AutoImmune Paleo Articles
Adopting and Sustaining Health Behaviors – Why is it so Hard?

Improving our diet and self-care has never been more important. This is critical for people with autoimmune issues or any chronic health problem. In this article I’ll explain why it is hard to change our health behaviors, and what you ...

What Your Physician May Not Be Telling You About the Autoimmune Wonder Drugs

There are 100 million Americans who have autoantibodies and symptoms but no specific diagnosis. These people are told by their doctors to wait and see, to come back next year for more tests. They aren’t given any advice about interventions ...

COVID-19 and Autoimmune Disease

At this point you have likely read numerous reports about the COVID-19 Coronavirus and hopefully have started implementing changes to minimize your risk of exposure or transmission of this new strain of virus. I will start off by saying I ...

Managing GERD Without Medications: Assessing and Addressing Diet and Lifestyle

GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) remains extremely common, affecting an estimated 40% of Americans on at least a weekly basis, despite widespread use of acid-suppressing therapies such as antacids, H2 blockers, and proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs). I have written previously (1) about ...

Is Stress About the Perfect Diet Causing Your Health to Decline?

Whenever we embark on a healing journey to troubleshoot autoimmune symptoms or improve how we feel, food is often the first thing we focus on. Food is tangible. It’s right there in front of us and we feel like modifying ...

Want to Heal Your Body? Heal Your Relationship with Yourself

Autoimmune disease has an incredible way of taking center stage in life. While it can present great opportunities to reshape one’s approach to health, it also requires saying goodbye to certain foods, practices, and ways of being that don’t support ...

Medicinal Cannabis: What is the Evidence for Autoimmune Disease?

Introduction Over the last several years, our society has seen a relative explosion of interest and use of both recreational and medicinal cannabis and its associated cannabinoids. Many states have recently passed laws allowing the medicinal use of cannabis in ...

Understanding Your Social and Emotional Relationship with Alcohol

Lately, I’ve been spending a good deal of time chatting with my autoimmune clients about alcohol and how it affects their healing process. It’s common among the autoimmune community to limit alcohol consumption because of its connection to inflammation (and ...