Read all of the great news that Gary has to share: weight loss success, no arthritis pain and nutritional success for psoriasis.

Dr. Fuhrman,

You asked that I report back after two months, concerning my psoriatic arthritis. In May, you kindly responded to my e-mail asking whether your nutritional treatment for psoriatic arthritis is the same as for psoriasis. I bought your book for weight loss, having read the Economist review, and feel like I hit the jackpot. Here's the good news. After 11 weeks on Eat to Live of which the last nine I have daily 2 tablespoons of ground flaxseed, 600 mg of DHA and 3 of your multi's to get 600 IU of vitamin D, I have no arthritis pain, reduced the methotrexate from 5 pills per week, to 4 to 3, lost over 50 pounds, and for six weeks now, quit using tar shampoo for psoriasis (first time since age 13 or 14). Awesome! Thanks so unbelievably much.

While I am paid member of the website and have bought three copies of your book so far (one for me, one used by my wife and son for recipes, and one for my arthritis doctor), I am happy to pay more. Let me know if there is a bill you want to charge for this great, great advice. I know of two other people who for sure have bought your book on my recommendation (each of whom asked how I lost the weight), and some others may have well. I vacationed last weekend in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and visited a health food store that had a nice library of books for sale, but not yours. So I gave them your name and told them about your website where they could buy a batch of the books for a discount. At age 57 and with about 35 pounds more to lose to meet your suggestion for weight for a guy 5' 9", I am in awe. The lowest I ever weighed before was 153 at the end of Marine Corps boot camp.

I am going to see the arthritis doctor again in three weeks, and if all is well, my guess is that we will drop the methotrexate and thereafter begin to taper off on the Celebrex and azulphadine. I have been on methotrexate for 18 months, after being unable to control the arthritis with just Celebrex and azulphadine. My arthritis doctor is a pretty respected Beverly Hills doctor (I work and live in LA, not too far from Beverly Hills). I asked him six weeks ago about the relationship of psoriatic arthritis and food.
He replied, "There is absolutely no science behind those rumors."
"None?", I asked.
"Well", he replied, "there was once a study in Norway where they locked people with rheumatoid arthritis in a hotel and starved them."
"What happened to them?", I asked.
"They lost a lot of weight", he said.
"And what about the arthritis?", I inquired.
"It got better", he said. So, last week, I gave him a copy of your book (with the pages on arthritis flagged) and each of the articles (or abstracts) referenced in the footnotes to your book about arthritis, which I obtained on the Internet. I also wrote him an account of my diet. He promised to read the material and discuss it with me next month. He claimed he learns a lot from patients -- but I have my doubts.

Thanks again
Gary