Featured AIP Coach: Megan Kelly
Megan Kelly is The Realistic Holistic, a holistic nutritionist helping ambitious babes with digestive & autoimmune disorders to use nutrition and self-love so that they can …
The Great AIP Pumpkin Round-Up
Well, Starbucks has made it official. It’s pumpkin season! LOL! Even if the weather hasn’t quite changed where you live (it’s still in the 90s for me!), chances …
All the NEW AIP Books!
I launched my website 7 1/2 years ago. At the time, there was almost no information on The Autoimmune Protocol out there: a half page of additional foods to avoid if you have …
Featured AIP Coach: Kirsten Serrano
Kirsten combines her training as a Nutrition Consultant with her certifications as an Autoimmune Paleo Coach ©, Wahls Protocol © Health Professional, Certified Gluten Practitioner …
Why Crickets Are Great for the Gut Microbiome
Maybe you’ve already heard that there’s a new kid (err, insect) on the block when it comes to awesome protein sources: crickets! Along with being an incredibly sustainable food …
Announcing The Autoimmune Protocol E-book!
Da-da da da da daaaaah! I’m so excited to finally be able to launch the e-book that you’ve been asking for for so long, The Autoimmune Protocol! Scientific studies …
Why Bee Products Are Great for the Gut Microbiome
Nearly everyone has heard of (and tasted!) honey, but did you know that a number of other bee products also have proven health benefits? It’s true! While honey definitely deserves …
Snacks, Weight Loss, and Insulin
Need a snack? Don’t feel guilty! Read on to learn what the best snack choice is from a metabolic perspective. In order to discuss the role of snacks in weight management and …
Featured AIP Coach: Alexa Federico
Alexa Federico is the founder of GirlinHealing.com, a recipe and wellness site for the autoimmune community and the author of The Complete Guide to Crohn’s Disease & …
The Link between the Thyroid and Infertility
Infertility is clinically defined as the inability for a couple to conceive, with the pregnancy resulting in a live birth, after having unprotected intercourse for 12 months. And, …
Your Guide to AIP New Year’s Resolutions
Are you considering following the AIP as your New Year’s resolution this year? That’s how I got started, but I would do it differently if I had to do it all over …
5 Gene Variants Linked to Gluten Sensitivity
This might seem blasphemous on a Paleo-focused website, but (gasp) not everyone needs to be strictly gluten-free for their entire lives. Indeed, as discussed in Genetic …
Worse than Gluten: The Agglutinin Class of Lectins
One of the core principles of a Paleo diet is avoiding foods that contain compounds called toxic lectins. The term toxic lectin originates from the fact that lectins are a class of …
How Gluten (and other Prolamins) Damage the Gut
One of the core principles of a Paleo diet is avoiding foods that contain compounds called toxic lectins. The term toxic lectin originates from the fact that lectins are a class of …
CBD: Panacea, Snake Oil, or Somewhere in between?
I want to thank the wonderful people taking my successful AIP Course for the inspiration and motivation to dive into this topic in detail: I started fielding questions about CBD …
Featured AIP Coach: Alissa Frazier
Alissa is the blogger behind LissMS. She is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, AIP Certified Coach, Certified Personal Trainer and Licensed Mental Health Counselor. She works with …
Can Paleo or AIP Diets Cause Loss of Immune Tolerance?
In a previous post, we looked at the development of immune tolerance (the body’s lack of reaction to antigens that could potentially trigger an immune response) in the context of …
The Link Between Cancer and Autoimmune Disease
According to our best estimates, about 15.5 million Americans have had cancer at some point in their life, and about as many as 60 million Americans have an autoimmune disease. …
Genes to Know About: Celiac Genes
With mounting research showing the negative impact gluten can have on the human body, awareness about gluten-related health problems is on the rise! Along with the upwards of 30% …
Move Over, Smoothies and Juice? The Soup-rising Benefits of Souping!
For those of us enduring winter in the northern hemisphere right now, it might not take much convincing to get us eating soup. On a cold day, nothing hits the spot quite like a …
8 Nutrients for Leaky Gut
Leaky gut is gaining more and more acceptance as something that not only coexists alongside a huge number of health conditions (including autoimmune diseases, food allergies, joint …
Earthing: Scam, Cure-All, or Somewhere In Between?
