A friend emailed me the other day and mentioned her husband Domino was having health problems. I somehow knew she was going to say it was Fibromyalgia and she wrote me back that it was. I’ve seen this happen many times. This is what I wrote to her: I don’t expect Domino to believe me; he doesn’t know me from Adam, but I feel he may be misdiagnosed and is instead having a chemical imbalance due to something he eats on a regular basis. That was my thought at the time I met him last year. Whether it’s a sensitivity to wheat or milk products, things that never bothered him before, I feel his immune system is a little weak right now and letting him experience a bunch of symptoms that someone who didn’t know any better thought was best labelled “fibromyalgia.” If it were me, I’d do a trial for 30 days eating just grilled or roasted meats with vegetables and salads. Potato and sweet potato for starches, eggs are ok, no butter or mayo, only 3-4 tbsp of olive or coconut oil a day to cook. No bread, no pasta, nothing made with flour or sugar, no coffee or black tea or cola, especially no diet cola, no alcohol. This is the important part for the 30 days is no processsed food, nothing with a label. The reason to do this is not only to give the body a rest, but to identify any problem foods when you add them back in one at a time. Continue reading →