Originally Posted by Aunt Bean

Hi Glen...good to see you here. Still don't know the foods that you are relying on to help you improve your symptoms...other than those mentioned here on this post. But, I must say that I never really enjoyed egg plant until this year. Perhaps my body has a need for it now and I ate almost a whole large one by myself a couple of days ago and can't get enough blueberries ..I have hot peppers growing in the greenhouse to give to people who enjoy them ...but have never eaten one myself....will try and hope I don't internally combust. We have tomatoes by the bushels. I try to grow as much as possible of what I eat here on the farm...I eat alot oof it raw right from the plant as I pick...fresh and organic is so important .It is alot of work/ fresh air and sunshine and I feel good! Sometimes exhausted...but good. Grampa said, hard work never killed anyone and if something makes your muscles achy and sore...get out there the next day and do it again. He grew a garden by hand to feed his large family in a body cast after being smashed in a mining tunnel colapse. I don't think I could work in a body cast in the heat....so nothing I face is too hard to do ...you just have to have motive and determination and go for it

Originally Posted by Muireann

Glen, do you expect to be on your current regime indefinitely? How do u make eggplant drink palatable ?

Originally Posted by Glen Pettibone

Yes I think indefinitely but I hope I'm actually healing so the amount will decline a bit.

Don't know yet about palatable ... Drink it cold and fast ... Look at the recipes on my blog

Originally Posted by Deangreen

Although I am happy that this diet works for Glen, I am waiting on testimonials from other PDers. I went to the Amazon website and found 4 positive reviews, but none from PDers who actually tried the diet. Everybody's metabolism, gut flora, and food allergies are different, so I don't expect an across-the-board PD diet to work for all PDers. I am wary about eating to much Solanaceous vegetables since they contain solanine.

From Wiki: Ingestion of solanine in moderate amounts can cause death. One study suggests that doses of 2 to 5 mg per kilogram of body weight can cause toxic symptoms, and doses of 3 to 6 mg per kilogram of body weight can be fatal.

From Huffingtonpost.com: For the average adult, 400 mg of solanine would be life-threatening. Vegetables in the nightshade family contain anywhere from 2 to 13mg of solanine and eggplants contain 11mg at the most. So you would have to eat 36 raw eggplants to cause any harm.

But who knows, maybe it is solanine that causes a positive effect in PDers.

Originally Posted by anagirl

Hi Glen - would you mind posting your blog link.... if you're allowed to.
Thanks!

Originally Posted by Glen Pettibone

They say after 10 posts the moderator allows me to post links. I think I'm a few shy.

PegLeg posted the link on this thread yesterday though.

God Bless

Glen

Originally Posted by lurkingforacure

Hi Glen, do you have a non-kindle version of your book available?