Today is the end of my 3rd day on Potato starch. 1st day = 1 tablespoon, 2nd day = 2 tablespoons and today was 3 tablespoons (distributed throughout the day with meals usually). Inflammation seems to have reduced. Best its been in 4 weeks, however tricky to know for sure because I'm still taking Dyclofenac after 6 weeks off the damn things (inflammation slowly increased until I couldn't exercise anymore so back on them to get it under control). If by the end of tomorrow I still feel good, I'm going back off the dyclofenac. I'm actually really surprised I haven't keeled over since I was sure any starch and especially resistant starch would feed Klebsiella. If it is feeding Klebsiella (and I believe it would), it doesn't appear to be having a major impact as yet. I have previously had problems with the starch in cooked zucchini so consider myself very starch sensitive. I was able to deadlift yesterday and felt stronger than I have in many weeks and today whilst not exercising, I feel great to the point I want to exercise. I don't have an irritable gut, add maybe a slight increase in gas. Promising so far for me and I'm quite excited about this because I've almost come to the conclusion that no starch isn't the full story. I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion (after reading Art's postings) that resistant starch might be the missing bit to the low carb, high fat, moderate protein diet I eat. I have pretty much eaten a diet consistent with Art's "anti inflammatory" diet for the last 2 years (except for the resistant starch) which has mostly worked, but I haven't been able to kick the dyclofenac out of my diet for any decent length of time. Art's theories ring true for me. My AS got started with a violent episode of food poisoning in 2000. Gut flora and bio film would certainly have been cleared out and possibly never repopulated properly. I also ate a very high starch high grain diet back then.

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Diagnosed AS year 2000 age 26; First onset of major symptoms came with severe food poisoning leaving me in chronic pain hardly able to walk/sleep/sit - never been the same since; HLA-B27 positive; bouts of iritis; no biologics ever, controlling with NSAID's and diet but trying to get off NSAID's through various "biohacking" experimentations; Live in Auckland, New Zealand