Anti-inflammatory Turmeric Bars (Paleo & AIP) (2024)

FAQs

Is turmeric allowed on the AIP diet? ›

Turmeric has been used for thousands of years as a completely natural healing spice. You'll find more this article about how it can be helpful in arthritis management, skin conditions, and more. They're nut free, grain free, and totally AIP and paleo.

First, know that paleo is an anti-inflammatory diet that aims to remove sugar, legumes, most dairy, grains, and refined vegetable oils like corn and soy oil. Essentially, paleo sets out to eliminate processed, so-called modern foods from our diets.

Refined sugars: sweets, sodas, candies, chocolate, cane sugar, corn syrup, brown rice syrup, etc. Nuts and seeds: all nuts, seeds and foods made from these ingredients including flours, butter or oils, cocoa, and seed-based spices like coriander, cumin, fennel, mustard and nutmeg. Certain beverages: Coffee and alcohol.

However, the AIP diet aims to reduce and alleviate symptoms of autoimmune diseases. It involves eliminating certain foods that can worsen the symptoms of existing autoimmune disease. The anti-inflammatory diet, in contrast, aims to reduce overall inflammation in the body.

Since cumin is derived from seeds, it is not included in AIP before a reintroduction period (for more information about the science behind this guideline, see my post The WHYs Behind the Autoimmune Protocol: Nuts and Seeds).

Because of the anti-inflammatory, immunomodulating, and antioxidant properties of curcumin (the main bioactive substance in turmeric), supplementation with curcumin may have beneficial effects in people with autoimmune diseases.

Anti-inflammatory Foods

One form of these powerful inflammation fighters is found in fatty fish such as salmon, herring, mackerel, sardines, tuna, striped bass and anchovies. You can get the benefit from eating the fish or by taking fish oil supplements. Vegetarians and vegans have options, too.

If you're on AIP because of adrenal fatigue issues, extreme exhaustion, hormonal issues, or blood sugar issues it really is best if you can try to eliminate caffeine for at least 30 days. Caffeine has the ability to spike cortisol (the stress hormone) for up to 6 hours after drinking only one cup!

Yes! Bananas are definitely allowed on AIP! Are eggs AIP? Unfortunately, no, eggs are not allowed on the elimination portion of the AIP diet because of their potentially allergenic nature and compounds within the egg whites may contribute to leaky gut.

Can I have peanut butter on AIP? ›

Legumes & Beans

Core AIP excludes all beans and legumes like chickpeas, green beans, peanuts, peas, soybeans and all soy derivatives like tofu and soy sauce. Modified AIP excludes peanuts, soybeans and all soy-based foods and products, but allows beans and other legumes.

To a healthy person, pastured eggs can be good. To a person with autoimmune, they can cause havoc that probably wouldn't happen in a healthy person. Eggs can allow proteins (usually lysozyme, from the egg white) to cross the gut barrier where they don't belong and contribute to molecular mimicry.

But two styles of eating have been shown to help: the Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet. “Positive research reports that these diets are successful in reducing inflammation, as well as cholesterol, weight, blood pressure and blood sugar,” Zumpano says.

Turmeric is widely used in cooking and gives Indian curry its flavor and yellow color. It is also used in mustard and to color butter and cheese. Turmeric has been used in both Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine as an anti-inflammatory, to treat digestive and liver problems, skin diseases, and wounds.