Hi, pspondylitis:
I object to the way You conducted Your NSD 'experiment.' I don't think anybody really believes You gave it a fair chance to work, and even from the start, You made Your intentions very clear.
One week is not enough--I protested strongly when a different member wanted to "try" NSD for one week, and they did not even study the diet enough to know which foods were banned. One month is not much better; we did not get this sick overnight or even over just one month, and no natural way of dealing with it or pushing back will offer anything very substantial. A month of FASTING, well that is different, but You did not do that.
And it is the lack of objectivity You had and maintain, that is Your worst enemy.
So, You have in my opinion, not earned the right to declare that the diet does not work for You; even if we had a FAILURES section, Your story should not be included in it!
After reading Johns post, I have realized just how rabidly one sided he is. He is also the owner of this forum, which unfortunately means that he holds the final controls
Yes, I am rabidly one-sided.
Yes, I am the owner of record. But I have to report to the many contributors and my own conscience, and I realize that I cannot self-govern, so I have the best Administration team in the world and they control me; I listen to their wise counsel and try to act accordingly--THEY control this site. I control nothing totally and the fact You are still here despite our disagreements should be enough to confirm that it is not my goal to silence anyone or any idea; discussions no matter how acrid, usually produce positive results.
When I am posting, I have the same status as You--just another member. And I am human and have made mistakes. When ERAP - 1 is shown to be the primary cause of AS I will admit that mistake (I'm not holding my breath).
In fact, I want REAL negative stories to help determine the success rate (because I believe NSD will ultimately be over twice as effective as Homeopathy-aka-placebo), but there must be some basic guidelines. Your test has not even come close to meeting minimum requirements. If Your hoax was unintended, it is still a hoax--You did not do what You should have done to make any such dietary measures work for You. When You do this in private, You can just discard this effort and chalk it up to experience, but when You claim in public that "diet does not work for me," that becomes a situation requiring some scrutiny.
In the end, after the din of the debate dies down, we are each alone with our disease--every one of us has the choices to make that will either cause us to get better or worse or even stay the same. Nobody on the NSD Forum was surprised when You stayed the same, again--because You did not do what was required for a long enough period of time.
When a person decides the diet does not work for them, I have not "won." But until we have proper guidelines for testing the NSD/LSD there will be no "NSD Failures" Forum.
Regards,
John
