02/08/2025
🥚 Autoimmune Nutrition That *Works* (and Tastes Good)
This might look like a simple breakfast, Naked pork sausages, scrambled eggs with chives, a handful of watercress, and a glass of coconut water, but it’s checking off some serious boxes for me.
👉 I’m aiming for **120g of protein**, **4500mg of potassium**, and **800–1000mcg of food-form folate** every day. Why? Because I have 3 autoimmune conditions and multiple SNPs on the methylation pathway, including genes like **MTHFR, MTRR and more, that make it harder to process folate efficiently and detox oestrogen properly (especially while on HRT). Most of my autoimmune clients are in the same position.
Here’s how this breakfast stacks up:
🔹 **Protein: \~43g**
A solid chunk toward my daily target, over a third of the way there before 10am.
🔹 **Choline: \~500mg**
That’s the full RDA for women , and I try to **exceed** that daily to support methylation, liver function, and brain health.
🔹 **Folate: \~115mcg (natural form)** Not a fantastic start but it all adds up through the day. (This would be classed as about one quarter of the standard RDA for folate, but I want to double that, so I’ll need more folate rich foods later).
Watercress, eggs, and chives, are supportive for methylation and detox, especially important if you don’t convert synthetic folic acid well.
🔹 **Potassium: \~950mg total**
* Eggs, watercress & pork: \~550mg
* 🥥 **Glass of coconut water (\~330ml): +400mg**
The coconut water gets me much closer to my 4500mg daily target, key for adrenal function, electrolyte balance, and calming the nervous system.
😇This brekkie is gluten-free, blood sugar-friendly, and actually enjoyable to eat.
You don’t need extreme diets. You need **food that speaks your body’s language**.
🤓Breaking this breakfast down demonstrates how lacking the standard breakfast of cereal or toast is if you’re looking to support your health with autoimmune disease.
I like to focus on what I need to eat and not on what I need to cut out. 🙏
