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The theory of the diet is that once someone gets in to a state of very poor intestinal health either through diet or medication, the bad bateria overgrow in the gut and produce nasty neuro toxins. By this point the gut lining permeability also breaks down and starts to allow these toxins and larger molecules of partially digested foods in to the blood stream potentially triggering a whole host of auto immune disorders and many other symptoms.

This is what I believe was the cause of my peripheral neuropathy. I understand that this may not by the case for everyone.

The only way to get back to full intestinal health is with three basic steps over the period of the diet:

* Repair damage to intestines and regrow villi with broths from HOMEMADE stock
* Avoid all carbs/grains/starches/flour/sugar except lentils and butter beans so as not to feed the bad bacteria
* Take High Quality Probiotics (kefir ideally) which recolonize the gut to aid digestion and keep villi in good health