No afib events since almost cutting out carbohydrates?

[Guest guest]

I have had no noticable events for the past week. Also, I have not

had any stomach trouble for the past week. The only change I have

made has been greatly reducing the intake of carbohydrates while

increasing protein. This, of course, is the well-known low-carb

diet. This is too short a period of time to make any conclusions,

but it is enough to make me ponder.

Does this sound familiar to any of you?

Chuck

[Guest guest]

Chuck, about ten years ago I was having frequent but difficult to

pin down stomach pains. After months of investigations, a sharp

young gastroenterologist at UCSan Francisco Med Center

diagnosed me as having a mild celiac condition - inability to

handle wheat, oats, barley and rye. Turns out this condition is

common among IrishAmericans (me). Since many of the

carbohydrates that people cut out today on the various diets

consist of wheat products (pasta, bread, cakes.....) I'm

suspecting that some of the improvement in their lives comes

not from reducing carbo per se, but from reducing wheat, to

which they have perhaps insensitivity. Amazing where wheat

hides - many mustards, all but " wheat free " soy sauce (which is

hard to find but it's out there), as a binder in many pills, as a filler

in many foods (wherever you see " modified food starch " as an

ingredient, you are looking at wheat...whereas just plan " food

starch " is corn meal....) etc. Just thinking aloud. Kathleen

> (snip, snip....) I have had no noticable events for the past

week. Also, I have not had any stomach trouble for the past

week. The only change I have made has been greatly reducing

the intake of carbohydrates (snip, snip......) Chuck

[Guest guest]

Oh, to Chuck again. Cutting out wheat (and all the pasta, cake,

bread carbos.....) made absolutely no difference to the precursor

of my AF, frequent atrial tachycardia, nor did wheat (or carbo of

any kind) serve as a trigger to my AF - which was random with

respect to time of day, stress, food intake, etc. (I'm now in

chronic AF, so have no triggers to fuss with...) Kathleen

[Guest guest]

Interesting, Kathleen.

Thanks for the reply.

Chuck