For almost three-quarters of overweight sufferers with fibromyalgia, drastic caloric restriction in a small trial led to 30% or larger discount in symptom severity in solely 3 weeks, researchers reported.

The findings assist an rising speculation that caloric restriction has its personal analgesic impact unbiased of weight reduction, in accordance with Aaron Stubbs, MD, of Michigan Medication in Ann Arbor, and colleagues writing in ACR Open Rheumatology.

“Though a bigger examine with a management group could be the subsequent step in investigating this affiliation, this gives necessary info for clinicians who counsel sufferers on alternate options to pharmacologic remedies