The Autoimmune Plant Based Cookbook

Are you struggling with symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, or chronic pain?

Are you tired of taking medications to treat symptoms and want to understand the root cause of your condition?

Autoimmune disease is one of the fastest growing chronic diseases in this country, and it has many different manifestations. Multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, psoriasis...the list of debilitating diseases goes on. The good news is that many of these conditions can improve significantly by changing the diet and lifestyle.

This simply written and beautifully photographed book will help you understand:

 Why a plant-based approach is an ideal way to improve the health of the gut microbiome and the immune system.
 Why many on typical plant-based diets might fail to improve their health
 How you can simply prepare plant-based foods to decrease anti-nutrients, improve nutritional content, and improve digestion.

These plant-based recipes are free of foods more commonly associated with food sensitivities, like soy, grains, and nuts.

A seven-day meal plan is included to help readers understand how to put these recipes into balanced meals.

Principles for eating to decrease inflammation, and recommendations for food sensitivity testing are provided.

The Autoimmune Plant Based Cookbook will equip you to be successful in implementing a lifestyle that is the most anti-inflammatory approach to healing the gut. Whether you are just beginning your recovery process or have tried every other program out there, don't let anything stop you from reading this book and from taking your life back.

Mercy Ballard, a nurse, and Dr. Joyce Choe, an ophthalmologist, are conventionally trained medical practitioners who struggled with their own symptoms for years before they discovered that they had developed multiple food sensitivities.
Joyce is a board-certified ophthalmologist from Vancouver, WA. She is a plant-based health enthusiast who has led a wide variety of community-based health programs. Her passion is to help her patients make the paradigm shifts needed to change behaviors and to improve their quality of life. Her own health journey led to an in-depth search for answers and caused her to see the need for information and education about the growing problem of gut permeability and the amazing possibilities for improved health that a specific plant-based lifestyle can give.
Mercy suffered many years with severe anemia, pain and fatigue, before learning about how food sensitivities and gut permeability contributed to her symptoms. Driven by her own struggles with her health, Mercy started creating the recipes which are now the basis of this cookbook. Inspired by her recovery, she set out to help others facing similar health conditions. In 2013, she and her husband moved to Central California where they began the Years Restored Lifestyle and Learning Center. Here, she provides education in nutrition, lifestyle, and natural remedies to help others with autoimmune, food sensitivities and other chronic diseases regain their health and purpose in life.