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**The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast**

The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast is brought to you by Mickey Trescott, MSc., a functional nutritionist, chef, and author of three best-selling books: The Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook, and The Nutrient-Dense Kitchen. After personally navigating life with Hashimoto’s disease and celiac disease, Mickey is passionate about empowering others to take charge of their health. She is the creator of the AIP Certified Coach Practitioner Training Program and co-founder of Autoimmune Wellness, a platform dedicated to helping people find a path to healing using the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP). Her approach blends evidence-based principles from both natural and conventional medicine to give those with autoimmune disease their best chance at a vibrant, healthy life.

This podcast was originally co-hosted with Angie Alt, NTC, CHC, who helped launch the show and contributed significantly to its early success through her advocacy and personal story of living with endometriosis, lichen sclerosis, and celiac disease.

For more information on the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP), visit autoimmunewellness.com.

Latest Episodes:

AWPBlog10 — **The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Episode #10: Step 5: Breathe – Our Stories** Sep 26, 2016
Show notes

This post contains affiliate links. Click here to see what that means!
In order to support our blogging activities, we may receive monetary compensation or other types or remuneration for our endorsement, recommendation, testimonial, and/or link to any products or services from this blog.
That being said, we only promote authors, products, and services that we wholeheartedly stand by!

Welcome to The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Season 1! We’ve created this podcast as a free resource to accompany our upcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness.

**Episode #10: Step 5: Breathe – Our Stories** is an episode all about our real experiences with stress, from how things look when stress is seriously mismanaged to the impact of our ideal routines. We talk about how autoimmune disease itself is a source of stress that cannot be changed and how we’ve approached that, as well as “good” stress like parenting or running a successful business. We both share the things we do that are most effective in our efforts to control stress and give tips for you to try out in your own stress management process. This episode is a great match for listeners who want to know if we are zen masters or real human beings!

If you aren’t sure if Step 5: Breathe, needs your attention, check out the “Where Are You on the Stress-Management Spectrum” self-test in Chapter 5. This test will help you identify if this is a low, moderate, or high-priority area. Moderate and high-priority scores means this area needs your action.

How to listen:

If you’d like to have our podcasts sent directly to your device, subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher!

If you’d like to download the .mp3, you can do so by following this link.

If you’d like to play the episode right now in your browser, use the player below!

Show Notes:

**0:00** Intro

**1:51** The importance of Breathe

**2:23** Angie shares what happens when she mismanages stress

**4:03** Mickey shares what happens when she mismanages stress

**5:30** Physical illness as the result of run-away stress

Angie shares about coming down with Mono

**9:13** Parenting and other sources of “good” stress

**11:23** Mickey’s stress management routine

Prioritization

Choices

Calendaring

**14:51** Angie’s stress management routine

Prioritization

Scheduling

Connecting

Practicing Gratitude (public expressions of appreciation)

Praying/Meditating

**17:23** Angie talks about finding ways to disconnect even as a business owner

Taking personal breaks results in professional rewards

**19:06** Mickey talks about finding great joy in work with boundaries

**20:04** “The Friday Feeling” (you guys know what we’re talking about!)

**21:41** Specific stress management steps mentioned in The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook that have meant to most for us

Identify

Eliminate

Reframe (and the positive impact on dealing with autoimmune disease)

**24:56** The power of reframing for managing stress that cannot be changed

**25:24** Self-care is not selfish (specifically for mothers)

Angie discusses “The Plane Crash” scenario

**27:40** Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Yearly habits to cultivate for stress management

**32:00** The importance of vacations, both short and longer breaks

**35:00** Your homework for Step 5, Breathe!

Try out the “Mindfulness Tips” in Chapter 5 of The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook to try out ways to bring your mind into greater awareness of your present experiences.

**35:21** Outro

Wait–before you go!

**If you enjoyed the podcast, would you mind leaving us a review in iTunes?** This helps introduce our work to a new audience as we climb the ranks in their system.

**The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast** is a complimentary resource to our forthcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness. Support us in our mission to revolutionize how autoimmune disease is viewed and treated by pre-ordering your copy today!

