The AIP diet, or Autoimmune Protocol, is a eating plan designed to offer relief to people suffering from autoimmune diseases. The eating plan is used to help heal certain inflammatory issues triggered in the digestive system. When the body has an autoimmune response, the body's immune system begins to attack itself because it cannot tell the difference between its own healthy cells and tissue and a foreign or invading body. There are dozens of autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, celiac disease, lupus, and psoriasis to name a few. The AIP diet helps eliminate foods that can aggravate or trigger these disorders.
Here are the basics of an anti-inflammatory diet:
Eat a rainbow of colorful vegetables and fruit every day. These foods are filled with antioxidants that support your immune system and fiber that feeds your healthy flora.
Include coconut products like coconut oil, milk, yogurt, and kefir. Coconut is filled with medium-chain triglycerides, which feed the cells lining your intestines, and has yeast-killing properties. It is also an easy-to-burn source of fuel that feeds your brain and muscles.
Include ghee, which is clarified butter. People with dairy sensitivities can usually eat ghee because all the milk proteins have removed, leaving just the pure fat. Ghee is filled with butyrate, a critically important fatty acid for the care and feeding of cells in your colon.
Organic, non-GMO: these foods are low in pesticides, which can alter your flora and damage your intestinal lining, causing leaky gut.
Include healthy anti-inflammatory oils and fats like fish, flax, olive oil, coconut oil, nuts, seeds, and avocado
Choose grass-fed, pasture-raised, or free-range organic animals when possible. This will limit the hormones, antibiotics, and pesticides that you are exposed to when eating animals raised in typical feedlots. Also, the meat from grass-fed animals has higher-quality, anti-inflammatory fats than the meat of corn-fed animals.
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