Also, please see my blog posts about specific
vegetable types (the broccoli family, the
nightshades) and my blog post about food and hypothyroidism for answers to some of your other questions.
An extension of the paleolithic diet, the autoimmune paleo diet not only excludes grains, dairy, and legumes, but it
also removes other potentially immunogenic substances including eggs, nuts, seeds, refined sugar, alcohol, food additives, and
nightshade vegetables such as sweet and hot peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, and goji berries (1).