I almost didn't bother to read this article. I thought I knew every possible environmental trigger and possible deficiency, many of which are frequently mentioned from the many posters. I was wrong and therefore urge you to read the article and follow the links in it regardless of whether you wish to follow a plant based diet or not, the information may help some of you.
As for me, I will start by adding vitamin E.
Combating Restless Leg Syndrome with a Plant-Based Diet
I'd be wary of blog posts selling products (or earning commission by linking you to products and/or other blog posts to increase readership). This article doesn't provide a solid evidence base for following a plant based diet.
One can use any good brand/product without using their recommendations.
A vegan diet has been mentioned by several people posting on this site and some have written that it resolved their RLS. Similarly Vitamin D.
However, like many alternative therapies and diets, what helps one sufferer will not necessarily help another. Put diet in the search engine and you'll find several different diets mentioned- low Fodmaps, low oxolates, paleo, sugar free, paleo.
Been a vegan for years, take iron and D, but other studies linking E and other deficiencies are intriguing. Also, the suggestion that a person's test results may show the iron is normal, but may not have reached the brain.
Yes those studies about brain iron have also been extensively reported on the site.
hopkinsmedicine.org/neurolo...
health.harvard.edu/diseases...
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...
I could post the links to several more research articles as it is now well established amongst RLS experts that low brain iron is the most likely cause of RLS
Thanks. I'll check out the link. I was on this site for a couple of years, then the nightly emails stopped for about 18months restarting only recently. Maybe this all happened while I thought the site no longer existed. I will examine the links.
I've also heard that too much iron in the brain can call Alzheimer's.
Gotta run..
Thanks for sharing this. There's not really any surprises in this articlde. It does suggest some plant sources of iron and does recognise that non heme iron isn't as easy to absorb.
It also refers to the study, which I've read previously, that demonstrated that vitamin D is helpfu! IFyou have a deficiency.
Yes, it is a good idea to be sceptical of articles that are full of adverts, but overall there's nothing particularly controversiaL in tbis article.
What I find interesting about it is that although as Jools points out, there are many diets out there claimed to help with RLS this one favours veganism.
I have to confess that I am quite resistant to making what seems a considerable effort to change my lifestyle to become vegan or follow any of these diets.
It does prompt me to raise another issue though which is being increasingly raised recently. One which I find easier to accept. For example, I read only last week a BBC article about a scientific report that claimed that in order to stop global warming tipping over, alongside other things, everybody needs to stop eating red meat.
No problem for me, none has touched my lips for 45 years.
Interesting also that Covid 19 is a big distraction from this. It's because of this pandemic that we're now seeing things that are a foretaste of what will happen when global warming really kicks in
I was surprised by C, E and L-tryptophan. For 3 months L-theanine worked wonders. I tried GABA and L-tyrosine but neither worked.
I cannot take C or eat oranges because I have GERD and a hiatal hernia.
My husband won't eat anything that swims or flies but occasionally will eat beef, so through the years it was a natural metamorphosis to be vegan. It made no difference for my legs. I go off the reservation now and then and eat some lamb, salmon, or beef in that order. Neither diet (vegan, carnivore) worked for me.
I have Celiac so absorbing enough D has been hard though I take 5000 IUs daily.
When global warming may not be the problem in pandemics. It's quite fascinating from a avid vegan, Michael Greger M.D. FACLM but his science is usually quite sound. It's a history of pandemics and what they have been linked to: youtu.be/7_ppXSABYLY
Pandemics: History & Prevention
Man made global warming isn’t proven science.
I have tried all of these. Mine is too severe and so far no medication has worked for me. Only thing ive found that really works for severe rls is red vein kratom. It worked like a miracle for 4 years. I am not taking it at this time to reset. Ive gotten immune after 4 years. Nothing has ever worked other than that. Benzos didnt even work. I have it so bad it goes up in my arms .
Hi,
The article was RLS specific. A few people have had success with diet. Through the years, some wrote about removing or adding just one certain food that made a dif.
Another study said that RLS abates when we get into our late 80s or by 90. So we'll see if something else doesn't kills us first LOL.
I used to get a nignt off but not in last year!!
It wasn't that long ago I got a night off about once a week, now more like once a month. I hope that won't fade yet I know it will.
Has anyone read about Aspartame & restless leg syndrome?
Restless leg cure
www.patient.co.uk RLS ARTICLE!!!!
Removing heavy metal 
Placebo effect on Restless Leg Interventions
