The Autoimmune Disease Diet: The Basic Guidelines for Healthy Eating

A Functional and Sustainable Autoimmune Diet Protocol... Diet is the base of any healing protocol for any disease. While some people may experience some minute benefits from using natural, alternative treatments for autoimmune disease without adopting healthy, appropriate dietary practices, most patients see the most positive changes when they choose to make dietary changes. The Autoimmune Disease Diet doesn't have to be boring, and to be clear, following this diet doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to give up your favorite foods. It does require some creativity, in some cases, to “remake” the foods that bring you joy (feeling happy is important for healing, too, after all), but I find that the vast majority of so-called “comfort” foods are attainable with healthy, whole ingredients s...

Diet Protocols for Autoimmune Disease Patients: The Budwig Diet, The Gerson Protocol, and More to Cure Autoimmunity

Which diets can cure autoimmune disease? The dietary guidelines that we’ve outlined so far in this chapter are heavily based on the guidelines of other well-known, highly effective disease-curing diets. While some of the information we give elsewhere differs slightly from the diets below (due to research and experience of our own), many of the guidelines we recommend to patients are based on diets that have been used for decades to successfully cure cancer, autoimmune disease, and other serious illnesses. Below, we talk about the Budwig Diet, the Gerson Diet, and the China Study Diet as important, groundbreaking dietary protocols. Patients with autoimmune disease will benefit from learning about these.  We also talk specifically about Sir Jason Winters Tea, a special herbal tea blen...

Toxic Load and Autoimmune Disease: How Pharmaceutical Drugs and Environmental Toxins Cause Autoimmunity

A Brief Overview of Toxins That Are Known to Cause Autoimmunity In May of 1981 in Spain, a new syndrome suddenly developed that was caused by the distribution of industrial rapeseed oil that had been refined to remove aniline denaturants. Itinerant salesmen had been selling unlabeled 5 liter bottles of this “refined oil” and ultimately, 20,000 people were affected by what later became known as Toxic Oil Syndrome. About 1,200 people died from exposure to this rapeseed oil which contained only traces of toxic fatty acid anilides and related compounds. Scientists are still not entirely sure what the contaminant was that actually caused Toxic Oil Syndrome and investigation into this health problem continues. Though Toxic Oil Syndrome was eventually identified as a type of poisoning, pat...

How Vitamin B-Complex Deficiency Causes Autoimmune Disease

Surprising Autoimmune Disease Symptoms Caused by B Vitamin Deficiencies Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) Formal thiamine deficiency disease is known as beriberi, and can manifest in 3 different forms: dry beriberi, wet beriberi, or gastrointestinal beriberi. Dry beriberi predominantly affects the nervous system, wet beriberi affects the cardiovascular system, and gastrointestinal beriberi, of course, affects the gastrointestinal system. Because thiamine deficiency can affect such different areas of the body, it can be difficult to pin down in the more early stages. Vitamin B1 deficiency is often misdiagnosed as another kind of disease; while misdiagnosis isn’t a good thing, the positive part of having too little of a particular nutrient, like vitamin B1, is that the health problems caused by the de...

Reflections on Paraneoplastic Autoimmune Disease: An Important Autoimmune Disease and Cancer Cure: Is Cancer an Autoimmune Disease or Vice Versa?

A number of autoimmune diseases are strongly correlated with cancer and vice versa. In this article, we discuss Lugol's iodine 2% as a cure for both autoimmune disease and cancer, but we also provide some other important medicinal footholds to get you started on the path toward healing. If you have an autoimmune disease diagnosis and/or a cancer diagnosis, you will need to use more than just one medicine to heal, but Lugol's iodine 2% is an excellent place to start if you want to experience gains within a relatively short period of time. Getting Started: The Beginner’s Autoimmune Disease and Cancer Cure Important Update: In the following article, we talk in depth about iodine deficiency as a major cause of autoimmune disease. Since it was written, we have been researching organophospha...

Lithium Orotate and Autoimmunity: Essential Trace Mineral for Autoimmune Disease Treatment

How Lithium Orotate Can Cure Nervous System Autoimmunity Studies have shown that in areas of the world where there is a slightly higher amount of natural lithium salts in the water supply, there are lower levels of suicide, homocide, violence, depression, and mental health issues in general. Low levels of lithium are found in seawater supplements as well as in Himalayan sea salt and shilajit, but some individuals with mood disorders might choose to take a microdose of Lithium orotate at 5 mg to ensure that they get the proper amount each day. Lithium orotate may be increased safely to a dose of 20mg per day in most people, or even to a dose of up to 80-100mg under supervision. Lithium, like cesium therapy, is alkalizing, so higher doses should ideally be monitored by a professional. Aut...

