Treating Fibromyalgia with a Plant-Based Diet

Stewart Rose and Amanda Strombom
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Amanda Strombom: Plant-Based Diets in Medicine, USA

Orthopedics and Rheumatology Open Access Journals, 2019, vol. 15, issue 2, 59-60

Abstract: Fibromyalgia is a difficult disease to treat. Many patients do not have a good quality of life and cannot maintain normal daily activity with currently prescribed treatments, so new treatments are called for. Three interventional studies have shown significant improvements by treating patients with a vegetarian diet. Patients experience an increase in well-being, a reduction in pain, and a reduction in cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity and total serum cholesterol. Plant-based diets have demonstrated efficacy for treating fibromyalgia while lowering cardiovascular risk factors and reducing exacerbating factors such high BMI and common comorbidities. Often the efficacy is as good and, in some cases, better than standard treatment. The plant-based diet has the advantage of having no side effects and no contraindications. This allows it to be easily integrated with other treatments.

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DOI: 10.19080/OROAJ.2019.15.555910

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