Intestinal permeability has been found in every autoimmune disease that has test for it - celiac disease, type 1 diabetes, MS, IBS, RA and ankylosing spondylitis. I only recently just leaned this.

I think your approach is so very smart. It looks like you are avoiding all potential major offenders. I love nuts, eggs and dark chocolate too! There is a certain emotional side to eating that is sometimes as important and the healthy side of eating.

I was gluten and soy free (whole foods diet) years before all my major symptoms came one. I pulled out the dairy a while ago. It's hard to say if I'm better or worse, because my burning symptoms can be moderate one day and nauseating the next day. Plus I've had nerve medication changes over the last year and a half that mask symptoms.

I'm pulling all the nightshades and nuts out of my diet for at least 3 months. I will be leaving the dark chocolate in....just to keep my sanity.

I haven't decided about eggs yet. The reason that Dr. Wahls pulled them out of her protocol was due to the fact that she kept them out of her own diet when improved her MS symptoms. When she designed her first clinical trial, she was told that she needed to precisely copy what she personally did. So eggs were not included in the clinical trial either. I'll probably eventually pull them out for a few months. I have nothing to lose at this point.