Here is someone called skylor's story of horrendous ankylosing-spondylitis and subsequent recovery, when all drugs etc failed using a whole food plant based lifestyle. I find this talk very inspiring and hope that someone with that illness might watch it and gain some inspiration to go on their own journey.
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A transcript is available at paddisonprogram.com/skylor-....
And then every 20 years thereafter perhaps.
I remember when I first declared myself recovered from RA (based on doctor & rheumy advice to stop meds & normal CRP) back in early 2017. Here we are now two years later and my health continues to improve. One might argue it is the Bikram Yoga, one might argue my illness was never "that bad." My doctor said that two and a half years was the average length of time for "remission" to last.
That's not to say I dont have health challenges - 40 years of osteo don't just disappear overnight. I deal with the osteo aspects by keeping my quads (I never knew what quads were!), my core (ditto), especially the muscles around my knees in the greatest shape possible.
One can argue lots of things. My point is each of us has his/her own body and that is the only body we have. We don't have the luxury of time to wait on the most expensive form of research coming out (because double-blind large scale studies on humans lasting 20 years or so are far from cheap).
If one has a chronic disease the least that body deserves is the best possible nutrition. We can do that today, at no cost to ourselves or others or the planet. I, and the guy in the video, took a dramatic change ovenight because otherwise we felt our lives coming to an end. Hopefully most people can learn on forums like this one and make incremental changes that accumalate into big improvements.
Hi Andy,
I will hope to listen to this on the weekend.
I have heard you talk about the Paddison Program before.
Zest 
If there is some foods thats aggravating a disease you have, it stands to reason you should cut down or stop eating it.
Theses kind of video's are not more then bad comedy.
You make it sound as if knowing which foods are good or bad is easy. The first food i stopped was gluten because I have a friend who is most definitely coeliac. I got some relief from that, but hardly a massive improvement. 15 months later I successfully reintroduced. Gluten, and very pleased ever since.
Also most people with a chronic condition are on some form of medication. By definition those meds mask symptoms, so that makes deduction of which foods cause reactions large or small much more difficult. That's why I retest foods over time, thus double checking my reactions
I think of it as peeling away the layers of an onion.
Seems very complicated for you.
Have tried NRAS forum? I read on there most days, very helpful.
Try not to be taken in by those videos, seriously there faked.
What do you mean by faked? Are you suggesting the person in them is an actor, pretending to be ill but they aren't really?
Glad to know that the young man found a non-drug route to take.
I was diagnosed with AS as a young woman, on the basis of joint problems, some of the blood markers, and painful eye condition (iritis). Turned out to be a misdiagnosis and the problem was Coeliac disease, so cutting out gluten was what was needed.
Cutting out the common allergens often seems to be a good way to go, if you’ve got intractable health problems. The Autoimmune Protocol diet can also be helpful for some people with autoimmune problems.
Misdiagnosis is all too common. In my own case I was told it was osteoarthritis but later they changed it to psoriatic Arthropathy.
Did you have a biopsy to determine celiac disease?
We waste much more food than we realise, 
struggling with food!
Relationship with food
