Paul-Jarman-facebook wrote:

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your thoughts. More a case of low carbs and sugar, more greens and use animal fats for most of your energy requirements. Here is a link to a post by Dr James about this sort of thing. fixhepc.com/forum/supplements/566-supple...viral-load.html#7463

In there you will see my post about my diet at the time which I have now modified a bit to reduce my carb/polyunsaturated fatty acid intake and increase saturated fats (but not hydrogenated) for energy. Pizzas are off the menu now. But on the bright side, lots of steaks, untrimmed lamb chops , bacon n' eggs, butter and goodies like that plus non-starchy vegs. Will have to start working up some Thai style curries with coconut cream but skip the rice accompaniment and add vegs instead. (Read Price's post as cereal being the only bad one in her list) The Hopefulgeranium blogs in Dr James post are an interesting if sometimes heavy read on the subject to give some guidance. Look at limiting the hours when you are allowed to eat too so you are in a fasting mode for longer each day, so no midnight snacks, etc.

But for those fearful about Gaj's arteries please be assured that a) I am following this diet with a little bit of moderation so have just moved the balance further away from carbs and over to saturated fats than I usually would eat. b) It is intended as a HCV treatment diet until I achieve SVR not a lifetime plan. (I love pizza far too much to live out my days so miserably. )

Regarding fatty liver and fibrosis, etc. any exercise is good but from what I have been reading lately vigorous exercise really helps but make sure your doctor gives the go ahead first. Yeah, I know, not so much fun for us whose natural inclination is to be couch potatoes (joke) but if it helps then so be it! And thinking about this, do you remember member Bloot? From his tales he had often led a dreadful lifestyle for someone with HCV but his liver was in pretty good shape. Well he was also a very keen and active mountain biker so that is starting to make sense to me now.

Hope all that makes sense. Take care and best wishes for your Tx.

James-Freeman-facebook wrote:

Makes perfect sense Dr James their target market would probably be in the 3rd world for the most part then I expect .

Gaj wrote:

It sounds easy but in reality a bit harder especially working odd hours like I do but will manage it. I just showed my wife your post as proof she needs to feed me more protein and less carbs. Steak,Vegies,Eggs,Bacon and Thai curries I can do though next week I will be living on the road and have to rely on roadhouse food.

Actually after 4 1/2 months tx my liver is now feeling pretty good nearly all the time but I expect the virus to come back when I stop.

cheers