How to Start an Alkaline Diet for Fibromyalgia?

Your diet plays an important role in the way your body deals with fibromyalgia. This is because your body needs to maintain its delicate alkaline and acid balance. Too much acid can trigger certain symptoms, especially gastrointestinal symptoms. This theory forms the basis for the argument regarding maintaining a healthy alkaline food diet. An alkaline diet means that your diet should maintain a balance of 80 percent alkaline and 20 percent acid.

How to Start an Alkaline Diet for Fibromyalgia?

Step 1: Get Rid of Your Food Triggers

Before embarking on your alkaline diet, you should take time to examine your diet and determine which foods give you digestive problems and sensitivities. According to experts, almost 40% of fibromyalgia patients have reported to suffer from irritable bowel syndrome and food sensitivities. These two problems alone can cause an array of gastrointestinal  symptoms such as abdominal pain, dizziness, nausea, constipation, bloating etc. They can also lead to other symptoms such as headaches and brain fog.

The most common food triggers are MSG or monosodium glutamate. Other common food that are known to cause sensitivities are food coloring, dairy, yeast, shrimp, caffeine, eggs. Based on the alkaline food chart, most of these foods are acidic. A study conducted in France revealed that when aspartame is removed from diets, the symptoms of fibromyalgia subsided. The reason is because food enhancers like aspartame and MSG are both neurotransmitter stimulants.