Great sucess with LCHF diet and Prostatitis

[Atari]

I just want to add one thing about sugar/carbohydrate and CPPS/Prostatitis. I have just started an LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) diet. In about 5 days I was immediately 60-70% better. It’s well known that sugar/carbohydrate drives inflammation. If you reduce these components in your food you are most likely to reduce your inflammation. There are some people in Sweden that writes on the Swedish Prostatitis-boards that have become 100% cured with this diet from Prostatitis and Epididymis.

This is little bit over the topic, but… For your information there is now a big Swedish lobby group (including professors and doctors) debating with doctors about the information giving about what to eat and not in your daily life. You can say that the LCHF diet is little of the diet of the decade in Sweden. New cooking books and reports of people getting 100% cured from Fibromyalgia, Diabetes type 2 and fatness etc. I can name three studies that support the theories about the LCHF diet; Karlshamns-studien 2004, WHI 2006 and Gardner 2007. These studies are only related to if fat is dangerous, diabetes and weight loss. And in January 2008 the American Diabetes Association approved Low carb diet as an alternative for people with diabetes type 2 that wanted to loss there weight. No studies of this diet and Prostatitis have been published yet.

I also want to add that the LCHF diet is not the same as Atkins diet or a Low carb diet. But they have many things in common. In a LCHF diet you eat more food from the season at the time, more ecological food and you balance fat from omega-3 and omega-6. You eat no food that include more than 5gram carbohydrate per 100gram. So no eating pasta, potatoes, beers, rice, candy, ice cream, bread, biscuits etc. To satisfy your hunger you add fat instead. In time your hunger will be driven by the energy your body needs and not by blood sugar. And the body starts taking its energy from fat instead. Your insulin and your blood sugar will be dramatically lowered. And thereby your inflammation in your whole body will be lowered.

And the effects on Prostatitis for me? Before I was about 50% better from excluding wheat, 9 SWT sessions, about 10 naprapath sessions and taken Swedish pollen extract and Quercetin. I also taking Amitriptyline at the moment. With this diet I have become even better then before. Reduced over all pain, less stiffness, less pain after urination, no pain after ejaculation, reduced trigger points, much better urine flow, less tiredness and the best; increased libido!

Is there anyone else that has tried a diet like this and has become better?

[carld]

I like this thread...As we know diet is a big factor with our syndrome. Eat to live and NOT live to eat. At this point in my life I just eat for sustenance...

[webslave]

Atari, interesting, but you've mixed in so many treatments (shock wave therapy, quercetin, gluten avoidance, other dietary modifications, amitriptyline, pollen, etc) that it is difficult to know exactly why you are feeling better. I'm just glad that you are getting well.

[BrettP]

Interesting. I have toyed around with a similar idea. Starchy foods with lots of carbs if I overdo it often causes me issues. I've never stuck with it and never added fat but rather fiber/veg. I may try this. A big issue is also portion size. When I had my ulcer I was low carb/ low everything and my prostatitis was pretty much tamed. As soon as I got back on old habits it got worse!

[DMcU]

Hi Atari,

That's great news that you are doing well now and that you've found something that is working for you.

Could you, if you have the time, give an example of what you would eat in this diet for the meals of the day?


Thanks and hope the improvement keeps up!

DMcU

[casperach]

I too would recommend laying off sugars. Especially white sugar. I have been battling for over a year and my symptoms never seem to get as bad as many on this board. I have cut down my sugar intake for years and I think this is one of the reasons I have been able to avoid major problems with inflammation. It's also believed that vegetables are healing agents and I try to get four servings in a day.

[BrettP]

Glad this got bumped. Before my appendix was taken out I was doing a sort of paleo diet. Cut out sugar and bread to start. I did notice improvement. Looking to get back on this along with my swimming routine.

[Sherradin]

The book Recapture Your health by Walt Stoll says three things: whole food diet (no sugar, caffeine, or refined carbs i.e. only potatoes with skin no white pasta), Exercise suitable for you and mediation cures many chronic conditions. I have found this to be true. It takes time and commitment but I am now having pain free days and only 25 Lyrica a day. No Endone or Elavil for some time. Learning to sleep without these drugs I have been on for so long is the key and keeping up the Wise protocol every day. It takes a lot of commitment but it is so much better than where I was two years ago.