AIP Lecture Series

About the AIP Lecture Series

In the AIP Lecture Series, Dr. Sarah will teach you the scientific foundation for the diet and lifestyle tenets of the Autoimmune Protocol.

Plus, you’ll get tons of tips and strategies for implementation, refinement, troubleshooting and mindset—appropriate for every stage of the AIP!

The AIP Lecture Series comprehensive course materials include:

• 44 on-demand video lectures (totaling 18 hours!) with printable slides
• 6 FAQ videos (totaling 3 hours)
• 60+ printable guides
• 60+ written Q&A
• action steps to help you go from theory to practice
• daily self-discovery exercises to reinforce and refine implementation
• recommended reading for every topic
• 6 interactive quizzes to test your knowledge

Choose your level of support: Self-Paced, Interactive, or VIP Interactive

Choose Your Level of Support

You now have three levels of support to choose from: Self-Paced, Interactive or VIP Interactive.

Self-Paced:

Dive right in to this comprehensive online course and proceed at your own pace. This course contains a huge amount of valuable content! You’ll get instant access to all of the course materials as soon as you enroll. And, you’ll retain lifetime access to all of the course materials and any future updates or additions.

Interactive:

Join the private Facebook group for the next 6-week Interactive Session of the AIP Lecture Series, where you’ll get all of your specific questions answered as well as personalized guidance and support directly from Dr. Sarah for six weeks!

The 6-week Interactive Sessions of the AIP Lecture Series are paced, although you are still able to complete the course on your own schedule. In the private Facebook group, Dr. Sarah will lead twice weekly discussions to accompany that week’s lectures, and she posts a weekly FAQ video relating to the topics covered that week and that caters to the specific needs of the student cohort. Dr. Sarah also answers every single question and follow-up posed during the session, always with compassion and attention to detail.

In addition to all of the course materials, you also get lifetime access to all of the discussions and materials shared in the private Facebook group for your session.

Class sizes are limited to 30 students (25 Interactive tier plus 5 VIP Interactive tier) in order to ensure high quality interaction with Dr. Sarah. You must join the private Facebook group to interact with Dr. Sarah.

VIP Interactive:

Join the private Facebook group for the next Interactive Session, as described above, where you’ll get all of your specific questions answered as well as personalized guidance and support directly from Dr. Sarah for six weeks!

PLUS, you’ll be one of only five students with access to weekly Zoom office hours, with the opportunity to join 15 hours of live video calls with Dr. Sarah during the 6-week session. The Zoom office hour schedule is available when registration opens, so you can ensure that there is sufficient compatibility with your schedule to make this tier worth your while before you enroll.

During Zoom office hours, you can ask Dr. Sarah your questions and get real-time personalized guidance and support!

What Is the Autoimmune Protocol?

The Autoimmune Protocol, or AIP, is a science-based diet and lifestyle intervention for autoimmune disease, created by Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD.  In a 2017 clinical trial in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 73% of participants were in full clinical remission after following the AIP for only six weeks, and they experienced continued improvement over the entire course of the study. And in a 2019 study in patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, participants experienced a statistically significant improvement in health-related quality of life scores after ten weeks. Learn more about AIP clinical trials and studies here.

The Autoimmune Protocol is a complementary approach to chronic disease management focused on providing the body with the nutritional resources required for immune regulation and tissue healing while removing inflammatory stimuli from both diet and lifestyle.  The AIP diet provides balanced and complete nutrition while avoiding processed and refined foods and empty calories. The AIP lifestyle encourages sufficient sleep, stress management and activity as these are important immune modulators. As is always the case with chronic disease, consult with your physician before beginning this or any other regimen, or altering medications or supplements.

Who Can Benefit from the AIP Lecture Series?

Dr. Sarah has used her expertise as the creator of the Autoimmune Protocol to gear this course at all levels, from the person completely new to the idea of diet and lifestyle changes to heal from chronic illness, to someone who has dabbled in Paleo or AIP but had trouble sticking to it in the past, to the Autoimmune Protocol veteran who already has seen great results, to the caregiver supporting family or friends with autoimmune disease, to the practitioner looking to begin their advanced learning of the Autoimmune Protocol.

You can benefit from the information presented in this course whether you’re in the early phases of diagnosis, are looking to reduce disease risk due to a strong family history, or have battled autoimmune disease or other chronic illness for years.

About Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD

Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD, is the creator of, and world’s leading expert on, the Autoimmune Protocol. Her research transformed a rudimentary and incomplete list of foods to avoid based on the Paleo diet into a robust, scientifically-valid, and holistic diet and lifestyle-based strategy to support people with autoimmune disease.

Not only did Dr. Sarah use the AIP successfully to mitigate four autoimmune diseases of her own, she refined and popularized the protocol by writing about it on this website and in her first three books, The Paleo Approach, The Paleo Approach Cookbook, and The Healing Kitchen.  The Paleo Approach continues to be the definitive guide to the Autoimmune Protocol. You can read more about Dr. Sarah here and about her journey with the AIP here.

How the Course Materials Are Structured

All of the course materials are accessed by logging into your account on ThePaleoMom.com.

The AIP Lecture Series features 44 video lectures, which stream on-demand, divided into six Weeks/Modules of related topics. Dr. Sarah is a gifted teacher and public speaker, who is awesome at explaining science to anyone interested in learning.

