This is simply a guess, no science to it, but I realized this morning when I looked at my newly trimmed and polished toenails that the nail fungus that I've had on the middle toe of the right foot for ages - we're talking maybe 25 years - has gone. The toenail trimmed like a normal nail last night. Years ago I tried a special nail medication that was painted on and supposed to get rid of it - never worked. I soaked my feet, I tried tea tree oil. Never worked. I had this very thick nail with the odd consistency that I always carefully trimmed down but was always fatter and flakey and cloudy looking. In the past two months as that nail grew out the fungus part grew off and is gone as of last night's home pedicure. It's exactly two months since I stopped eating wheat, simultaneous with when I took myself off of the statins (I'd only been on those a couple of years, one thing I know is they weren't a cause.) My sugar intake is still very low, but not gone.

My fingernails are also stronger. I was thinking it was the higher amount of protein that was making the difference, and maybe it is what also helped the toenail. Or it is all from the lack of wheat. Or the low carbs. Or just dumb luck.

I shuffled around a lot of boxes last night and left a heap of packing materials in the doorway of the front room. I'll have to straighten that today, it was looking better in there until this dropping of materials any which way.