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/bene...)
• Is Fasting Beneficial for Weight Loss? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-fa...)
• Is Fasting for Weight Loss Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Is-Fa...)
• Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Put to the Test (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Alter...)
• Is Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-al...)
• The 5-2 Diet and the Fasting-Mimicking Diet Put to the Test (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-5...)
• Time-Restricted Eating Put to the Test (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/time...)
• The Benefits of Early Time-Restricted Eating (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-b...)
• Benefits of Fasting for Healing (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/benef...)
• World’s Largest Fasting Study (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/world...)

For more on rheumatoid arthritis, see Turmeric Curcumin & Rheumatoid Arthritis (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/turm...) and Why Do Plant-Based Diets Help Rheumatoid Arthritis? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-....

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/vide...)
• Fasting for Disease Reversal (https://drgreger.org/collections/vide...)
• Fasting and Cancer (https://drgreger.org/collections/vide...)

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

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

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