Friday Favorites: Fasting for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Autoimmune Diseases

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 (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/bene...) • Is Fasting Beneficial for Weight Loss? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-fa...) • Is Fasting for Weight Loss Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Is-Fa...) • Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Put to the Test (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Alter...) • Is Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-al...) • The 5-2 Diet and the Fasting-Mimicking Diet Put to the Test (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-5...) • Time-Restricted Eating Put to the Test (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/time...) • The Benefits of Early Time-Restricted Eating (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-b...) • Benefits of Fasting for Healing (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/benef...) • World’s Largest Fasting Study (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/world...) For more on rheumatoid arthritis, see Turmeric Curcumin & Rheumatoid Arthritis (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/turm...) and Why Do Plant-Based Diets Help Rheumatoid Arthritis? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-.... 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 (https://drgreger.org/collections/vide...) • Fasting for Disease Reversal (https://drgreger.org/collections/vide...) • Fasting and Cancer (https://drgreger.org/collections/vide...) To see all of the fasting videos on NutritionFacts.org, go to the fasting topic page (https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/fas.... Here are more videos on using diet to prevent and treat autoimmune diseases: • Dietary Treatment of Crohn’s Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/achi...) • Cancer as an Autoimmune Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/canc...) • Clonal Selection Theory of Immunity (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/clon...) • Clonal Deletion Theory of Immunity (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/clon...) • The Inflammatory Meat Molecule Neu5Gc (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-...) • Potassium and Autoimmune Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/pota...) • Treating Multiple Sclerosis with the Swank MS Diet (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/trea...) • Turmeric Curcumin and Rheumatoid Arthritis (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/turm...) • Alpha Gal and the Lone Star Tick (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/alph...) • Tick Bites, Meat Allergies, and Chronic Urticaria (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/tick...) • How to Diagnose Gluten Intolerance (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-...) • Preventing Crohn’s Disease with Diet (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/prev...) • Why Do Plant-Based Diets Help Rheumatoid Arthritis? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-...) • Does Casein in Milk Trigger Type 1 Diabetes? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does...) • Does Bovine Insulin in Milk Trigger Type 1 Diabetes? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does...) • Benefits of Turmeric Curcumin for Inflammatory Orbital Pseudotumor (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/bene...) • Sodium and Autoimmune Disease: Rubbing Salt in the Wound? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Sodi...) • Does Nutritional Yeast Trigger Crohn’s Disease? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does...) • Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Lupus (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-...) Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM