Done. It could be that all people who get the exact symptoms of ME have impaired intracellular glucose metabolism driving most symptoms. Those...
Here's the full poll question (because I couldn't fit it): Are all ME cases and most of the symptoms, at least at onset and in early disease,...
Yesterday I attempted to test a more physically and mentally active day. This was the first time I've done such a test since starting this...
For those vegans and vegetarians following this, you can actually do a vegan or vegetarian ketogenic diet. Please look on the web and you will...
It’s really hard to answer this accurately... I could make a standard diet really expensive if you like to eat lots of costly things.
I think it depends on what your weight is. If you weigh 250 lbs definitely shouldn’t eat 250g protein per day. In some of my earlier thread...
You can do all the above. See the keto macro calculator link I posted, plus any app you might use will have the same thing to set your goals.
Wanted to also add to this, I read or heard from a few other PWME here or on PR who had major improvements or remissions on a ketogenic diet and...
Hi all - here’s a good online keto macro calculator with good default settings and some advanced fields if you need to set special parameters:...
I started this journey with a 48-hr fast in the middle of a crash in bed (ketogenic diet sites recommend such a fast). Only ate ~700 calories per...
Here's what I ate today. As mentioned in one of my previous replies in this thread, to make this diet doable for me and having ME I knew I didn't...
Hi @Trish - I tried two diets, vegan and gluten free. I did them with the same level of rigor, commitment, and care as the ketogenic diet. I did...
Update: for the past 5 days on this diet my sleep has been so amazing compared to my 5 1/2 years of ME. Sleep disturbances were one of my worst...
I just went outside, by myself, for the first time in over two weeks. I now have far reduced, or close to zero, photosensitivity and eye pain...
Hi all - I've added a #6 to the OP about baking soda.
Posting today's GKI! Everyday is like this.... Ketones 3.4 mmol/L [ATTACH] Glucose 4.0 mmol/L [ATTACH] GKI = 4.0 / 3.4 = 1.18
Nothing I ever have taken made even a dent with this disease until this diet.
@Trish to ++ @Keela Too one part of a healthy ketogenic diet is to do intermittent fasting. This definitely keeps your body in a good state.
My PEM was everything, neurological, cognitive, physical, etc. Everything just got worse. For the time when I was mild severity ME, PEM was a...
It is definitely possible that this effect of the disease process is partially because people are eating carbs? I am definitely metabolizing fats...
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