Author Archives: Carol Sinclair
Have you been diagnosed with Reactive Arthritis?
Reactive Arthritis, or HLA-B27 Reactive Arthritis are just other names for Ankylosing Spondylitis
How long after eating wrong food do the AS pains kick in?
Dear Bogdan Cristescu,
Your first question was how many hours after eating the wrong food will your AS pains kick in? I think this is different for every individual, but I hear from some of my correspondents that the pain will definitely return the day after. With IBS pain and bloating, the pain begins to make itself felt [...]
Do you blame yourself for your IBS?
IBS is not caused by stress. It is not ‘all in your mind’. It’s caused by a bacteria called Klebsiella, which lives in undigested starch in you gut, causing pain and bloating. The IBS Low-Starch Diet starves the bacteria of the food it lives on, and your symptoms disappear.
How can diet reduce the pain and symptoms of arthritis?
Sounds crazy, I know. It’s easy to understand how the right diet can reduce the pain and bloating of IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) because that takes place in the stomach: if you eat the wrong food, obviously your stomach is going to protest! But how could what we eat affect joint pains and [...]
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Did you know that your IBS may be connected with an arthritic condition called Ankylosing Spondylitis?