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Tips & Tools to Conquer your Chronic Disease

DrBonnie360’s life experiences are far from mundane: she began her career as a dentist, then became a Wall Street analyst and consultant after a hand injury prevented her from continuing on with dentistry, and finally started Your Autoimmunity Connection when faced with the lack of resources available to herself and her family members as autoimmune patients. This winding trajectory in conjunction with her diagnoses has given her ample insight into how to manage autoimmune and chronic conditions with the curveballs life throws your way. Here DrBonnie360 introduces her eBook to help chronic illness patients like herself prosper and thrive.

Food Spotlight on Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS)

As knowledge of nutrition and food-as-medicine expands, using food as therapy to support health and wellbeing has become increasingly popular. This is especially the case for patients with autoimmune and autoinflammatory conditions. For example self-experimenting patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis are finding foods can help (or hurt) their condition. More and

Spotlight on Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Disease

In honor of National Autoimmune Awareness Month, we started a series of information and resources posts on autoimmune and autoinflammatory conditions, in hopes of raising awareness and connecting patients and others with useful information.

7 Must Do’s with an Autoimmune Disease

Written by: Bonnie Feldman, DDS, MBA, Becca Malizia, BS, Ellen M. Martin Did you know that it takes about 17 years for new scientific discoveries to be translated into mainstream conventional medicine (1)? While this doesn’t seem like a huge amount of time considering everything that goes into the process

The Autoimmune Disease Continuum

Autoimmune disease is an umbrella term for the numerous diseases that affect the immune system. The overlap of symptoms makes them difficult to diagnose and understand. Continue reading to help bring the invisible epidemic of autoimmune disease into the limelight.

Food Spotlight on Hashimoto’s Disease

Just as food is fuel for our bodies, it is also one of the best natural medicines for our bodies. Autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto’s Disease can be largely affected by certain foods. Continue reading to learn how to use food as a health enhancer and a therapy agent to help mitigate the symptoms of Hashimoto’s.

15 Minute Matrix Podcast – Mapping Movement Therapy & Autoimmunity

When your muscles ache and your limbs are sore, the last thing you want to do is get up and move. In this podcast, however, DrBonnie360 reveals how movement therapy can in fact be used to alleviate and minimize pain.

Spotlight on Hashimoto’s Disease

Written by: Bonnie Feldman, DDS, MBA, Anna Simon, Ellen M. Martin It took me 5 years and 12 specialists to be diagnosed with Celiac and Hashimoto’s. I want the next person to be diagnosed on the first doctor. – anonymous patient participant in our Autoimmunity Voices survey. Autoimmune disease is an

A Guide to Food Therapy e-book : Crafting Your Autoimmune Diet

Food not only keeps us alive, but it can be used to help us thrive! Diet plays a significant role in the world of autoimmunity. Learn everything you need to know about the interplay between food, genes, microbiomes, and more to achieve optimal health through food therapy.

13 Unique Autoimmune and Chronic Illness Gifts

Birthdays and holiday season present a uniquely perplexing dilemma: what presents should you gift your loved ones? The perfect present combines need, utility, and aesthetics in one–an especially difficult combination to find on the market when looking for gifts for loved ones with autoimmune and chronic illnesses. To ease your search, here are 13 ideas for unique autoimmune and chronic ilness gifts to get you started.