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.

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Here are more videos on using diet to prevent and treat autoimmune diseases:

Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution!
-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

[mattwillett]

I was in the midst of an unrelenting flare and did a 96 hr fast. The only pain I experienced was hunger.

[PathtoWellness]

The body is self healing. If fasting is done correctly, the body will heal itself.

[sallymorgan]

I have Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. I thought I had a healthy diet (thinking that chicken and eggs were good for me), and I am very active. After reading your book and watching your videos I can see that I've been kidding myself. I'm on day 5 of a plant-based diet. I'm very motivated because I have joint pain that's been steadily increasing, high BP and LDL blah blah blah. Thank you for all the valuable information. In god we trust, everyone else bring data!

[WeCelebrateEatingPlants]

The fasting center mentioned, TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, has more information on their website and cooking demos for whole plant foods which can also offer improved energy, mobility, and reduced inflammation even if a person doesn't have a diagnosis. 🥦❤ Thank you Doc and staff, love your work please keep them coming 🥦🎉

[pauldavid]

At 58 my life changed within 4 months. I fast for 18-6 and 23-1 on a Sunday. 1

[johantansir-ntep]

Carnivore or vegan... All of them agree about fasting is good 😁

[ElleFiore]

Dr. Fuhrman has a great book about this.

[susanwes]

But when you say "fasting" exactly what do you mean? Intermittent with a specific window each day? One day a week with no food? Which type of fasting works best or does it matter?

[pjcdm]

Loved the video. Please turn on the auto-translate caption for all languages feature please. There are many billions of people who cannot read or understand English. Thank you. PS: If you do not know how, leave a message and I will show you a video that explains the very simple process. It is a 3 minor steps process that takes maybe at a maximum 1 minute. My wife has lupus, but does not english well enough to get this.

[myrhev]

Fasting isn’t just the impetus to get how you to change how you eat. I have anecdotal evidence. I have put my aged mother on a whole food vegan diet. Her pain hasn’t went away or even improved, sadly. We are about to do a short fast and see how she tolerates it. Hopefully it will be, if not the panacea, the impetus to clearing up her pain.

[NewWorldCricket]

Im on hour 37 of fast. I feel great. The medicine was killing me

[tessstrickland]

What was the “modified fasting” that did not show significant improvement for fibromyalgia?

[ojkb]

How does the traditional fast fare against Dr. Longo's fasting-mimicking protocol? I've done both and prefer the fasting-mimicking. Still enters ketosis in the last days.

[meir]

What do you mean by fasting? How long?

[newbeginningsseparationdiv]

Carnivore for 6 months reduced my Axspa pain by at least 50%, LDN has increased my stamina and further reduction in inflammation by another 30% to 40%. Funny thing is I have never eaten poorly...

[hhetvnk]

How do you fast just drink water for 3 days?? Then have plant based foods??

[offshoretinker]

You might try raw elderberries Dr. McGreger?

[Erdem-xe]

Herkes tecrübelerini, hikayelerini yazabilirmi. Özellikle kireçlenmeden protez olmadan tamamen kalıcı iyileşenler

[marcelphilliphe]

Basically, the follow up vegan/vegetarian diet, after cutting carbs is nothing but a low calorie regimen, that will maintain the body into ketosis. The Keto folks are onto something here…

[KhloeF-wv]

At last, watching my hives inflammation fade day after day until they completely vanished was such a relief, I went with what I pointed out and within the first 10 days or so the urticaria was barely visible! I just go'ogled the latest by Shane Zormander and after 20 days my skin has never been healthier!