that was not caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae and those on his unsupervised "eat whatever you want but try and follow my London AS Diet" had a greater than 98% success rate (by "success" I mean that those with elevated ESR had significant lowered values after 9 months--the slope was in the right direction, but some were still too high to actually notice much improvement). Within the kickas community, many people who are B27 negative have found that reducing starches improves their condition and also people who's ESRs do not increase have noticed some improvement in symptoms on the LSD or NSD.
Those who do not respond well to total starch exclusion seem to have candidiasis as a severe complicating factor. There may be other factors, but that is probably the most common. Most cases of this are subclinical, especially in the context of suffering from AS as a primary condition.
A valid experimental design could not be achieved using a subjective poll; there are too many flaws.
What you have found are people who have already been messed up (by a combination of drugs and AS) and just feel that food is the last good sensation they get from life. Much of their pains are skeletal, and their desire not to change is the result of recalcitrant thinking and attitudes which caused some of the original problem in the first place. There are some people who will not allow themselves to be helped by diet and there is not a thing you can do to change that fact; it is Newton's Third Law (or karma) perfectly fulfilled by the First Law (inertia). Do I know this? I was there myself and recognize it better after many years of suffering.
I hope everyone gets better, but I understand that some prefer to wait for that magic pill that can reverse improper lifestyle choices. And I do hope that pill comes in time, while I know that everything comes with a trade-off whether there are obvious or intended consequences or not.
Best Regards,
John
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