PLANT based diet, no”vegetable fats” and enough vitamin C , turmeric , very low salt ,turmeric and spices instead

A RARE BUT DEVASTATING DISEASE : LUPUS

The investigators believe their study is the first to observe a significant association between vitamin C intake and the risk of active disease in people with lupus.


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Diet May Affect Lupus

GIFU, Japan (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Diet — and especially, vitamin C — may play a role in minimizing the effects of lupus.

Japanese researchers publishing in the Journal of Rheumatology report women who had higher intakes of vitamin C were less likely to develop a more serious form of the disease. The U.S. RDA of vitamin C is 60 milligrams per day.

Lupus is an autoimmune disease characterized by fatigue and joint pain. In severe cases, it can cause multiple organ problems, including heart, lung and kidney disease. Animal studies have suggested diet may impact the prognosis of the condition. Mice who were fed a low-fat diet and fish oil, for example, had improved survival and delayed onset of kidney problems. Clinical studies in humans have also shown fish oil supplementation has beneficial effects. Little research exists, however, on other nutrients.

Researchers collected dietary and clinical information from female patients with lupus. Using data on around 200 patients with inactive lupus and no signs of vascular problems at the beginning of the study, they analyzed the results to see how diet impacted the transition to active disease and the development of vascular problems over the four-year follow up.

At the end of the study, 43 patients had developed active disease and seven developed vascular problems. The investigators found women with increased intake of vitamin C were significantly less likely to transition to active disease. Those who ate more crude fiber were similarly protected. The finding on vitamin C remained significant even after results were adjusted to take other factors that could have impacted disease transition into account. Women who developed vascular problems were more likely to consume higher amounts of vegetable fat at the beginning of the study than those who did not suffer these events.

The investigators believe their study is the first to observe a significant association between vitamin C intake and the risk of active disease in people with lupus.

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SOURCE: The Journal of Rheumatology, 2003;30:747-754

  LUPUS……………..sounds to nice to be true!! Please forward this mail

I have one question/difficulty….[will try to do a google search]: if this is so, lupus should be unknown in countries like India and Indonesia.

https://nutritionfacts.org/2018/10/23/how-to-treat-lupus-with-turmeric/?utm_source=NutritionFacts.org&utm_campaign=aec66ea2cd-RSS_BLOG_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_40f9e497d1-aec66ea2cd-23768817&mc_cid=aec66ea2cd&mc_eid=81a4c2b06c

Different autoimmune diseases tend to target different organs. If our immune system attacks the insulin-producing cells on our pancreas, we can end up with type 1 diabetes. If our immune system attacks our thyroid gland, we can end up with hypothyroidism. But in the autoimmune disease, lupus, our immune system attacks the very nucleus of our cells, often producing antibodies and attacking our DNA itself; so, lupus can damage any organ system and result in almost any complication. Women are nine times as likely to get it, and the peak age is too often at the peak of life. Hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of Americans suffer from this dreaded disease. One of the most common organ threatening manifestations is kidney inflammation occurring in as many as half of patients..

Kidney inflammation is also one of the most serious effects of lupus, caused by the disease itself or as a result of intense immunosuppressive drug toxicity. For example, chemo drugs, like Cytoxan and cyclophosphamide, can have life-threatening side effects which may include leukemia and bladder cancer, as many women lose their hair and become permanently infertile.. There is a desperate need for better treatments.

Fortunately, there are. Oral supplementation of turmeric decreases proteinuria, hematuria, and systolic blood pressure—the cardinal clinical manifestations—in patients suffering from relapsing or refractory, meaning untreatable—lupus nephritis: according to a randomized and double-blind placebo-controlled study.

Here’s the proteinuria data, an ominous prognostic sign, the spilling of protein in the urine. In the control group, three people got better, three people got worse, and the rest pretty much stayed the same. In the turmeric group, one got worse, one stayed the same, but the rest all got better.

Note that they said turmeric, the whole spice, not curcumin, which is an extracted component often given in pill form. They took women with out-of-control lupus, and just had them take like a quarter teaspoon of turmeric with each meal for three months. From my local supermarket, that would come out to be about a nickel a dose, compared to $35,000 a year for one of the latest lupus drugs.  Which of the two treatments do you imagine doctors are more likely to be told about?