Another 2 weeks have gone, and improvement has continued. If I would have to put a percentage on it, I'd say I'm 80% cured.

Some days I still have pain, mostly mechanical. Other days, I have no pain at all.

Just back from a visit to my GP. She was amazed at the progress, but after I explained what I had done, she wasn't surprised. She has no doubts that - in my case - excess sugar played a very negative role.

We also talked about statins again, and she basically agrees with the inflammation theory. She has always been reluctant to prescribe statins:

"We don't even ask patients to lose some weight anymore, the pills seem so much easier, but they don't work. Correction: they lower cholesterol readings, but my patients still die of heart related complications, I see no change in mortality/age."

It's good to have yet another confirmation of this.

She also agrees that - given enough effort - alcoholic neuropathy can be cured.

I'll have my test results tomorrow, but my blood pressure already seemed to respond to my new "diet": it's now 12/7 (bear in mind that I still smoke). I also asked to measure insulin levels, as they can be a good indicator. Arthritis (especially in the knees) has disappeared, I lost about 10 kg in the last 2 months (which obviously makes it easier on my knees too), and my home trainer taught me that my heart rate drops from 123 to 72 in 60 seconds, which is not bad at all given my total lack of exercise in the last, um, decade.

I'll keep you posted on the test results.