Food as medecine.

Nutrition and the concept of food as medecine has become an important part of my life. I would not have been able to put my arthritis in remission without the Auto Immune Paleo diet. It is a fairly logical concept to use food to heal your body, your body just needs the energy to heal, and energy comes from food, from the nutrients in the food. So it makes sense (well to me at least) that to give your body all the chances to heal, you need to feed it the best and most nutrients dense food you can.

That means high in organic vegetables as you don't want all the bad pesticides in your body.

Now the more controversial side of my diet is that it is a paleo protocol so I eat meat, once again the best possible so organic, grass fed.

We cut out all allergens and gut irritating food like cereals, dairy, lectins etc etc

There is a real science on why certain food groups are avoided, mainly to do with the gut as most auto-immune conditions are related to gut issues. 70% of our immune system cells live in our gut, and unfortunately over the years we have not looked after our microbiome so the lining of gut has become damaged. Which results in bad stuff going through to our blood stream and our immune system starts reacting to this and an auto-immune reaction gets triggered.

I am no scientist on the subject but some really good people explain of all this better than me and it's worth looking into. Here is my favourite website on the subject:

www.autoimmunewellness.com

And a great documentary called Heal.