AIP should be thought of as an elimination diet that is focused on analyzing
all potentially inflammatory foods for a highly reactive population.
I begin by reducing
potentially inflammatory foods — and for kids, that includes all of those snacks with food additives, artificial colors and preservatives as well as those high in refined sugars.
It gives your body a temporary break from
potentially inflammatory foods and then lets you reintroduce them to determine what works best for you.
From my understanding, once the body has an autoimmune reaction, it can sometimes be necessary to remove a wide variety of
potentially inflammatory foods for a short time and then reintroduce to test the response.
The general idea of the autoimmune diet is that you are removing
any potentially inflammatory foods, but the specifics are a bit more difficult.
Though your body will need a little time to heal from the off - plan,
potentially inflammatory food, it doesn't undo all the progress you had made until that point.
Not exact matches
If adaptive system antibodies are created against that
food or bacteria, then an
inflammatory response can
potentially be initiated every time one of them is encountered.
In women (60 cases), associations of GI and
foods rich in refined sugars or refined starches with
inflammatory disease mortality were more pronounced than in the analyses considering all
potentially inflammatory disease — related causes of death [adjusted HRs (95 % CI) in tertiles 2 and 3: 2.68 (1.06, 6.79) and 4.97 (2.00, 12.36)(P for trend: 0.0002) and 1.36 (0.67, 2.76) and 2.11 (1.09, 4.10)(P for trend: 0.02), respectively].
Inflammatory foods are almost all good, plain whole
foods; the sort of thing you would never suspect of causing
potentially lethal damage.
In this diet, you will be eliminating all
potentially stressful and
inflammatory foods from your diet for a period of time, letting your body heal, and then slowly introducing them in a controlled manner — one
food at a time, allowing 3 days to notice a reaction.
Dr. Karen Becker of HealthyPets.com advocates avoiding
foods that are
potentially inflammatory, such as the carbohydrates of wheat, corn, millet and rice.