AUTOIMMUNE SOLUTION
A Functional Medicine Approach to Reducing Symptoms and Healing Autoimmune Disease Naturally
Step 1:
Identifying the root cause of your Autoimmune Disease with one of our Naturopathic Doctors
Step 2:
Developing a personalized roadmap to your Healing Journey
Step 3:
Establishing important lifestyle and nutritional habits to support long term success
Heal Your Autoimmune Disease Naturally
The Autoimmune Solution program is a 6 month comprehensive program is designed to identify and address the root cause of autoimmune disease. We do this by combining the use of functional testing and by implementing the Autoimmune protocol (AIP) to reduce chronic inflammation that causes tissue damage in common Autoimmune Disease.
We have helped patients dealing with Celiac Disease, Hashimoto Thyroiditis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (including Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease), Lupus and Psoriasis.
What’s Included in the Autoimmune Solution Program:
- In depth initial consultation to discuss your chief concerns and health history
- Personalized functional testing to identify the root cause of your autoimmune disease
- Your functional testing results review and a customized roadmap to your healing journey
- Ongoing follow-up consultations to confidently guide you through your personalized healing journey – approximately every 4-5 weeks for the first 6 months of your healing journey
- Personalized Nutrition & Lifestyle Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) with a Certified Functional Medicine Coach and 2 monthly follow-up consultations to support your healing progress
- Access to The Functional Foundations online modules designed to delivery key lifestyle strategies for optimal health and balanced immune function (learn at your own pace) – $300 bonus for your commitment to your health
Personalized Naturopathic & Functional Medicine, Coaching, Education, And Motivation To Reduce Symptoms And Heal Autoimmune Disease.
The Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) is a comprehensive approach which focuses on immune regulation, gut health, hormone regulation and tissue healing while removing inflammatory stimuli from both diet and lifestyle.
The AIP nutrition plan provides balanced and complete nutrition by prescribing nutrient dense foods while avoiding processed and refined foods. The AIP lifestyle encourages sufficient sleep, stress management, reduced toxin exposure, and increased activity, as these are important immune modulators.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is Autoimmune Disease?
Autoimmune disease is an imbalance of the immune system.
The fundamental role of the immune system is to protect the body from invading pathogens such as viruses and bacteria. In Autoimmune Disease, the immune system mistakenly recognizes the body’s own tissues as a threat and produces autoantibodies. This results in inflammation and damage to cells, tissues and organs which can impair normal functioning.
What are common Autoimmune Conditions?
The common root causes of chronic skin concerns include: poor digestive health and chronic digestive infections such as bacterial overgrowth, poor liver detoxification, hormone imbalances (stress, sex, insulin), blood sugar imbalance, inflammation, oxidatives stress and unresolved emotions.
It is very important to identify and treat the root cause of your skin condition in order to heal and help you break free of the vicious cycle of persistent or recurring skin conditions. Conventional treatment such as topical steroids and antibiotics mask and reduce the symptoms, but never actually solve the root cause, which means symptoms will resurface if medication is stopped. This conventional approach leaves you dependent on medication rather than finding the solution. When the root cause is identified and treated, you can truly solve the problem, heal your skin and not have to worry about recurring skin issues.
We commonly use functional testing to identify the root cause of chronic skin conditions in addition to our comprehensive initial consultation with a deep dive into your health history and your current health concerns. We also place a strong focus on nutrition and lifestyle factors that play an important role in reducing inflammation and stress on the skin.
What causes the immune system to become out of balance?
Although the exact causes of the autoimmune disease remain unknown, certain risk factors increase the chances of developing an autoimmune condition.
Genetics accounts for approximately 20% of this risk. In comparison, the remaining 80% of risk has been linked to environmental triggers such as exposure to pollution, toxins, viruses, intestinal dysbiosis (causing leaky gut), chronic stress, diet and lifestyle factors.
To determine the root cause of your Autoimmune Disease, we use Functional Testing to identify which environmental triggers are causing your immune system to malfunction.
How much of a role does lifestyle and nutrition plan in Autoimmune Disease?
