Lupus and Sjögren's Symptoms Reversed In Weeks With This Diet | Brooke Goldner, MD

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Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Could lupus and Sjögren's symptoms improve in just weeks with the right diet and lifestyle changes?

Dr. Brooke Goldner joins Chuck Carroll to share the remarkable stories of patients with autoimmune disease who experienced dramatic recoveries after following her Goodbye Autoimmune Disease protocol.

This conversation is especially personal for me. There are people close to me who have struggled for decades with many of the same issues Dr. Goldner and I discuss in this interview. I shared this episode with one of them before releasing it publicly, and they were blown away by what she had to say.

Dr. Goldner discusses her 2024 case series involving three women with both lupus and Sjögren's syndrome who reported symptom remission within weeks after following a raw, whole-food, plant-based nutrition protocol. She also shares her own story of being diagnosed with aggressive lupus as a teenager, facing kidney failure and mini strokes, and later living symptom-free for more than 20 years.

🧠 In this episode, you'll learn:

What "hypernourishment" means
Why raw cruciferous vegetables may be central to Dr. Goldner's protocol
How omega-3s and hydration may support healing
Why stress and trauma may worsen autoimmune disease
How lupus, Sjögren's, Hashimoto's, RA, Crohn's, and other autoimmune conditions may overlap
Why Dr. Goldner believes inflammation can sometimes be addressed and reversed
What patients should know before making major diet or medication changes

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0:00.0	30 seconds on the clock please, Ollie.
0:02.1	And here we go.
0:03.4	I have 30 seconds to say a very special hello to our exam roomies of the week.
0:09.2	Elviren Northie from McColle, Michigan, and D.D. O'Connor from Bellingham, Washington.
0:14.9	Thank you both so much for your generous support of the Physicians Committee.
0:18.8	And now you can hear your name on the show by making a donation to support all of
0:23.2	PCRM's life-saving and life-changing work, including the exam room podcast.
0:28.8	Just head to pCRM.org slash support exam room.
0:33.1	And there's the ding.
0:34.9	So thank you, Elvira.
0:36.3	Thank you, Didi.
0:37.1	And now on with the show. So thank you, Elvira. Thank you, Dedi. And now, on with the show.
0:39.7	Today, on the exam room. So the three women in there, all of them had both lupus and chogrin.
0:48.7	So they had comorbid diagnoses. So lupus is an autoimmune disease that can attack any organ in the body, causes rashes, arthritis. And then what happens is if you have autoimmune disease, you're much more likely to develop other autoimmune diseases. It's a gift that keeps on giving. So a lot of people have more than one. So these three women, they were symptomatic for both and all of them were on medications for both and still symptomatic. So that's what was really important
1:11.2	me was choosing people who showed that they were on Western medicine, still highly symptomatic
1:15.1	and suffering. And with those three women, one was symptom-free in two weeks, one was symptom-free
1:21.0	within four weeks, and one was symptom-free within six weeks.
1:30.5	And welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the physicians committee.
1:34.9	Hi, I'm Chuck Carroll.
1:36.2	Thank you so very much for raising your health IQs with us coast to coast and around the world.
1:41.2	Hi to the exam room.
1:42.5	He's listening in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Boise, Idaho,
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