In this week’s episode of The Autoimmune Simplified Podcast we dive into all things gut health and how it’s related to autoimmune disease in my exciting chat with Naturopathic Doctor, Polina Mak.

You don’t want to miss this episode, it’s literally jam-packed full of amazing gems and takeaways about stress, stomach acid, leaky gut, nutrient absorption, triggers and causes of SIBO, gluten sensitivity, FODMAPs, hot flashes, night sweats, hormones, microbes, parasites and so much more! 

About Dr. Polina Mak, ND:

Through her clinical practice, gut health blog (www.polinamak.com) and thriving community, Naturopathic Doctor, Polina Mak ND inspires hundreds of clients with bloating, stress and anxiety to achieve exciting momentum towards mind-body wellness. She shows that by moving away from “treat the symptom” and into “treat the cause,” even the newbie can bypass overwhelm and frustration.

Connect with Dr. Polina

Website: www.polinamak.com

Instagram: @drpolinamak

Get Your Elimination Diet Starter Kit: https://www.polinamak.com/eliminationdiet

Hearing inspirational stories of healing can be a powerful motivator and make us feel less alone on our journeys to wellness, even if you don’t have the same autoimmune disease. That’s definitely the case this week and we encourage everyone to listen in! 

In this week’s episode of The Autoimmune Simplified Podcast we chat with Ann Mogilevsky about her truly inspirational journey with Scleroderma. 

A busy mom of two, a teacher and true go-getter, Ann has been managing her illness for over 20 years. Having endured considerable pain, hand surgeries, colonoscopies, 26 endoscopies and so much more, you’d think her illness would have gotten her down, but that’s simply not the case with this autoimmune warrior! Listen in to hear her words of wisdom about advocating for your own health, eating well, staying active, the importance of connection and some very exciting news about how she’s planning to give back to the Scleroderma community.

About Ann Mogilevsky

Ann is a proud mom of two adult children (a son who is a Chemical Engineer and a daughter in the gardening field), who has just retired from teaching elementary school after 39 years. She is a true autoimmune warrior having battled Systemic Scleroderma-limited(also known as CREST) for over 20 years. She has been an advocate for her own health, learned a lot about the disease and is so eager to help others by sharing her knowledge that she is launching a podcast of her own for the Scleroderma Community.

Connect with Ann

Website - mogilsmobcast.com 

Email - [email protected]

We all know there is no one-size-fits-all approach to health and nutrition, but this is especially true for those with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. 

Different guts tolerate foods differently with this condition so it’s imperative that we’re addressing each individual’s unique needs according to their body, backgrounds, tastes, and personal goals.

In this episode of The Autoimmune Simplified Podcast, we chat with Danielle Graffen about nutritional strategies that those with autoimmune inflammatory bowel disease can realistically and practically apply in their lives. 

Having this information and establishing achievable goals will empower you to meet your nutritional needs, manage your symptoms, and feel better! 

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About Danielle Gaffen, MS, RDN, LD

Danielle Gaffen is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and founder of Eat Well Crohn’s Colitis, a virtual tele-nutrition practice in the United States. Danielle's husband has Crohn's disease and her mom had an ileostomy (that was ultimately reversed). Understanding the link between nutrition and gut disease prompted Danielle to obtain her master’s degree in Nutritional Sciences, become a registered dietitian, and ultimately specialize in nutrition for people with IBD.

Connect with Danielle

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://eatwellcrohnscolitis.com

Instagram: @Eat.Well.Crohns.Colitis

In this episode, Dr. Danby chats with Laura Clowdus, RN, AIP Certified Coach, and Wellness Life Coach about her story of Ankylosing Spondylitis and how she used the power of mindset to help achieve amazing results and live symptom-free.

Our thoughts and how we view our circumstances are truly powerful and affect our outcomes. Understanding and using the power of mindset in your own healing journey can help decrease stress, empower you to stick to a healing diet and make positive lifestyle changes.

You don’t want to miss Laura’s insights and encouraging advice, so be sure to tune in!

About Laura Clowdus, RN, AIP Certified Coach & Certified Wellness Life Coach

After years working as a Registered Nurse, Laura Clowdus became the patient when she was diagnosed with her autoimmune disease, ankylosing spondylitis. She quickly learned that the conventional treatment of autoimmune disease prioritized managing symptoms instead of healing the body, so she began researching other options. She has now been living symptom free for five years by implementing lifestyle changes that significantly decrease her inflammation. Throughout her healing journey, she noticed the impact stress had on her body and struggled to figure out how to get control of it. Life coaching provided the answers she needed. Now, as a Certified Wellness Life Coach, she teaches autoimmune women how to confidently heal their minds and bodies so they can feel amazing again.

