Autoimmune Eats

04/21/2025

New York friends—I hope to see you on May 17! 📅

I’ll be presenting alongside leading experts at the .psoriasis.foundation's Collaborative Care in Psoriatic Disease program at Lenox Hill Hospital 🤓

This event is designed for healthcare specialists who care for people with psoriasis + psoriatic arthritis.

We'll be focusing on improving shared decision-making to ensure that our patients living with psoriasis receive the right care & reach their treatment goals.

Learn more and register: psoriasis.org/collabcareny

I couldn't be more excited to be a part of this event! I hope you can join us ☺️

03/08/2025

Can we talk more about autoimmune diseases and neurodivergence?

Research demonstrates links between psoriasis and ADHD, IBD and autism, plus multiple autoimmune diseases and OCD.

To ignore this fact is to ignore the daily reality & challenges that autoimmune folks face.

02/17/2025

I'm so excited to share that I am hosting a webinar on nutrition for autoimmune disease!

Join us this Friday from 12-1pm EST as we discuss:
🤔 What exactly is an autoimmune disease (and how this may be changing),
‼️ What the scientific literature says about autoimmune diets, plus
😍 Nutrition interventions for autoimmune disease, based in actual science and research.

This is the first time this webinar is available to the general public. It's geared towards dietitians, yet all are welcome to join us!

And for all my dietitians wondering - “Autoimmune Nutrition Beyond the Anti-Inflammatory Diet: An Evidence-Based Introduction" awards 1 CPEUs in accordance with the Commission on Dietetic Registration’s CPEU Prior Approval Program.

Can't make it live? No worries! A video recording will be available afterwards if you are unable to attend or would like to rewatch it.

Can't wait to see you there!

11/27/2024

Happy birthday to me! 🎈

So thankful for wonderful friends and family who made it special 💗

Helping us to celebrate are:
🎂 Cake OF COURSE
🎁 Vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles (my fave)
🍰 Spiked hot chocolate
🎉 Roasted curry carrots
🎁 Tangerines
🎊 Puerto Rican style ox tail
🥳 Coconut tofu stew with butternut squash
🎂 Vegan ceviche on tostones
..and so many more yummy treats. It simply wouldn't have been a celebration without them!

Just a little reminder that food is so much more than just nutrition 💕

11/08/2024

I will never not love vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles. I will always want to eat mac & cheese with hot dogs.

I will always be reminded of happy childhood memories by Lucky Charms. I will never be able to say goodbye to Snickers or M&Ms forever.

Also -

I will always check in to see if I’m craving vegetables. I will forever ask myself if what I really need is to sink my teeth into a juicy, dripping, slightly overripe fruit.

I will ask myself how this food will make my body tomorrow. I will sometimes choose flavor & tolerate pain, sometimes I will forgo a craving to prevent hurting later, & sometimes I get to have it all.

I will always dig deep, & ask myself what I really want or need at that moment.

It’s all a balance. I get to choose all over again every time I eat.

This is called “food freedom” - & it’s amazing.

10/28/2024

The era of villainizing processed foods is over. It's time for our conversations about food to become more nuanced, personalized, and actually scientific.

10/04/2024

I could not be more excited for my upcoming presentation:

✨Introduction to Autoimmune Nutrition! ✨

This presentation is specifically for dietitians who are Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics members. We are already approved for 1 CPEU 💯

Are you a healthcare provider but not an AND member that would like access to this presentation? Do you live with autoimmune disease & want to see this presentation? Let me know below ⬇️

07/17/2024

💔 It's truly heartbreaking to see autoimmune folks, in desperate need of help & relief, attempt so many questionable things with their nutrition.

What we REALLY need is to follow the science - which shows that autoimmune folks are often chronically deficient in multiple nutrients.

The place to start is by fixing these deficiencies, then making sure they won't happen again.

The amount of misinformation out there about autoimmune nutrition is appalling, rampant, & totally not okay!

This is one of the main reason why I completely changed my business from one-on-one autoimmune nutrition counseling to writing & educating en mass.

The autoimmune community deserves better than constant pain with no answers, predatory diets doomed to fail, & healthcare providers that don't know how to help.

I'm dreaming of a world where autoimmune folks live full, wonderful lives with less symptoms, pain, & suffering.

A world where doctors are actually well informed about our diseases & interventions based in actual science.

Where we're not shuffled off from one medical provider to the next. Where we can find healing, hope, & remission.

I'm here for the revolution - are you?

07/05/2024

I want to scream this from the mountaintops every day:

🚨 HAVING AN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE PUTS YOU AT RISK FOR DEVELOPING AN EATING DISORDER - & VICE VERSA! 🚨

A few eating disorders get all the limelight, & other eating disorders are kind of ignored.

Orthorexia is one of the ignored ones. Yet, I see it time & time & time again in autoimmune folks.

PLEASE - do NOT attempt to:
❌️ eat perfectly
❌️ be rigid or strict about your food
❌️ constantly check ingredient lists or nutrition labels
❌️ cut out multiple food groups (or even one, for that matter)
❌️ eat only "healthy" or "clean" foods

This does not mean you should ignore nutrition completely. Of COURSE nutrition matters! But even too much of a good thing can be a bad thing, ya know?

If this feels close to home, see if you can pull back & allow at least some forbidden foods back into your life. If not, it's time to get professional help.
.. & the next time you see some influencer going on about their perfect diet… see if you can spot the orthorexia.

Need more help? Head to AutoimmuneEats.com ✨️

06/24/2024

You know that nutrition can improve your autoimmune disease… but like, now what??

Don't worry boo, I got you!

My Autoimmune Diet Beginner's Guide tells you exactly how & where to start. It's simple, easy, & will make you feel better! Oh & it's totally free 😉

I know you already got a lot on your plate. Your autoimmune disease is painful & miserable. Many days are a struggle just to get through. Most doctors are little help. The exhaustion is FOR REAL.

I see you - & you definitely deserve help at no cost, just for making it this far ❤️‍🩹

Download the Beginner’s Guide now, & thank yourself later 💚

08/29/2021

08/29/2021