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Restless legs syndrome

Mrefu
Community Member
I have suffered from restless legs syndrome for about 15 years and was taking medication daily which worked most of the time. About 4 months ago I changed to a whole food plant based diet (no oil, no sugar, no animal products) because I had some cardiovascular issues. The results have been much better than I expected. A side effect of my new diet has been the disappearance of my restless legs syndrome problem!
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quirkywords
Community Champion
Community Champion

Welcome Mrefu, to the forum,

I am so pleased that a change of diet has helped your restless legs syndrome.

Sometimes changing diet does not help a particular syndrome as everyone is different.

It is good that the change has helped you.

Thanks for letting us know.

Quirky

ITnErd6
Community Member

Hi Mrefus,

Welcome to the forum and great that a change of diet has helped your restless legs.

I'd be interested to know more about your diet changes ?

I have high cholesterol and recently had to stop the traditional medication, statins.

After seeing a Lipidoligist (thats a cardiologist who specialists in statins and lipids) I'm now taking high does of vitamin B3 (not sure if I'm allowed to say that bit) and fish oil capsules plus eating a few foods that have plant sterols in them.

Its helping a bit but my cholesterol levels are still higher than my doctors want.

Do you have high cholesterol ?