Genetics accounts for only about 10% of the risk of developing an autoimmune condition. 1 Inflammatory environmental factors (aka root causes or triggers), which lead to intestinal hyperpermeability (aka a leaky gut), account for 90% of the equation. The lion’s share of the equation are lifestyle factors we can control! I call them F.I.G.H.T.S.™ for Food, Infections, Gut health, Hormone balance, Toxins and Stress. Each category encompasses both the root cause and the solution.
Food
5-Ingredient Keto Cardamom Cookies
Keto and Paleo friendly, melt in your mouth keto cardamom cookies, without gluten, dairy, eggs or sugar. A healthy holiday or anytime treat.
Top 10 Autoimmune Trigger Foods
To reverse autoimmune conditions it's important to remove foods that create leaky gut and over-burden the immune system. These are the top culprits that perpetuate autoimmunity.
Eat To Beat Autoimmune and Bolster Your Immunity
Food is the number one root cause category of autoimmune conditions. On the flip side, people with autoimmune issues often heal 60% to 100% just by changing what they eat! By eating your optimal foods, you also prevent COVID-19.
Why We’re Optimizing Our Food in Beat Autoimmune Academy
Just how important is food in healing autoimmune conditions?
It turns out that people often heal from autoimmune conditions 60% -...
Top 6 Autoimmune Triggers: Start With Food
No doubt about it, food offers the biggest bang for your buck in terms of healing. Just removing your trigger foods and adding in nourishing ones can put you well on your way to healing, reversing and preventing autoimmune conditions. Learn which ones are the culprits and which ones are beneficial.
Infections
Simple Strategies to Strengthen Immune Function
This is arguably the best time to strengthen and optimize immune function. Learn simple strategies for modern times with roots in primal cultures.
Raise Your Metabolism to Clear Infections and Beat Autoimmune
A low and slow metabolism (hypometabolism) is associated with autoimmunity and greater risk of infections. Learn simple strategies to raise your metabolism to clear infections and beat autoimmune.
Clear Infections to Beat Autoimmune
Infections and autoimmune conditions go hand in hand. Learn about the common infection connection and what you can do to clear infections and beat autoimmune.
Rejuvenate Your Immune System to Beat Autoimmune
Infections like Lyme, Candida, and parasites are common with autoimmune disorders. Learn how to rejuvenate and unburden your immune system.
Gut
Top 6 Autoimmune Triggers You Can Control: Leaky Gut
Turns our Hippocrates was right: All disease begins in the gut! Learn about the connection between leaky gut and autoimmune conditions; and then how to heal and seal your gut.
Hormones
Balance Your Hormones to Beat Autoimmune
To prevent or heal from an autoimmune disorder, you’ll need to identify your personal triggers so you can eliminate them, minimize your exposure, or, in the case of hormone, get them balanced.
Toxins
10 Ways to Lighten Your Toxic Load
Toxins are The Big Reason autoimmune disorders are epidemic. Here are ten things you can do to lighten your toxic load right away.
Banish Belly Fat to Beat Autoimmune
Belly fat is a big risk factor for insulin resistance, diabetes, autoimmune conditions, and Alzheimer's. The combo of fasting and a keto diet works!
Top 6 Autoimmune Triggers: Toxins
Stealthy but powerful toxins are driving the autoimmune epidemic. Learn how to clean up your own environment to get on and stay on the path to good health.
Stress
Eight Essential, Easy and Free Stress-Melting Strategies
The holidays can be a source of stress and sadness for many. Good news, here are eight free, easy and scientifically-proven strategies to lift your spirits any time of year.
Beat Autoimmune with Baby Steps: Mindset Matters
Healing is a mind-body-spirit adventure, and it starts with one step: embracing the right mindset. Know you can and decide you will.
Manifesto for Healing Autoimmune Conditions
There are many ways to start giving yourself the gifts of health. But the number of lifestyle changes recommended can be a little overwhelming. The Beat Autoimmune healing manifesto offers a simplified snapshot of healing actions that address wellness of mind, body and spirit. Pick a few to try today and see what a difference healthy habits can make.
Take Five to Relax and Ease Autoimmune
Life is hard and none of us escapes traumatic events. Finding calm in the midst of the mess is not a luxury; it's essential for healing.
Get Into Nature to Ease Autoimmune
Getting into nature helps us actively engage the relaxation response, which is the healing state needed to beat autoimmune.
Featured Posts
Manifesto for Healing Autoimmune Conditions
There are many ways to start giving yourself the gifts of health. But the number of lifestyle changes recommended can be a little overwhelming. The Beat Autoimmune healing manifesto offers a simplified snapshot of healing actions that address wellness of mind, body and spirit. Pick a few to try today and see what a difference healthy habits can make.
Why Now is the Best Time to Beat Autoimmune
While these are unprecedented times with COVID-19, there is so much that you can do to create more certainty and control over your personal health outcomes. The framework I created to help people beat autoimmune called F.I.G.H.T.S.™ can also help you safeguard your health. against COVID-19. Here's how.
The Autoimmune-COVID Connection and How to Safeguard Your Health
Research is revealing links between COVID and autoimmunity. Learn what you can do to optimize your immune function, safeguard your health, and beat autoimmune with the F.I.G.H.T.S.™ framework.
Featured Podcasts
How to Beat Autoimmune with Palmer Kippola on the Dr. Hedberg...
Functional Medicine expert, Dr. Nik Hedberg interviewed me about how you can beat autoimmune conditions following the F.I.G.H.T.S.™ framework.
Overcome Autoimmune on Ann Louise Gittleman Podcast
I'm honored to be have been on The First Lady of Nutrition podcast with one of my health sheroes, Ann Louise Gittleman, to discuss how to beat autoimmune.
Beat Autoimmune on The Other Side of Weight Loss Podcast
Palmer Kippola and Karen Martel discuss the top ways that you can beat autoimmune conditions
