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For those of you with various health issues, including fibromyalgia, arthritis, etc

Posted: Nov 1, 2013

As an older MT, I started suffering from "aches and pains" as well as some other health issues. I had been taking 8-12 Tylenol a day and didn't like that idea, because of potential liver damage. My doctor subsequently put me on tramadol because of the pain issues and I had been taking 1-2 of those a day.

I had been talking to a couple of friends of mine who knew of my health issues and they suggested that I try a relatively new nutritional supplement. I decided to give it a shot to see if it would help and it has -- My pain has lessened, but in addition, I have lost approximately 13 pounds in the past month! I gave the list of the ingredients to my doctor and he said there was nothing in these supplements that would interfere with any of my medications and in addition, my cholesterol levels have come way down. The thing too, that has been amazing is that I don't have to "diet and restrict calorie intake." I can still eat normally, although I have had to add 80-110 ounces of water daily. Also, with this supplement, you are discouraged from drinking any kind of soda or anything with an artificial sweetner in it as well. I might add too, that I am NOT an exercise buff, and while I have lost the weight, the first thing that I noticed was the inches coming off!

Another thing as well, for those of you that might be interested, is I have started a "group" on Facebook, entitled Paleo Phanatics. In that group, I have tried to provide information on the Paleo diet and recipies as well.

If you would like more information, please email me, and I will provide you with links on Facebook to both my Paleo group as well as more information on this great supplement called V3, the Happy Skinny Pill. There is a group on Facebook where people get together and discuss their various experiences with this product and we all want to be healthy, happy, have more energy and best of all, this also helps cut down on depression, which is a BIGGIE with those of us that are MTs :)

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That is usual for gluten-free or Paleo diets - sm

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Probably has very little to do with the pill you are promoting.

Food as medicine - Alice

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Yep. Same here. I personally have had more positive results with relief of aches, pains, and weight loss using nutrition supplements and a gluten-free, low carbohydrate diet than with any pain pill or other pharmaceutical treatment. I personally do not understand why nutrition is not the standard/first line of treatment for chronic disease. Maybe it's because it's not taught in medical schools. For me, I lost 170 pounds and no longer have hyperglycemia or hypertension. Plus, my aches and pains previously diagnosed as fibromyalgia are very minimal without pain medication.

Garbage in, garbage out... - clb

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I've never heard of the Paleo diet but I would be open to learning more about it. I just know for myself personally that when I eat fresh veggies and fruits and yogurt and drink alot of water, I feel way better than when I eat crap and drink soda. I actually cut out soda. Don't even miss it!

Would this Paleo diet help with fertility? I've tried everything else. I think I could do this as long as I could still have coffee and chocolate LOL

Alice - how did you do that? nm - me

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Suggestion - Not Alice

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There are useful Wikipedia entries to start you off. Then, recommend you read "Wheat Belly," by William Davis, MD. The Kindle edition is $9.45. (You can download a free Kindle reader to your computer or smartphone if you don't have a Kindle.)

You just don't eat anything containing gluten. Gluten is the stretchy stuff that makes bread rise. It s found in wheat and some other grains.

Originally, there wasn't much of it in wheat, but in the latter half of the 20th century, wheat was bred to contain a lot more, and it isn't quite the same. It is, unfortunately, now used in everything from soup to nuts ... literally. You have to read labels for ingredients like wheat, flour, textured vegetable protein, modified food starch or food starch (unless it specifically says corn), barley, rye, kamut, spelt, einkorn, etc.

Rice, buckwheat, quinoa, teff, sorghum, millet, amaranth, and certified gluten-free oats do not contain gluten. If you can eliminate just gluten, you are doing well. That gets rid of most of the problem because foods do not contain a lot of the others. I think paleo eliminates all of them.

No special foods are required, i.e., you do not purchase "gluten-free products" to replace the boxed, prepared, frozen, meals, and canned things you are used to eating. You can simply eat fruit, vegetables, meat, etc.. It is not difficult, but you do have to adjust your thinking about what "edible" means and about food preparation. (Most Americans eat absolute garbage, and it tastes like it, too.)

Shop mostly only in the produce, fish, meat, and dairy sections. It is likely that you will eat less because you won't be ravenous all the time.

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