AutoImmune Paleo Articles
Announcing Modified AIP: A 2024 Update to the Autoimmune Protocol

Since inception in 2011, the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) has not undergone any major updates or changes and has existed as originally conceived by experts and used by the autoimmune community. Today, that is changing with the announcement of a new ...

Autoimmune Protocol Medical Research Review

The Autoimmune Protocol (AIP), an elimination and reintroduction protocol aimed at helping those with autoimmune disease identify food sensitivities and increase nutrient-density has always been rooted in scientific evidence (see The Paleo Approach, the 2014 book written by Sarah Ballantyne, ...

Can Blood Tests Detect Food Sensitivity?

The use of IgG “food sensitivity” testing is widespread within functional and integrative medicine. Numerous companies currently sell consumer based tests as part of a multi-million dollar industry with lucrative financial incentives and many practitioners use these tests as the ...

How Healing Your Gut Can Help Treat Autoimmune Disease

Chances are good that you have heard about the importance of gut health and nearly every disease state including autoimmune disease. Chances are also good that you have been overwhelmed by information as to what “healing the gut” even means ...

The Role of Progesterone in Autoimmune Disease

For this article, we’ve invited Dr. Tanya Lee, a naturopathic doctor and herbalist, to share with us the ways in which fluctuations in the hormone progesterone have been linked to symptom flares or reductions in various autoimmune conditions. She also ...

Mold and Mycotoxin Illness: Should I Be Concerned?

Given all of the information circulating now about the potential challenges with mold and mycotoxins, I felt it was critically important to provide you with an accessible summary seeking to answer these key questions. What exactly is mold? and mycotoxins? ...

Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Paleo Diet – A Qualitative Study

This article comes to us from Julianne Taylor, PGDipSci, a Registered Nutritionist and AIP Certified Coach from New Zealand. As soon as we learned about Julianne’s postgraduate research, which centered around the effects of a Paleo diet in the management ...

A Discussion on Race, Genetics, and Genetic Expression

Over the last several weeks I have pondered greatly the best way to articulate thoughts and ideas I have had on race authentically and through the lens of a medical provider who is still in the work of educating and ...