The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Episode #6: Step 3: Nourish – Our Stories

09/12/16 • 36 min

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Welcome to The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Season 1! We’ve created this podcast as a free resource to accompany our upcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness.

Episode #6: Step 3 : Nourish – Our Stories is all about what the real-life process of using the elimination and reintroduction format of the Autoimmune Protocol has looked like for us. Although we started the journey close to five years ago, the actual process, beginning with those first steps, is still very fresh in our minds. We share how we found AIP (at a time when the abundant resources and large support community did not exist), what we really ate before adopting AIP (one of us was a junk-food junky!), and what transitioning was like. We also discuss how we approached the reintroduction process, what has and has not worked, and how we were able to discern reactions that can seem confusing to spot. If you’ve ever wondered what we honestly eat and whether or not this was ever tough for us too, this episode is for you!

If you’ve already tried AIP and would like to go more in-depth on Step 3: Nourish, check out the “Troubleshooting” section in Chapter 3 for ideas on underlying issues that could be preventing progress. This section is packed with valuable details, including food guidance to help ease symptoms of common roadblocks.

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Show Notes:

0:00 Intro
1:51 The first concrete step toward wellness, Nourish
2:48 How did Mickey find AIP?
4:56 How did Angie find AIP?
- What are lectins?
- The Paleo Solution
7:55 Mickey’s diet pre-AIP
10:55 Angie’s diet pre-AIP
13:41 Angie’s transition to AIP
- The cold-turkey approach
14:46 How long did the elimination phase last for Angie?
15:15 Mickey’s transition and elimination phase length
- The slow and steady approach
17:36 A note of being aware of positive progress
18:10 What changes made the biggest differences for Mickey?
- The argument for nutrient density
19:44 What changes made the biggest differences for Angie?
20:32 Angie’s reintroduction experience and foods that produced reactions
- Egg
- White potato
- Cumin
23:18 Mickey’s reintroduction experience and foods that produced reactions
- Nightshades
- Eggs
- Sesame Seed

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How to listen:

If you’d like to have our podcasts sent directly to your device, subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher!

If you’d like to download the .mp3, you can do so by following this link.

If you’d like to play the episode right now in your browser, use the player below!

Show Notes:

0:00 Intro
1:51 The first concrete step toward wellness, Nourish
2:48 How did Mickey find AIP?
4:56 How did Angie find AIP?
- What are lectins?
- The Paleo Solution
7:55 Mickey’s diet pre-AIP
10:55 Angie’s diet pre-AIP
13:41 Angie’s transition to AIP
- The cold-turkey approach
14:46 How long did the elimination phase last for Angie?
15:15 Mickey’s transition and elimination phase length
- The slow and steady approach
17:36 A note of being aware of positive progress
18:10 What changes made the biggest differences for Mickey?
- The argument for nutrient density
19:44 What changes made the biggest differences for Angie?
20:32 Angie’s reintroduction experience and foods that produced reactions
- Egg
- White potato
- Cumin
23:18 Mickey’s reintroduction experience and foods that produced reactions
- Nightshades
- Eggs
- Sesame Seed

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The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Episode #5: Step 2: In-Depth with Dr. Titus Chiu

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Welcome to The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Season 1! We’ve created this podcast as a free resource to accompany our upcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness.

Episode #5: Step 2: In-Depth with Dr. Titus Chiu is a conversation with award-winning professor, chiropractic neurologist, and functional medicine expert on practical collaboration and the overall collaborative spirit when it comes to healthcare. Titus talks with us about the specifics of collaboration between conventional and natural practitioners, including why the breakdowns in communication often occur. He also shares why he believes there is a new and positive future for a more collaborative healthcare environment. The best part of this episode comes at the end, when Titus talks about the deep root of meaningful collaboration (we wish every doctor approached communication like this!). This episode is awesome for insight into the healthcare experience from the “other side” of the exam table.