Pre-order your copy:

// Amazon
// Barnes & Noble
// iBooks
// Books-a-Million
// Indiebound
// Powell’s

**Check out the previous episode, Episode #9: Dan Pardi on Sleeping Optimally, and the next episode, Episode #11: Jason Handler, Lac. on Stress Management. For the full podcast archive, click here.**

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AWH Cover — **The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Episode #10: Step 5: Breathe – Our Stories** Sep 26, 2016
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This post contains affiliate links. Click here to see what that means!
In order to support our blogging activities, we may receive monetary compensation or other types or remuneration for our endorsement, recommendation, testimonial, and/or link to any products or services from this blog.
That being said, we only promote authors, products, and services that we wholeheartedly stand by!

Welcome to The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Season 1! We’ve created this podcast as a free resource to accompany our upcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness.

**Episode #10: Step 5: Breathe – Our Stories** is an episode all about our real experiences with stress, from how things look when stress is seriously mismanaged to the impact of our ideal routines. We talk about how autoimmune disease itself is a source of stress that cannot be changed and how we’ve approached that, as well as “good” stress like parenting or running a successful business. We both share the things we do that are most effective in our efforts to control stress and give tips for you to try out in your own stress management process. This episode is a great match for listeners who want to know if we are zen masters or real human beings!

If you aren’t sure if Step 5: Breathe, needs your attention, check out the “Where Are You on the Stress-Management Spectrum” self-test in Chapter 5. This test will help you identify if this is a low, moderate, or high-priority area. Moderate and high-priority scores means this area needs your action.

How to listen:

If you’d like to have our podcasts sent directly to your device, subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher!

If you’d like to download the .mp3, you can do so by following this link.

If you’d like to play the episode right now in your browser, use the player below!

Show Notes:

**0:00** Intro

**1:51** The importance of Breathe

**2:23** Angie shares what happens when she mismanages stress

**4:03** Mickey shares what happens when she mismanages stress

**5:30** Physical illness as the result of run-away stress

Angie shares about coming down with Mono

**9:13** Parenting and other sources of “good” stress

**11:23** Mickey’s stress management routine

Prioritization

Choices

Calendaring

**14:51** Angie’s stress management routine

Prioritization

Scheduling

Connecting

Practicing Gratitude (public expressions of appreciation)

Praying/Meditating

**17:23** Angie talks about finding ways to disconnect even as a business owner

Taking personal breaks results in professional rewards

**19:06** Mickey talks about finding great joy in work with boundaries

**20:04** “The Friday Feeling” (you guys know what we’re talking about!)

**21:41** Specific stress management steps mentioned in The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook that have meant to most for us

Identify

Eliminate

Reframe (and the positive impact on dealing with autoimmune disease)

**24:56** The power of reframing for managing stress that cannot be changed

**25:24** Self-care is not selfish (specifically for mothers)

Angie discusses “The Plane Crash” scenario

**27:40** Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Yearly habits to cultivate for stress management

**32:00** The importance of vacations, both short and longer breaks

**35:00** Your homework for Step 5, Breathe!

Try out the “Mindfulness Tips” in Chapter 5 of The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook to try out ways to bring your mind into greater awareness of your present experiences.

**35:21** Outro

Wait–before you go!

**If you enjoyed the podcast, would you mind leaving us a review in iTunes?** This helps introduce our work to a new audience as we climb the ranks in their system.

**The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast** is a complimentary resource to our forthcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness. Support us in our mission to revolutionize how autoimmune disease is viewed and treated by pre-ordering your copy today!

Pre-order your copy:

// Amazon
// Barnes & Noble
// iBooks
// Books-a-Million
// Indiebound
// Powell’s

**Check out the previous episode, Episode #9: Dan Pardi on Sleeping Optimally, and the next episode, Episode #11: Jason Handler, Lac. on Stress Management. For the full podcast archive, click here.**

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AWPBlog9 — **The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Episode #9: Step 4: In-Depth with Dan Pardi, MS** Sep 22, 2016
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Welcome to The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Season 1! We’ve created this podcast as a free resource to accompany our upcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness.

