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From AIP Resistance to Total Buy-In: My Honest Review of The New Autoimmune Protocol [Bonus Book Review] · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  If you judge a book by its cover, you are going to want to read the book that I am reviewing today.
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  If you judge a book by the topic, you may or may not want to read this one.
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  I was in the may not category actually, because this is the new autoimmune protocol.
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  And I was so stressed out by the original AIP that I was really hesitant to
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  even accept the interview with Mickey Trescott, the author.
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  And then after interviewing her, I realized, oh my goodness,
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  I could actually do this.
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  This does not sound as stressful and as hard as it did back when I looked at AIP initially.
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  So I was actually, I went from resistant to very interested in reading the new autoimmune protocol.
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  I'll give you my full review, but let me jump to the important part.
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  How many stars did I give it? five stars, absolutely five stars for the new autoimmune protocol.
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  Welcome to a bonus episode of the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  On bonus episodes, I do book reviews.
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  I would love to know what books I should be reading next. What do you recommend?
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  Let's talk about it. Hop over to the Health with Hashimoto's community over
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  on school.com, S-K-O-O-L.com, and let me know what books I should be reading next.
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  For any book that I give a positive book review to, there will be an affiliate
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  link down in the show notes.
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  Of course, you can still go to your local library and support your local bookstore.
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  Amazon is just available for everybody. So the affiliate link is down there.
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  I have several episodes on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast all about diets
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  because it's something that impacts autoimmune disease, especially Hashimoto's, so significantly.
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  It is a huge topic, something that everybody is very interested in.
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  We want to learn about it.
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  We want to figure out what we can and cannot eat.
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  A lot of times we also want to know the loopholes so that we can still feel
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  like ourselves and eat quote, normal food.
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  So my most pop, one of my most popular episodes is episode 44.
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  And it is selecting the diet that's going to work for you. And I still stand
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  by that episode. Absolutely.
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  The main point of it, you can go back and listen. But the main point is you
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  have to figure out what works for you in all areas of life, not just diet.
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  If you have like so much stress around cutting out different ingredients and
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  preparing something different for yourself while your family eats a different meal.
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  And then you're super lonely because even sitting at the same table with everybody,
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  you're isolated because you're eating completely different food.
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  Like if that's your story, then you have to figure out what is going to be overall healthier for you.
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  Is cutting out the foods that are inflammatory for you going to be healthier
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  from a diet perspective? Absolutely.
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  But is it worth all of the increased stress and the increased loneliness and
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  the isolation and all of the other things that you feel? It might not be.
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  So listen to episode 44 if you want all of my thoughts.
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  And some of those thoughts came out of trying to implement different diet strategies.
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  I've shared my story about going gluten-free before.
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  Essentially, I had to go on an elimination diet when my youngest was a baby
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  because of some allergies for him. And when I added gluten back into my diet.
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  It turned out he could tolerate it, but I couldn't. Later on when I was diagnosed
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  with Hashimoto's, I looked at information like AIP and I thought about implementing it.
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  I tried to implement it, but what happened for me is I didn't have a good strategy
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  of what to eat instead and faced with cupboards full of foods that I don't typically eat,
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  I would open them and I would get stressed. Now, like, I don't know what to eat.
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  None of that looks good because I am a very routine-based eater.
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  Like, I eat the same thing multiple times a week.
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  And so when it was different foods, then I just wouldn't eat.
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  I would look at the cupboards and like, I'm not hungry enough to want that.
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  And so then I wouldn't eat. And so that's not healthy.
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  So when Mickey reached out and I was like, hey, do you want to talk about the
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  new autoimmune protocol, my book that's coming out?
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  Initially, I was hesitant because I struggle with diet changes,
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  which is why I am so compassionate and empathetic when my clients are struggling with that.
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  If you have booked a Hashimoto's root cause reset, you know that we take your
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  diet very seriously and we want to know what's going on in your diet.
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  I have you track your foods so that we can see right.
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  If there are obvious red flags first, and then we implement at your pace.
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  We figure out what are the small changes you can do. Can you cut out gluten?
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  Can you implement something like the new AIP?
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  Is that going to work for you? And how can we make it work?
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  Because coming from my experience, you can't just stop eating and hope to be healthier.
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  That's not how it works. I want everybody to do it better.
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  So I loved talking to Mickey Trescott the other week. She is so personable,
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  easy to talk to, and so knowledgeable.
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  And in that interview, she really made AIP feel more approachable.
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  And I don't know if that's how you felt at the end of that interview too.
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  Well, reading her book, The New Autoimmune Protocol, is amazing. I highly recommend it.
