Immune Protocol Diet- one month results

[Tracyrose]

Actually I am not having much results from this diet. I did lose 8 pounds but overall I have not noticed any changes. I have also been fighting a possible infection breast related , so maybe that is why I am not seeing great results. I am going to stick it out another month anyway. Anyone else have great results ?

[Suslew]

I haven't tried this diet, so I'm curious to see what your results are.  I did try a gluten free diet for two weeks and didn't notice any changes. 

I've seen the book
Seamus Mullen's Hero Food: How Cooking with Delicious Things Can Make Us Feel Better.  I haven't purchased it, but he has RA and  (I think) promotes 18 "healthy" foods and recipes.  Healthy is in quotes because we're all so different.  What's healthy for one, can make someone else miserable. 

Losing 8 pounds is nice, if you needed to shed pounds.  Sorry to hear about the extra burden of infection, that sucks.

[warmwaters]

I haven't tried it, so can't report my results. But I just looked it up, and congratulate you on making a very big change in your eating.  That's a diet that requires some real care and effort, so congrats on working through the first month.

Who know, if you are fighting an infection, and taking antibiotics, that's going to be doing a number on your gut, anyhow.

[Jenny1960]

Hi, I've just had a quick look and from what I can see this diet is Paleo isn't it? I don't honestly think I could stick to it BUT I have changed my diet in many ways in the last 2 years and I do know for sure that my symptoms are much much less due to this.
One thing I would say is that, in my experience, you need to stick with any new diet for an absolute minimum of 3 months before you judge whether or not it will work for you. I would say the biggest improvement for me was going gluten free (I'm not coeliac) but the improvements were not immediate.
All the time I stick to my diet rigidly I'm reasonably well without any medication but if I veer off of it I start to get flare-ups.
I won't bore you with the details of my diet at this point because it may not suit everyone but if anyone wants to know I'm happy to share.
Jenny.

[litliwlowa]

I'm not familiar with the immune protocol diet, but I did go GF and organic and removed most processed foods from my diet beginning last Oct/Nov. It was several weeks/months before I noticed a substantial difference.

The most noticeable difference was my first diet "cheat". Tummy and everything in gut got so inflamed nothing was moving along if you catch my drift for nearly a week.

[catherine1234]

Hello again Jenny1960. I am interested to hear the details of your diet. While I follow most of the auto immune protocol elements, there are some I find difficult to give up completely like dairy and tree nuts. What have you eliminated and what have you managed to tolerate?

[LucyD]

Along these same lines, I just started reading a fascinating book by a woman who earned her PhD in medical biophysics and healed herself of autoimmune disease (lichen planus) along with other AI symptoms. (I have lichen planus too, but didn't realize it was AI - it flares up when ever my pain, fatigue and stomach issues do.) She gives all of the biochemical background of how various foods affect those of us genetically susceptible to AI disease. Her name is Sarah Ballantyne and her book is the Paleo Approach.

The diet looks very difficult to maintain, but I am thinking it will be worth it as a try. I want to read the book entirely first, then prepare and then start. The biochemistry explanations are amazing. (I think it helps us not eat things we want and know are not good for us if we have the "how's" and "why's" of how they can cause inflammation and autoimmune symptoms.

Just a thought to add in case anyone is interested because it is also paleo.

[Xina]

I have to eat this way mostly due to food allergies and I don't get swelling if joints but I still have pain and some tummy issues although they are not what they used to be but I have severe food allergies.