Episode #9: Step 4: In-Depth with Dan Pardi, M.S. is an episode with some truly mind-blowing information about sleep from a well-known sleep researcher in the Ancestral Health community. We’ve been following Dan for a long time and were lucky enough to have him as a guest to chat all things sleep. Dan discusses how he found himself steeped in sleep research, his basic recommendations for good sleep, and then he gets into some fascinating detail on everything from our internal “master clocks” to how sleep hormones directly impact the bacteria in our gut. This episode is for those who want to learn new and very interesting things when it comes to sleep!

If you want to understand more of what Dan talks about in this episode, but in “non-scientist speak,” check out the “How Does Sleep Work?” section in Chapter 4. It offers a simple, but thorough explanation of cycles and biological processes that work to produce sleep.

How to listen:

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If you’d like to download the .mp3, you can do so by following this link.

If you’d like to play the episode right now in your browser, use the player below!

Show Notes:

**0:00** Intro

**1:53** Introducing Dan

Dan’s Bio

Dan’s Plan (soon-to-be Human OS)

**2:45** Dan’s personal experience with sleep disturbance

Narcolepsy (an autoimmune disorder)

Circadian Rhythm

**6:15** Dan’s path into sleep research

Dan mentions the term “social jet lag,” which is a syndrome that occurs when our internal clocks and our sleep schedules are not aligned.

**7:29** Dan describes how he recognized his research could help others

Dan uses the term “orphan disorder,” which is a term describing very rare diseases (and sometimes more common, but ignored diseases) that aren’t well researched due to lack of financial incentive for drug development.

**10:57** The power of going from a bystander to a participant in your health

**14:03** Why tracking helps improve health outcomes

**16:15** Dan’s basic recommendations for good sleep

Start with an aspiration (“I want to wake refreshed.”)

Timing (this is about consistency)

Intensity

Duration

**20:50** What is the maximum variation we can shift our sleep schedules with the minimal effects?

Dan’s Answer? Three hours.

**24:51** Sleep consistency vs. other concerns with other areas of sleep and/or social concerns

There is a time to say “yes” to special occasions, despite the sleep schedule disruption.

**27:50** Dan shares an interesting tidbit about the consequences to siesta cultures as they lose the daytime nap in the competitive modern economy, but continue the nighttime socializing.

**28:35** Light and sleep

Dan uses the word, “suprachiasmatic nucleus,” which is our body’s master clock.

Loss of sleep eventually effects the immune system, leading to inflammation, and in time can lead to autoimmune disease.

We need light to act as an anchor to our circadian rhythm.

Melatonin directly impacts our gut health.

Blue light exposure

Amber glasses

**38:47** Wrapping up with Dan (including some interesting research he shares on drinking champagne . . . we recommend going slow in the AIP community!)

**40:26** Outro

Wait–before you go!

**If you enjoyed the podcast, would you mind leaving us a review in iTunes?** This helps introduce our work to a new audience as we climb the ranks in their system.

**The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast** is a complimentary resource to our forthcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness. Support us in our mission to revolutionize how autoimmune disease is viewed and treated by pre-ordering your copy today!

Pre-order your copy:

// Amazon
// Barnes & Noble
// iBooks
// Books-a-Million
// Indiebound
// Powell’s

**Check out the previous episode, Episode #8: Step 4: Rest – Our Stories, and the next episode, Episode #10: Step 5: Breathe – Our Stories. For the full podcast archive, click here.**

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AWPBlog8 — **The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Episode #8: Step 4: Rest – Our Stories** Sep 19, 2016
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This post contains affiliate links. Click here to see what that means!
In order to support our blogging activities, we may receive monetary compensation or other types or remuneration for our endorsement, recommendation, testimonial, and/or link to any products or services from this blog.
That being said, we only promote authors, products, and services that we wholeheartedly stand by!

Welcome to The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Season 1! We’ve created this podcast as a free resource to accompany our upcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness.

Episode #8: Step 4: Rest – Our Stories is an episode focused on our early sleep struggles, breakthroughs that helped us sleep more and speed healing, and what our sleep routines are like now. We also talk about autoimmune disease symptoms and the intimate role they can play in disrupting much needed sleep and how we tackle prioritizing sleep in a culture that seriously undervalues it. This episode is for you if you’d like insider deets on troubleshooting steps that paid big dividends for us when we were first working to improve our sleep or if you are looking for tips on staying on track with your sleep routine once it’s in place.

