A Story of Survival: How Diet Saved a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Patient's Life
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 5 years
- Published
- Dec 2015
Summary
Naomi narrowed her diet to ten foods she did not react to and stayed on that restricted diet for five years, alongside deliberate stress reduction and faith practice, a later shift to organic food, and unspecified herbs and vitamins. Her pain and migraines fell "tremendously" and she moved from bedridden and unable to tolerate stimuli to no longer bedridden. After five years she was able to begin expanding her diet again. She did not become fully well.
What they credit
Credits Alternative therapies, Diet, Supplements, Elimination and ketogenic diets, Herbal and Chinese medicine.
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Headaches & migraine, Pain & fibromyalgia.
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