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The path that brought J to a gluten-free, LCHF diet is interesting to learn about. The fact that he is a fellow medical practitioner makes it even more so. – Dr. Perlmutter. I am a physician who has had intermittent diarrhea my entire life as did most of the members of my family. I simply lived with it. However, in my mid-forties, I started developing other symptoms, including inflammatory arthritis of my PIP joints of the hand (negative rheumatologic workup), odd fatigue, and three year’s worth of microscopic hematuria (negative urological workup). I was serum negative for the standard gluten markers and endoscopy biopsies were negative. But within 4 weeks of stopping gluten on a dare from my sister, my blood in the urine stopped and has never returned (I presume kidney inflammation was present), my joint pains slowly subsided, the fatigue lifted, and the lifetime diarrhea has vanished. Man was I a happy guy! Then, in my late 50’s, I was not feeling well and always hungry. I am not overweight at all. I was eating a very high-carb (gluten-free) veggie diet. I was diagnosed with diabetes. My doctor instantly changed me to a high-fat and protein and super low-carb diet and within months I began to feel much better. I now prescribe your book along with Gary Taubes’ “Why We Get Fat” to my patients who have a wide variety of musculoskeletal complaints or who are obese. -J. The post J. appeared first on David Perlmutter M.D..
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