Autoimmune Diseases: Foods That Help | Dr. Neal Barnard | Exam Room LIVE
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
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Summary
What foods can help autoimmune diseases?
Explore the connection between diet and autoimmune diseases with Dr. Neal Barnard on The Exam Room LIVE.
On the Show
- The best diet for managing autoimmune conditions
- Fruits that can help autoimmune diseases
- Immune boosting nutrients to reduce symptoms
- Common trigger foods for autoimmune symptoms
- Inflammatory foods and how they affect symptoms
- Can fasting help autoimmune diseases?
- Sugar and autoimmune diseases
- Fermented foods and autoimmune diseases
- Why fiber is beneficial for autoimmune diseases
- And more!
Common autoimmune diseases include rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, psoriasis, lupus, Sjögren’s syndrome, Addison’s disease, celiac disease, and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.
Dr. Barnard is the author of The Power Foods Diet: The Breakthrough Plan That Traps, Tames, and Burns Calories for Easy and Permanent Weight Loss.
This episode is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg’s passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | Mia is wondering if we could compare a plant-based diet, a low-carb keto diet, and the |
| 0:10.0 | Mediterranean diet in terms of management for an autoimmune disorder. |
| 0:14.0 | Oh, vegan diet, head and shoulders above all the others. Why? Because you're eliminating the big triggers. |
| 0:19.0 | You're not going to have any dairy, you're not going to have any eggs, you're not going to have any meat. |
| 0:22.0 | So that is the place to start. And for many people, |
| 0:25.3 | that's the end of the story. They don't need to go any further. The elimination |
| 0:29.6 | diet that I described is something you can add. But no, a ketogenic diet, |
| 0:33.1 | it often leaves in some of the worst triggers |
| 0:35.4 | that a person could consume. |
| 0:37.1 | And same with Mediterranean, unfortunately. Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:49.2 | Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:56.3 | High to the exam roomies listening in Anaheim, California, Lexington, Kentucky, and Brussels, Belgium. |
| 1:03.6 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:08.2 | This is episode 39 of season 7, number 538 overall. |
| 1:15.0 | There are more than 80 autoimmune disorders that doctors know about, |
| 1:19.0 | and today our goal is to discuss the connection between those disorders and your diet. |
| 1:25.8 | Could certain foods help? |
| 1:27.5 | Could others trigger symptoms and is it even possible to reverse an autoimmune disease. |
| 1:33.6 | Those are the questions we will be getting into |
| 1:35.6 | with Dr. Meel Barnard, adjunct professor of medicine |
| 1:38.6 | at the George Washington University School of Medicine, |
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