Sodium and Autoimmune Disease: Rubbing Salt in the Wound?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2017-03-31

Two ways in which salt may drive autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, type I diabetes, Sjögren’s syndrome, asthma, and rheumatoid arthritis.

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What about childhood asthma unrelated to exercise? Check our my last video, How to Treat Asthma with a Low Salt Diet.

What are some of the most powerful dietary intervention we have for autoimmune disease? Check out videos such as: 
• Treating Multiple Sclerosis with the Swank MS Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-multiple-sclerosis-with-the-swank-ms-diet/)
• Dietary Treatment of Crohn’s Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/achieving-remission-of-crohns-disease/)
• Why Do Plant-Based Diets Help Rheumatoid Arthritis? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-do-plant-based-diets-help-rheumatoid-arthritis/)
• Fighting Lupus with Turmeric: Good as Gold (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fighting-lupus-with-turmeric-good-as-gold/)

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