Guest Post: Ankylosing Spondylitis and Zero Carb/Carnivore Diet

This is written by Jordan Gold. He contacted me through Instagram (goldjor) a bit less than a month ago and skeptically started the carnivore diet. This testimonial really made me happy. Ankylosing spondylitis is very similar to what I have except it causes arthritis in the spine (among other joints). It's horrible. Anyway, Jordan emailed me the following:

 

"Mikhaila! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

 

I'm a 26 year old male with Ankylosing Spondylitis who discovered your diet at the peak of the worst flare up of my life. After many years of ongoing sciatica, crippling digestive problems, paralysing lumber spine stiffness and a terrifying, rapidly escalating back pain that I was told by a doctor "I will most likely die with"... I have finally managed to bring ALL of my auto-immune symptoms (the worst of my life at the time I started reading 'Don't Eat That!') under control.

 

I've eaten nothing but salmon, shrimp, chicken and beef (mainly beef) for the last 30 days. I managed to actually go back to my 9-5 job - a job I had to quit due to stress and rapidly worsening morning struggles only a month before. I now move around pain-free in the mornings. A month ago I thought I would be crawling out of bed at 6 am in tears, sweating profusely for the rest of my life! The thing that means more to me than anything is I've stopped taking opioids for pain management (I'd been reliant on them to function normally for a good few months and it was starting to worry my GF).

 

I now see such an obvious correlation between what I ate and how arthritic, bloated and constantly fatigued I was. It's so apparent to me now, I'm so conscious of it that I can't believe I couldn't see it before. I'm looking at food in a completely new way and I couldn't feel better about it. In fact, I've never felt healthier or happier in myself. Even my skin is better FFS! I'm literally a better version of me. I cannot thank you enough. The word 'diet' really doesn't do this justice.

 

THANK YOU!

 

P.S It hasn't even been a full 30 days! Carbs = poison. "