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Gut Heroes is a free, public goods project that looks at how research into the gut and microbiome can help you manage ankylosing spondylitis

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Podcast: Nathan’s Ankylosing Spondylitis Success Story

Podcast: Nathan’s Ankylosing Spondylitis Success Story

Resources🔎 Tommy's 'flare-free' emergency routine🔎 The Nun Study: "Healthy Ageing and Dementia" [Original Paper]🔎 The Nun Study: Great Write-Up of the Key Findings🔎 Information about mouth taping to help correct breathing🔎 Histamines and possible allergy-like symptoms...

“I’m in pain right now, what can I do?”

🔬 Discovery Lab

I’ve been running different tests on myself in the quest to get 100% pain free with ankylosing spondylitis. These range from diet to supplements to weird and wacky therapies. See my human guinea pig findings here:

Results Year 1 The AS Starch Free Diet Ankylosing Spondylitis

Year 1 Results

The Starch Free Diet for Ankylosing Spondylitis

The Starch Free Diet for Ankylosing Spondylitis - Year 2 Results

⭐ Year 2 Results

The Starch Free Diet for Ankylosing Spondylitis

Then vs Now Before and After Ankylosing Spondylitis Diet

Then vs Now

Before and After Using Diet to Manage AS

🕑 Everything You Need to Know About Ankylosing Spondylitis (2 Minute Explainers)

👨‍🚀 Diary of an AStronaut

Living with AS can be tiring and overwhelming… but there are some incredible (sometimes life changing) discoveries to be made.

Reading someone else’s first hand experiences ‘in the moment’, the good and the bad, can sometimes help.

You are not alone, you can do this.

To the moon, fellow AStronauts!

Why binary views from ‘wellness experts’ are baffling

Why binary views from ‘wellness experts’ are baffling

I felt stiff and achy today. I want to say that it's from doing a different form of yoga last night, but I don't think it was. Most of the moves were quite similar. I suspect I'm feeling it from the enormous amount of food I had yesterday. In particular, the chia...

Create an Ankylosing Spondylitis Wellness Plan That Works For You

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We’ll build it using 3 core principles of the AS autoimmune diet (and then tailor it)

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Many, including me, have experienced a 90% – 95% reduction in pain

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It’s free and step-by-step, just copy my 2 minute template!

Wellness Plan for Ankylosing Spondylitis

⭐ Ankylosing Spondylitis Success Stories

Melinda’s AS Success Story

Melinda’s AS Success Story

Melinda lives in the South of England, UK. It was 5 years before they received their ‘official’ ankylosing spondylitis diagnosis. They use a low starch diet to manage their AS and most days they are 95% pain free. ⚙️ See Melinda's Wellness Plan here   "I'm able...

Sabrina’s AS Success Story

Sabrina’s AS Success Story

Sabrina Carlson lives in Flagstaff, AZ USA. It was 10 years before they received their ‘official’ ankylosing spondylitis diagnosis. They use animal based starch free diet and lifestyle to manage their AS and most days they are 80-90% pain free. ⚙️ See Sabrina's...

Tommy’s AS Success Story

Tommy’s AS Success Story

Tommy lives in London, UK. It was 19 years before he received an 'official' ankylosing spondylitis diagnosis. He exclusively uses diet and exercise to manage his AS and most days is 90% - 95% pain free. ⚙️ See Tommy's Wellness Plan here   "It felt like AS had robbed...