• Gout. By not eating bread and candy.
• Depression. By simply going paleo without nuts. No need for more.
• Acne (not 100%, I still get the occasional zit when I'm stressed out). By eating no nuts, taking the right supplements (magnesium and fat-soluble vitamins) and by eating a good diet with lots of veggies and omega 3s.
• Hives. By not eating high-glycemic stuff like white potatoes and bananas.
• Mood swings. By incresing fat intake and keeping sugar and protein low enough.
• Fatigue. By eating paleo with moderate amounts of fructose.
• Being bored. By eating paleo with enough omega 3s.
• Libido. By eating enough, and enough sugar.
• Constipation. By eating gelatin.
• Big pupils (probably hypoglycemia). By eating enough, enough sugar, lots of fat.
• Paleness. Vitamin k2 and an auto-immune paleo diet.
• Being skinny-fat : by eating paleo.
• Body odor. By eating paleo.
• Shyness/Autism. I'm not 100% sure about this, but I really had a lot of the symptoms. I really behaved like one. But anyways, my shyness went away by eating paleo. The month after I started, I couldn't shut up anymore. I'm still a bit shy, but I make jokes easily, don't stutter and can look people straight in the eyes with no problem.
• Lazyness. I became workaholic by going paleo. Can't ... stop... working (for real, I work 12 hours a day non-stop and relax while I'm eating or before going to sleep).
• Ignorance. By reading lots of things on this website (it's my favorite website :) ). I've learned that "no, fat people aren't lazy" and that "no, depressed people don't just want attention".

Not all of these are causes of diseases, but are symptoms. I wish I could remove my last 2 health issues : sinus pressure and stress (high cortisol). Just can't seem to get rid of those.

I'd also like to add today's anecdote at the butcher's : they told me they have more and more clients "like me" (= a meat-freak who wants all the fattiest cuts they have, asks for fish organs and bones, and who freaks out when they say "you can put that on your bread in the morning"), and that one person healed her MS by eating grass-fed and veggies (and apparently some fruit). They didn't know their own meat was so healthy :). So that's another disease to put on the list.

Asthma: Gone when my Vitamin D level is over 80 ng/ml. (I need 8000 IUs D3 to achieve this.)

Eczema: same as above

Bloating: Avoiding FODMAPS did the trick

Nasal stuffiness: Limiting histamine-generating foods and taking more Vitamin C.

Insomnia: Gone with 300 mg Mag Citrate

Perimenopausal symptoms: gone by supplementing all of the above, plus 50 mg Zinc picolinate and 400 IUS Vitamin E

My gout seems to be gone. I still have to get my uric acid level checked, but the symptoms are non-existent. I had it pretty bad on a regular basis in my former life.

How? by doing the opposite of the conventional wisdom. I eat lots of meat, some fresh carbs, and no processed carbs.

Used to have really painful bloat on a daily basis- avoiding gluten, corn, and legumes keeps it away.

I "cured" my recurring shin splints by changing my running form.

I used to heel-strike when I ran. I'd try to restart running maybe once or twice a year and after a month or so have screaming pain in my shins.

I now practice POSE running in minimalist shoes (e.g., moccasins or water shoes...haven't bought any cool expensive shoes yet). I have been running for over 6 months with no problems with my shins. I had a problem with Plantar Faciitis, but I think my feet just needed strengthening because that has gone away.

Anxiety, mild depression, extremely underweight: solved by moving from a vegan diet to a "paleo" one - animal protein, more calories, better nutrition

Bloating: stopped eating raw cruciferous veggies (yucky)

Acne: very strict elimination of gluten and seed oils, plus supplementation of zinc and A+D

Toenail fungus: disappearance seems to have been correlated with zinc supplementation and vinegar+alcohol foot soaks

Hair falling out: this was stopped fairly quickly by increasing carbs to 200g+ and eating more fruit

My rosacea is gone, eliminated all Rx topical meds that were controlling it. It was either the grains, refined sugar, legumes. I believe it was the grains.

Deeper and more restful sleep due to adding ZMA at bedtime. Crepitus lessened with daily Fish Oil caps.

My skipping has improved. I suspect the addition of offal :)

Biggest change post paleo for me was getting rid of acid reflux, for which I had to take half a zantac each night. It wasn't enough to get off grains and legumes, but also had to give up dairy. (I can do goat's milk/cheese, but not cow's, not even raw.)

I've noticed other changes too, no longer have knee pains, I suspect it was arthritis, though I did notice even before going paleo, that if I worked out harder, it prevented them. Post paleo, they're completely gone. I was able to tell when the weather changed just by joint paint, no more.

