Elimination-diet protocol
For the AIP or Wahls protocol you're already running with your practitioner
Removing grains, legumes, nightshades and dairy is the visible part. The supplements, the bloodwork, and the reintroductions you're tracking underneath are just as easy to lose the thread of. Stack Almanac holds all of it in one place.
You're working through AIP, the Autoimmune Protocol, or the Wahls Protocol, usually alongside a functional medicine doctor or naturopath who ordered the bloodwork and built the plan with you. That plan is rarely just a food list. It's a set of supplements chosen to cover the nutrient gaps an elimination diet opens up, gut lining support while things settle, and a reintroduction schedule where each food goes back in one at a time.
The reintroduction phase is where most people lose track. You're meant to be watching one variable, a single food, but you're also adjusting supplements, still taking any prescribed medication, and trying to notice whether a symptom is the food, the dose you changed last week, or nothing at all. Without a record, it's very hard to tell.
Your bloodwork adds another layer. Vitamin D, ferritin, thyroid antibodies, whatever your practitioner is watching this quarter, sitting in a PDF from the lab or a note from the last consult. Useful in the moment, hard to line up against your stack six months later when you're deciding whether to keep taking something.
Stack Almanac doesn't run your protocol. It's the reference that keeps your supplements, your bloodwork, and your medications in one current picture, so the plan you and your practitioner built stays legible as it moves through elimination and reintroduction. A note on what this is: it's a wellness and reference tool. It doesn't diagnose, treat, or manage an autoimmune condition, and it never replaces your practitioner.
The challenges
The reintroduction phase has too many moving parts
You're meant to isolate one food at a time, but supplement changes, timing, and any prescribed medication are all shifting too. Without a record of what changed and when, it's hard to say what actually caused a symptom.
Removing whole food groups opens nutrient gaps
Grains, legumes, dairy and nightshades all carry nutrients, and an elimination diet takes them out at once. Knowing which gaps your current supplements are actually covering, and which aren't, gets lost between the diet plan and the supplement list.
Medication interactions worry you more here
Many people on AIP or Wahls are also managing thyroid medication or other prescriptions, and you don't fully trust yourself to remember every timing rule and interaction between what your practitioner prescribed and what you're adding yourself.
Your bloodwork is hard to revisit when it matters
Vitamin D, ferritin, thyroid antibodies, whatever your practitioner is tracking this round, sits in a lab portal or a photo on your phone. When you're deciding whether to change something, going back to find the last set of numbers takes longer than it should.
How Stack Almanac helps
Exception-based tracking for reintroductions
Log a note only when something changes, a new food going back in, a dose adjustment, a symptom worth flagging. That's exactly the shape of a reintroduction phase, where the useful record is what changed, not a daily checklist.
Interactions worth a second look
The Almanac Advisor sees your full stack alongside any medication you've logged, including thyroid or other autoimmune prescriptions, and flags combinations and timing worth raising with your practitioner or pharmacist. It points; you and your clinician decide.
Lab results, kept alongside your stack
Photograph a blood panel and the Advisor tracks the markers your practitioner is watching over time, vitamin D, ferritin, thyroid antibodies, whatever's relevant, and explains what they show without diagnosing anything.
Personal Insights across food and symptoms
Personal Insights correlates what you're taking with how you've been feeling over time, so when a reintroduction or a supplement change lines up with a symptom, the pattern is visible rather than something you're trying to hold in memory.
Routines other AIP and Wahls followers actually run
Community Routines lets you browse supplement routines other people following AIP or Wahls have adopted, as a starting point to bring to your own practitioner, not a protocol to copy blind.
What elimination-phase support often looks like
This isn't a single stored protocol in Stack Almanac. It's a common starting shape for the nutrient gaps and gut lining support an elimination diet raises, to adapt with your practitioner, not a fixed stack to copy.