This afternoon I got an email from Kathy Reagan Young, from the FUMS Podcast Show. 

She wrote: I’m preparing to interview Dr. Wahls about the Wahls Protocol vs. the Swank Diet and I wondered how you’re feeling now (after your gallbladder attack) and how you feel about the Wahls Protocol now?

This was my reply:

“I think the Swank Diet is an improvement on the Standard American Diet of mostly processed foods, but I suspect the lack of fats  does harm as well as good. My fatigue levels went up, not down, with Swank. When I turned to the study dietician for help on micro-tuning my diet so I could stay within Swank’s parameters, while remaining true to my goal of optimal health, she told me she’d have to check with Dr. Wahls first. When she got back to (me) she told me Dr. Wahls forbid her from making suggestions. My main motivation for joining the diet trial, instead of pursuing a diet independently, was to get coaching from the dietician. I suspect only those assigned the Wahls Diet got such coaching. This disparity is unethical in a clinical trial. If Dr. Wahls feels her diet can be proven objectively, she should have stayed away from having any say on the trial, and let it be proven independently. As that was going on, I got an email from Dr. Wahls promoting her daughter’s Go Fund Me site. I found that…distasteful.