Spending time in nature is unequivocally beneficial to our health (see The Health Benefits of Nature). However, there’s a particular way that we can connect with nature, …
Beating Brain Fog with Fit Mind Nootropic Supplement
When it comes to supplements, one of the biggest challenges is navigating the overwhelming number of products available, and finding which ones are backed by legitimate research …
The Health Benefits of Nature
The feelings of peace, relaxation, and tranquility that come from spending time in nature are so potent that they’ve been measured and confirmed by science. Everything from a short …
Glyphosate (Roundup) as a Cause of Celiac Disease
Although science has brought us closer to understanding how celiac disease occurs, what genetic and environmental factors make us susceptible, and how the disease can affect our …
Genes to Know About: MTHFR
Genetic testing can give us tremendous insight into our own health and, more importantly, our optimal diet and lifestyle choices given our genetic predisposition. I’ve long …
Understanding Lyme Disease: A Primer
With 2017 predicted to be one of the riskiest years ever for Lyme-carrying ticks (thanks to an explosion in the mouse population last year that was thanks to a bumper crop of …
Wheat and Innate Immunity
Despite mainstream nutrition’s continued promotion of grain-based foods as part of a healthy diet, the evidence against wheat continues to grow (and grow, and grow!). And, it’s …
Is Oxalate Sensitivity Real?
Oxalate is a type of organic acid salt that occurs naturally in many plant foods, and can also be produced endogenously (within our bodies) from the metabolism of vitamin C, …
Turmeric: The Full Scoop
One of the amazing things about spices is that they do way more than liven up our meals with delicious flavors: they can also help make us healthier. Many herbs and spices are top …
Bone Broth Risks: Skim the Fat!
Between its abundance of gut-healing amino acids, its benefits for joints and skin, its awesome flavor, and its ability to warm us up on a cold winter day, there are plenty of …
Guest Post by Dr. Terry Wahls: An Update from Dr. Wahls’ Research Lab
Dr. Terry Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials. She is also a patient with secondary progressive multiple …
Two Ways to Troubleshoot
I’ve dedicated a huge portion of my website, my books and really my business to the idea that we are capable of affecting massive change in our health all on our own. From the …
AIP Mindset: Optimism, Hope and Healing
No matter where we are in our healing journey, we’ve likely discovered that a positive mindset makes a world of difference in how we think, look and feel. But how do we …
AIP Mindset: Putting Myself First
As parents, friends and community members, we’re often pulled in a million different directions. In a culture that increasingly emphasizes hard work and self-sacrifice, it’s no …
AIP Mindset: Cooking is Not a Burden
If there’s one skill we all gain on the AIP, it’s cooking! When we’re focused on consuming only the most nutrient-dense, clean, anti-inflammatory, high-quality whole foods to …
15 Awesome AIP Snack Ideas + a Free Snack Guide!
We might be tempted into intimidation at the idea of putting together AIP snacks. Even if we’ve been Paleo for a while, avoiding old staples in the pursuit of autoimmune health (no …
AIP Mindset: Getting Beyond Feeling Deprived
This post is the first in a new series all about the mindset shifts that can help us heal on the AIP . I felt it was time to tackle mindset because I keep hearing one pervasive …
Steroids: What To Do When You Need Them
Corticosteroids are man-made hormones similar to the cortisol naturally produced by our adrenal glands, typically prescribed for autoimmune conditions and inflammatory disorders. …
Making Healthy Choices: What’s Your Currency?
The Autoimmune Protocol, or AIP, is a life-changing complementary approach to healing autoimmune disease that’s based on a somewhat radical notion: the idea that we can control our …
20 Keys to Success on the Autoimmune Protocol
My good friends Mickey and Angie at autoimmune-Paleo.com have created what they call AIP Evolved – A Manifesto, a collection of 20 key concepts that are fundamental for a …
Self Care and Healing From Chronic Illness (includes vlog)
There is increasing interest within the scientific and medical communities in something called self-management, a fairly loosey-goosey term for any intervention or complementary …
4 Tips to Combat Eczema
Eczema is a tricky condition that affects an estimated 10-20% of infants in the U.S. And, though it’s less common in adults (only about 3% of American adults have eczema), …
3 Reasons Why Olive Oil is Amazing
Olive oil has been used for centuries and is simply one of the least controversial fats in use no matter what our nutritional philosophy might be. With endorsements from the Paleo, …
