Improve chronic pain with a keto diet

May 1 2018 by in About membership, Fibromyalgia, Keto, Ketosis, Low Carb Breckenridge

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Could a keto diet improve chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia? As practicing physicians, Dr. Èvelyne Bourdua-Roy and Dr. Hala Lahlou have noticed that their patients with chronic pain often improve on a keto diet.

In this talk they discuss their experiences, the scientific support for using dietary changes to treat chronic pain and the possible mechanisms at work.

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8 comments

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Donna-michelle
May 1 2018
I been suffering from trigeminal neuralgia for the past twelve year, in January last year I started a keto diet to help with weight loss, but what was better than weight loss was being able to control my pain it’s fantastic no more tegretol for me
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Sara
May 2 2018
My arthritis and fibromyalgia particularly seem to be better as do my alcohol cravings. Feel free to contact to me.

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Jocelyne Slattery
May 2 2018
I have fibromyalgia and have been doing Ketogenic/ LCHF/IF for almost a month now. I have noticed a significant change in my chronic pain!
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Nadia
May 3 2018
My arthritis and fibromyalgia particularly seem to be better as do my alcohol cravings.

I suffer from fibromyalgia myself and I was wondering how much of a reduction in pain does this diet help with this condition as nothing seems to help at the moment.

Thanks for your reply.
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Anneleen
May 3 2018
Could this be a solution for severe IBS?

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Peter Biörck Team Diet Doctor
May 3 2018
Hi Anneleen!

A lot of people in getting better in their IBS with LCHF.

Could this be a solution for severe IBS?
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David Turknett
May 3 2018
I started the Atkins 20 diet 2 months ago today at my doctors request. A month in I made a slight change to the Keto diet. I am pre-diabetic and diagnosed with Hashimotos disease. I have spinal stenosis and sciatica on both sides due to four different disc tears. I weighed 299.9 lbs. Exactly two months later and I haven’t felt this good since my twenties (54 yo male).
My chronic pain has been drastically reduced, my stomach and bowel issues have disappeared, I went from barely being able to walk to working out at the gym about an hour and a half a day 6 days a week. I have lost over 30 pounds! I no longer have sugar or carb cravings. I just had blood work done and will find out next week how things went with that.
Feeling optimistic!
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Stephanie
September 13 2018
Can you please explain the difference between the body being in ketosis and being acidic, I understand that an acidic body is prone to disease as opposed to an alkaline state.

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