Adding to what sunkacola and Jemima have said above,
- eating healthy, e.g. the Mediterranean diet, is supported by studies,
- my story is I've tried almost every diet (20+) and (need to) keep a mixture of a lot of the main ones (Mediterranean for lipids, elimination for iBS, fairly vegan, organic, fairly raw), but none of this has influenced the severity of my FM. Only one I haven't tried is lectin-free, as that would mean I could only eat nuts (most; not even unskinned almonds), and nothing else
. But I'd always recommend trying 'em all.
These are places to start with the most medical evidence:
For FMS: Fructose & fructans free (low-FODMAP includes these)
For Gut / IBSD/C: Fructose free; elimination diet. BTW: Belt etc. loose around the waist.
For stomach - hyperacidic: elimination diet, e.g. nothing acidic, i.e. sour, spicy, onion-like.
For Bladder: … eat pumpkin seeds
For Cardiovascular: Mediterranean diet
And these are the diets with the most medical evidence:
- vegetarian, dairy-free, then both: vegan (lots of nuts & tofu/soy),
- gluten-free,
- Mediterranean, which pretty much involves low fructose/-ans, then go low FODMAP anyway.
Not sure if this is the “easiest order” for these, it was mine, after having tried all I do 80% all of them.
Regarding
ketogenic and low carb: I've worked thru the arguments of the proponents of these for hours on end.
Bottom line always seemed to me to say that a) it's actually about eating healthy
unprocessed food,
and b) not the
usual simple carbs in all the modern processed products, but complex, i.e. unprocessed wholemeal carbs are OK.
Similarly c) with fats:
not the normal processed fats & oils, not sunflower stuff, but most nuts & olive & canola (& linseed) oil.