Lupus and how to reduce inflammation.
What is Lupus?
Lupus is an autoimmune disease where your body’s immune system is attacking itself.
Lupus Effects: • Joints • Skin • Kidneys • Blood cells • Heart • Lungs
Common Triggers of Lupus: • UV light • Birth control (estrogen) • Low vitamin D • Drugs • Stress
Lupus Symptoms:
1. Joint pain 2. Fever 3. Rash 4. Fatigue 5. Ulcer (mouth) 6. Swollen lymph nodes 7. Sensitivity to light
Interesting Clues About Lupus:
• 9 out of 10 adults who get lupus are women.
• African Americans are 3 times more likely to get lupus.
• A common treatment for lupus is corticosteroids (an anti-inflammatory).
Two Lupus Home Remedies:
1. Vitamin D (20,000 IUs) • Immune modulator • Innervates most white blood cells • Anti-inflammatory • Steroid hormone
2. Fasting • Increases T-cells • Restores stem cells – immune system • Decreases leptin (proinflammatory) • Anti-inflammatory
Overall, intermittent fasting can potentially reduce your inflammation. Vitamin D can also help with lupus symptoms if taken in larger amounts.
Always make sure you take K2 and magnesium when taking larger amounts of vitamin D3.
Check with your doctor before altering medications or adding anything to your current treatment.
Watch this video to learn about two Lupus symptom alternatives.
D3 and Intermittant Fasting.
Human beings get vitamins from the things we eat and from exposure to sunlight.
However, people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) often have low levels of vitamin D.
This is in part due to being sensitive to UV light and not being able to tolerate sunlight, a source for vitamin D.
Vitamin D is vital to the body, but may be even more key for people with lupus.
Studies on people with chronically low levels of vitamin D have revealed an interesting possibility:
that vitamin D deficiency might be one of the triggers of lupus, or a reason why the symptoms get worse over time.
In the body, vitamin D is an immune system modulation hormone.
The vitamin acts a lot like cytokines (immune system chemicals that help the immune system cells communicate to each other).
Vitamin D encourages the growth and production of immune system cells. While it can trigger T cells to divide and act, vitamin D can also inhibit the growth and production of T cells and inflammatory cytokines.
Because it does both, vitamin D is important to proper immune system function.
Vitamin D actually refers to two slightly different compounds:
Vitamin D is then activated at these organs in slightly different ways, including regulating calcium:
While all of these are important for people with lupus, the immune system effects of vitamin D could have a relation to lupus symptoms and flares.
Exercise And Intermittant Fasting
Intermittant Fasting Benefits + 1 You May Not Have Thought About.
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