> I was just wondering if there is anyone on the list who has used Paleo
> nutrition to successfully combat Eppstein Barr virus/Chronic fatigue
> syndrome.  If so could you please share your experiences.
>
> thanks,
> Kelly
>
>
Kelly,

I could fill a book in answer to that!  But I'll just say that the paleo
diet I evolved into (pun intended) starting in January 1997 (vegan for
13 years prior), has worked better than my former diet.  But then, I
have Crohn's too.  The paleo diet has done nothing, though, for my worst
gripes about CFIDS/FM--the sickening flu-like, prolonged
exhaustion/malaise following either physical or mental exertion, and the
resultant cognitive problems that accompany that stuff.  Only
supplementation has helped me in those areas.  I had been extremely
active my entire life.  Then this thing hit in 1996 (I was 37), and I
was in denial up until about 6 months ago and doing all the wrong things
physically, but all the right things nutritionally.  I've been a very
strict caveperson for...hmmm...4 years now?  But the person I'd worked
on becoming all my life is gone.  There is no doubt in my mind that, had
I eaten my natural diet for those 13 years, rather than eating vegan, I
already would have the Appalachian trail under my belt, and would be
walking my way from the Appalachians to the Rockies, or some other weird
undertaking, have that degree in biology and be working at my state park
here as the Interpretive Naturalist, with my natural history photography
gallery and line of books as my sideline, etc., etc., etc.  But now, I'm
in the process of either accepting or rejecting the 'new me'.  I also
hope that someday, researchers will find whatever nutritional foible it
is we do to place PWCs in the viscious cycle of exertion and relapse.
Could it be...feeding bird food (grains) to humans? :-)

So...successful?  In part.  Improvement, but no cure.  At least not yet,
anyway.  I keep a little hope alive though, whenever I find a nice
grass-fed lamb or pig...and whenever the FM allows me to tote a pack
full of photography equipment to where the daylilies are as pretty to
photograph close-up as they are to eat.

Lois