Thanks for those links. Maybe I should read the PHD book. Glad to hear you are eating some starches and doing ok. My take on damage is that it's done by inflammation. I could be wrong...but that's what it believe. Control the inflammation and control the damage. Ultimately I'm hoping eating resistant starch and eventually adding in more beneficial bacteria produces TREG cells to keep the T cells in check.

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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