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  Like I said, five stars. I'm going to read a couple bits from the book.
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  And she did send me this book.
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  Obviously, she did not ask me to give a five-star review.
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  All of my reviews, my thoughts, everything are my own. I just do want to acknowledge
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  that she sent me this book.
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  One of the parts that really stood out to me in the preface,
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  she said, Despite my persistent symptoms, doctors had a little to offer besides
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  diagnosing me with two autoimmune conditions, wishing me good luck, and sending me on my way.
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  Anyone who has struggled with an autoimmune diagnosis knows this feeling well.
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  The crushing mix of frustration, fear, and the hope that if you just keep looking
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  or keep asking, there might be a path forward. Can you relate to that?
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  I can relate to that. And I can relate to it by hearing all of my clients and
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  so many people telling me their stories.
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  I know that this is not just Mickey's story.
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  That feeling of frustration, fear, and the hope that if you just keep asking
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  the right questions, something is going to, like light bulbs are going to turn
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  on, you're all of a sudden going to know what to do. I understand that completely.
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  So what is AIP? Reading from the preface, again, she gives the definition.
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  She says, AIP is a systematic and evidence-based approach to determining which
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  foods and lifestyle components are supportive of your best health,
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  even if you experience a chronic illness like autoimmune disease.
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  This is done through implementing a specific dietary and lifestyle protocol
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  with three consecutive phases.
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  Transition, elimination, and reintroduction, usually over a period of three to six months.
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  Now this is another part that caught me off guard when we were doing the interview.
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  I thought that AIP was a lifelong thing.
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  And hearing Mickey say that it's not, that it's not designed to be lifelong.
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  And if you persist with like cutting out tons and tons of foods forever,
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  you're going to end up having more problems.
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  So hearing that there's like a time-defined time.
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  An end date that gave me so much hope.
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  And I was like, Oh, maybe I can do this. I don't know about you.
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  I don't know what you're feeling just listening to my review right now.
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  But maybe you also are feeling like, Oh, this this is doable.
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  It's not as scary as I initially thought when I read about it online.
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  Because let's be honest, that's where most of us hear and read about the different diet advice.
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  It's online, it might be on TikTok, on Instagram, on YouTube,
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  on blogs, on podcasts like this, but a lot of us get our information about diet stuff online.
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  And one thing I appreciate in this book is it was written because,
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  as she says, quote, while the original protocol remained valuable,
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  there was also a need for a more accessible option.
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  The result was a shift to two distinct elimination phase approaches.
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  Core AIP, which follows the traditional elimination and reintroduction framework,
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  and then modified AIP, a more flexible,
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  expansive option designed to improve affordability and accessibility while still
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  delivering consistent results.
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  This is a book that is worth your time. It is worth your time.
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  It's worth your dollars.
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  The first, oh, maybe third is maybe half a year.
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  Maybe third. Anyway, the first part is information. It's teaching you what is AIP.
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  How can you prepare? How can you prepare your pantry? How can you prepare your
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  body? How can you prepare your mind?
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  How can you get ready to do it in a healthy, sustainable way?
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  And then the second part is a cookbook.
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  This is a gorgeous cookbook. It's one of the cookbooks where you can flip through
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  the pages and just admire the pictures.
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  Every single dish has a gorgeous picture that makes you want to make the dish and eat the dish.
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  I don't know about you, but I absolutely judge a recipe by the picture.
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  Even though I know that my plates, my settings, my presentation isn't going
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  to be that pretty, but I love a cookbook that shows me what the food is going to look like.
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  If it doesn't have a picture, I will probably not make it. I don't know about you.
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  This cookbook is gorgeous.
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  I feel like the entire book is so accessible and kind. It is written to you.
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  It's written to somebody who is dealing with an autoimmune disease.
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  Doesn't want, can't handle too much overwhelm, needs somebody to say this is
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  exactly how to do it. And you know what?
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  If this is too much, here's a way to have a modified version so that it's even
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  more accessible the writing is accessible it feels like she's right there kindly
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  explaining things this is not a lecture this is a friend talking to you about
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  how to make it work for you.
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  Five stars for sure. You can get the book anywhere the books are sold.
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  Of course, it's on Amazon.
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  And because that's available for everybody, that's the link I have down in the
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  show notes. But you can go to your local library or not.
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  I mean, you can. You can go to your library. You can go to your local bookstore.
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  Hopefully, everybody has it
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  on the shelf because it's gorgeous and it's going to help so many people.
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  Diet is very, very, very important when you have an autoimmune problem.
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  And this book is worth your time.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional.
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  No statements have been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and any
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  products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.