The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness

"With five autoimmune diseases between [them]," Trescott (The Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook) and Alt (The Alternative Autoimmune Cookbook) searched online for answers and became guinea pigs for paleo diet pioneer Loren Cordain's autoimmune protocol, a prescriptive eating plan. Both Trescott and Alt found relief, and a new goal: "to make this easier for the next person." They turned the protocol into a holistic seven-step program: inform, collaborate, nourish, rest, breathe, move, and connect. The eating plan, the most important component, sets out foods to avoid and include, and provides detailed shopping lists for four weeks of menus using the recipes provided. Recipes are paleo-level protein-rich; merely reading a suggested Tuesday breakfast-lunch-dinner lineup of double-pork pesto patties, hidden liver chili, and curried chicken salad will be enough to make some swoon. The liver isn't even the most dubious thing about the chili: it also calls for two cans of pumpkin puree and no chili peppers whatsoever, as capsicums are part of the nightshade family, whose members are all firmly in the "avoid" column.This volume will be of greatest interest to followers of the paleo diet. (Nov.)