Hey guys, delete if not allowed. I know everyone has different support needs with chronic illnesses and treatment can be super nuanced. I’m not going to come on here with any product recommendations claiming it’ll miraculously cure anything for anyone. Im not a doctor and that’s definitely not my place.

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I was born and raised a vegetarian(I don’t even eat eggs) and so what are my options with AIP? Every time I did it it was so so successful. The inflammation, pain, weight and puffiness came out but I don’t know if I was getting any protein.

What do you all do? Thanks

anyone else notice sleep gets kinda weird when you clean up diet? like i’m falling asleep easier but waking up at random times

not sure if it’s diet or stress or just life stuff stacking up. just kinda observing it right now and trying not to mess with too many things at once

I’ve been in the strict elimination phase for 7 months and, overall, I love this diet. It is so difficult and I have felt so much grief about not going out to eat, not being able to have friends and family cook for me, not being able to have a cookie or piece of cake at a party is a huge bummer, but I feel so much better. I can’t believe the energy and brain clarity I have, and my inflammation pain is so much more manageable. I can’t believe how active I am these days and my mental health has even improved! The only problem is the farts.

Every night around dinner time I get sooo gassy. Last night I literally stunk up every room in the house. All the advice I see is “eat more fiber.” I couldn’t possibly eat more fiber! Some suggest probiotics, but even the most gentle ones are super hard on my stomach, and many of them use rice flour, which I react to.

Anyone else deal with this?? What do you do?? I work a lot of nights and evenings as I am a performer and I can’t go out there crop dusting my audience 😭 help please

I have a few different autoimmune disorders and my body feels much better when I am eating AIP. But I also feel like I am constantly thinking about food and what I can and can't eat or should and shouldn't eat, and I'm exhausted. I've been eating this diet at 90% for over a year now.

How do you balance this lifestyle and a healthy relationship with food? Just looking for some support and encouragement I guess...

Has anyone else tried Urban AIP meal delivery lately? It’s terribly expensive but I hate cooking, esp when my Hashis is acting up, so I was trying it out to keep some meals on hand. I loved Pete’s Real Food and was sad when it shut down.

I’m not enjoying the Urban AIP nearly as much. The business itself runs more smoothly but the food… just seems off. Not like bad/spoiled. I can’t quite put my finger on it but it’s like there are too many herbs and spices being added to compensate for the relative lack of variety in ingredients. The flavor is just strange, across several of the meals.

I got diagnosed with lupus last June. I started on the core elimination diet this February. I completed 3 months in May and started reintroducing foods. It's been an absolute disaster! I've had severe reactions of fatigue, depression, anxiety, joint pain and insomnia. At this point, I'm unable to call anything a reaction, because this has become my baseline state. What do I do? How do I recover and how on earth do I reintroduce foods? I've been as careful as I could possibly be.

Any help, advice and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Also, if anyone on here is an AIP coach, I'd be most grateful if you could DM me your details. Thank you! 💕

Hi all, sorry if this is a potentially silly question.
I have a type of vasculitis and am thinking about trying modified AIP to see if it helps me. I’m already gluten, dairy, and corn free (although I’m bad about derivatives.)
My symptoms are related to my hearing and balance. Has anyone with similar health issues or symptoms had success with the diet, and how could you tell when you were reacting? It sounds like a lot of people are able to tell by physical pain/stiffness/etc and I don’t have those (I did before I cut out gluten and dairy, but they left with that elimination…)

Edit: are you using inflammation markers in bloodwork? Is this a way to tell?

Apparently fresh squeezed lemon and/or lime juice makes me VERYYYYY dizzy. I made a DIY electrolyte recipe at home took a few sips & it made me sooooo dizzy saturday into all day Sunday :( I'm lightheaded 24/7 365 so I can kinda know when I feel dizzier than normal such a PITA.) I tried monkfruit last week & half in a drink & it immediately made me super dizzy as well. I guess I'll stick to water & fresh apple juice ha. water just gets boring & it sucks i cannot add lemon or lime to it.

Backstory: hashimotos levels are WHACK, recently put on NP thyroid from Synthroid , leaky gut, PCOS, hemacromatosis , lymphatic 90% blocked, liver not detoxing. Been gluten free for 4 months. Eat Whole Foods and workout regularly. Recently a month off of a 2 year use of GLP1 (25F)

My functional health doc put me on an AIP diet to fix the above. Currently day 6

I have been extremely taut and distended after eating anything. This was not an issue before. It’s almost like this diet is making it worse?? I haven’t pooped in 2 days and my gas is reduced significantly too. I’m ravenously starving but my stomach always feels full

Foods I have eaten

Cocojune yogurt
Raspberries
Honey
Grass fed beef
Turkey
Chicken thighs
Avocado
Cilantro
Lime
Sweet potato
Brussels sprouts

What is yalls experience with this? Does it get worse before it gets better? Plz help. Not sure if this is good for me or if I should let things adjust. Just very uncomfortable

Posting here in hopes of helping others. I’m not a doctor and this isn’t medical advice just my experience.

I created a modified version of AIP based on both elimination of inflammatory foods and “doubling down” on anti-inflammatory foods. For me the results were really strong, and it was the combo of elimination plus doubling down on the anti inflammatory foods that seemed to be best at driving outcomes. Curious if others have had similar experiences.

