Friday Favorites: Fasting for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Autoimmune Diseases
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 03/11/2023

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/benefits-of-fasting-for-weight-loss-put-to-the-test/)
• Is Fasting Beneficial for Weight Loss? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-fasting-beneficial-for-weight-loss)
• Is Fasting for Weight Loss Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Is-Fasting-for-Weight-Loss-Safe)
• Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Put to the Test (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Alternate-Day-Intermittent-Fasting-Put-to-the-Test)
• Is Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-alternate-day-intermittent-fasting-safe)
• The 5-2 Diet and the Fasting-Mimicking Diet Put to the Test (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-5-2-diet-and-the-fasting-mimicking-diet-put-to-the-test)
• Time-Restricted Eating Put to the Test (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/time-restricted-eating-put-to-the-test)
• The Benefits of Early Time-Restricted Eating (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-benefits-of-early-time-restricted-eating)
• Benefits of Fasting for Healing (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-fasting-for-healing)
• World’s Largest Fasting Study (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/worlds-largest-fasting-study)

For more on rheumatoid arthritis, see Turmeric Curcumin & Rheumatoid Arthritis (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/turmeric-curcumin-and-rheumatoid-arthritis/) and Why Do Plant-Based Diets Help Rheumatoid Arthritis? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/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 (https://drgreger.org/collections/videos/products/fasting-weight-loss-digital)
• Fasting for Disease Reversal (https://drgreger.org/collections/videos/products/fasting-disease-reversal-digital)
• Fasting and Cancer (https://drgreger.org/collections/videos/products/fasting-cancer-digital)

To see all of the fasting videos on NutritionFacts.org, go to the fasting topic page (https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/fasting/).

Here are more videos on using diet to prevent and treat autoimmune diseases:
• Dietary Treatment of Crohn’s Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/achieving-remission-of-crohns-disease/)
• Cancer as an Autoimmune Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/cancer-as-an-autoimmune-disease/)
• Clonal Selection Theory of Immunity (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/clonal-selection-theory-of-immunity/)
• Clonal Deletion Theory of Immunity (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/clonal-deletion-theory-of-immunity/)
• The Inflammatory Meat Molecule Neu5Gc (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-inflammatory-meat-molecule-neu5gc/)
• Potassium and Autoimmune Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/potassium-and-autoimmune-disease/)
• Treating Multiple Sclerosis with the Swank MS Diet (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-multiple-sclerosis-with-the-swank-ms-diet/)
• Turmeric Curcumin and Rheumatoid Arthritis (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/turmeric-curcumin-and-rheumatoid-arthritis/)
• Alpha Gal and the Lone Star Tick (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/alpha-gal-and-the-lone-star-tick/)
• Tick Bites, Meat Allergies, and Chronic Urticaria (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/tick-bites-meat-allergies-and-chronic-urticaria/)
• How to Diagnose Gluten Intolerance (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-diagnose-gluten-intolerance/)
• Preventing Crohn’s Disease with Diet (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-crohns-disease-with-diet/)
• Why Do Plant-Based Diets Help Rheumatoid Arthritis? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-do-plant-based-diets-help-rheumatoid-arthritis/)
• Does Casein in Milk Trigger Type 1 Diabetes? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-casein-in-milk-trigger-type-1-diabetes/)
• Does Bovine Insulin in Milk Trigger Type 1 Diabetes? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-bovine-insulin-in-milk-trigger-type-1-diabetes/)
• Benefits of Turmeric Curcumin for Inflammatory Orbital Pseudotumor (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-turmeric-curcumin-for-inflammatory-orbital-pseudotumor/)
• Sodium and Autoimmune Disease: Rubbing Salt in the Wound? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Sodium-and-Autoimmune-Disease-Rubbing-Salt-in-the-Wound)
• Does Nutritional Yeast Trigger Crohn’s Disease? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-nutritional-yeast-trigger-crohns-disease/)
• Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Lupus (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-diet-for-lupus)

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