From Sickness to Health: How I cured my autoimmune disease without medication. A must read for anyone with an illness. Your body is sick for a reason

By Alison Manning

In 2013, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, Myositis. My immune system had suddenly turned on me and was attacking all my muscles, it was very scary. I had gone from a very fit healthy person to someone who was struggling to walk. I felt like my life had been literally turned upside down overnight. The doctors told me there was no cause or cure and only wanted to put me on toxic medication. I did not accept that there was no cause, because the human body doesn’t just turn on itself for no reason!After doing my own research, I discovered that the cause was too many antibiotics, leading to gut yeast overgrowth Candida Albicans, which then leads on to Leaky Gut Syndrome. LGS is where microscopic holes are made in the lining of the gut, the lumen, by the yeast itself, then food is then able to enter the bloodstream and provoke an immune reaction. The great wise Greek physician Hippocrates said… All disease begins in the gut!Autoimmune diseases are on the rise all over the world at an alarming rate, yet the cause is being completely ignored and only the symptoms are being treated, with very toxic medications that can have lifelong side effects. This is my journey of how I challenged and defied the doctors and cured myself, by following an autoimmune diet and taking anti fungals to kill the gut yeast overgrowth. I no longer need toxic medication, I’ve simply treated the cause of my illness. I’ve written this book to share my knowledge and to try and help others with any illness, including autoimmune diseases and even cancer!If you treat the cause your body will recover to full health once again. Also included is the autoimmune diet that I followed, which got me back to full health.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brown Dog Books
• Release date: Nov 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781839525902

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From Sickness

to Health

First published 2022

Copyright © Alison Manning 2022

The right of Alison Manning to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written permission of the copyright holder.

Published under licence by Brown Dog Books and

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ISBN printed book: 978-1-83952-526-1

eISBN: 978-1-83952-590-2

Cover and internal design by Lexi L’Esteve

Printed and bound in the UK

This book is printed on FSC certified paper

This book is dedicated to my dear dad Graham Manning, who was my motivation and my hero. Never forgotten, I miss you every day

xx

‘Health is not valued until sickness comes.’

Thomas Fuller

‘The doctor of the future will give no medication but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.’

Thomas A. Edison

‘It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.’

Mahatma Gandhi

Contents

Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Dedication

Foreword

The Diagnosis

Natural Antifungals

Prescription Antifungals – for Candida Albicans Yeast Overgrowth

Useful Books

Other Supplements

Supplements to Help Soothe and Heal the Gut

Toxin Binders

Cookbooks

Useful Websites

Private Testing

Mycotoxins are:

Dysbiosis

Candida and Toxins

Candida Biofilms

Oregano Leaf Extract

Caprylic Acid

Garlic

N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC)

Systemic Enzymes

My Daily Detox Juice Recipe

The Autoimmune Diet Protocol (AIP)

The Autoimmune Diet Protocol (AIP)

What To Avoid and Why:

Foreword

I felt compelled to write this book and it goes out to all those of you who are suffering with an illness. If you treat the cause, you will recover and live a healthy life again.

The old great wise Greek physician Hippocrates

said ...

‘All disease begins in the gut’.

Sadly, today this is being completely ignored by the medical profession.

‘Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food’.

Also included is the autoimmune diet plan and food list that I followed that helped me heal my gut, as well as a list of natural supplements and antifungals.

It also contains a list of helpful books, including autoimmune cookbooks as well as links to useful websites.

The Diagnosis

It was dark, rainy, cold October morning in 2012. It was about 8.30 am and I was driving to work, I worked as a Legal PA in Clifton, Bristol. As usual, I was feeling extremely tired to the point where I could hardly keep my eyes open and my whole body felt exhausted. But today was different, strange dark thoughts were running through my mind. I thought if I drive my car into a brick wall and I end up in a coma, at least then I can have a nice long sleep, I felt beyond exhausted. Those clearly are not the thoughts of a rational well person.

I had not been feeling well for a few months, very tired all the time, but it was a fatigue that was off the scale. Also, my legs had started to feel heavy. I was still going to my weekly Zumba class at my local gym, but I was finding the class more and more difficult. I had recently run the Race for Life with a friend, but I had really struggled to even get round the course and ended up walking most of it. At the persistence of my mum, I had been to the doctor, and she had done a blood test, the results showed that my liver enzymes were raised. What could have caused that? I asked, we don’t know, she replied, but come back in a few weeks and we’ll do another test, they will probably be lower next time, she said.

What was causing my liver enzymes to rise? I didn’t smoke, I wasn’t a regular drinker, I had a healthy diet and I exercised regularly, it was a mystery. I later learned that it was both inflammation as well as the deadly toxins from candida albicans causing my liver enzymes to rise, basically my liver was overloaded and struggling to cope.

I had been a healthy child, my mum was a great cook and we always had good home cooked meals, but for some reason from a baby I had suffered with regular bouts of tonsillitis which continued well into my adulthood. But instead of them taking my tonsils out, I was just given more and more antibiotics. I strongly feel that at some point in my childhood either a doctor, or my parents should have insisted my tonsils were taken out. It