Personally, I have proven diet to myself and that is good enough for me
why would we pay any attention to Your not very unique opinion? We can get the same opinion from many physicians who have a lot more credibility, despite never helping their patients resolve AS and avoid permanent skeletal damage and fusion.
I am glad that you are having success from a special diet for your A.S. We all have to live with whatever ails us as best we can by whatever works best for us.
I have tried various diets over the years although it was a very long time ago. So long that I don't even recall what those diets consisted of.
There is absolutely no reason why you should pay any attention to my as you call it "not very unique opinion". So there must be someone who agrees with me on this one then even if it is only "manny a physician".
Yes I agree that as you suggest these physicians don't seem to get much success in treating their A.S. patients but as a patient of these very physicians myself for over 50 years I know that only too well.
I think my posting against a diet for A.S. is just that I am more of a man of science than someone who believes in the latest food fad whatever that may be.
As I said earlier I am honestly glad that you seem to be having some success with your diet as a way of controlling your A.S. Let's just hope the rheumatologists come up with something that works for the rest of us some time soon.