It is believed that for autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, a diet called the autoimmune protocol would be beneficial. The commentators told me this under the article about tomatoes harmful to joints.
This is a diet in which there are no grains, no legumes, no nightshades, no milk, no seeds or grains, dairy products, oils, and other delicious things like coffee and sugar.
Sounds alarming, right? Something like a field diet, but even stricter.
The autoimmune protocol has worked well for inflammatory bowel disease such as ulcerative colitis. Not that he was directly helpful, but many people liked him.
And so, inspired by ulcerative colitis, nutritionists began to extend the autoimmune protocol to various other autoimmune diseases. Only for some reason it didn't work out very well.
Here it must be said right away that the autoimmune protocol has never been tested according to all the rules in well-planned reliable studies.
And here I see an ambush. Maybe it's just a play on words.
In my opinion, the word "autoimmune" in this diet does not mean the anti-inflammatory effect of foods, but rather the first effect obtained in autoimmune inflammatory bowel disease.
This diet is also called elimination. This means that many food groups are thrown out of the diet at once.
The fact is that with inflammatory bowel diseases it can be bad from the fact that it provokes diarrhea and bloating. People with ulcerative colitis may have bloody diarrhea and abdominal pain thirty times a day.
Look what happens
If you remove the grains, then gluten will go along with them, from which some have suffered from diarrhea, abdominal pain and bloating.
Starch causes bloating.
Legumes also cause bloating. If you remove them, then the stomach may hurt less.
Excess sugar can cause diarrhea and bloating.
There may be diarrhea from coffee.
Seeds and nuts can hurt your stomach.
From milk and stomach hurts, and diarrhea happens. This is due to an allergy to cow's milk proteins or lactose intolerance.
There may be diarrhea from the oil.
There may be swelling in nightshades. Here we must remember the paleo diet, where potatoes were mostly excluded. But he is not the only one among the nightshades that tastes good. There are also eggplants and tomatoes.
Even with the Paleo diet, you would be allowed seeds and nuts. Because our wild cave ancestors could well have picked up these nuts without any gardening and farming.
Well, that is, cavemen would stab game, including fish, with spears, and collect what grows by itself on trees and under trees. This is a separate story.
Briefly speaking
The autoimmune protocol eliminates several food groups at once that cause abdominal pain, bloating, and diarrhea. And it doesn't matter exactly how these products acted on the immune system. Even a simple elimination diet is sometimes enough to make a person suffer less with inflammatory bowel disease.
Got it? It's all about diarrhea and bloating, and immunity may have nothing to do with it.