Connect with Laura

[email protected]

www.lauraclowdus.com

IG:  @lauraclowdus_

Tiktok: @lauraclowdus

Facebook: LC Autoimmune Coaching

Resources: The Autoimmune Mindset Guide, The Autoimmune Protocol Diet Guide, The Autoimmune Support Guide available at www.lauraclowdus.com

So often I’m asked if diet and lifestyle change can really help those with autoimmune disease, and my answer is always a resounding, "ABSOLUTELY!"  

But don’t just take it from me, tune in to this week's inspirational and educational episode of The Autoimmune Simplified Podcast with our very special guest, Angie Alt, one of the pioneers of the Autoimmune Protocol. 

In case you’ve never heard of it, the Autoimmune Protocol, or AIP, is a science-based template that can be used to help manage autoimmune disease, alone or in conjunction with other treatments, both natural and conventional. 

You don’t want to miss this episode! Angie tells us about her personal journey with celiac disease, endometriosis and lichen sclerosis, shares some insight about her program “SAD to AIP in SIX” (the Standard American Diet to AIP in Six Weeks) and a few tips to help you get started right away on your own journey to autoimmune wellness.

About Angie Alt, Certified Health Coach (CHC), Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) :

Angie is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Certified Health Coach, author of The Alternative Autoimmune Cookbook and co-author of The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook. She’s also the creator and director of SAD to AIP in SIX, SAS Phase 2, and The Living Well Collective, a series of online group health coaching programs that have helped thousands of people on the path to wellness by teaching them how to transition their diets and lifestyle to the Autoimmune Protocol. Additionally, Angie partners with doctors to conduct medical research. In 2017 results were published from her first study showing the efficacy of AIP for inflammatory bowel diseases and in 2019 results were published from her second study on the efficacy of AIP for autoimmune thyroid disease. Results for a third study on the efficacy of AIP for psoriasis and eczema will be published soon. In 2015, Angie partnered with Mickey Trescott. Together, Mickey and Angie, run AutoimmuneWellness.com, the Autoimmune Wellness podcast, and AIP Certified Coach. 

Connect with Angie

www.autoimmunewellness.com

www.sadtoaip.com

Instagram: @angie.alt 

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Dr. Danby sits down for an inspirational chat with Jesse St Jean to talk about her journey with ulcerative colitis, her non-negotiables for managing her autoimmune disease, and her words of wisdom for advocating for yourself when it comes to assembling your own health care team.

As a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and fellow AIP Coach, Jesse believes that gut health is fundamental to healing and is eager to share her message to help those with autoimmune disease learn how to heal their guts from "the mouth to the south" so they can see long-term improved health.

About Jesse St. Jean, FNTP, AIP Certified Coach 

Jesse is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (FNTP) and Certified AIP Coach, working with clients both individually and in group settings. She is the author behind the blog AIPsisterhood.com, where she shares Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) friendly recipes and gut-healing tips, as well as writes about life with chronic illness. Her mission is to empower all women autoimmune warriors to take control of their health by teaching them how to make food choices to heal their body while confidently owning their journey so she can live a vibrant life with chronic illness. Like many health coaches, Jesse was motivated by her own journey living with autoimmune disease (Ulcerative Colitis) and chronic illness (Chronic Lyme Disease) to pursue her dream career of becoming a health & nutrition coach to personally serve resilient women, helping them reclaim their health and vibrancy.

Connect with Jesse

[email protected] 

https://aipsisterhood.com

Instagram: @aip.sisterhood

Join the waitlist for Jesse’s Gut in Gear Program (the 4-Week Digestion Boot Camp she talked about in the show) and you’ll receive a FREE Guide called “Improve Digestion Naturally” - sign up here: https://aipsisterhood.kartra.com/page/jG48

The Gut in Gear Program uses Jesse’s unique TARGET framework, and members will be led through a total digestion reboot to learn how to heal their guts to jumpstart their autoimmune healing and significantly reduce their symptoms so they can: enjoy their bodies and be present with their families again, feel confident that their health isn't controlling them and have energy to do the things they love.

Receiving a diagnosis of chronic illness or autoimmune disease is a life-changing, traumatic event that comes with a host of emotions. Grief over the loss of your life as it was and what we dreamed for ourselves is a process that each of us needs to work through, not push past and ignore.

