557: The 5 Main Causes of Autoimmune Disease and How to Prevent & Reverse It | Dr. Akil Palanisamy
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Akil Palanisamy (IG: @drakil) is a Harvard-trained physician who practices integrative medicine, blending his conventional medical expertise with holistic approaches including functional medicine and Ayurveda.
He’s the author of The TIGER Protocol: An Integrative, 5-Step Program to Treat and Heal Your Autoimmunity.
As he has done for two-plus decades, Dr. Akil sees patients and conducts clinical research studies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Today we’re going deep on the subject of autoimmunity - you’ll learn about the biggest drivers of the disease and how to keep them in check to prevent and reverse your condition.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The 5 drivers of autoimmune disease
- What are conventional doctors doing to treat autoimmune diseases?
- Modulating the immune system vs. boosting the immune system
- The critical role of autoimmune antibody testing
- The 5 categories of toxins to avoid
- The top toxins found in food
- Dr. Akil’s Phase 1 and Phase 2 diet protocols
- Key differences between the Phase 1 diet and the AIP diet
- Cabbage juice is the richest source of glutamine
- Broccoli sprouts are loaded with sulforaphane
- The benefits of consuming fermented foods
- Probiotics are an immune modulator + recommendations
- Categories of prebiotic foods
- Resistant starch: breaking down type 1, 2, and 3
- The top superfoods to include in your diet
- Plant toxins and autoimmunity
- The problem with a long-term carnivore diet
- How to reintroduce foods after an elimination diet
- Why gluten is inflammatory
- The most important postbiotics
- Water is a hidden source of toxins
- Dr. Akil’s thoughts on eliminating alcohol
- Green tea is a prebiotic for your oral microbiome
- Simple oral health tips
- Intermittent fasting benefits autoimmune conditions
- A sauna protocol for autoimmunity
- Addressing infections + testing options
- Diet has the biggest impact on pH in the GI tract
- Salt recommendations for autoimmunity
- The role of mycobacteria
- Autoimmune diseases associated with Epstein Barr virus
- Lyme disease is underdiagnosed
- Dysbiosis is the key hallmark of autoimmunity
- What are lipopolysaccharides (LPS)?
- Supplements that are important for autoimmune disease
- Adaptogens help the body handle stress
- Sleep heals the body
- Stress is associated with autoimmune disease and flare-ups
- The three components of exercise for autoimmunity
- When “healthy stress” becomes negative stress
- Hacks to activate the vagus nerve
- How trauma impacts autoimmunity
- The first steps to addressing autoimmunity
- Your body has the potential to heal
- Dr. Akil’s health journey & healing with Ayurveda
- The leaky gut connection to autoimmune conditions
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast, what we often see in auto-immunity are certain |
| 0:05.1 | parts of the immune system are hyperactive, you know those are the attacking the tissues |
| 0:10.5 | producing the auto antibodies and other parts are actually suppressed like the part that's |
| 0:15.9 | supposed to handle chronic infections. |
| 0:18.9 | There are maybe four supplements we can talk about at a high level that I think are very |
| 0:23.3 | important in auto-immune disease and chronic inflammation. |
| 0:26.0 | I want to reframe autoimmune disease as ultimately a disease of the immune system so it's |
| 0:30.9 | only one condition which is immune system dysregulation. |
| 0:42.3 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast episode 557. |
| 0:46.6 | I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to take your help to the next level. |
| 0:50.2 | Each week I'll bring you long form conversations with health and wellness leaders from around |
| 0:54.4 | the world. |
| 0:55.4 | This week I'm chatting with Dr. Akeel Palana-Sami. |
| 0:58.8 | Dr. Akeel is a Harvard trained physician who practices integrative medicine, blending |
| 1:03.4 | his conventional expertise with holistic approaches including functional medicine and Ayurveda. |
| 1:09.8 | He's the author of the Tiger Protocol and integrative five-step program to treat and heal |
| 1:14.4 | your auto-immunity. |
| 1:16.2 | As he's done for two plus decades, Dr. Akeel sees patients and conducts clinical research |
| 1:21.2 | studies in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| 1:24.7 | Today we're going to dive deep into the subject of auto-immunity. |
| 1:28.1 | You'll learn about the biggest drivers of this disease and how you can keep them in |
| 1:31.9 | check to prevent and reverse your condition. |
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