NSD effects on ESR
The following was posted by DragonSlayer here: http://www.kickas.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=193639
"We do have a very convincing chart (Tzero-before and Tnine months-after, are the two examination points; instructions were 'reduce starch consumption as much as comfortable for you'):
"The majority of persons with AS, indicate activity through ESR, however, even those who do not 'indicate' have reported success by restricting starches, as well as HLA B27 negative individuals.
"The chart shows that two persons actually increased ESR by restricting starch and one did not change at all. Of course, I cannot help making a connection between one contrary-slope and the guy who ate a potato every night with dinner, later ratted out by his son, also a patient. I wonder whether father tried telling son that the diet did not work for him!
"But the more obvious and important issue is the extrapolation to pain relief: Depending upon where they began, some of these subjects will not have noticed very much improvement even after nine months on a restricted starch diet. ESR decreasing from 65 to 48, for example, does very little obvious good unless I know what the numbers are, and it would take another nine months for ESR to drop low enough to feel the difference the diet makes. Since so many people do not indicate in the first place, this makes success on the diet a rather subjective thing.
"This chart helped me decide to be more radical and reduce all starches possible, and also test Ebringer's work another step by taking antibiotics at the same time. And although I did not believe in a linear relationship between starch and AS activity, I did begin to realize that any effort in elimination will pay off somewhat, if not in exact proportions."
"The majority of persons with AS, indicate activity through ESR, however, even those who do not 'indicate' have reported success by restricting starches, as well as HLA B27 negative individuals.
"The chart shows that two persons actually increased ESR by restricting starch and one did not change at all. Of course, I cannot help making a connection between one contrary-slope and the guy who ate a potato every night with dinner, later ratted out by his son, also a patient. I wonder whether father tried telling son that the diet did not work for him!
"But the more obvious and important issue is the extrapolation to pain relief: Depending upon where they began, some of these subjects will not have noticed very much improvement even after nine months on a restricted starch diet. ESR decreasing from 65 to 48, for example, does very little obvious good unless I know what the numbers are, and it would take another nine months for ESR to drop low enough to feel the difference the diet makes. Since so many people do not indicate in the first place, this makes success on the diet a rather subjective thing.
"This chart helped me decide to be more radical and reduce all starches possible, and also test Ebringer's work another step by taking antibiotics at the same time. And although I did not believe in a linear relationship between starch and AS activity, I did begin to realize that any effort in elimination will pay off somewhat, if not in exact proportions."