Tune in for this powerful episode as Kerry Jeffery, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counselor, and Life Coach takes us through the 9 phases of grief over chronic illness and shares her personal experience with autoimmune disease.

About Kerry Jeffery, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counselor, and Life Coach

Kerry Jeffery is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counselor, and Life Coach, working exclusively online with clients all over the world, to help them overcome the complex emotional issues of living with chronic illness using her unique therapy programs. Kerry lives with four autoimmune diseases: Hashimoto’s, Celiac, Antiphospholipid Syndrome, and most recently, Type 1 Diabetes.

Connect with Kerry

Website: https://www.emotionalautoimmunity.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalautoimmunity Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emotionalautoimmunity/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/emotional-autoimmunity-podcast-real-life-chronic-illness/id1444023819

To get your copy of "Moving through the Grief of Chronic Illness" an e-book which takes you step by step through all of the emotions you can experience - simply sign-up for Kerry’s VIP email list on her website https://www.emotionalautoimmunity.com

Dr. Danby sits down for an inspirational chat with Jan Steele to talk about her nearly life-long journey with celiac disease, how she’s managed a gluten-free lifestyle for over 40 years even while travelling internationally, and why she chose to have her whole family adopt a gluten-free lifestyle.

Many people understand that gluten is problematic but few people know how to eat gluten-free wisely, without simply replacing an unhealthy glutenous diet for an unhealthy gluten-free diet. We want you to know that you're not alone, and you don’t have to be left to your own devices when it comes to implementing positive dietary changes.

Tune in for lots of great suggestions and words of encouragement. 

About Jan Steele, NTC, AIP Certified Coach & Graduate of the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts:

Jan Steele, aka “La Goose” is based in the beautiful Cévenne mountains, near Montpellier (France). She is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, cooking instructor, and allergen-friendly vacation host.  In short, Jan helps people learn to harness the power of REAL food and feel better.  Jan helps people adopt or better adhere to a specific diet (namely, gluten-free, Paleo, or AIP) and invites them into her (100% gluten-free) kitchen to reclaim healthful culinary traditions either virtually or as holidays guests in their B&B home, allowing them to discover the South of France while, at the same time, ensuring that their food restrictions and sensitivities are respected to a T.

Connect with Jan:

[email protected] 

https://lagoose.fr/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/La.Goose.English 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lagoose.fr/

Stress and traumas (big and small) are some of the biggest unaddressed root drivers of autoimmune disease, which helps explain why even if you're doing 'all of the things' (diet, disease modifying drugs, supplements, exercise, etc.) you still may not be feeling results.

Join me as I chat with Kristin Wedding, MA, Certified Health Coach, RYT-200, Pause Breathwork Facilitator to learn more about stress, what trauma really is (you may be surprised), how these things live in our bodies and what we can do to get “un-stuck,” feel safe in our own bodies, let go, relax and repair.

You don’t want to miss this episode - it’s packed with amazing tidbits, a free meditation session, breathwork instruction and an amazing free gift - These things can literally change your life!

About Kristin Wedding, MA, Certified Health Coach, RYT-200, Pause Breathwork Facilitator

Kristin Wedding is the CEO of Vyana Wellness & Yoga and the founder of The Embodied Autoimmune Recovery System. She is a certified professional health and wellness coach, registered yoga teacher, Pause Breathwork Facilitator, and a former global health professional working at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and a top global research think tank. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2012 and has since made it her mission to support other women with autoimmune disease so they can overcome painful symptoms and live the fulfilling lives they intended instead of being a victim to their disease. She has a masters degree in international policy from American University, is a published author, and international speaker.

Connect with Kristin

[email protected]

www.vyanawellness.comFacebook @kristinweddingvyanawellnessIG @kristinwedding_vyanawellness

Get your copy of “Breathwork for Autoimmune Fatigue: A Guided Practice to Reduce Autoimmune Fatigue and Brain Fog In Just Five Minutes” - https://vyanawellness.click/breathe

In this, the third and final solo episode of Dr. Danby’s feature on Hashimoto’s she dives in to answer some of the most commonly asked questions about treating Hashimoto’s. 

Learn more about the “Big Picture” in this overview as she chats about the impact of things like supplements, Vitamin D, Iodine and more. Be sure to tune in to hear more about her approach to treating and healing Hashimoto’s.

Connect with Dr. Danby, ND:

www.Autoimmuneinstitute.ca

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.alisondanby/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dr.AlisonDanby.ND

Join our free Facebook Group the Autoimmune Academy: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AutoimmuneAcademyGroup