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 ( )
• Is Fasting Beneficial for Weight Loss? ( )
• Is Fasting for Weight Loss Safe? ( )
• Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Put to the Test ( )
• Is Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Safe? ( )
• The 5-2 Diet and the Fasting-Mimicking Diet Put to the Test ( )
• Time-Restricted Eating Put to the Test ( )
• The Benefits of Early Time-Restricted Eating ( )
• Benefits of Fasting for Healing ( )
• World’s Largest Fasting Study ( )

For more on rheumatoid arthritis, see Turmeric Curcumin & Rheumatoid Arthritis ( ) and Why Do Plant-Based Diets Help Rheumatoid Arthritis? ( ).

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 ( )
• Fasting for Disease Reversal ( )
• Fasting and Cancer ( )

To see all of the fasting videos on NutritionFacts.org, go to the fasting topic page ( ).

Here are more videos on using diet to prevent and treat autoimmune diseases:
• Dietary Treatment of Crohn’s Disease ( )
• Cancer as an Autoimmune Disease ( )
• Clonal Selection Theory of Immunity ( )
• Clonal Deletion Theory of Immunity ( )
• The Inflammatory Meat Molecule Neu5Gc ( )
• Potassium and Autoimmune Disease ( )
• Treating Multiple Sclerosis with the Swank MS Diet ( )
• Turmeric Curcumin and Rheumatoid Arthritis ( )
• Alpha Gal and the Lone Star Tick ( )
• Tick Bites, Meat Allergies, and Chronic Urticaria ( )
• How to Diagnose Gluten Intolerance ( )
• Preventing Crohn’s Disease with Diet ( )
• Why Do Plant-Based Diets Help Rheumatoid Arthritis? ( )
• Does Casein in Milk Trigger Type 1 Diabetes? ( )
• Does Bovine Insulin in Milk Trigger Type 1 Diabetes? ( )
• Benefits of Turmeric Curcumin for Inflammatory Orbital Pseudotumor ( )
• Sodium and Autoimmune Disease: Rubbing Salt in the Wound? ( )
• Does Nutritional Yeast Trigger Crohn’s Disease? ( )
• Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Lupus ( )

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