Fasting for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Are there benefits of fasting as rheumatoid arthritis treatment? Fasting, followed by a plant-based diet, is put to the test for autoimmune inflammatory joint disease.

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

[tomng]

Fasting cured my fingers arthritis. I fasted for detox, but was surprised to see my swollen finger joints cured after 6 month of intermittent fasting. Totally unexpected. I did nothing out of the ordinary for fasting. It was a combination of 16/8 a few times per week, one-day and two-day fast a few times a month. 3 years later, I still fast but less often. I am happy to report that my finger joints are still normal. Please do yourself a favor by fasting.

[LoveMuffin]

Yep I've had rheumatoid arthritis since i was 9 years old and fasting/vegan/gluten free diet helped me get off the medication

[shivaslilgsunlimited]

Just bought 2 copies of How Not to Diet cookbook! My copy came yesterday! It’s soo goood!

[OverEngineer]

Dr Greger, thank you for this video. My grandma had rheumatoid arthritis and it's a shame we didn't know what enormous effect diet could have on her life quality. Would be nice if you allow to add subtitles to the video. I have friends with this diagnosis but they don't know english so well. I want to translate it to Russian so that this info is available to as many people as possible, and they have chance against this terrible disease. Thank you for your work.

[LevelUpWellness]

As someone who has Ankylosing spondylitis, (feels like I have HAD it, but not that much anymore) I can say that fasting has worked incredibly well for me as well to get on the right path and live a normal life again on a Whole Foods plant based diet! 😄

[naftalibendavid]

So glad to see the placebo-controlled work with physiological measures. I tip my hat to the investigators and funders. Thanks for spreading the word!

[KWms]

Just found your channel today and WOW I love the format of this video. I was able to do a quick search on the articles you mentioned. I just started dry fasting today due to the inflammation in my hip. It’s time for me to get serious about my health and finally give up the meat, eggs and dairy. I’m too young to be using a walker.

[vppal]

Can you make a video on diet specifically for Rheumatoid arthritis? In plants based diet - what is good to it eat vs what is not for RA?
Also, can you share best way to reduce antinuclear antibodies to normal levels?

[AlternativeReality]

Thank you for this. Both my father and mother-in-law have RA.

[allanmainovieytes]

Gregor is always shimmering, i love it

[ImprovingAbility]

Dr Greger got to be the world’s best teleprompter reader, by a long shot. Super impressive.

[SPR-]

I noticed that the fasting period in the studies was 7 to 24 days. That would definitely require medical supervision.

[Vamusika]

Sorry, I'm confused. What kind of fasting are we talking about here? There are so many types!

[mayito]

Information is great. The presentation borders comedy instead of science,

[drkmlakshmipathy]

I am fully thrilled by your facts about water fast healing all auto immune diseases....thank you for your excellent presentation and showing lot of evidence in this regard..you are simply great .lots of love from Chennai.wish you happy new year 2022

[JJ_Smilez]

What kind of fasting is recommended? How many days or hours?

[LindaEckertBallard]

very strange ... YT video would not share :( I tried to share it but when it went to FB there was no video there :( I tried again just to make sure it was not a fluke and it still would not share. I will try to cut and paste the link to see if that works :( FYI ??

[anachronisticon]

The study that involved fasting and a vegetarian diet was also gluten free.

[KTPurdy]

I took notice a few years ago that after two decades of swearing for sure that foods don't affect RA, that MD researchers finally admitted that they did. Disappointing indeed.

[eminari]

This is absuletly true. When I fast, my pains go away after just one or two days. Surprisingly, my energy boosts beginning from the second day. Even, it is like eupheria. Of course, there are bio-chemical reactions related to RA.