If you aren’t sure how much energy you need to put into Step 4: Rest, check out the “Where Are You on the Sleep-Quality Spectrum” self-test in Chapter 4. This test will help you identify if this is a low, moderate, or high-priority area. If you score low-priority, high-five! You’ve already got this area dialed in!

How to listen:

If you’d like to have our podcasts sent directly to your device, subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher!

If you’d like to download the .mp3, you can do so by following this link.

If you’d like to play the episode right now in your browser, use the player below!

Show Notes:

**0:00** Intro

**1:51** The importance of Rest

**2:42** Mickey’s early sleep struggles

She worked as a barista for years and had to be up by 3:15 AM!

**4:42** Angie’s early sleep struggles

Panic attacks and anxiety plagued her sleep

**6:54** When autoimmune symptoms create sleep disturbances

Peripheral neuropathy

Blood pressure irregularity

Pain

**8:44** Mickey’s first sleep troubleshooting steps and breakthroughs

Neurotransmitter testing

Lifestyle adjustments

**11:26** Angie’s first sleep troubleshooting steps and breakthroughs

Blood sugar regulation (This blog post has great tips on blood sugar balance)

**13:00** Angie’s sleep now and struggles

Blue light exposure

Amber glasses

Snuggling (and the positive effects of oxytocin on sleep!)

How long did the elimination phase last for Angie?

**15:30** Sleep schedule with a family

**17:30** Mickey’s sleep now and struggles

Stress-driven insomnia

Meditation

**23:27** Dealing with the cultural message of “sleep can wait”

Mickey on social pressures

Angie on professional pressures

**27:33** Tips for staying on track with sleep routines

Phone zone

End of work day boundaries

Beginning of work day boundaries

**29:44** Your homework for Step 4, Rest!

Take a look at the “Sleep Troubleshooting Checklist” in Chapter 4 of The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook to help you evaluate if you are taking all the traditional steps for improving sleep and if there are any remaining areas to explore.

**30:49** Outro

Wait–before you go!

**If you enjoyed the podcast, would you mind leaving us a review in iTunes?** This helps introduce our work to a new audience as we climb the ranks in their system.

**The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast** is a complimentary resource to our forthcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness. Support us in our mission to revolutionize how autoimmune disease is viewed and treated by pre-ordering your copy today!

Pre-order your copy:

// Amazon
// Barnes & Noble
// iBooks
// Books-a-Million
// Indiebound
// Powell’s

**Check out the previous episode, Episode #7: Aglaee Jacob, RD on Nourishing Diets, and the next episode, Episode #9: Dan Pardi on Sleeping Optimally. For the full podcast archive, click here.**

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AWPBlog7 — **The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Episode #7: Step 3: In-Depth with Aglaée Jacob, MS, RD** Sep 15, 2016
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Welcome to The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Season 1! We’ve created this podcast as a free resource to accompany our upcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness.

Episode #7: Step 3: In-Depth with Aglaée Jacob, MS, RD is an episode dedicated to chatting with a well-known registered dietician in the “Real Foods” community. We greatly respect Aglaée’s work and asked her to join us in a conversation covering the deeper details of dietary healing, especially how to further modify AIP if healing is not as expected. Aglaée talks about FODMAP intolerance, starch intolerance, and histamine intolerance, all issues that can be uncovered while on AIP and may require specific modifications to help control uncomfortable symptoms. She also explores adding nutrient density with us and outlines new nutrition research she’s most interested in right now. One of the best parts of this episode is in the beginning, where Aglaée tells us about the powerful process she went through on the road to becoming a “Real Food” RD and the shift she sees happening years later in her profession. This episode is excellent if suspect that gut trouble is hindering your healing progress and need concrete details about tackling it.

If you’d like to go more in-depth on Step 3: Nourish, check out the “Nutrient Density” section in Chapter 3. This section gives even more detail on the nutrient density guidance that Aglaée shares in this episode.

