Ever since I started learning about my autoimmune disease and how to stop it's progression, I've found out that the food I've been consuming, and the products I've been using, are so filled with such toxic ingredients and substances that I'm honestly surprised it took this long for my body to say, "Enough!"
Check out https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/search/ to research the products that you likely use every day, what's in them, and what kind of issues the ingredients can cause. Much of it is cancer inducing, hormone imbalancing, or endocrine disrupting. I thought most of the products I used were okay before I looked them up, and found that I've been putting toxins on my skin almost every day.
Look up Dr. Gundry’s Plant Paradox diet. I didn’t believe it would work for my friend who has autoimmune. It sounded crazy. but it helped her immensely. Sadly it’s hard to stick to when everyone around you is eating junk and you have to make everything from scratch. So she cheats and sets herself backwards. But when she sticks to it she feels loads better. More energy. Her joint pain is gone. From listening to Dr. Gundry’s podcast, you may find your immune system will forget it was ever allergic to certain foods over time, and can thus have them again, so long as they are organic and non-GMO. It’s the pesticides! It’s gotta be!
I've been doing a similar diet so far, an autoimmune paleo diet, based on the experiences of Dr. Izabella Wentz, who went through the same issues that I have. Her books are full of so much great info, and I feel like I'm really learning and getting a handle on my disease. I'm no longer scared of it now that I know how to fight it!
I've been doing the diet sporadically for a few weeks, but have gone cold turkey on all the things I need to avoid, like gluten, sugar, dairy, soy, caffeine, and alcohol. It's only been a few days but I feel a lot better already! My stomach doesn't churn and grumble anymore, my joints feel a bit better, and my energy is finally getting somewhat normal. The plan is to keep this up for a couple more weeks, then slowly reintroduce the foods that typically cause problems. For me it's mostly dairy and sugar. Then I'll see how I feel, and if I feel worse that means I need to cut them out for longer or even for good, but that's ahead in the future so I'm not too worried about that now.
Thanks for the podcast suggestion too, I'll give that a listen!
Ever since I started learning about my autoimmune disease and how to stop it's progression, I've found out that the food I've been consuming, and the products I've been using, are so filled with such toxic ingredients and substances that I'm honestly surprised it took this long for my body to say, "Enough!"
Check out https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/search/ to research the products that you likely use every day, what's in them, and what kind of issues the ingredients can cause. Much of it is cancer inducing, hormone imbalancing, or endocrine disrupting. I thought most of the products I used were okay before I looked them up, and found that I've been putting toxins on my skin almost every day.
Look up Dr. Gundry’s Plant Paradox diet. I didn’t believe it would work for my friend who has autoimmune. It sounded crazy. but it helped her immensely. Sadly it’s hard to stick to when everyone around you is eating junk and you have to make everything from scratch. So she cheats and sets herself backwards. But when she sticks to it she feels loads better. More energy. Her joint pain is gone. From listening to Dr. Gundry’s podcast, you may find your immune system will forget it was ever allergic to certain foods over time, and can thus have them again, so long as they are organic and non-GMO. It’s the pesticides! It’s gotta be!
I've been doing a similar diet so far, an autoimmune paleo diet, based on the experiences of Dr. Izabella Wentz, who went through the same issues that I have. Her books are full of so much great info, and I feel like I'm really learning and getting a handle on my disease. I'm no longer scared of it now that I know how to fight it!
I've been doing the diet sporadically for a few weeks, but have gone cold turkey on all the things I need to avoid, like gluten, sugar, dairy, soy, caffeine, and alcohol. It's only been a few days but I feel a lot better already! My stomach doesn't churn and grumble anymore, my joints feel a bit better, and my energy is finally getting somewhat normal. The plan is to keep this up for a couple more weeks, then slowly reintroduce the foods that typically cause problems. For me it's mostly dairy and sugar. Then I'll see how I feel, and if I feel worse that means I need to cut them out for longer or even for good, but that's ahead in the future so I'm not too worried about that now.
Thanks for the podcast suggestion too, I'll give that a listen!