Hi Pinkeynose,

If you can handle eggs and nuts, then by all means. Listening to one's body is key as I'm sure you know. Egg whites are problematic, which is why I avoid them. When I do reintroduce eggs after a year, I'll begin with the yokes. Here's a decent idea of the issues: http://www.thepaleomom.com/2012/06/w...ocol-eggs.html. You may already know this and you're just fine with it, and as I mentioned that matters most. Of course, that they're local, and you know the source, is essential. For the first year, I want to avoid any possible irritants, and I can tell you that by reducing my diet to what it is now, it has even calmed me down more. Long chain proteins are just difficult on the gut and I've really done a number on mine for years. Even when I do introduce them, I'll be eating one or two a week, not much more.

As for nuts, there isn't too much good evidence on that method or the one I used, namely, soaking for 7 hours or so, but you find relief from it and so did I, so I think it must reduce the phytic acid. All those traditional cultures and our guts can't be wrong, right? Again, with nuts and seeds, because of the phytic acid, I've decided to take them out for now, for a year. I will say that I was eating lots of them raw and almond butter for months until recently and my SFN and gut were improving, but taking them out entirely has seen my IBS symptoms improve even more and it's very noticeable. I hope I can reintroduce them at some point...looking at my wife take spoons of almond butter in after dinner is not easy!

Every morning I have a veggie smoothie, right. I was using almond milk, but now that I'm fully on the autoimmune protocol, I use water. I know, it's boring, isn't it? I usually throw in a few ice cubes, some water, maybe a little spice, some herbs, maybe mint, an avocado or two, a spoon or two of coconut oil and lots of greens, whether kale, arugula, spinach, chard, etc. If you can handle coconut milk, then use that. If you want to avoid the added processing, throw in some coconut flour and mix it in with the water first. It makes it tasty. In case I have SIBO, I took out the coconut flour - it's high in inulin and as soon as I did, and stopped eating coconut bread, my IBS symptoms improved considerably, making me believe even more so that I do have SIBO. One thing to try and that I've been meaning to, is to add bone broth as the base. I usually just drink up a glass of that separately afterward, but I've been thinking of doing that.

And please feel free to PM me anytime, and I'll be in touch at some point too, I'm sure. Thank you.