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Tip: try to lower your carbs intake to below 30-40 grams/day. My hay fever disappears after 3 days of low-carb diet (I tried this diet just for fun, and now I s

• kaybe 9y ago
  Do you have more information on this?
  • wincy 9y ago
    Sorry, also anecdata, but I've experienced a similar result. Was on daily allergy pills, eye twitches during allergy season, that sort of stuff, and started a low carb diet, my skin cleared up and I stop being so damned itchy. I suspect it's because the diet eliminates some foods that I'm allergic/sensitive to (how could it not with how many foods it necessitates cutting out?), so the causation might not actually be the low carb diet, as some vegans claim a similar result. In that context it stands to reason that both sets of dieters are finding existing sensitivities and chalking up the gains to the diet. I found out that for me glutamate, both from natural and artificial sources, causes substantial headaches, which is a bummer because I love bone broth. Beans also give me restless legs at night. So while it's hard to be absolutely scientific in your everyday life, it doesn't mean it's impossible to glean any sort of improvement in your health and well-being through personal experimentation.
    • pinko 9y ago
      > So while it's hard to be absolutely scientific in your everyday life, it doesn't mean it's impossible to glean any sort of improvement in your health and well-being through personal experimentation. This is something I'll always be grateful to the equal parts brilliant and crazy, late Seth Roberts for teaching me. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964443/