How You Can Heal From Disease Using Food

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can be following the healthiest diet out there, but did you know that it might not be the healthiest diet for YOU? I’m joined by</span> <a href= "https://thecastawaykitchen.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cristina Curp, creator of The Castaway Kitchen</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, to talk about how you can heal from autoimmune disease using food as medicine.</span></p> <p><strong>About Christina Curp</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cristina Curp is the creator of The Castaway Kitchen, a popular food blog and online community dedicated to delicious, healing recipes. Author of best-selling cookbook Made Whole and recently released Made Whole Made Simple. She holds a BA in Anthropology from Florida International University and is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. Cristina in on a mission to educate people about the healing power of real food! </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cristina shares her story of growing up and living with Hidradenitis Suppurativa. This is an autoimmune disease that manifests in painful boils in sensitive parts of the body, such as the armpits and groin. Cristina explains how her doctor kept trying to get her on different types of medication and creams that just weren’t working.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But after Cristina had her baby, the boils moved under her breasts which caused immense pain and more discomfort. She was researching the condition one day when she came across another woman who turned the autoimmune disease around by changing her diet. Because of Cristina’s background as a chef, she decided to try it herself.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Food is the ultimate medicine and Cristina is living proof of that. She reversed her Hidradenitis Suppurative by changing what food she was eating and finding what worked for her. Cristina explains how following the autoimmune protocol worked, and didn’t work, for her and ho