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Originally Posted by Joano View Post
If you're sensitive to nightshades, eliminating them from your diet will ease the pain a lot, especially (for me) potatoes, tomatoes, peppers.
Yes, it is quite amazing that nightshades can hurt so much!
I think it is the solanine in them. Perhaps some research will appear in the near future about this alkaloid, and what it does to people! Tomatoes you know were thought to be poisonous at one time historically.
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