Exercise with autoimmune disease is sometimes complicated! But have hope- I now walk approx 5 miles a day, lift weights, and do other exercises like Pilates, qi gong, yoga, and hiking the mountains of Colorado. Yet I used to get wiped out from just a 5 min walk in 2014 during my worst Hashimoto’s flare. Just listen to your body and it will guide you. Less CAN be helpful for a while! | Thriving Autoimmune

There is a way to reduce autoimmune flare-ups… It’s counterintuitive but exercise is the way to reduce autoimmune flare-ups. I know this is confusing so hear me out. Flare-ups happen when we overdo it, right? Our bodies get exhausted and trigger a flare-up, which makes our body shut down for recovery. BUT- if we exercise and build muscle correctly, we can train our body to handle more stress, which means we have more capacity to do stuff… Which means we can do more before we go into “I overdid i

Exercise is healthy for us. However...⁠ ⁠ For people with autoimmune disease and chronic illness, exercise (or any kind of physical movement) can be the cause of our symptom flare-ups.⁠ ⁠ The stress of the exercise is often more than our body’s level of tolerance.⁠ ⁠ And this “no pain no gain” messaging has set us up to fail- because it encourages us to ignore our pain. It instructs us to push aside our bodies important internal signals. It tells us that what we are feeling doesn’t matter, and i