If you’d like to go more in-depth on Step 2: Collaborate, check out the “How Do You Build A Collaborative Team” section in Chapter 2. This section is very relevant to the guidance Titus shares in this episode.

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Show Notes:

0:00 Intro
1:50 Introducing Titus
- Titus’s Bio
- Titus and Dr. Fallahi’s Practice: KOBA Family Wellness Center
3:20 Titus shares about his experience with illness and injury bringing him to healthcare
- He was hit by a car in Japan and that changed everything!
5:50 Titus tells us what an ideal patient looks like to a physician
- Educated
- Motivated
- Enthusiastic
9:23 Achieving deeper healing by facing our “demons” on the wellness journey
10:03 What does collaboration with doctors in the conventional system look like?
- Titus shares that this most often just looks like referrals
11:38 How does practical communication occur between conventional and natural practitioners?
- Titus reveals that it is a combination of sending reports on a patient’s progress and relaying information through the patient (this reinforces that we need to be the leaders of our healthcare teams!).
14:53 Why is there a breakdown in communication between the two systems according to Titus?
- Language
- Goals
- Approach
16:20 Titus talks about why he believes there is a positive future for collaborative healthcare based on three points:
- More open doctors
- More open patients
- Technology advances
20:23 How should a patient handle a non-collaborative doctor?
22:30 How can you effectively communicate your own knowledge when initiating a collaborative relationship with your doctor?
- Titus talks about his very special, caring approach to patients who are overwhelming in their personal health research
31:20 Outro

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The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Episode #7: Step 3: In-Depth with Aglaée Jacob, MS, RD

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Episode #7: Step 3 : In-Depth with Aglaée Jacob, MS, RD is an episode dedicated to chatting with a well-known registered dietician in the “Real Foods” community. We greatly respect Aglaée’s work and asked her to join us in a conversation covering the deeper details of dietary healing, especially how to further modify AIP if healing is not as expected. Aglaée talks about FODMAP intolerance, starch intolerance, and histamine intolerance, all issues that can be uncovered while on AIP and may require specific modifications to help control uncomfortable symptoms. She also explores adding nutrient density with us and outlines new nutrition research she’s most interested in right now. One of the best parts of this episode is in the beginning, where Aglaée tells us about the powerful process she went through on the road to becoming a “Real Food” RD and the shift she sees happening years later in her profession. This episode is excellent if suspect that gut trouble is hindering your healing progress and need concrete details about tackling it.

If you’d like to go more in-depth on Step 3: Nourish, check out the “Nutrient Density” section in Chapter 3. This section gives even more detail on the nutrient density guidance that Aglaée shares in this episode.

How to listen:

If you’d like to have our podcasts sent directly to your device, subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher!

If you’d like to download the .mp3, you can do so by following this link.

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Show Notes:

0:00 Intro
1:58 Introducing Aglaeée
- Aglaée’s Bio
- Aglaée’s practice: Radicata Nutrition
- Aglaee’s podcast: Real Food Mamas
- Aglaée’s books: Digestive Health with Real Food and Digestive Health with Real Food Cookbook
2:35 Aglaée shares about her experience with illness and how it inspired her work
- A South American parasite helped her develop a new compassion for her patient’s struggles!
5:40 How Aglaée discovered “Real Food” as an RD
- The lack of results she saw following conventional guidelines with her patients made her start questioning the approach she’d been taught.
9:38 Aglaée discusses the shift she sees other RDs making toward “Real Food”
- Paleo RDs Network
10:45 Aglaée talks AIP
13:20 What are some specific modifications for gut dysbiosis?
- Aglaée shares her positive mindset approach to elimination diets, “The goal of an elimination diet is not about the food, but to eliminate symptoms!”
- FODMAP stands for Fermentable, Oligo-, Di-, Mono-saccharides And Polyols
17:33 Should people remove additional foods if they suspect a FODMAP intolerance?
- Aglaée’s advice is that it is best to work with a practitioner.<...