My AI disease is directly related to carrying the HLA-B27 gene, and a great grandfather that had it. I follow his diet in the days before NSAIDS and enbrel. He went into remission until his early 90's when he went full throttle hunch back.
I know longer take NSAIDS or enbrel - because I stick to raw veggies and fruits about 85% of my diet. The rest is mostly fish and meat and cooked veggies with home made yogurt.
The fact is the doctors just want to slap chronic fatigue syndrome on anything and everything. When one has given 17 vials of blood to find nothing (I have) one starts looking to the way they did things 80/90 years ago. The reality is - you really don't need a cookie to live. You only think you need it. Or a bagel. And you shouldn't have to shoot yourself up with a drug that makes you more susceptible to infections and cancers to stand up straight.
I have Ankylosing Spondylitis. TRY walking a day in my shoes - in a full flare - 
you can't. No - I'm serious. Well, you can but it's excruciating to take a step, and you can barely hold a toothbrush. Forget about trying to pull on a pair of tights. Or bend over to zip up your boots. Oh? You think you can close your hands around the zipper? 
Try it. It sucks.
If a no starch diet helps me get over a flare and rare starch diet keeps it away - let me do what I want - wheat belly book or not. Check out the Kick AS forums and you'll see how we are kicking it. Food is key. Filtered water. Reduction of chemicals. Reduction of additives. Nothing processed.
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