Fasting, followed by a plant-based diet, is put to the test for autoimmune inflammatory joint disease and autoimmune diseases such as lupus, ankylosing spondylitis, chronic urticaria, mixed connective-tissue disease, glomerulonephritis, and multiple sclerosis, as well as osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia.
For more on fasting, see:
• Benefits of Fasting for Weight Loss Put to the Test ([ Ссылка ])
• Is Fasting Beneficial for Weight Loss? ([ Ссылка ])
• Is Fasting for Weight Loss Safe? ([ Ссылка ])
• Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Put to the Test ([ Ссылка ])
• Is Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Safe? ([ Ссылка ])
• The 5-2 Diet and the Fasting-Mimicking Diet Put to the Test ([ Ссылка ])
• Time-Restricted Eating Put to the Test ([ Ссылка ])
• The Benefits of Early Time-Restricted Eating ([ Ссылка ])
• Benefits of Fasting for Healing ([ Ссылка ])
• World’s Largest Fasting Study ([ Ссылка ])
For more on rheumatoid arthritis, see Turmeric Curcumin & Rheumatoid Arthritis ([ Ссылка ]) and Why Do Plant-Based Diets Help Rheumatoid Arthritis? ([ Ссылка ]).
I’ve done three webinars on fasting. All of the videos are available for free on NutritionFacts.org, but they are also available on digital download—as a bundle or separately:
• Intermittent Fasting ([ Ссылка ])
• Fasting for Disease Reversal ([ Ссылка ])
• Fasting and Cancer ([ Ссылка ])
To see all of the fasting videos on NutritionFacts.org, go to the fasting topic page ([ Ссылка ]).
Here are more videos on using diet to prevent and treat autoimmune diseases:
• Dietary Treatment of Crohn’s Disease ([ Ссылка ])
• Cancer as an Autoimmune Disease ([ Ссылка ])
• Clonal Selection Theory of Immunity ([ Ссылка ])
• Clonal Deletion Theory of Immunity ([ Ссылка ])
• The Inflammatory Meat Molecule Neu5Gc ([ Ссылка ])
• Potassium and Autoimmune Disease ([ Ссылка ])
• Treating Multiple Sclerosis with the Swank MS Diet ([ Ссылка ])
• Turmeric Curcumin and Rheumatoid Arthritis ([ Ссылка ])
• Alpha Gal and the Lone Star Tick ([ Ссылка ])
• Tick Bites, Meat Allergies, and Chronic Urticaria ([ Ссылка ])
• How to Diagnose Gluten Intolerance ([ Ссылка ])
• Preventing Crohn’s Disease with Diet ([ Ссылка ])
• Why Do Plant-Based Diets Help Rheumatoid Arthritis? ([ Ссылка ])
• Does Casein in Milk Trigger Type 1 Diabetes? ([ Ссылка ])
• Does Bovine Insulin in Milk Trigger Type 1 Diabetes? ([ Ссылка ])
• Benefits of Turmeric Curcumin for Inflammatory Orbital Pseudotumor ([ Ссылка ])
• Sodium and Autoimmune Disease: Rubbing Salt in the Wound? ([ Ссылка ])
• Does Nutritional Yeast Trigger Crohn’s Disease? ([ Ссылка ])
• Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Lupus ([ Ссылка ])
Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution!
-Michael Greger, MD FACLM
