This is a YouTube video titled "Overcoming Autoimmune Diseases My Journey to Health" containing a personal monologue by Beverley Simpson recorded in July 2024. Beverley shares her experience managing autoimmune diseases through diet changes, specifically the autoimmune protocol diet, and lifestyle adjustments including stress management and exercise limitations.
Because they're autoimmune diseases, you can actually do something about it. And so I went on the autoimmune protocol or AIP diet, and within a few weeks I felt better than I had in 15 years. It was like, it was absolutely incredible. And so then I reintroduce foods because it's an elimination diet that you reduce a lot of different foods that just kind of give your gut a chance to heal. And then you reintroduce foods to see what you still tolerate, what causes issues, all that kind of stuff. And I got back to mainly like a paleoish kind of diet because that, that seems to work the best for me. So I, I kind of switched between gluten free, I'm always gluten free because of the celiac disease, but a gluten free kind of paleoish diet. But I also noticed that I had to really pay attention to my stress levels. I couldn't exercise the way I used to. I used to be an Ironman triathlete. I've done three of them and now I can barely run a mile. But I like to still go hiking and.
