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Going Beyond a Rotation Diet for Autoimmune Health You’ve probably heard about rotation diets for food sensitivities. I’ve written about thembefore. But I’d like to suggest a novel concept: not just rotating your food, but also otheraspects of your routine such as stress management, exercise, and the way you takesupplements and hormones. Rotating each of …
Pregnancy and Autoimmune Disease: A Functional Medicine Approach to a Healthy Pregnancy A lot of our female patients ask us how pregnancy will affect their autoimmune disease and what will happen with their rheumatoid arthritis or lupus after pregnancy. They want to know if their autoimmune condition will get better or worse when they’re having …
How to Invest in Your Health in the New Year and Beyond As the year unfolds, practice members at Caplan Health Institute often ask me for health tips for the new year. The best health investments don’t have to be overwhelming, especially for autoimmune patients who are suffering from fatigue. The best ways to stay …
Autoimmune Flare-Ups After Traveling: Causes and Solutions So you’re back from vacation and you feel horrible. You’re having an autoimmune flare-up and you’re suffering from fatigue after traveling. You had a great time while you were on vacation, but now you’re wondering: why am I so tired after vacation? You’re definitely not alone. I hear …
Depression and Autoimmune Disease: Natural Solutions to Boost Your Mood When conventional medicine treats depression, medications that address brain chemical imbalances are usually the treatment of choice. However, medications don’t dig down to the root cause of depression, especially in people who have autoimmune disease. As functional medicine practitioners, we look at what’s causing the …
Can Menopause Cause Autoimmune Disease? When it comes to autoimmunity, menopause is a wildcard. In some cases, the hormonal shifts that occur during menopause can improve autoimmune disease. However, we find that most of the time, menopause makes autoimmune issues worse. Menopause can even trigger the development of an autoimmune condition in someone who previously …
Beating Brain Fog in People with Autoimmune Disease We recently came across a study about Alzheimer’s being an autoimmune disease, which got us thinking about the connection between autoimmune disease and memory problems. In most cases, the memory problems that happen in people with autoimmune diseases like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis aren’t outright Alzheimer’s disease, …
Graves’ Disease Natural Solutions — A Functional Medicine Approach Like other autoimmune diseases, Graves’ disease presents a whole set of challenges for anyone using a functional medicine approach. The key, as with other autoimmune diseases, is to find the root cause of the root cause of the problem. This isn’t always easy, but with some …
Genetics of Autoimmune Diseases: Are You Doomed Just Because You Have the Wrong Genes? People have a lot of misconceptions about genetics and autoimmune disease. When someone gets diagnosed with a disease like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto’s, or even type 1 diabetes, conventional medicine doctors in particular will tell their patients, “Oh, it’s just genetics.” …
