This week’s Paleo AIP Recipe Roundtable is now live! The featured recipes from last week are: Grain-Free Naan, Healthy Soft Serve, Green Chicken Zoodle Bowl, and Kale and Preserved Lemon “Couscous” Cauliflower Rice. Happy cooking, everyone!
Three of my favorite things about the internet: (1) The ability to connect with a global community. (2) Access to information we would never have otherwise. (3) Inspiration for laughter. It’s this last one I’m celebrating today. I offer you 20 images to make you laugh and say, “OMG! That’s me!”
This week’s Paleo AIP Recipe Roundtable is now live! The featured recipes from last week are: “Chocolate” Fat Bombs, Make-Ahead Breakfast Casserole, Toasty Rutabaga Mash, and Maple Roasted Root Vegetables with Brussels Sprouts. Happy cooking, everyone!
The Paleo Autoimmune Protocol is a challenging diet under the best of circumstances. But when you’re the only one in your household following this diet, and you’re surrounded by foods you cannot eat, how do you manage? Today, I’ve invited three people onto the podcast to share their experience with us. They all have autoimmune disease. They all went AIP to improve their symptoms and maximize their health. And they’re all making this work in non-paleo households. We talk about everything from avoiding food temptations, to eating safely in a gluten-filled kitchen, to blending your dietary needs with those of your friends and family.
This week’s Paleo AIP Recipe Roundtable is now live! The featured recipes from last week are: Pumpkin “Cheese”, Carrot Cake Pudding Parfait, Chicken Asparagus Soup, and Tomato-Free Basil Marinara. Happy cooking, everyone!
This week’s Paleo AIP Recipe Roundtable is now live! The featured recipes from last week are: AIP Bread, Honey “Nut” Granola, Lamb Meatballs with Tzatziki Sauce, and Breakfast Meatballs with Maple Cauliflower Cream Sauce. Happy cooking, everyone!
This soup contains all the flavors of Spring, but it’s also delicious any time of year!
Have you ever felt butterflies in your stomach when you were nervous? Or lost your appetite when deeply grieving? We’ve all felt emotions in our gut – there’s even the common saying “gut feeling.” In fact, the more relaxed and content we feel when we eat, the better we digest our food. But did you know the gut-brain connection also goes the other way? That the food we eat can impact how our brain functions? Inflammation in the gut can result in brain fog, mood swings, and even mental health disorders. In this podcast, we talk about the science behind this connection, and how we can harness it for our health – both mental and physical. My guest is Dr. Lili Wagner, a psychologist who specializes in this intersection between diet, lifestyle, digestion, and mental health.
This week’s Paleo AIP Recipe Roundtable is now live! The featured recipes from last week are: Breakfast Muffins, No Frills Salad Dressing, Sheet Pan Lemon-Herb Lamb & Veggies, and Celeriac Fries. Happy cooking, everyone!
I don’t know about you, but I fell for the low-fat food craze, believing that dietary fat was harmful and the more I avoided it, the healthier I would be. I didn’t learn otherwise until I switched to the paleo diet in 2012 and learned that dietary fat is actually beneficial. It was mind-bending to realize! In this blog post, I share (1) Why our bodies need dietary fats, (2) Which fats are allowed on the AIP, (3) The smoke point and shelf life of each one, (4) Why saturated fat is so controversial, and (5) Which fats are especially beneficial.
This week’s Paleo AIP Recipe Roundtable is now live! The featured recipes from last week are: “Oatmeal” Raisin Cookies, Cabbage Rolls, Sweet and Sour Asparagus Sauté, and Air Fryer Brussels Sprouts. Happy cooking, everyone!
This episode is all about making the paleo autoimmune protocol easier to follow. We share our best tips for easy breakfasts, easy lunches, easy dinners, easy snacks, easy sleep, and easy stress management. My guest, Mickey Trescott, is one of the women behind the Autoimmune Wellness blog and podcast, the author of three AIP cookbooks, and a pioneer in the paleo AIP community.
This week’s Paleo AIP Recipe Roundtable is now live! The featured recipes from last week are: Cauliflower “Breadsticks”, Intense Shepherd’s Pie, Squashbrowns, and Banana Carob “Chocolate” Chip Cake. Happy cooking, everyone!
Are you curious (or confused) about the AIP food reintroduction process? I created this interview series so you could hear about other people’s experiences. Tess Ortega has anklyosing spondylitis. In this interview, she shares which foods she was able to reintroduce successfully, which reintroductions “failed”, how she told the difference, and what she learned along the way. The Paleo Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) has 2 phases: elimination and reintroduction. It’s this second phase where we learn how to expand and personalize the diet for our unique bodies.
This week’s Paleo AIP Recipe Roundtable is now live! The featured recipes from last week are: Sticky Sheet Pan BBQ Chicken with Roasted Slaw, Mongolian Beef Stir-Fry, Extra Crispy Chicken Wings, and Supah Guac. Happy cooking, everyone!
