Diet “Quickies” To Reduce Inflammation, Pain and Weight Loss While Enhancing Shock Wave Therapy’s Benefits!

When I first started practicing “Wholistic Medicine” in May of 1983 in Marina Del Rey, California the first practice I worked put everyone on a two week vegetable puree with psyllium seed fiber and some vitamins and minerals. It was in those first six months of practice that I saw the power of food in causing many different health conditions including pain syndromes that would clear or be dramatically improved in this two week period. Essentially the client would go off all their commonly eaten foods and drink a bunch of “green stuff” with psyllium seed fiber added. Then within this two week period magic would happen! And in many cases “itises” would vanish along with the associated pain.

Here is a list of my simple “Quickie” diets or modified fasting protocols:
1) Eat of BED Diet Food List – page 2 of handout and/or
2) Water fast 4-7 days and/or
3) Fasting Mimicking Diet (can get Prolon 5 day program online or at our office at discount) and/or
4) Eat for 7 days only whole fruits and non-starchy vegetables ( avoid nightshade family –
See BED Food List – page 2 ) – steamed, water stir- fried, roasted, baked, raw and/or grilled (no oil frying)
5) Inflamx (anti-inflammatory pea and rice protein meal replacement – try All Spice first) 2 scoops 2-4 times per day mixed with water (and ice) initially for 4-7 days (available from our office). If you can do it solely for 4-7 days then add non-starchy vegetables and whole fruit plus the Inflamx.

FREE 15 Minute Phone Appointment: If you would like to discuss the use of diet, nutraceuticals, hormones, IV nutrients, modified fasting and/or shock wave therapy in treating any pain syndrome you can get a hold of me between 8-9 a.m. PST at 916-489-4400 for our open phone line or you can schedule a FREE 15 minute screening consult to see if shock wave therapy is right for you for your pain issue or if interested in using ESWT for erectile dysfunction treatment. Just call and say you would like to make a “Free 15 minute phone appointment with Kirk to discuss EPAT therapy”. If you are a patient please advise so the staff can pull your chart and I can review it. If not a patient let the staff know as well.

Do Nutritional Factors Interact with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain? A Systematic Review. J Clin Med. 2020 Mar 5;9(3):702. CONCLUSION: plant-based diets may have pain relieving effects on chronic musculoskeletal pain. Patients with chronic rheumatoid arthritis pain can show inadequate intake of calcium, folate, zinc, magnesium, and vitamin B6, whilst patients with fibromyalgia can show a lower intake of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamin A-E-K, folate, selenium, and zinc. Chronic pain severity also shows a positive relation with fat and sugar intake in osteoarthritis, and pain threshold shows a positive association with protein intake in fibromyalgia.

Fasting therapy for treating and preventing disease – current state of evidence. Forsch Komplementmed. 2013;20(6):444-53. CONCLUSION: There is evidence that medically supervised modified fasting (200-500 kcal nutritional intake per day) for periods of 7-21 days is beneficial in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, chronic pain syndromes, hypertension, and metabolic syndrome. The beneficial effects of fasting followed by vegetarian diet in rheumatoid arthritis are confirmed by randomized controlled trials.

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