Each Week/Module of the course features 7 related lectures (there are 2 bonus lectures in Week #2), a weekly FAQ video, written answers to 8+ common questions, and an interactive quiz. 

Each video lecture is accompanied by relevant:

• recommended reading
• printable guides and lecture slides
• action step
• self-discovery exercise
• additional resources

It’s a tremendous amount of easy-to-understand educational resources to teach to all the ins and outs of the Autoimmune Protocol, including the science behind every facet, but also tons of strategies and practical tips for implementation, refinement, and troubleshooting. 

At the end of each Week/Module, you’ll find a Q&A that includes an FAQ video (that was filmed for a previous Interactive Session) with broad relevance, in addition to written answers to 8+ of the most common questions asked that week by students in previous Interactive Sessions (there are 60+ Q&A total throughout the course).

You’ll wrap up each Week/Module with an interactive quiz so that you can test your understanding of that week’s content.

For Self-Paced, the next Week/Module will unlock as soon as you’ve completed the previous Week/Module’s content. You much mark each lecture as complete to move on to the next one.

Why Join an Interactive Session

In the Interactive Sessions of the AIP Lecture Series, Dr. Sarah is there to support you and give you guidance throughout all six weeks of this course. Small class sizes (capped at 30 people) help ensure high quality interaction with Dr. Sarah.

You will be able to interact extensively with Dr. Sarah and ask her your individual questions in the private Facebook group for this course. Dr. Sarah answers every single question and follow-up in the private Facebook group to provide you with individualized support and guidance throughout the session. There’s no limits on how many questions you can ask or what topic, and Dr. Sarah always answers thoroughly, with compassion and attention to detail.

The Interactive Sessions of the AIP Lecture Series are paced, although you are still able to complete the course on your own schedule. The first Week/Module of the course will unlock on the session start date (Monday) and each subsequent Sunday, a new Week/Module of the course unlocks. The Interactive Sessions are six weeks long.

In the private Facebook group for each session, Dr. Sarah leads twice weekly guided discussions to accompany that week’s lectures, including reading and engaging with every single comment.

Dr. Sarah also shares a once weekly video FAQ in the Facebook group, catered to the interests and challenges of each student cohort and relating to the topics covered that week.

The private Facebook group is also where you can ask Dr. Sarah your questions directly and connect with other students.  Students love this community-building aspect of  the course. You will be e-mailed a link to join the Facebook group a few days before the course begins and the link will be displayed on the main course page when you’re logged in.

You retain lifetime access to all of the course materials (including any future updates and additions) and the private Facebook group for your session, including all of the resources shared within. In fact, the only thing that doesn’t continue beyond the six weeks of this course is Dr. Sarah’s involvement in the private Facebook group.

VIP Video Calls

The ultimate support for your AIP journey is to enroll in the VIP Interactive tier. In addition to joining the private Facebook group (which is optional for VIPs), you get access to Zoom office hours with Dr. Sarah. These are pre-scheduled hourlong blocks of time when you are welcome to hop on a video call with Dr. Sarah (and up to four other students) to ask her your questions in person, and get real-time personalized guidance and support.

There will be a total of 15 hourlong Zoom office hours available per session: three hours in Week #1, two hours each in Weeks #2 to #5, and four hours in Week #6. The Zoom link to join will be e-mailed to you before the start of the session and displayed on the main course page when you’re logged in.

A schedule of all of the Zoom office hours for the session will be posted before registration opens. Please check the schedule before you enroll to make sure there is sufficient compatibility with your schedule to make the VIP Interactive tier worth your while.

Course Tuition

Tuition for the self-paced option of this high-quality, comprehensive online course is $599. This includes lifetime access to all of the course materials and any future updates or additions. When you enroll, you have instant access to all of the course materials so you can get started right away and proceed at your own pace. Students are consistently amazed by the tremendous value of this course.

Tuition for the Interactive tier is $1799. This includes all of the main course materials plus the ability to interact extensively and connect directly with Dr. Sarah within the private Facebook group for your 6-week Interactive Session. In addition to all of the course materials, you also get lifetime access to all of the discussions and materials shared in the private Facebook group for your session. Class sizes are limited to 30 students (25 Interactive tier plus 5 VIP Interactive tier) in order to ensure high quality interaction with Dr. Sarah. You must join the private Facebook group to interact with Dr. Sarah.

Tuition for the VIP Interactive tier is $2999. This includes all of the main course materials, the ability to interact extensively with Dr. Sarah within the private Facebook group for your 6-week Interactive Session, and exclusive Zoom office hours with Dr. Sarah, with the opportunity to join 15 hours of live video calls with Dr. Sarah during the 6-week session. The Zoom office hour schedule is available when registration opens, so you can ensure that there is sufficient compatibility with your schedule to make this tier worth your while.

Diversity & Inclusion Scholarships

Dr. Sarah is taking action to increase diversity and inclusion throughout the autoimmune community. As one aspect of a developing action plan, Dr. Sarah offers ten full scholarships (including tuition and textbooks) every quarter for the Self-Paced version of the AIP Lecture Series to members of historically underrepresented and systemically oppressed communities.

These scholarships are intended to increase access to AIP education in the context of historical and present day systemic inequities that disadvantage people of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian and mixed-race heritage, as well as members of the LGBTQ+ community and people with disabilities.

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