Why does exercise feel so different after an autoimmune diagnosis? Activities that our bodies loved in the past can now cause an autoimmune flare. Yet, not moving at all isn’t healthy either. So, what do we do? In this podcast, we get professional insight into this topic. My guest, Andrea Wool, is a certified personal trainer and founder of Autoimmune Strong – a fitness website designed specifically for people with autoimmune disease. She’ll be teaching us about the connection between stress, inflammation, and exercise, alongside its potential risks and benefits to our health.
This week’s Paleo AIP Recipe Roundtable is now live! The featured recipes from last week are: Spaghetti Sauce, Egg Roll Stir-Fry, Golden Beet, Butternut and Sage Recovery Soup, and Avocado Cucumber Soup with Shrimp. Happy cooking, everyone!
Are you afraid you can’t do the Paleo Autoimmune Protocol, because it’s too expensive? Or do you simply want to find ways to make your food dollars go farther? Either way, I’ve got you covered with these 12 tips
This week’s Paleo AIP Recipe Roundtable is now live! The featured recipes from last week are: No-Potato Galette, Greek Spinach Pie, Prosciutto Wrapped Stuff Pork with Brussels Sprouts, and Banana Pancakes. Happy cooking, everyone!
If you’re a regular listener of my podcast, you know that I often start my shows with personal stories, where my guests share their health journeys from rock bottom to reclaiming a vital life. But at least once a year, I dedicate an episode to back-to-back healing stories, and I make an effort to speak to people with different autoimmune diagnoses each time. In this episode, we talk about Psoriasis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Crohn’s Disease, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, Adult Onset Stills Disease, but also Autoimmunity in general. And if you want to hear the prior Healing Stories podcasts, check out episodes 1, 14, 30, 43, 61, and 87. Let’s inspire each other!
This is one of my favorite podcast episodes! As Dr. Sarah Ballantyne says, “Dietary changes aren’t effective in isolation. If you don’t address lifestyle factors as well, it won’t matter how ideal your food choices are.” In this podcast, I interview four people about one lifestyle change that has made a big difference in their autoimmune healing journey.
This is one of the most popular podcast episodes for a reason! When you first switch to a paleo diet, you lose a lot of your standard recipes, are introduced to a bunch of new ingredients, and it’s not uncommon to feel lost in your own kitchen. Thankfully, we have expert paleo tour guides! Mel Joulwan is the author of the bestselling Well Fed Cookbook Series, Rachael Bryant is the author of the AIP cookbook Nourish, and Laura Vein from the blog Sweet Treats is a former pastry chef turned AIP baker. They share their best tips with us.
Being on a healing diet doesn’t mean you need to miss out on the joy of holiday baking. For many families, it’s an annual tradition that builds memories across generations. Today, I offer you 50 AIP-friendly recipes to ring in the holiday season, including Gingerbread, Frosted Sugar Cookies, Linzer Cookies, “Chocolate” Snowflake Cookies, Hanukkah Gelt, Turkish Delight Gummies, and more!
Stem cell research is an exciting field with great potential for people with autoimmune disease. When we see the headlines, it’s easy to believe a cure is already here, especially since some commercial clinics promise that. In today’s podcast, we separate the hope from the hype. We talk about current clinical trials and what they’re showing, the risks vs. benefits of these treatments, which autoimmune diseases are the focus of the studies, and what we still have to learn. My guest is Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, a physician and stem cell researcher who specializes in multiple sclerosis.
When I was at rock bottom with rheumatoid arthritis and experiencing excruciating pain on a daily basis, I started keeping a gratitude journal. That might seem like a strange time do this, but I deeply needed to focus on something beyond the pain and suffering that had become my entire world. And it helped! It didn’t alleviate my pain, but it did reduce my suffering, because it helped me remember there were still good things in my life. It turns out I’m not alone in feeling these benefits. Research is showing that gratitude can improve both mental and physical health. In this podcast, my guest is Dr. Fuschia Sirois, an expert in the field of gratitude and chronic illness. We discuss the research, alongside practical steps for making gratitude part of our daily lives.
If you’re on Instagram, you’re familiar with hashtags, and if you follow paleo accounts, you’ll occasionally see a photo show up with a #NotPaleo tag. What does it mean? Have they left the paleo diet behind? Usually not. Instead, it’s often a conscious choice to eat “off-diet”, and there are many reasons someone might choose to do that. The same goes for the #NotAIP hashtag. In this blog post, I talk about the 80/20 rule, AIP reintroductions, the vacation effect, holiday temptations, flare vs. remission, and the difference between self-sabotage and worth-it-moments.
There’s a strong link between trauma and autoimmunity. People who are diagnosed with a stress-related disorder like PTSD are 30-40% more likely to be diagnosed with autoimmune disease. Childhood trauma has an even bigger impact. And the shock of an autoimmune diagnosis combined with life-changing symptoms can qualify as a trauma itself. When it comes to maximizing our health, being aware of this connection is important. Thankfully, there are trauma therapies that can help rebuild our health resilience. My guest is Dr. Maureen Pierce, a health psychologist who specializes in working with people with chronic pain and chronic illness. Not surprisingly, she’s a trauma specialist as well.