How to listen:

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Show Notes:

**0:00** Intro

**1:58** Introducing Aglaeée

Aglaée’s Bio

Aglaée’s practice: Radicata Nutrition

Aglaee’s podcast: Real Food Mamas

Aglaée’s books: Digestive Health with Real Food and Digestive Health with Real Food Cookbook

**2:35** Aglaée shares about her experience with illness and how it inspired her work

A South American parasite helped her develop a new compassion for her patient’s struggles!

**5:40** How Aglaée discovered “Real Food” as an RD

The lack of results she saw following conventional guidelines with her patients made her start questioning the approach she’d been taught.

**9:38** Aglaée discusses the shift she sees other RDs making toward “Real Food”

Paleo RDs Network

**10:45** Aglaée talks AIP

**13:20** What are some specific modifications for gut dysbiosis?

Aglaée shares her positive mindset approach to elimination diets, “The goal of an elimination diet is not about the food, but to eliminate symptoms!”

FODMAP stands for Fermentable, Oligo-, Di-, Mono-saccharides And Polyols

**17:33** Should people remove additional foods if they suspect a FODMAP intolerance?

Aglaée’s advice is that it is best to work with a practitioner.

**19:40** What causes FODMAP intolerance?

Just eliminating foods is not a long-term solution to FODMAP intolerance, as it indicates an underlying imbalance.

SIBO stands for Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth

**21:10** Angie gives a special thanks to Aglaée for her awesome FODMAP guide

**21:45** What are some other dietary modifications to help with uncomfortable symptoms?

Low Starch

Low Histamine

**26:02** Tips for focusing on nutrient density

Homemade Bone Broth

Organ Meats

Cold-water Fatty Fish (like salmon)

**29:44** Aglaée shares new nutrition research she is exploring right now

Why Eating a Low-FODMAP Diet (for too long) is not Good for Your Gut

**34:20** Outro

Wait–before you go!

**If you enjoyed the podcast, would you mind leaving us a review in iTunes?** This helps introduce our work to a new audience as we climb the ranks in their system.

**The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast** is a complimentary resource to our forthcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness. Support us in our mission to revolutionize how autoimmune disease is viewed and treated by pre-ordering your copy today!

Pre-order your copy:

// Amazon
// Barnes & Noble
// iBooks
// Books-a-Million
// Indiebound
// Powell’s

**Check out the previous episode, Episode #6: Step 3: Nourish – Our Stories, and the next episode, Episode #8: Step 4: Rest – Our Stories. For the full podcast archive, click here.**

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AWPBlog6 — **The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Episode #6: Step 3: Nourish – Our Stories** Sep 12, 2016
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Welcome to The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Season 1! We’ve created this podcast as a free resource to accompany our upcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness.

Episode #6: Step 3: Nourish – Our Stories is all about what the real-life process of using the elimination and reintroduction format of the Autoimmune Protocol has looked like for us. Although we started the journey close to five years ago, the actual process, beginning with those first steps, is still very fresh in our minds. We share how we found AIP (at a time when the abundant resources and large support community did not exist), what we really ate before adopting AIP (one of us was a junk-food junky!), and what transitioning was like. We also discuss how we approached the reintroduction process, what has and has not worked, and how we were able to discern reactions that can seem confusing to spot. If you’ve ever wondered what we honestly eat and whether or not this was ever tough for us too, this episode is for you!

If you’ve already tried AIP and would like to go more in-depth on Step 3: Nourish, check out the “Troubleshooting” section in Chapter 3 for ideas on underlying issues that could be preventing progress. This section is packed with valuable details, including food guidance to help ease symptoms of common roadblocks.

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Show Notes:

**0:00** Intro

**1:51** The first concrete step toward wellness, Nourish

**2:48** How did Mickey find AIP?

Chris Kresser

Dr. Datis Kharrazian

Robb Wolf

**4:56** How did Angie find AIP?

What are lectins?

