Diet Helping Me Walk Again | 3 Months on AIP 

Just curious…it’s been two years for me, but I feel stuck. How far did you get in reintros? By this point I’m more paleo than aip. When you say AIP, are you still strict? What have you brought back? How were you eating before? Thanks!

Before the AIP was gluten and dairy free and considered myself to be a healthy/clean eater. Prior to the AIP my thyroid antibodies were over 700 and 2 years into the AIP they were < 4 and have remained around there. I was terrible with my re-intros the first time I did AIP. I felt so deprived and I added things in too fast, which made it hard to tell what foods bothered me. Some people have immediate reactions to foods and they can easily tell that it won't work for them, but for me I would eat a food for a while before the severe joint pain showed up and then even if I removed the food the pain and inflammation would stay for a month or more sometimes. Because it would take so long for my body to calm back down, I became very reluctant to add foods back in. What has worked for me over the long haul has been to allow myself to have certain foods in extreme moderation. Now I eat eggs about once a month. I eat rice a couple times a year. I enjoy popcorn on occasion and corn chips. I have been able to add back coffee, dark chocolate, nuts and seeds. I am super careful about nightshades. I miss spicy food, salsa, almost all of the delicious sauces have a nightshades. Recently, I had a flare and went back to phase 1 to reset. One thing I have learned in all of this is that I can eat "perfectly", but if my stress isn't under control the diet can't make up for that. I can usually link a severe flare to an event in my life that is causing distress. This summer I read "The Healing Mindset-A Guide to the Mind-body Connection for People with Autoimmune Disease" by, Eileen Laird. It's an easy read and was very helpful to me. @@DevorahLJaffe I hope that information helps a little. Ultimately the AIP ends up becoming a personalized healing diet for your body. It can take a while to tell what works and what doesn't AND that can change as your body heals and changes. I had a check up with my rheumatologist this summer and he said the labs show you have RA, but I can't feel any evidence of it in our body. When I told him about the AIP he blew it off, but I live in this body and know that it has helped me. Stick with it because it's worth it! You can do it!

​@@jessiejestradado you think your condition can actually be cured by the diet

Thank you for this long comment it's very helpful!

That's so good to hear, haha we don't need almonds

Congratulations!

Good to hear!

Hope he can keep on top of it

No worries!! All the best

Therefore I realized something wrong with my bowel. In 2018 I found AIP and followed it for 8 months. I had a relief and my symptoms were lessen but didn't disappear at all. After that I gave up and started to eat the standard Amercian diet and all the symptoms were back with me. Now I have started AIP again because it is very difficult to exist with such a cruel disease. You know the NSAD don't help if you take those for a long time (10 or 15 years). You have to increase the dosage. After that you can be prescribed with the hormones and biological medicine (Humira) that is a one-way ticket unfortunately.

Hope it’s going well for you!

@@OperationAutoimmune It absolutely is thanks

Thanks man. The paleo approach by Sarah ballantyne or robb wolf paleo solution

Good to hear that! Do you take medicines along btw?

Sorry mate just seen this. Sounds like you’re on the ball with it all. Want you back on those marathons!

I eat a green Plantain a day, I make Plantain Pancakes with Arrow Root and Cinnamon,, also I make Plantain Chips in a George Forman Griller. Very filling. I If you are Vege, it will be tougher to do..

eat brown rice, wild rice or black rice. you should fair better with those

Not clued up on specifics with this case but my go to would be AIP diet. If this does most of it then great. If not then some say try carnivore but I feel it might be the right time to look at investing and committing to a gut protocol

@@OperationAutoimmune Any good recommendations on a good gut protocol, besides diet? I’m watching your video as we speak! Love from Canada 🇨🇦

@@theawakening6323 I can help you with this - drop me an email at OperationAutoimmune@gmail.com Hope the videos help!

Sarah Ballantyne Autoimmune protocol

No. Only once when a big flare starts but that’s usually because I’ve come off AIP