Reddit reviews The Paleo Approach: Reverse Autoimmune Disease, Heal Your Body

I have a book by Sarah Ballantyne. She’s the founder of the diet. The book is called the Paleo Approach: Reverse Autoimmunity Disease. It’s designed to help all autoimmune diseases, and the book gives you the science behind the diet and what to eat and avoid.

https://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Approach-Reverse-Autoimmune-Disease-ebook/dp/B00I44JHTE/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=paleo+aip&qid=1558054697&s=gateway&sr=8-3


She has another book that has a lot of recipes, but I don’t have the time or patience to cook a full meal for my family and a separate one for myself, so I basically just do meat and veggies with some fruit (berries or an orange) for dessert.

My breakfast usually consists of sausage, Tiger nuts, and some dried fruit.

Mid morning snack is a coconut milk shake with added mct oil, collagen protein, and cinnamon.

Lunch is a salad (romaine and spinach with diced carrots, cucumber, onion, turkey, and bacon) with a homemade dressing (extra virgin olive oil, Apple cider vinegar, garlic, lemon juice, ginger, oregano), celery and slices of cucumber and carrots with honey (some people have issues with carrots FYI even though they’re allowed on the diet).

I snack on pork rinds or toasted coconut chips in the afternoon.

Bananas and sweet potatoes are allowed starches but my symptoms were flaring more when I was eating them, so I stopped based on that and how starches are generally not great for AS.

After 1-6 months (when you’re symptoms are better - if they’re better) you can try to reintroduce foods one at a time to see how you react. She does state that some people with high inflammation may take over a year to get back to an acceptable level of inflammation. She also recommends avoiding NSAIDs as much as possible because they aren’t great for your stomach lining, but somethings you need to take one.

Supplements I take are:
Fish oil
L-glutamine
Turmeric
Boswelia
Ginger
Probiotic
Calcium/vitamin D
Multi vitamin with a lot of B vitamins for my fatigue

Turmeric and ginger are slow acting anti inflammatory. They eventually build up enough to act like a daily NSAIDS without the side effects. Boswelia after a month or two builds up enough to act like a mild TNF blocker apparently. Only been on them for a month, but all the above seems to help quite a bit. I’m not on any DMARDS or biologics yet.