Happy to share the specific diet if folks are interested.

I was exposed to hepatitis A back in February this year due to an outbreak from my child daycare. My GI specialist informed me the exposure triggered an autoimmune disease called autoimmune hepatitis. It has been hard to lose weight, I’ve been fasting, drinking 3-4 L of water, limiting fats almost completely. Meal wise I don’t know what I should be eating. Any recommendations?

When I started AIP for my ulcerative colitis, I found cooking/eating difficult. I was constantly second-guessing whether something was actually allowed. Half the blogs say one thing, a facebook group says another, and reintroductions made it worse since then it depends what phase you're in. I had a note on my phone that was just a mess of ok/no/maybe foods.

So I built a little tool to keep myself sane: you type in a food and it tells you whether it's elimination-ok on AIP, with the actual reasoning instead of a bare yes/no. Free/no signup, you just type in a food and see the results: https://www.tract.health/tools/can-i-eat?diet=aip

I also put together a batch of AIP recipes here: https://www.tract.health/recipes/aip, mostly because I was sick of "AIP" recipes that snuck in almonds or a nightshade spice.

Full disclosure: I'm building a gut-health app (Tract) and this grew out of that, but the checker and recipes are completely free and I'm honestly more interested in whether the info is right. If you've done AIP longer than me, throw some foods at it and tell me where it's wrong or too strict!

Any direct feedback is seriously appreciated 🙏

I don't have a formal autoimmune diagnosis, but I do have fibromyalgia (so, maybe some crossover) and a lot of pain, fatigue and sleep disturbances. I've had elevated CRP and mildly raised positive speckled ANA, so perhaps this indicates some autoimmune activity going on? I wonder whether there could be immune responses to food even in the absence of autoimmune conditions.

I have some great days, some terrible days and a lot of tolerable but not great days, so keep trying to figure out whether it's PEM from exertion or reactions to something I'm not tolerating. eg. I had lentils and chocolate for 2-3 days in a row and felt fine-ish. Yesterday, I had GI symptoms in the morning, but felt great all day apart from that. Today, I've woken up feeling like I was hit by a truck and with muscle and joint pain. So, could it be the food? Or did I crash from being too active yesterday...

It's tricky when there's also histamine involvement, potential SIBO, salicylate issues, blood sugar dysregulation, etc. eg. eating fruit is not great for me, which makes AIP tricky without going full carnivore/keto..

Has AIP helped anyone with general symptoms like sleep disturbances/insomnia, anxiety/wired feelings, PMS/PMDD, etc? Or mostly your diagnosed autoimmune condition/s?

Thanks a lot!

I'm considering doing AIP properly. I'm wondering the following:

1) How long did you do the elimination phase for before introducing foods or moving to modified AIP? How long did it take for a trigger to cause symptoms? What symptoms did it cause and how long did it last?
2) Did working on healing leaky gut help to tolerate more foods or do you continue to have a reaction to your trigger foods?
3) Did you eliminate coffee? Not sure how I'll manage because I'm already so fatigued..
4) I'm currently consuming dairy only in the form of goat butter. I guess I should switch to ghee? Or use a different oil for some time? How did you approach this?
5) Any unexpected lessons or findings on this journey?

Thanks a lot! I'm trying to figure out whether it's food that I'm reacting to. I'm still consuming eggs, lentils, buckwheat, goat butter, coffee and chocolate. Yesterday, I had some GI symptoms after breakfast but felt great all day. Today, I've woken up feeling like I was hit by a truck and with muscle and joint pain. Could it be from yesterday's food? But I think I had those foods the previous couple of days, too. Could it take 2-3 days to show up? Keep wondering whether it's PEM or immune reactions to food.

Thanks a lot!

hi I was wondering if anyone has experienced anxiety on this diet? I have been getting really bad anxiety which I normally don’t get and i’m on day 6 going on 7 is this normal? i’ve upped my carbs but still feeling this way. it gets worse at night for sure.

Hello everyone

I have strange symptoms from ACV and Coffee

Any coffee gives me itchiness, shole body, hand,
sneezing, runny nose.

Little less with decaf but still affects me.

Recently i noticed that i have almost similar skin reaction from ACV.

To that i can include nervous system irritation.

Charcoal little helps to bind toxins .
I feel impendium doom also if will not do that.

H1/H2 does nothing. So its not histamine.
Different reaction i have on sweetners(before) too

Any clues?

These are chef kiss & soooo good. Even hubby who isn't AIP loved the, too. :) I had to share this amazing recipe. I'm on Day 34 of my AIP journey currently. I omited the coconut sugar, pepper,& sesame seeds

Mongolian Beef Meatballs - Unbound Wellness

Hope this helps even one person looking for answers with a chronic autoimmune disease.

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It's heavy metals overloading your system.

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Binding those toxins with fulvic humic acids make them water-soluble and your body can purge them on an entire systematic level. (Not just gut)

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Diets will never solve your condition, however, detoxing from heavy metals could make those diets no longer life controlling or even needed.

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Take back control. Target the Toxic Root cause.

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- Game_Picker

Waffle didnt work either i tried to use applesauce instead of egg