Suggestions for an Anti inflammatory Cookbook

I'm looking for suggestions for a cookbook that will help me to cut out sugar, gluten and dairy....and whatever else I should be cutting out.

Thanks in advance.

Paltrow puts unnecessarily expensive ingredients in her book. I really don't like her personally but that's just me. If you want anti-inflammatory you might try a paleo type cookbook. It will not have any of those things in it. There's too many good ones to name. One of the most well known is the Primal Blueprint.

Thank you for your responses.

I'm looking for the cookbook to help my husband. He's just been told he has a yeast overload and that he should cut out gluten, sugar, dairy, caffein, beer, etc. He may also have Lyme, but those results aren't in yet.

With my Lyme and Bartonella, I'm watching my sugar, beer and caffein intake. I don't drink much beer, so that's been easy. Switched to tea for lower caffein. Sugar is my downfall, but I'm not doing too bad. None of these has caused any big issues, but I don't mind watching my diet. I can't run or do too much exercising, so I'm trying to eat healthy. Finding a reasonable cookbook to cook reasonable meals for the two of us would be great.

Maybe there's some kind of recipe book out there to aid with bringing his yeast levels back to normal.

Thank you, Astroman, for sharing such great information. Now, I have some good key words for my Google searches.

My first bout with lyme my llmd discovered that I had food allergies due to taking abx over the years and not enough probiotics. So I had to cut out gluten, eggs, lettuce, dairy, wheat, almonds and limit chicken and pork. On top of this my yeast was out of control (again abx and not enough probiotics) so I had to cut out sugar (including fruit). Basically I was close to vegan with the exception of beef and small amounts of fish. I jokingly called myself an nom-nom-ivore when people asked what kind of diet I was on. LOL. Anyhoo... I found a website called detoxinista that is amazing. It has recipes and cookbooks you can buy. It also has a 5 day make-ahead meal plan which is great for those bad days when you "run out of spoons". All the recipes are free of gluten and refined sugar, and most are also raw, vegan and Paleo-friendly. Another good find was tofetti-its a tofu based brand and they have cream cheese and sour cream that have the same taste and texture as the real thing. Also you can use sugar free apple sauce instead of eggs when you bake.

I went cold turkey on all the foods that I was marked as "allergic" or were not lyme friendly. It took about 6-8 months of dreaming about food and researching before I got into the swing of things. All that hard work was worth it. It was like when you work outside and you don't realize how dirty you got until you get in the shower. I felt really clean and noticed more good days the longer I kept at it. Of course, when I cheated on my diet I really noticed a difference and felt miserable. The good thing is that once I went into remission I was able to slowly reintroduce those foods. It took me a little over three years to get back to eating everything.

BookWyrm said...
I jokingly called myself an nom-nom-ivore when people asked what kind of diet I was on.

nom-nom-ivore! I love it!
Thanks BookWyrm!

I aspire to being a nom-nom-ivore...so I can appreciate a full palate again, but I still feel the old microbial GI tract dragging me down a spell.

For remission, I think it's a matter of intermittent fasting and careful attention to diet, giving the body all the nutritional resources to repair itself, well I hope so, that's the idea anyway.

For instance, I'm about 36 hours into a fast right now and I feel great and clear-headed!

(well it's a quasi fast, as I had 1 tsp of peanut butter, 1 tsp of chia seeds and 2 cups of mct/stevia coffee yesterday... that's it! ...oh yeah and some peppermint sleepy time tea mix...and of course water.)

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Again, thank you for your responses.

Both of us are taking good probiotics. However, when my husband's PCP started him on Doxy, they never told him he should take a probiotic. He took two rounds. The first round was shorter than the second. The second time, I convinced him to take a probiotic. Apparently, it wasn't good enough, or it was too late. His new LLMD made sure he had a good probiotic. I can't understand why regular practitioners aren't more thorough. Grrr

I just checked out detoxinista.com. That's a great site for recipes. THANK YOU!

BookWyrm said...
................................ Another fun fact - food allergies can add to the brain fog and other neuro issues that we associate with lyme brain.

-Yep!

My brain is now working the best it ever has in my adult life. After ABX, I figured the less brain fog that was still left over was from hashimoto. Seems it was from food that didn't agree with my gut and possibly still had a little leaky gut left. But- my thyroid levels also improved on their own during this diet, maybe to much.

I sleep better without needing as many hours, dont need coffee in the AM, think and talk without delay.

BookWyrm said...
My LLMD said the reason most doctors do not tell people about the importance of probiotics is because even if you are only on abx for a week you need probiotics for a year, and they know that information will not be listened to so they don't even try.

What? That's insane!

Fortunately, I've only been on antibiotics two other times in my life (I'm 56), so I haven't had to do deal with much. Luckily, the antibiotics I've been on since March haven't caused any gut issues. My PCP gave me my first round. I'm glad a friend to me to make sure I took a good probiotic, or I never would have known to. Pheew! Later, my LLMD made sure a good probiotic was on my list of things to take when I started a new round of meds.