47: Gut Health, AIP, and the Case for Food Freedom with Emilie Davis

Hi, Emily.

Uh, it's really nice to have you on the podcast, and thank you so much for joining us today.

So good to be here.

I'm, I'm always a listener, so this is fun to be on the other side of it.

Oh, nice.

Uh, so today we're really excited to share your work and your expertise with our listeners.

I wanna jump right in and start with your personal story.

So I know that, like many of us, you came to nutrition through your own health journey, starting with recurring, recurring illness, and eventually finding your way to naturopathic and holistic approaches.

So can you please walk us through that path and how it eventually led you to AIP?

Yeah.

It's, it's a great question, and yes, I, I do think my story is similar to many others in this alternative, holistic, whatever kind of health field, um, because of some of my own health struggles.

So that is definitely where my path started.

Um, and I did.

I, I dealt with recurring illness, specifically chronic Epstein-Barr.

Um, I just got flare after flare for...

I was re- recounting this story to someone else, another health provider, a couple of days ago.

I think it was somewhere in the range of, like, seven to eight years, I just kept getting flares.

And, um, as anyone who knows, it's a virus, it's, you know, and then kind of a basic understanding is what your immune system is doing is just getting triggered, you know, over and over.

And so then there were some other immune issues, and obviously, like, very severe fatigue.

Um, and that is then what triggered an autoimmune disease three years ago.

So that is kind of my story in a nutshell.

But very early on, um, I mean, it's just, it's interesting.

I didn't really know about this whole natural medicine, functional medicine, holistic, altern- whatever word we wanna use, I di- I didn't really know.

Um, and so it was early on in that, like, Epstein-Barr flare process.

I f- I had a good doctor, um, but limited.