Just a quick update. It must've been nearly a month since I started taking Potato starch. I've been off my NSAID's about 5 days or possibly more now. Inflammation rises a little overnight but generally disappears over the course of the morning. Its not unbearable at its worst.

I'm typically eating a 200 gram Potato with dinner every 2nd night, and now rice every other night and green banana maybe 3 times per week on any given day. And 4 tablespoons per day of raw unmodified potato starch.

I increased my dose of Borax 3 or 4 days ago to give me about 30 grams of Boron per day (taken throughout the day). Interesting....I slept badly every night of higher dose and gas from Potato starch dropped off. I'm suspecting this dose acts like an antibiotic (Borax/Boron is anti fungal/microbial) and kills of gut bacteria. I took none yesterday and back to a good nights sleep (and more gas). So appears to be a relationship at this early stage. I'm back on low dose now.

I'm going to try a real high dose of Borax soon as others have done. I'm guessing I will kill a lot of bacteria (good and bad) and wipe a lot out, but I'm going to reintroduce them with pro bio-tics both natural and pharmaceutical. The aim being to wipe out bad bacteria, and reintroduce good bacteria quickly which will hopefully establish a healthier gut biomass. All just theory and experimentation though.

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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