Food intolerance book idea

I am contemplating writing a book about my experience "eliminating" my food intolerances.

It will be about how I was "diagnosed" with food intolerances, cut out a bunch of foods, became very sickly, and turned my health around through learning and experimentation and have now effectively "eliminated" my food intolerances. I would like to dig into the science behind food intolerances and food allergies and know that this will involve some research.

I would also like to make it sort of a pseudo-cookbook with recipes from different stages along my journey, highlighting that getting to a point where you are eating really well and growing and fermenting good food is a journey that you don't have to reach tomorrow.

Does this sound like a book people would be interested in and if so, why? And any recommendations for resources that discuss the science behind food intolerances and also traditional food preparation methods (fermentation, sprouting, etc.) to make food more digestible? Any other ideas come to mind? Has anyone else had any experiences with food intolerances/allergies and trying to make them go away?

Hope you do this!

I think anything by Sally Fallon Morell will definitely help your research and development on this excellent project. Keep us posted!

not sure about chemistry or anything like that but I guess I wouldn't have done well on any of captain cooks voyages because im intolerant of sauerkraut

Do you have an intolerance to a certain category of foods or just all foods?

If a certain category that would help explain in the title.

Thanks for the responses. I did one of those popular blood tests that tells you what your food intolerances are and it told me I should stop eating A LOT of things - a lot of meats and animal products, certain grains, peanuts, sugar cane, corn, gluten, etc. I noticed that I felt really sick after eating any of those foods and I started cutting them out. But what I was left with wasn't nutritious enough and I still felt like crap all the time and I was stuck in this downward spiral of cutting out more and more foods. I know other people going through that same spiral and their health is deteriorating. After doing a lot of research on nutrition (most books seemed to come from the Weston A. Price Foundation, hmm...) and exploring more recipes I gradually started adding foods back in my diet and now I am eating copious amounts of meat and animal products, although I am still wary of grains and sugars and will ferment them before I eat them. But I can handle a bit of crappy food now that my body is strong enough and I don't have to be "that person that can't eat anything" at a restaurant or going over to someone's house for dinner.

I'm not your target customer, I don't use many recipes anymore....

However, you might stress that people ought to think differently about their food. Stop trying to replicate spaghetti. Or whatever "the dish" is. Spiral veggies are fine and good, but it is simply not flour noodles. Expect different.

My first reaction is "that sounds like something I'm interested in", and my second is, "Would I actually buy and read the book?"

It depends a lot on how applicable you can make the content. The top things that come to mind are:
1. Can this be broken down into smaller steps with clear benefit at each step? I've had my fill of articles or books that promise great results if you change 90% of your life. Not happening, unless I can break it down into 5% portions and get definable benefits after each.

2. How easy, tasty, and cheap are the recipes? It's related to #1, but it's that same thing where there are already thousands of people saying "Hey, eat this healthy muffin full of weird ingredients that my family loves so much they just can't get enough of". And I try it, and it's difficult and bland. So I conclude there are easier and more pleasant ways to be healthy.

3. What do you have that suggests benefits for people other than you? i.e. scientific studies, expert advice you've followed, etc. I always hear stories about how somebody started taking this one supplement or cut out this one food, and it transformed their health. Even if it's true for them, I've tried some, and most were duds.

In other words, I am thinking about all the times I've been disappointed by something similar and explaining what it would take for you to stand out from them. Hopefully it's useful.