The only research I'm aware of comes from Dr. Alan Ebringer out of England, based on studies of patients with ankylosing spondylitis--he's written papers, but I'm uncertain whether his work is considered "clinically proven" because my own rheumatologist had never heard of it, insists there's no way to dietarily manage AS and believes pharmaceuticals are the only option. IBS (and IBD--I get that they're different) can be an accompanying disorder, and some people with AS anecdotally report a decrease in IBS/IBD symptoms when they can control their AS symptoms with a no- or low-starch diet. A patient named Carol Sinclair wrote a book, The IBS Starch-Free Diet, that is discussed often on the boards at www.kickas.org, where Dr. Ebringer's research is also referenced. I'm not sure it's appropriate for this site because Ebringer's work deals with AS and only mentions IBS as one possible aspect of the AS package--you'd have to wade through a lot of AS to get to any IBS, and mentions of it would be scant! It would seem to me that most people with IBS don't have AS; a few people with AS might have IBS or one of the inflammatory bowel diseases. I have AS with very mild symptoms on occasion. I also have IBS with (compared to others) very mild symptoms on occasion. Not sure if the two are connected, but a no-starch diet (or low-starch diet) was too much for me in terms of weight loss. Weight loss, for me, is undesired, as I'm naturally very thin.
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