70% of Your Immune System is in Your Gut
What You Put in Your Body Matters
Gut Heroes is a free, public goods project that looks at how research into the gut and microbiome can help you manage ankylosing spondylitis
I have Ankylosing Spondylitis
I know someone with Ankylosing Spondylitis
How to Use Diet to Manage Your Ankylosing Spondylitis
A step-by-step guide you can follow
Recent Articles
Podcast: The Latest Ankylosing Spondylitis News: “Yes! AS Affects Both Men and Women… Common Comorbidities… and Mick Mars”
ResourcesHere are links to the original articles I discuss in the podcast: 🔗 Yes, ankylosing spondylitis is found in women, too🔗 Clinical Challenges: Early Disease in Axial Spondyloarthritis🔗 Mick Mars Says He’s “Never Stopping” Despite Ankylosing Spondylitis🔗...
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...
Podcast: Thriving With Ankylosing Spondylitis Through Gut Health
https://youtu.be/Cw1mSfvKqdY?si=WHoFIg0fO450Urzc This video interview (including the idea for it) and the fantastic production and editing was the work of Nathan Mennel. If you enjoyed this interview, and have a spare moment, please like and share it over on YouTube...
“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:
Year 1 Results
The Starch Free Diet for Ankylosing Spondylitis
⭐ Year 2 Results
The Starch Free Diet for Ankylosing Spondylitis
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
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...
Stress, inflammation and autoimmune disease symptoms are tightly linked
SI Pain: 5/100 | Rib Pain: 0/100 | Concrete Back: 14/100 We know stress, inflammation and autoimmune disease symptoms are tightly linked. They are for every human being, regardless of whether they have an autoimmune disease. Both yesterday night and this morning, I...
Sugar free dark chocolate finding (Plus: Reminder to always check backs of packets)
SI Pain: 2/100 | Rib Pain: 0/100 | Concrete Back: 9/100 Just a quick entry today. Everything was fine; it was a beautiful sunny day. I went for two walks and, generally, felt great. However, I had a slight sensation in my right sacroiliac joint. This first occurred...
Create an Ankylosing Spondylitis Wellness Plan That Works For You
We’ll build it using 3 core principles of the AS autoimmune diet (and then tailor it)
Many, including me, have experienced a 90% – 95% reduction in pain
It’s free and step-by-step, just copy my 2 minute template!
Diet and Ankylosing Spondylitis
⭐ Ankylosing Spondylitis Success Stories
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 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 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...