**AIP is an elimination and reintroduction diet for people with autoimmune conditions**
TreePeekerFoods started out of the chaos of figuring out that the person I loved most suddenly got very seriously sick (almost in a coma) because of untreated Hashimoto's Disease. Any of you who have been through finding out you or a loved one has an autoimmune disease that nobody knew about is a serious life-changing event.
Here we were hiking 10-15k steps a day bouncing all over the US for work in the first half of 2025 to a few months later having no idea what is causing multiple ER visits in a month.
After months of trying to figure it out, there was finally a blood test that came back as a crystal clear sign for Hashimoto's Disease. Once we found the right set of doctors and treatments, things got starting to slowly go the right direction. A huge part of that was sticking to the AIP diet.
A specialist recommended we try an elimination diet, so for the last two months, it has been AIP all the way. She has not eaten out anywhere, had any normal people soda with sugar and high fructose corn syrup, or eaten anything not described in Table 1 of the linked paper. I'm not a medical doctor, but her quality of life and pain levels are both significantly improved. There are still issues with the disease, but it is obvious that inflammatory food is just no longer part of her diet - no exceptions.
Anecdotally, I have also been eating the same food she eats since I cook at home every meal now. I am way less bloated, feel a lot better, and am still shedding weight for no other reason than the food I am eating is clean, simple, and not causing massive inflammation that I thought was normal until I realized it wasn't.
I ate Subway once because I was out running errands and in a pinch and thought it would be fine. I was messed up bad for two full days from something that a year ago would have been a perfectly reasonable thing for me to eat and have no observable effects.
As it turns out, it is really hard to keep up with the diet. There is no viable option to go get something quick or from any even kind of unaffordable restaurant around where we live that would work. Just about anything outside of AIP = inflammation and significant pain for at least 2 or 3 days.
It just became overwhelming for someone who has been cooking since being 4 or 5 years old and being objectively a lot better at cooking than most of the population. So I decided that my only real viable way forward was to monetize cooking for her.
That is why there are so many referral links everywhere. The information will always be free. I will never force you to buy anything to learn or find what you need to. However, this is not free for me. It is expensive both in money and in time, so I have to monetize it somehow. There are affiliate links, sponsored ads, product demos, lists of ingredients and gear that have referral links, etc. and that is to monetize this curation process.
Only after I had gotten into this, gotten very sick myself the last week as of this writing, and saw the positive effects this work started having on other people I care about did this go from a project to something that I am sure will help countless people I will never meet.
It is my hope that you can find something helpful here. Maybe that is finding ingredients that work, maybe it is learning some new cooking skills, maybe you have been looking for a piece of gear to save some time, or something else entirely.
Whatever it is, thank you for supporting TreePeekerFoods.
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**References**
- [AIP Science Research](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11755016/)