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Auto immune protocol (AIP) What are people's experiences?
Hi,
I have only developed Alopecia Areata in November 2015 but my hair loss has been extremely rapid. I am 24 year old girl who has just started out in her professional career so it has been quite a traumatic experience as I am sure you all can relate in your own unique way.
I have been very pro-active as to get blood tests to see if there were any tell tale signs as to why i developed AA but everything came back as normal. I have been to see a trichologist and she has analyzed my hair strands and she has reported that iron levels were very low. They say it shows in your hair before anywhere else. I have gone completely bald and sides of my head and the rest just seems to be thinning. I am still shedding hair so I am not sure how my Alopecia will pan out but I am happy to keep anyone updated on how I am doing.
In order to get some normality back in my life I needed to act fast and get a wig that was close to my orginal hair which was lovely really long brown hair :( I was successful and purchased a European Human Hair wig in Dublin(very expensive) but worth it. I have only told close family members and 3 other friends and gladly nobody else who has met me since has realized I am wearing wig which has been great! I don't want the attention or especially pity.
As you all can imagine we are baffled as to why we develop this hair loss, and I have found it hard to come to terms with as I would follow a healthy diet with lots of seafood and would be extremely active. I have been doing a lot of research and have stumbled across the Auto Immune Protocol diet by Dr Sarah Ballantyne. I am 100% going to give this a go and I am going to create a blog if any of you guys want to follow my journey?
Would love to hear from anyone else who has tried this AIP diet and would like to join/share this journey with me :)
lots of love
Lucy xxxxx
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Permalink Reply by Kim on
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Hi! I also randomly lost my hair. It happened last year 6 months before my 20th birthday. Still no sign of my hair:( but I definitely know what you're going through if you ever need to talk someone feel free to message me. Also what is this diet and how did you find it?!?!
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Permalink Reply by Xeljanzmiracle on
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Hi Kim, yes Xeljanz did help me regrow my hair. For my background, progress and pictures and how I was able to receive Xeljanz ($3,000 per month) ABSOLUTELY FREE, read my discussion entitled "From Totally Bald to Regrowth in One Month!" I sent you a friend request.
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Permalink Reply by Sweetie on
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Guys, I cannot recommend enough AIP. I had successfully recovered from AA last year when I took blood clearing homeopathic medicine as described on one of the threads here by Xenia. After huge stress at work - I had the largest flare ever. So I tried the regular creams etc with no results. I went cold turkey AIP last Monday and in 1 weeks I have vellum hairs in some parts of my head and you can see by composition of the skin that it is no longer inflamed in those patches. I really don't know why scientists don't continue research. I think AA is when hair follicles react to some chemicals in blood (from stress & from inflamed gut) and turn on "kill me" signals. You need to purify blood & heal gut and hair will regrow. The same works for most other autoimmune diseases - psoriasis, arthritis etc. also, many people with AI diseases report low ferritin levels - which again proves inflamed irritated gut theory but doctors will not make as much money by prescribing clean diets & blood purifying techniques. Lemon water with ginger, juicing, water fasting, enemas all work wonders to calm down the flare - then healing starts. Good luck!
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Hi Sweetie,
Thanks for the feedback :)
I am so delighted for you that you have seen this growth.. I am sure it is a great feeling.
You are so right about the Doctors they are USELESS. I have to do all the research myself, I have had no help here in the UK.
I started the AIP Diet over a week now and I havent seen much improvement, I suppose everyone is different and I will not give up. I have also shaved all my hair off to track the progress(not like there was much left and my wig fits ten times better :) )
I love hearing success stories from AIP. I have joined a facebook group called AIP for you and me.. if any of you want to join, there are some great posts on there.
Sweetie I would love to hear how you continue to get on while on the AIP diet. Good luck over Christmas I am sure it will be hard for us but luckily my immediate family have been a great support while I am on this diet :)
Lucy xxxx
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Hey, Lucy!
I wish you luck as well! In addition to AIP, I would strongly recommend try to fast with only lemon/ginger water with water enemas for a couple-3 days - it is equivalent to a couple of weeks of AIP. There many stories of success with AIP, people just fell off the wagon before complete healing - people do not stick long enough. Also make sure to kill candida if you have any and try to eliminate any potential virus that might be the cause as well.
Here are some success stories
http://hairlessmary.blogspot.com/2013/05/alopecia-strict-autoimmune...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhNlR915UvE
and just google - many good results! I will keep you posted!
Drinking my 3 lemons with ginger juice now :)
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Guys, Did you see this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8d1yEd480Y
This girl Stella has cured herself with the AIP diet; she suffered from AA (the Ophiasis version) and she had total regrowth in one year! If you watch her other posts, you'll see that she was treated for Chrohns as well, but with steroids. According to her, that might have given her a kickstart, but she was only on it for 8 weeks; after that growth continued.
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Permalink Reply by Toxicmosquitoaf on
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I saw this and I did the strict AIP for 14 days. I was feeling hungry every day and because in this diet you cant eat carbohydrates which I most needed in doing sports so I just couldnt handle it. But I think that in those 14 days I saw little tiny white hair growing.
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I have checked for other kind of autoimmune diseases and for vitamin def; they haven't found anything. Also, there is no one in my family that suffers from AA. At the end of last year, I tried the GF diet for 3 months: I didn't notice a change. Maybe I shoud have tried to avoid dairy as well. I'm willing to start the diet again, this time with dairy free, but it will be tough, since I'm addicted to my cappucino in the morning. Is goatsmilk bad as well?
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Anyone can pubblish a example of this diet?
breakfast
lunch
dinner?
Thank you
P.s. Aimee i'm making a diet gluten free and sugar free and after 2 month my colon a lot of better (i used mesalazina first)...
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Hi Aimee, They sell cashew milk, but most of the time it contains added sugars. I can make it myself though. The only thing is that in the AIP protocol, nuts are excluded. The only kind of milk that is allowed, it hempseed milk. But I will first start with just dairy and glutenfree. Does cashewmilk taste ok in cappucino's?:-)
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Hi Aimee, I never go to Starbucks, as I have my own espresso machine:-), but from what I know, it's just soy or cow. In some other local coffeeplaces, they also have goats milk. I like goats milk, however, I think no animal (mammal?) milk is allowed. I am dutch native, so don't mind my english:-). I made my own cashewmilk btw, it tastes great! Thx for the tip! Haven't tried it in the cappucino, though. Will try that to!
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Ladies, I cannot recommend AIP enough. The diet is one of the major reasons for auto immune diseases (make sure you checked viruses etc). Every time I would follow proper diet (low inflammatory, take the homeopathic complex to clean my blood) - I have no problems. But as soon as I have stress and as result eat poorly (lots of carbs, coffee etc ) - I have patches.
I went to Japan 2 months ago and there everything is just so healthy: fresh fish, rice, green tea, soothing anti inflammatory miso soup. And I have been on a good diet since then (almost AIP, but coffee) - and I have seen tremendous regrowth in some of very stubborn areas - you can literally see less inflammation in your skin. There was Joey guy on this site (search by anti inflammatory diet) who also cured very severe alopecia with anti inflammatory diet.
Good luck to all of us!
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