How to Detoxify the Body and Heal from Autoimmune Disease, Cancer, and Other Serious Diseases

If you've been diagnosed with a major disease and you have mercury amalgam fillings or if you've been exposed to other sources of mercury or heavy metals, your first goal will be to remove mercury and heavy metals from the body to begin restoring your health. How to Detoxify Your Liver:  How to Detoxify Your Life If you’re ready to cure cancer or cure an autoimmune disease,  scleroderma, herpes, or some other serious disease and you’re wondering where to start, one of the most obvious things you can do is get rid of toxicities in your daily life. One of the reasons why it’s good to detoxify is because the liver is an organ of detoxification that is often host to pathogens that underlie autoimmune diseases. And a high toxic load can definitely make the process of recovery from cancer go...

A Different Way to View Autoimmune Disease Symptoms: Finding the Autoimmune Control Mechanism

Dr. Francis Pottenger believed that many diseases were caused by nothing but an imbalance between the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous system branches. Indeed, Sympathetic Dominance involves trigger-point pains that move around to various locations while Parasympethic "Play-Dead" mode involves symptoms like headaches, fever, extreme fatigue, general achiness (as opposed to painful trigger points), and depression. We explore the validity of balancing the Autonomic Nervous System function by meandering through a discussion of pH, Somatids and Microzymas, as well as breathwork to explain how these seemingly divergent concepts work together in the treatment of Autoimmune Disease. Can You Control Autoimmune Disease? It Might Be Easier Than You Think... I’m not going to dispute the leg...

Pau d'Arco: A Natural Herbal Treatment for Toxoplasmosis, Autoimmune Disease, Lyme Coinfections, and More...

Pau d'Arco as a Potent Herbal Antiparasitic Medicine Pau d’Arco is a plant medicine native to Brazil and other parts of the Amazonian rainforest, and today grows throughout Mexico, Central America, and South America. The tree was previously (and widely) known formally as Tabebuia impetiginosa, but was recently renamed as Handroanthus impetiginosus. This is an important detail, since it would be easy to get confused and wonder if these are actually two different plants, which is why I want to draw special attention to the fact that there are two commonly used Latin names for Pau d’Arco. Additionally, there are two varieties of Pau d’Arco: the purple-flowered plant and the yellow-flowered plant. Generally speaking, the purple-flowered Pau d’Arco variety supplied the most potent tree bark...

Do organophosphate pesticides cause autoimmune disease?

How Pesticides Contribute to the Development of Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Autoimmune Thyroid Disease, Autoimmune Hepatitis, and Other Types of Autoimmune Disease The link between autoimmune disease and organophosphate exposure exists, and has in fact been studied extensively. Unfortunately, however, the research into this connection is difficult to find, since this is a link that would be devastating to Big Pharma should the public find out about it. Of the research that exists, much of it is fairly convoluted and highly technical. In other words, it’s been designed to be not only difficult to find in the first place, but also difficult to understand for the average person wanting to cure their disease. This makes it so that the average person is more likely to just “pass over”informat...

Autoimmune Disease as an Infection: The Problem with Consensus-Based Science

Patients who have been diagnosed with autoimmune disease may struggle to find cures for autoimmunity online because, as with cancer cures, most have been hidden carefully under written content that was paid for by Big Pharma. Autoimmune Disease Causing Infection or Infection Causing Autoimmune Disease? Conversations that Lydian and I have had with people who have autoimmune conditions tend to begin with a long explanation about why the patient no longer believes what their doctor is telling them about their disease. Patients with autoimmune disorders spend a lot of time and energy (a precious commodity) defending themselves to their doctors and to other people around them if their views about their disease conflict with conventional medicine. Autoimmune disease, after all, features comp...

Sulfur Supplementation for Autoimmune Disease

The Role of Sulfur Deficiency in Autoimmune Disease Development Sulfur is a major mineral, and though it doesn’t have a formally established RDA in the United States, this doesn’t diminish its importance for human health and healing. Most easily accessible sources will tell you that sulfur deficiency in the US and developed countries is rare. But, the reality is that a large number of people are deficient in this essential mineral. People who eat a diet low in animal proteins and high in grains and cereals (like vegans or strict vegetarians) are especially likely to become deficient in sulfur, but even people who eat a variety of foods rich in sulfur (such as eggs, onions, meats and eggs, nuts, cruciferous vegetables, etc) may become deficient if they eat foods that were grown in sulfur...