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AIP diet for autoimmune illnesses
Hi, all: I have celiac disease, ulcerative colitis, and was recently diagnosed with lupus. A nutritionist at my pc's office wants me to go on the Autoimmune Protocol diet, which basically eliminates everything except vegetables (though no nightshades), fruit and animal protein. In other words, no legumes, grains, dairy, eggs (and of course none of the usual "baddies" like alcohol and sugar). The aim is to eliminate lectin-containing foods, which nutritionist says can cause inflammation. I weigh 89 pounds, and cannot imagine how I am supposed to sustain this diet without losing weight. If any of you have done the AIP diet, please let me know how you managed. Thanks!
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I have relied on the AIP for 10 years or so, reverting to the strict phase when I have a concern. I do not lose weight easily, except the third time (10 years past menopause that time, when I'd tried repeatedly and fruitless for 10 years to lose fat to get nearer to a BMI of 25ish) that I cut dairy. That time, I lost 15 + lb in a month, and it's stayed off for 5 years.
The AIP taught me to eat to true hunger, so I'll go for carb-loaded fruit and vegetables (especially sweet potatoes!) when I need more calories. I hope you can give a good try, and trust your body to heal. It's not forever, it's to help healing and then properly re-introduce foods one by one to see if any foods are particularly inflammatory for YOU.
@gillysmom- well it sounds like you have an unusually bad situation. I too had a very bad adverse reaction to the vaccine (Pfizer), and have not gotten over it. Among other things, it made OLP (oral lichen planus) MUCH worse. I think that vax was not properly tested, and it should not have been forced on people. Anyway, it has become clear that it doesn't do most of what they claimed for it.
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6 ReactionsIn addition to the Facebook Autoimmne (AIP) group, which cold be a real sorce of understanding hoe to make the AIP diet work well for you, there are two Covid 19 vaccine injured groups: the first Neuro V Long-Haulers with thousands of members, and the second, Neuro V-6 Long-Halers, a smaller spport group. These groups prove your statement that a group of s, particularly those wth atoimmune susceptbilty, who havebeen gravely inkred by the vaccine. No atoimmne sbjects were nclded in the testsample. But despite their absence, the Moderna was recommended for people with autoimmune diseases. Not good medicine, I agree.
If you study autoimmune disease as a whole, there is increasing recognition of nutritional and inflammatory triggers. Root cause may not be food, but reducing the autoimmune response via nutrition has significant science behind it. Another source for info, regarding multiple sclerosis in particular, is Terry Wahls, MD, whose work was initially very personally driven. Highly industrialized food is unfortunately not very good for any of us. "Eat real food. Not too much. Mostly plants" --Michael Pollan
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3 ReactionsHow did you determine this was from the Moderna vaccine? All my symptoms started in the past two years and I hadn’t even thought about the vaccine playing a roll. Now I wonder.
The elimination is temporary.
@nancyoinnc Yes, agree. But I have for decades eating "real food," mostly plant-based, but it does not seem tyo have help my problem (OLP).
Eat a lot of fat . Add fat like butter coconut oil to your coffee. Personally I would eat eggs loaded with butter, not the same as milk and cheese have no idea why they always lump eggs in with dairy. Might be the whites. In the walh protocol she eats just the yokes. Way too many nutrients in the yoke to be left out. Have broccoli loaded with fats like olive oil or animal fats. By all means avoid seed oils like corn soy they oxidize at room Temps and especially at high Temps like deep frying. Dont eat any fried foods when eating out. I eat ham broccoli eggs frozen beef patties are real convient avocados sardines in olive oil and occasionally cheeses and raw milk that's about it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329692/#:~:text=Oral%20lichen%20planus%20(OLP)%20is,cells%20of%20the%20oral%20epithelium.
I don't know much about OLP, but found it unsurprising that there is yet another viral link postulated- Hep C, so common now. I hope you find help, and that this article is of use to you if you haven't already read it.
@nancyoinnc Thank you for this detailed article. Coincidentally, I have been tested for HepC and it was negative. Been to numerous high-level docs, but there appears to be no successful treatment for OLP. Steroids work, but just as a temporary fix. They are not a long-term solution, and can lead to other problems.