Diet and improvement
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Oct 2013
Summary
Followed a strict "Practical Paleo"-book diet for 30 days, then eased off slightly, over about two months total. She reports "significant improvement" - much more energy, headaches and dizziness gone, and anxiety gone (though she notes that "could be from the L-glutamine I'm taking" rather than the diet alone) - while muscle aches persist and adherence has loosened, so the gain is holding but only partial.
What they credit
Credits Diet, Carnitine, BCAA, amino acids, Elimination and ketogenic diets.
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Anxiety & low mood, Headaches & migraine, Pain & fibromyalgia.
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