10 Reasons People With Autoimmune Don’t Get Better

Regardless if it’s to do with thyroid, gut or brain…

We work with complex clients and autoimmune issues are at the top of nearly all complex issues.

Sadly, conventional medicine is awful when it comes to autoimmune, and you likely will just end up on immunosuppressant drugs that cause other long term issues.

I also have a personal interest in this after being symptom and medication free for the last 11 years.

So, without further ado, here’s the list (it might surprise you)…

1. Not taking dietary restriction serious

Loss of tolerance – The reality is that once you have lost tolerance to parts of your immune system, there are certain foods and cross reactors that are off the list for life likely.

Things like gluten and dairy.

Sadly, most don’t really understand autoimmune and because they only get mild symptoms when they eat trigger foods, they think its not so bad. Wrong!

Think of autoimmune like a spinning wheel, the more trigger foods you keep eating, the faster that ball spins, causing more symptoms and worse issues are later in life.

2. Don’t have a diverse microbiome

People that have started to educate themselves on autoimmune issues become aware of trigger foods and start to cut them out. As there can be lots of reactive foods, they end up on a very restrictive diet.

This reduces the diversity of the microbiome and will actually create more problems long term.

One thing we have to work on with autoimmune is oral tolerance, ensuring your are getting enough diverse fibres and foods you can tolerate without symptoms.

3. Chemical exposures

We all know we are exposed to air pollution, but sadly our homes are home to some of the worst toxins out there. From commercial cleaners, pressed woods, mould and much more.

Doing a full audit of your living conditions is essential to ensure you progress.

4. Silent infections that trigger autoimmune

There are silent infections like H. Pylori that have been proven to tigger autoimmune responses within people.

It’s very important, even if you have no symptoms to rule out silent infections as they will 100% slow your progress and chance of hitting remission.

5. Not getting enough sleep

It’s totally possible to have a great diet, good hydration, low stress AND move your body, but BAD sleep will hold you back.

You should be sleeping through the night for at least 7 hours.

6. Circadian Rhythm

This is to do with consistency of meals, light exposure and movement.

If you are irregular with meals, sedentary and spend a lot of time indoors under artificial lighting, these will all negatively affect your progress.

7. Not enough movement

Linked to the above, it’s important to move our bodies in line with what you can recover 100% from by the next day.

For some it might just be brisk walking, as where for others it might be more vigorous. However, you have to be moving your body to help bring up the bodies resilience.

8. Do things that make YOU happy / have goals / hobbies

If you feel lost in life and don’t know where you are going…

This causes stress, that stress has a potent effect on the immune system and will hold you back.

Thus making sure you have things you enjoy and are working towards are essential.

9. Unhealthy relationships

If you have very poor at home or work relationships, this stress is holding you back.

It’s very often seen that when people resolve these issues, their conditions calm down and they reach remission faster.

10. Being a passive client

This is when you go to the doctor and ask if food plays a role in your illness, they say no and you accept it.

You have to become the investigator, the chief researcher for your autoimmune issue.

Autoimmune is very very complex and it often will take years of doctors and advice to find the right approach for you.

The good news is that the help is out there, you just have to be ready to jump on board and make things happen.

P.s Note that I didn’t put supplements on the above list.

In reality, autoimmune is much more of a functional issue, not a deficiency of supplements.

Thus, when you correct the above, you’ll see a huge uptake in the quality of your life.

As ever, if you have any questions, let me know and feel free to get in touch with us