The Paleo Solution

**7:55** Mickey’s diet pre-AIP

Vegan background

The challenge of reintroducing meat

AIP as a template

**10:55** Angie’s diet pre-AIP

**13:41** Angie’s transition to AIP

The cold-turkey approach

**14:46** How long did the elimination phase last for Angie?

**15:15** Mickey’s transition and elimination phase length

The slow and steady approach

**17:36** A note of being aware of positive progress

**18:10** What changes made the biggest differences for Mickey?

The argument for nutrient density

**19:44** What changes made the biggest differences for Angie?

**20:32** Angie’s reintroduction experience and foods that produced reactions

Egg

White potato

Cumin

**23:18** Mickey’s reintroduction experience and foods that produced reactions

Nightshades

Eggs

Sesame Seed

Soy

**27:00** Balance with the AIP process

AIP Is Not A Religion

**28:14** Angie’s diet now

**29:40** Mickey’s diet now

**31:33** Noting the issue of “thresholds” with reintroduced foods overtime

**31:49** Bio-individuality in reintroduction (despite shared diagnosis)

**34:13** Your homework for Step 3, Nourish!

Take a look at the “Which Way Will Work for You” quiz in Chapter 3 of The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook to help you identify the transitioning style that is best for you if you want to take the plunge with AIP and use the handy guides after the quiz to show you how to get the ball rolling in a way best matched to your style.

**35:24** Outro

Wait–before you go!

**If you enjoyed the podcast, would you mind leaving us a review in iTunes?** This helps introduce our work to a new audience as we climb the ranks in their system.

**The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast** is a complimentary resource to our forthcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness. Support us in our mission to revolutionize how autoimmune disease is viewed and treated by pre-ordering your copy today!

Pre-order your copy:

// Amazon
// Barnes & Noble
// iBooks
// Books-a-Million
// Indiebound
// Powell’s

Check out the previous episode, Episode #5: Titus Chiu, DC on Practitioner Collaboration, and the next episode, Episode #7: Aglaee Jacob, RD on Nourishing Diets. For the full podcast archive, click here.

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AWPBlog5 — **The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Episode #5: Step 2: In-Depth with Dr. Titus Chiu** Sep 08, 2016
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**Welcome to The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Season 1!** We’ve created this podcast as a free resource to accompany our upcoming book, *The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness.*

**Episode #5: Step 2: In-Depth with Dr. Titus Chiu** is a conversation with award-winning professor, chiropractic neurologist, and functional medicine expert on practical collaboration and the overall collaborative spirit when it comes to healthcare. Titus talks with us about the specifics of collaboration between conventional and natural practitioners, including why the breakdowns in communication often occur. He also shares why he believes there is a new and positive future for a more collaborative healthcare environment. The best part of this episode comes at the end, when Titus talks about the deep root of meaningful collaboration (we wish every doctor approached communication like this!). This episode is awesome for insight into the healthcare experience from the “other side” of the exam table.

If you’d like to go more in-depth on Step 2: Collaborate, check out the “How Do You Build A Collaborative Team” section in Chapter 2. This section is very relevant to the guidance Titus shares in this episode.

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Show Notes:

**0:00** Intro

**1:50** Introducing Titus

Titus’s Bio

Titus and Dr. Fallahi’s Practice: KOBA Family Wellness Center

**3:20** Titus shares about his experience with illness and injury bringing him to healthcare

He was hit by a car in Japan and that changed everything!

**5:50** Titus tells us what an ideal patient looks like to a physician

Educated

Motivated

Enthusiastic

**9:23** Achieving deeper healing by facing our “demons” on the wellness journey

**10:03** What does collaboration with doctors in the conventional system look like?

Titus shares that this most often just looks like referrals

**11:38** How does practical communication occur between conventional and natural practitioners?

Titus reveals that it is a combination of sending reports on a patient’s progress and relaying information through the patient (this reinforces that we need to be the leaders of our healthcare teams!).

**14:53** Why is there a breakdown in communication between the two systems according to Titus?

Language

Goals

Approach

**16:20** Titus talks about why he believes there is a positive future for collaborative healthcare based on three points:

More open doctors

More open patients

Technology advances

**20:23** How should a patient handle a non-collaborative doctor?

**22:30** How can you effectively communicate your own knowledge when initiating a collaborative relationship with your doctor?

Titus talks about his very special, caring approach to patients who are overwhelming in their personal health research

**31:20** Outro

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AWPBlog4 — **The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Episode #4: Step 2: Collaborate – Our Stories** Sep 05, 2016
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Welcome to The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Season 1! We’ve created this podcast as a free resource to accompany our upcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness.