The usual stuff too, fat loss, muscle gain, overall more energy, better sleep, immunity to cold, no more brain fog, no post lunch food coma, viewing an up-staircase as a challenge to run up two steps at a time, when previously I'd take the escalator, or be completely winded half way up. I'm not sure if it's just in my head, but I think my vision improved a little bit too.

My T levels are probably much higher as I now tend to be a bit more aggressive. For example, I'd normally wait for the green light to walk across an intersection, now I just time the speed of the incoming cars and run across the intersection. :)

Dental health

my last check up was awesome, i dont even brush that often

swollen prostate

i used to get up and piss 3x a nite, i don't do that anymore. most likely due to the anti inflam stuff paleo does.

Before going paleo I went low carb and added a flaxseed supplement. My keratosis pilaris cleared up with the flaxseed supplant.

I was still drinking milk in my tea for a long time. I developed Lichen Sclerosus 6 months postnatal after my DS was born. This is partly when I cracked down on paleo & started gluten free rather than low carb.

It wasn't the gluten though, it was when I switched from cows milk to goats milk that I stopped having the monthly flare ups.

I've since eliminated goats milk too and haven't had a flare for months and months. I can't say that I'm cured as I don't know if I'll have flares in the future. But, most of my skin is back to normal, I'm due a check up & hoping I'll have improved since the last time.

And FWIW, LS has been found to be an autoimmune disease linked to autoimmune thyoid disease.

IBS and bloating GONE - only recurrence seems to happen when accidentally (or intentionally, as in a wagon-fall-off scenario) consuming some no-no foods. This seems to happen if I adopt a legume/lactose/grain-free diet and not necessarily paleo. I kinda miss farting, but my bulldog puppy takes up the slack.

Skin/scalp disorders under control (not exactly cured) - Balancing my fats has went a long way towards cleaning up my dry/flaky skin issues... but my scalp and beard both had a tendency to flake, itch, and burn. This was resolved with two items... no shampoo and a bi-weekly hair and beard rinse with Apple Cider vinegar to kill any "bad" bacteria.

Binge eating GONE - this went away once I changed to a starch-free diet. I consume up to 70-80 carbs a day now, but these are in the form of veggies and berries, not starchy foods. For some reason the impact of starches on me, personally, turns off my "I'm Full" switch and I can't stop eating.

Which brings me to...

Obesity - On it's way out the door. I still weigh twice as much as your average PaleoHacker and I don't plan on being a total lightweight until I'm much older (I still compete in a few strength sports) but I would like that weight on my frame to be functional weight. I've lost over 100lbs following Paleo principles, and despite setbacks from experimenting with re-introducing certain foods or brief returns to SAD, I'm still on the right track.

Acne: Severe acne was completely cured by eliminating nightshades.

Depression: At least 40% calories from fat. I used to be depressed nearly all the time and I've discovered that my mood and the percentage of calories from fat are directly related.

Eliminating gluten fixed my IBS-C.

Eliminating coffee, both reg and decaf, and chocolate fixed my anxiety.

Adding K-2 has given me tartar-free shiny teeth.

I also have thicker, faster growing, and simply MORE hair. And nicest of all, lots more emotional resilience and no more 'bitchy wife' moments unless I'm glutened.

So far, in chronological stage-progress order:

• After adopting Perfect Health Diet without dairy ( mostly eggs, red meat, veggies, occasional fruit, coconut oil, white rice, potatoes, beef broth ) many of my gut symptombs like bloating, abdominal pain, flatulence etc has been at least partially cured. Probably big part of this is achieved with supplements ( D3, magnessium, probiotics )
• My mood swings, and in consequnce food obsessions, got better.
• After running a short bone broth fast and then slowly reintroducing certain foods, more or less accordingly to GAPS protocol, my gut issues got even better and I was able to tolerate more foods.
• Then I did an Acupuncture treatment that improved my digestion and overall well-being.
• In the second half of the december at the same time I have started meditating and drinking homemade kefir. I am not sure which of them brought bigger contribution, but after several days practically all of my digestive problems were gone. I didn't experience constipation no more, I could tolerate all foods, so even when christmas came I could eat all the unwanted food.

Unfortunately, when I thought that my struggle with disease was over, some symptoms came back and some new showed up:

• constipation returned
• problems with sleep have started to occur almost every night ( I wake up in the middle of the night - sometimes very sweaty - with the need to urinate, then when I come back to the bed I can't fall asleep again at least for few hours and usually it is accompanied by stress/cortisol release of unknown origin )
• stress/cortisol release of unknown origin at random times during day
• lack of libido, but with this issue I am struggling for like a year or more

Of course there are other things that improved, like partially gaining weight ( still underweight though ), having more energy etc, but they are all probably stricly connected with gut issues.

