Elimination Diets and Back Pain
When food elimination is medically useful, why broad pain-trigger diets are unsupported, and how to avoid nutritional harm.
Broad elimination of gluten, dairy, eggs, nightshades, soy, corn, and other foods is not an evidence-based routine test for low back pain. Morning stiffness is not a validated marker of “systemic inflammatory load,” and delayed pain after a meal is highly vulnerable to coincidence and expectation.
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