Considering that 80% of autoimmune disease is linked to environmental factors, including pollution, toxins, viruses, intestinal dysbiosis (causing leaky gut), chronic stress, diet and lifestyle factors, this means that autoimmune disease is directly linked to your food choices and how you choose to live your life. What this suggests is that you can manage your autoimmune disease by changing your diet and making more informed choices about sleep, activity, and stress, toxic exposure and other lifestyle factors.
What is The Lifestyle & Nutrition Autoimmune Protocol (AIP)?
The Nutrition & Lifestyle Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) is a comprehensive model which focuses on diet and lifestyle factors known to be important modulators of immune function. Healing is supported by the removal of inflammatory stimuli to reduce the chronic inflammation that causes tissue damage.
Our team of Certified Functional Medicine Coaches will help you put this plan into action and provide ongoing support to help you establish a lifestyle that will support your healing journey. They will provide guidelines to successfully manage the symptoms of autoimmune disease and support long term success with your health goals.
Is it hard to maintain the Autoimmune Nutrition Plan (AIP)?
The nutrition plan consists of an elimination strategy, cutting out the foods that have been shown to most likely stimulate inflammation, damage tissue and trigger the ongoing progress of your Autoimmune disease. After a period of time, once the inflammation and immune system has rebalanced, many of the excluded foods, especially those that have nutritional merit, can be reintroduced.
The AIP Nutrition plan provides balanced and complete nutrition by prescribing nutrient dense foods while avoiding processed & refined foods. This plan will have you feeling nourished and satiated and confident in Food As Medicine, as you start to see significant changes in your Autoimmune Symptoms.
A comprehensive and personalized meal plan and recipes will be provided to best support your health, lifestyle and family dynamic needs. Our team of Certified Functional Medicine Coaches will help you put this plan into action and provide ongoing support to help you establish a nutrition plan that will support your healing journey.
What is The Autoimmune Lifestyle Plan (AIP)?
Lifestyle factors including high stress, poor sleep, common environmental and household toxic exposure, and inactivity can contribute to inflammation and increase the risk of immune dysfunction leading to the onset or flare-up of autoimmune disease.
The AIP Lifestyle provides strategies for improved sleep, stress management, reducing toxic exposure and regular physical activity as these are important immune modulators and are key to successfully managing Autoimmune Disease.
Is this lifestyle plan hard to maintain?
Embarking on a lifestyle change can be challenging because your daily habits are ingrained and you need the right support, guidance and tools to be able to successfully transform towards better habits that best support your health and our immune system.
Autoimmune diseases are difficult to manage and at times can feel out of control.
By adopting healthy lifestyle strategies, the frequency and severity of symptoms may be reduced and quality of life improved.
A comprehensive and personalized lifestyle plan will be provided and our team of Certified Functional Medicine Coaches will help you put this plan into action and provide ongoing support to help you establish a lifestyle that will support your healing journey.
How is the conventional model different from a Naturopathic & Functional Medicine approach?
The Conventional Model
There is no intelligent solution to Autoimmune Disease in conventional medicine. The conventional medicine approach is to simply suppress the immune system with drug therapy. The program with this approach is that it never addresses the root cause of why your immune system is dysfunctional and over activated and that we need a functioning immune system, not one that is suppressed or that is over activated. Suppressing your immune system puts you at greater risk of infections and cancer, and drug therapy often comes with undesired side effects.
The Naturopathic and Functional Medicine Approach
The Naturopathic and Functional Medicine model focuses on identifying the ROOT CAUSE of WHY your immune system is dysfunctional by taking a deep dive into your health history and through functional testing to identify common environmental triggers of Autoimmune disease. Our focus is to help bring your immune system into balance by removing common stimuli that trigger the immune system to become dysfunctional and over activated.
The Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) is a comprehensive approach which focuses on immune regulation, gut health, hormone regulation and tissue healing while removing inflammatory stimuli from both diet and lifestyle. The AIP nutrition plan provides balanced and complete nutrition by prescribing nutrient dense foods while avoiding processed and refined foods. The AIP lifestyle encourages sufficient sleep, stress management, reduced toxin exposure, and increased activity, as these are important immune modulators.
Our approach includes a team of Naturopathic and functional medicine doctors and certified functional medicine coaches to educate, motivate, and prove accountability and to support your personalized healing journey to reduce symptoms and heal Autoimmune Disease.