Fasting for Autoimmune Diseases
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2020-12-14

The benefits of fasting for autoimmune disease. Various fasting regimens have been attempted for inflammatory 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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If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the previous video Fasting for Rheumatoid Arthritis (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fasting-for-rheumatoid-arthritis). 

I’ve done three webinars on fasting. All of the videos will eventually be 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 currently on the site, 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)

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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