Yeah while Briggs makes quite a few more recommendations, the base of the advice seems quite similar to Art Ayer's. I've seen glutathione thrown around in a number of recommendations as well. [correction to my earlier post, I said Briggs was a PHD in microbiology, but in reality it's physics] Chris Kresser's got some good thoughts on it.

I've considered picking up some colostrum as well, but it seems hard to find to best source of this. I've seen varying recommendations about sourcing and various forms. And I've also read the best source is actually human colostrum which is BANANAS expensive from the tiny bit of Googling I did.

I used to eat quite a bit of veggies, but my diet slowly slid away from them as I didn't notice any benefit from eating them. If I had to hypothesize, I'd guess it was the mix of the probitiocs + RS + veggies causing the discomfort, but there's a lot of things at play. Could even be the helminths, but it would be rather late in their life cycle to start causing gastrointestinal symptoms (though not an uncommon side effect at all).

Nah, haven't tried introducing others foods while on the AIP. They weren't foods I was particularly interested in, and I (perhaps wrongly) assumed the cons of reintroducing them outweighed the cons.

Yeah, I'd say that describes me fairly well AIP + strict avoidance of starch - the veggies more recently (but like I said - just reintroduced so anyone following along doesn't get confused). As well as daily intermittent fasting (usually 1 meal a day, i.e. the warrior diet). When I ate more veggies, I ate avocados daily without issue.

For better or worse, I'm going to pretend for now that the stomach pain is a side effect of increased fermentation that my stomach isn't used to. With the potato starch + probiotics + fermented veggies + regular veggies + dark chocolate I feel like I'm bombing my system with new bacteria and bacteria food. Imma stay the course for the time being.

This is somewhat of an aside, but I'm also justifying the chocolate because of this too http://mrheisenbug.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/probiotics-survive-better-with-some-fat-its-the-ph/. I don't eat any meals until dinner, so I figure having some dark chocolate with my first serving of PS gives me some of the fat it may need.

Yeah, I'm sure genetics has it's role, but if I had to guess I'm inclined to believe the biggest factor for me was the 5+ years I was on antibiotics I was on for acne (smh at my dermatologist. Quack city, population him). I can't remember exactly when I stopped taking them, but I *think* it may have been right before my first symptom appeared.

I hear ya' about telling me it's incurable! Not looking forward to the day where I feel I've exhausted my options, but I think that's a ways away!

I found this video about T regulatory cells pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYHvVj2qaDE

It's geared more towards their function in transplantation as opposed to autoimmunity, but there's a good bit of talk about AI as well. He talks about mouse studies where T1 diabetes was induced by creating an immune system deficient in Tregs, and also studies putting it into remission by supplementing Tregs into the immune system. (I think that was in there, it could have just been preventing the onset, but I believe it induced remission)

Lotta great links in this thread. Loved these two videos (h/t to lool for both these), even if they don't have a ton of actionable info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myBACBRxyq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdkVDKWrmOQ

Haven't finished the second, but the first raises more questions than it answers, but great to see this research being done and and the findings being talked about. The link between gum disease and RA is fascinating.

I studied business in college, but like so many I haven't put my degree to good use (is there any real good use for a business degree?), and now I design video games haha.

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