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Welcome to Autoimmune 411 Academy™ 🦋
I'm Alice — founder of Hashimoto's 411®, the largest autoimmune thyroid patient group in the world, since 2010. Along the way, I realized the same context and the same framework I kept explaining to Hashimoto's patients applied just as much to anyone navigating autoimmune disease — which is why I expanded into Autoimmune 411™, and why this space isn't just for thyroid patients anymore. I've been living with autoimmune disease myself for over 20 years, and I built this because I got tired of watching people get handed a diagnosis and basically nothing else. No context, no framework, no real explanation of what's actually happening in their body or what to do next. That's what this is for. A few things to know before you dive in: 📚 The Classroom is where the actual curriculum lives — Foundations is the place to start, everything else you can explore in whatever order makes sense for you. Nothing's locked. You go at your own pace. 💬 This Community feed is organized by category — you'll see topics like Supplements, Detox, and General Discussion when you go to post. Even the best Facebook group in the world runs into the same wall eventually: everything gets buried in one endless scroll, the same questions get asked weekly because nothing's ever actually organized, and there's no way to connect today's post to something useful three months ago. That's not a moderation problem, it's a structural one — the platform itself was never built for learning, only for talking. Categories exist here so this doesn't happen to us. Pick the one that fits before you post; it keeps conversations findable, for you and for everyone scrolling for the same answer six months from now. 🎯 Each category usually has a pinned post at the top pointing you to the relevant lesson before you ask your question — not because I don't want to hear from you, but because half the time the material answers it faster than I can, and then your question gets to be a better one. 🎥 Guest experts show up here periodically — practitioners, specialists, people who know things I don't. When one's coming, you'll see it announced, and you'll get the chance to submit your own questions ahead of time.
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Why Autoimmune Academy Exists (and Why You Belong Here)
There are plenty of autoimmune courses, webinars, and “expert” masterclasses out there. So what makes Autoimmune 411 Academy different? 👉 You. You—the fighters, the researchers, the relentless seekers of answers. You are the reason this Academy exists. I’ve spent over 20 years in the trenches with you. In 2010, I founded Hashimoto’s 411, a patient advocacy group that’s now over 130,000 strong worldwide. I’ve heard more patient stories than most doctors will hear in a lifetime—and that lived experience shapes everything inside this course. That said let’s be clear about one thing: ✋ I’m not a doctor, and I don’t give medical advice. 🧠 What I offer is something different—patient wisdom at scale. This isn’t about theory. This is about what actually works in the real world—what helps, what harms, what gets overlooked. Autoimmune Academy was built to reflect the patterns I’ve seen, the breakthroughs I’ve lived, and the frustrations I know all too well. 🧭 Why Autoimmune Academy? If you’ve ever tried to piece together your healing from scattered Facebook posts, forums, contradictory blog articles, and one-too-many YouTube videos, you already know the truth: 🌀 It’s overwhelming. 🧩 It’s confusing. ❌ And it’s rarely presented in the order that actually makes sense. That’s what Autoimmune Academy is here to fix. This is your structured, step-by-step guide to understanding why your body is acting the way it is—and what to do about it in the right sequence, without wasting money or time chasing the wrong solutions. When I was first diagnosed, I would’ve given anything for something like this. A roadmap. A filter. A translator of all the noise. Now, I’ve created it—for you. 🌱 One Disease, Many Faces — Same Root Causes Whether you’re dealing with Hashimoto’s, Lupus, MS, RA, Sjögren’s, or another autoimmune condition, here’s the truth no one tells you: 🎯 The diseases may look different, but the underlying drivers are shockingly similar. The root causes include: - 🚨 Gut dysfunction - 🧪 Toxic burden - 🧂 Nutrient deficiencies - 😰 Chronic stress - 🦠 Hidden infections - 🔄 Immune system confusion
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Hello all, just checking in to make sure everyone in the Academy currently can see the three open classroom courses which include the Library, Hashichat and The History of Medicine. By the end of next week I'll have had a chance to review and publish Autoimmune 411 Foundations and then The 411 on Detox, Labs and testing, supplements and more. Once I ha e some of the additional courses up and running I'll open the floodgates to the community membership so please don't be out off that's it's currently quiet. Enjoy whats left of the weekend!
New things I’m curious about
Hi everyone, I’m starting to explore some new options for understanding and improving my Hashimoto’s. I am generally kinda lazy with going deeper as usually I feel pretty well, I’m fit and active and a good weight, and I often settle for “good enough” but I know it could be better. I have significant gut health work to do, I could really work more with diet, and my thyroid hormone numbers are not optimised on T4-only medication. Plus optimising nutrient levels, iron, cortisol, etc etc…! But for now, there are three main things I’m curious about and would like to get into (others to come later!). The first is the usefulness of measuring resting metabolic rate. I found somewhere that could do this here in Portugal. I was thinking that even if I do have my thyroid numbers, the Free T3 is still not reflecting what is actually getting into the cells and how it is all working metabolically. Thoughts? The second is that a GI-MAP has shown I have a Blastocystis hominis infection and I know I have had this for at least 18 years. I tried triple anti-biotics way back. Now I’ve done herbal tinctures with a strong wormwood component over much of a year and also a couple of months of S. boulardii and was about to do more of that. An approach to change the terrain rather than try attack and kill of the parasite. I also have D. fragilis, or I did one year ago. I’d like to know more about natural treatments for these parasites and people’s experiences. The third thing that I’m considering is keto diet flexing. I’ve never done keto before and my diet experiments have only been some elimination diet protocols to settle on a paleo-based non-processed food diet. I’ve never done AIP. I live simply off-grid in a camper in rural Portugal and it’s always felt too challenging. So I’m interested in input and experiences. Thank you!
Mickey Trescott, the Queen of AIP
Alice, please let me know where to find this page. I am now eating only meat: beef, bison, veal, chicken, turkey and look for grass fed, gluten free. There is only occasional packaging information on what 'Finishing' (animals fed grains to 'fatten' prior to butchering) process is done to these animals. Then I add organic vegetables from Natural Grocers or Pomegranite Market, sometimes from Organic grocery section. It seems I've been cooking right?!! -->> OMG!!! 1:03 pm today! Just made lunch, was re-reading PACKAGE LABEL on the NG brand ORGANIC PRUNES package, that I've been using to make Prune Water for constipation!!!!! 😕 NOW I SEE THE FINE PRINT, ON Natural Grocers Organic, Non-GMO, Product! LABEL STATES . . . "PACKAGED IN PLANT THAT PROCESSES TREE NUTS, SOY, WHEAT(GLUTEN), MILK, EGG, PEANUTS, AND SESAME!!! 😧 THIS AUTOIMMUME PERSON's NIGHTMARE! CONTAMINATED ORGANIC PACKAGED FOOD! I DO READ LABELS! Yet when my brain is hit, I don't always have the capacity to see & understand what I'm looking at and what it means, the potential consequence's to this body. This may be a root cause of the continuing body pain, big gut bloat, and brain neurons inflammation & slow brain processing!!! Now again, have to Throw Away more 'Contaminated Food' Again, learn and go another step forward.
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