Episode #4: Step 2: Collaborate – Our Stories is centered on what collaboration with your healthcare team should look like and how that has realistically played out for us in our own journeys (hint: it was messy!). We discuss the types of healthcare practitioners out there and what it means to take responsibility for leading the collaborative effort in your own care. We even chat about nitty-gritty topics that aren’t often touch-on, like firing a provider, recognizing the need for medications or surgery, and the toll that medical debt can take on a person with chronic illness. Again, this is a personal episode, but meant to help our listeners be able to see this step on the wellness journey through an honest lens.

If you’d like to go more in-depth on Step 2: Collaborate, check out the “Evaluating Potential Providers Checklist” or the “Prioritizing Action Infographic,” both in Chapter 2. The checklist can help you ask the right questions as you seek to build a collaborative healthcare team, while the infographic helps you look at all the suggestions from Chapters 1 and 2 and then logically move forward on only those areas that are high priority for you.

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**0:00** Intro

**3:00** What is Collaborate?

**3:56** Mickey shares when she recognized collaborative care was necessary

The term “key player” is mentioned here, for more detail see the “How Do You Build A Collaborative Team” section of Chapter 2.

**6:30** Taking responsibility for leading collaboration in your care

**8:10** Describing the types of practitioners (understanding this allows you to choose the right people for the job, more detail can be found in Chapter 2)

Licensed Conventional Medical

Licensed Natural Medical

Licensed Complementary-Care

Non-medical, Non-Licensed

**10:00** Angie talks about her experience integrating care

**11:50** Patient lead open communication with providers

**13:50** Mickey talks about firing practitioners

**17:55** The need for medication and/or surgery and our experiences

Where Medication Fits on a Healing Diet

**21:40** How to navigate healthcare spending

**25:15** Mickey shares about the toll medical debt took on her and her family

**29:00** Angie explains how medical debt stirred her to action in her journey

**31:20** Realistic look at transitioning a budget to focus on food/self-care

**34:13** Your homework for Step 2, Collaborate!

Take a look at the “Prioritizing Action Infographic” in Chapter 2 of The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook to prioritize areas explored in Chapter 1 and 2, before moving on to the next steps in the wellness journey.

**35:34** Outro

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AWPBlog3 — **The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Episode #3: Step 1: In-Depth with Sarah Ballantyne, Ph.D.** Sep 01, 2016
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Welcome to The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Season 1! We’ve created this podcast as a free resource to accompany our upcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness.

Episode #3: Step 1: In-Depth with Sarah Ballantyne, Ph.D. is a conversation with the AIP expert covering everything from the basics of immune system function to prevention, testing, and treatment for autoimmune disease. In this great discussion, Sarah talks specifics about who is at risk for developing autoimmune disease, including the “accidents” of antibody formation. Very interestingly, she spoke with us about how our immune systems are “nutrient hogs” and how that applies to the healing approach of AIP. And yes, we all shared a little emotional moment to reflect on the ripple effect of Sarah’s work. This is a great episode for taking those first steps in truly informing yourself about autoimmune disease.

If you’d like to go more in-depth on Step 1: Inform, check out the “Confirmed, Suspected, and Related-Autoimmune Diseases” list or the “Learn About Your Disease” section, both in Chapter 1. These sections add detail to the information shared by Sarah in this episode.

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**0:00** Introduction

**1:50** Introducing Sarah

Sarah’s bio

Sarah’s books – *The Paleo Approach, The Paleo Approach Cookbook, The Healing Kitchen*

**3:00** How the immune system works and autoimmune disease develops

**6:20** How many autoimmune diseases are there?

**7:50** Sarah’s experience with informing herself about her autoimmune diagnoses

**9:42** Who is at risk for autoimmune disease?

**10:55** The risk for developing multiple autoimmune diseases and the role of antibody formation

**14:09** Common primary autoimmune diseases

**14:30** The role of nutrient deficiency in autoimmune disease

**15:50** Prevention of autoimmune disease

Diet

Sleep

Stress Management

Movement

**23:25** Testing and treatment for autoimmune disease in the conventional and alternative system

**28:00** Sarah talks about how to have a conversation with your doctor

**30:30** Sarah’s unique research background and how she used it to create AIP as it stands today

**34:12** Our gratitude for Sarah’s work and sharing a few heartfelt tears

**36:54** Outro

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AWPBlog2 — **The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Episode #2: Step 1 – Inform, Our Stories** Aug 29, 2016
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Welcome to *The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast* Season 1! We’ve created this podcast as a free resource to accompany our upcoming book, *The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness*.