Atm my usual day consists of:

• for breakfast omelet with some veggies and ground meat or raw cheese from unpasteurized milk
• for dinner beef broth soup with veggies, meat, fat ( usually raw cream ) and some white potatoes/white rice
• for "supper" white rice/potatoes with meat or fish, veggies and fat

I eat a lot of offals ( livers, hearts, kidneys, brains ). My fat sourcers are mostly raw cream, raw butter, some fatty parts of meat, occasionally coconut oil/milk and olive oil ).

Other things that are also important in maintaining and improving my health:

• Everyday meditation ( very important and helpful )
• Everyday walk for at least 30 minutes
• Yoga ( just started )
• Not hanging on too much to my health status, at least in the sense of negative thoughts

I like this question for the more specific reflection...

I used to be constipated more often than not for my entire life, eliminating gluten helped some, eliminating dairy took care of the rest. I hated to travel anywhere, I'd get pretty severely constipated, and that hasn't been an issue for a couple of years now at all...

I used to get eczema on a regular basis from dietary triggers, now that I've identified and eliminated the triggers, this never happens...

My libido was so low after my first child was born that I was definitely having anxiety about my marriage~today, my libido is pretty well matched to my husband's(which is pretty high), thanks to the addition of animals to my diet and the subtraction of grains and sugars...

I was shy for so long that I just thought of shyness as who I was, and now I really don't think of myself as a shy person anymore, again, thanks to feeding my body what it really needed...

My mood is also much more stable nowadays, used to be up and down and all over the place in reaction to wonky blood sugar...

I also used to have severe(ED severe) cycles of binge eating, purging and restricting which are gone now as well...

Getting sick/allergies: Vitamin D3
Reactive hypoglycemia: Chromium
Preventricular contractions (for the most part): Magnesium, copper
Low testosterone/inability to build muscle: Zinc, carbohydrates
The big boost to really good health in general: Lotsa exercise

I have Meniere's disease. It is a constellation of symptoms including vertigo, tinnitus, fullness in the ear (feels like a constant low grade ear infection) and eventual hearing loss. My personal set of symptoms involves absolutely brutal occasional vertigo attacks, with the rest of the symptoms a constant low grade annoyance. A low sodium diet is the standard medical advice, along with diuretics which I can't take due to hypotension. I follow a low sodium paleo diet as a way of eating awesome food while controlling my sodium... which is to say I'm probably 80-20 or 90-10 paleo. All that is nice background.

However doing a Whole30 helped me identify the culprit behind the worst of my vertigo attacks, artificial sweeteners. When I eliminated them from my diet completely (even stevia and other "natural" ones), I stopped getting the really horrible attacks, and was even able to tick my sodium intake up a bit with no ill effects. I still have attacks sometimes, but they are milder and I have to take less meds to control them. When I cheated with even a single starbucks skinny latte I got slammed with the worst attack in a year.

Irritable gut, bloating, reflux and chronic constipation went away when I went on a gluten free diet almost two years ago. So also did eczema that I'd get every single winter. Only took about two weeks.

Had migraines pretty well under control for a year and a half with Nadolol and occasional Physical Therapy, but felt like a walking corpse because of fatigue and low BP. Tried to switch to a Calcium Channel blocker and ended up having PVCs. I went back to physical therapy weekly for awhile which seems to be helping (I have C4-5 and C6-7 disc issues which I think play a big role in this) Currently on Topamax. Right now the headaches aren't totally under control, but improved. I think Paleo diet is definitely helping.

Foot fungal infections. I've had a running problem with this for about the past 3 years or so. Tried creams, powder, changing out my entire sock wardrobe, getting new shoes, drying between my toes with a hair dryer etc. Since I've cut the carbs drastically, it started clearing up and is now gone. I've never been diagnosed with diabetes, but I'm thinking the higher carbs from some of the gluten free breads and other foods might have been part of the problem.

Anxiety, stress and Worry-Prayer, Devotional Reading, Relaxation techniques, more rest.

More positive relationship with spouse with more date nights, going for walks, canoe trips. Not that there was ever any real trouble, but I think we both just get buried in the business of our responsibilities and forget that we need to take time for our marriage.

Weight on the way down with less carbs, better health-more energy, more exercise. Have lost some inches so the clothes are fitting better.

Allergies / Nasal polyps: Cutting out dairy and bread

Mono + Mono relpase: Vitamin C, D, less caffeine, low stress, smarter workouts, specialized supplementation