I know you work hard to make the best lifestyle choices so you can improve your health destiny and longevity.

And there's lots of information out there on how to do just that.

So where do you start?

Well, we start with the facts.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

My job is to bring you the latest peer-reviewed nutrition and health research and share it with you here.

It's time for the Nutrition Facts Grab Bag where we look at the latest signs on a whole variety of topics.

In our first story, Fasting, followed by a plant-based diet, is put to the test for treating autoimmune inflammatory joint disease.

Alan Goldhammer is the founder of the True North Health Center in San Rosa, California, which is fast to 10.

That was in people for conditions ranging from diabetes and cardiovascular disease to autoimmune diseases.

You notice that conditions that seem to be tied to dietary excess tend to respond predictably to the use of fasting followed by a health-promoting diet,

which describes as a low salt, all plant, high-fibre, low fat, low protein, and low sugar diet.

This approach offers people an option to eliminate the cause of lifestyle diseases,

often to the point where the medication is no longer needed in contrast to conventional medicine,

which is more about the suppression of the symptoms associated with a disease rather than removing the underlying root cause.

Goldhammer put it this way.

A few treat high blood pressure type 2 diabetes or autoimmune disease medically, they'll tell you,

you'll be on these medications the rest of your life.

That's them in effect promising you, if you follow their advice to the letter, you will be sick the rest of your life.

Preliminated data suggests fasting may benefit metabolic diseases, pain syndromes, high blood pressure,

chronic inflammatory diseases, allergic diseases, and psychosomatic disorders.

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