**Episode #2: Step 1: Inform – Our Stories** is focused on the process we went through in getting diagnosis and then educating ourselves about testing, treatment, and prognosis. This episode is very personal, but we felt that revealing to our listeners what our early struggles were like was a valuable way to demonstrate that you can “figure it all out” and achieve wellness. We explain how informing ourselves, though daunting, was crucial to facing autoimmune disease with far less fear.

If you’d like to go more in-depth on Step 1: Inform, check out the “Where Are You On The Spectrum – Autoimmune Status Self-Test” or the “Practicing Resilience” section in Chapter 1 of our book. The self-test can help inform you on the next logical steps to take with chronic illness you might be facing and the resilience guide offers positive ways to cope with diagnosis (something that can be a low point emotionally).

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**0:00** Introduction

**1:45** What is *Inform*?

**3:34** How information results in less fear

**3:30** Taking responsibility for getting informed

**4:18** When Angie knew it was time to “get informed”

**5:06** When Mickey knew it was time to “get informed”

**6:14** Mickey’s diagnosis story

Hashimoto’s and celiac disease

Also see her blog series on the topic here.

**10:24** Angie’s diagnosis story

Lichen sclerosis, endometriosis, and celiac disease

**14:00** Misdiagnosis setbacks

**16:10** The power in the correct “label”

**17:26** How Mickey coped with her diagnosis

**21:40** How Angie coped with her diagnosis

23:40 The value of having a diagnosis vs. not being able to get one

**24:50** Angie’s experience with testing and treatment for her autoimmune diseases

**27:30** Mickey’s method of gathering and storing medical information

**30:00** Angie’s method of gathering and storing medical information

**31:40** Your homework for step 1, *Inform*!

Take a look at the “Autoimmune Status Self-Test” on p. 9 of *The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook* to inform you about where to move next in terms of diagnosis, treatment, and lifestyle changes to manage your autoimmune disease.

**33:55** Outro

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The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Episode #1: What is The Autoimmune Wellness Journey? Aug 24, 2016

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We are so excited to introduce our audience to our very first podcast… welcome to

The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast Season 1! We’ve created this podcast as a free resource to accompany our upcoming book, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness.

Episode #1: What is the Autoimmune Wellness Journey? is all about our mission with the book and podcast series to spark a major shift in how autoimmune disease is viewed and treated all over the globe. We chat about our goals and give a series overview, briefly detailing each of the seven steps on the autoimmune wellness journey. This first episode will give you an idea about the format of the series and a significant dose of empowerment.

If you’d like to go more in-depth, check out the “Introduction,” “Why We Wrote This Book,” and “The Manifesto” sections at the beginning of The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook. We know that most people skim or even completely skip the introductory material in books like ours, but we assure these three short sections are overflowing with inspiration. You can get a little insight on just what lights our fires!

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Show Notes:

0:00 Introduction
1:53 Angie introduces herself
Angie is the author of The Alternative Autoimmune Cookbook and creator of the group coaching program SAD to AIP in SIX.
3:34 Mickey introduces herself
Mickey is the author of The Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook and creator of the online cooking program AIP Batch Cook.
5:30 Our goal with The Autoimmune Wellness Podcast
7:09 An overview of the seven steps on the Autoimmune Wellness Journey
Inform
Collaborate
Nourish
Rest
Breathe
Move
Connect
16:50 Empowerment for a personalized journey
18:49 What to expect in future episodes
One episode on every “step” covered in the handbook dedicated to Mickey and Angie’s personal experiences
One episode on every “step” covered in the handbook dedicated to interviewing an expert or thinker to delve a little deeper on the topic
20:16 All about The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook
20:31 Call to action — your homework!
21:55 Pioneering a new era in the management of autoimmune disease
22:35 Outro

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