How do you counsel patients who ask if there are any dietary modifications they can make to help control their autoimmune disease?

I send patients to a website called nutritionfacts.org. This is a non-profit website that reviews medical literature related to nutrition and diseases. It was founded by Dr. Greger and he is not trying to sell anything which I appreciate. He has bite-sized videos on anything you can think about rela...

I refer patients to this website created by UCSF Rheumatologists and dieticians: "Nutrition for People with Rheumatic Diseases". It has a decent amount of helpful information about diet, and I appreciate that it is evidence-based and references the studies that the information is based on.

I have a diet for all patients who wish to be healthier, but especially those with autoimmune diseases. I call it the PDK diet. If you can PICK it, DIG it up, or KILL it, you can eat it. The anti-inflammatory diet leads to healthy bacteria, and all of them feed on fiber. Only a few actually change, ...

This is such a difficult question to answer because diet and microbiome is so important to chronic autoimmune disease. However, this is such a personal journey; going to gluten-free does not fix all. This is such an area of importance to our patients; there are likely food triggers, and a health coa...