49: Scleroderma and the AIP Spectrum - A Client Healing Story with Sarah Brookes

Sarah Brookes joins Jaime and Marie-Noelle to unpack the idea of AIP as a spectrum rather than an all-or-nothing protocol, walk through a client's nine-month journey reversing scleroderma symptoms through diet alone, and share her own six-month reintroduction struggle and what finally helped her through it. The episode closes with Sarah's take on when AIP is not the right starting point and why nervous system regulation often needs to come first.

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Topics covered

How Sarah's approach to client care has evolved since becoming an AIP Certified Coach in 2017

Introducing AIP as a spectrum, not all-or-nothing

Meet the client: multiple diagnoses, multiple medications, and a request to work entirely through diet

Going all in: full elimination AIP, no restaurants, no exceptions, even on a three-week trip

The results after nine months: four stone lost, medications reduced, scleroderma patches faded

What this case teaches coaches about treating conditions that aren't primarily gut-driven

Sarah's own reintroduction story and why it took her over six months

The strategic thinking behind reintroducing individual ingredients versus whole dishes

What changed: Jan's AIP retreat and the shift from scrambling to stability