How Your Food Choices Affect Your Immune System's Cleanup Process
Your body has a natural recycling system called autophagy that cleans up old cells and helps control your immune system. A new review shows that what you eat …
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How Vitamin D Helps Your Immune System Fight Disease
Vitamin D does much more than just strengthen bones—it's like a coach for your immune system. Scientists have discovered that vitamin D helps control how your …
Read MoreVitamin D May Help Prevent Arthritis Through Hormone Changes
Researchers used advanced genetic analysis to study whether vitamin D can help prevent rheumatoid arthritis, a disease where the body's immune system attacks …
Read MoreCan a Ketogenic Diet Help Reduce Joint Pain and Heart Risk?
Researchers tested whether a ketogenic diet (a high-fat, low-carb eating plan) could help people with psoriatic arthritis, a condition that causes joint pain …
Read MoreGene Variation Linked to Type 1 Diabetes Risk in Indian Population
Researchers studied how a specific gene related to vitamin D might affect the risk of developing Type 1 diabetes in South Indian people. They compared 150 …
Read MoreYour Genes and Vitamin D: Why Some People Get Lupus
Researchers in India studied how vitamin D and genes work together to affect lupus risk. Lupus is a disease where the body's immune system attacks itself, …
Read MoreHow a Key Gene Affects Your Immune System's Chemical Switches
Scientists are discovering that a gene called MTHFR and a vitamin called folate work together to control how your immune system behaves. When this system …
Read MoreNew Clues About What Causes Ankylosing Spondylitis
Researchers studied 85 people with ankylosing spondylitis (a disease that causes back pain and stiffness) and 100 healthy people to understand why some people …
Read MoreHidden Gluten Problem May Trigger Kidney Disease Flare-Ups in Kids
Researchers discovered that children with a rare kidney disease called nephrotic syndrome are more likely to have celiac disease—a condition where the body …
Read MoreHow Gut Bacteria May Trigger Autoimmune Diseases
Your gut is home to trillions of tiny bacteria that help control your immune system. Scientists are discovering that these bacteria communicate with your body …
Read MoreFood as Medicine: How Diet May Help Your Thyroid Fight Hashimoto's
Hashimoto's thyroiditis is a condition where your immune system attacks your thyroid gland, causing inflammation and fatigue. Scientists have discovered that …
Read MoreB Vitamins May Help Lupus Patients—But Only If They're Not Overweight
Scientists studied whether taking folic acid and vitamin B12 supplements could help women with lupus by changing how their genes work in fat tissue. They gave …
Read MoreCan What You Eat Help Ease Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain?
Researchers reviewed studies about the Mediterranean diet—a way of eating that includes lots of vegetables, fish, olive oil, and whole grains—to see if it …
Read MoreFood and Natural Remedies May Help Scleroderma Symptoms
Systemic sclerosis, also called scleroderma, is a serious disease where the body's connective tissue becomes thick and tight. Many patients want to know if …
Read MoreNew Skin Injections May Help Calm Overactive Immune Systems
Scientists discovered that tiny fat-based capsules containing vitamin D3 or retinoic acid (a form of vitamin A) can be injected into skin to help calm down …
Read MoreNew Way to Fix Immune System Problems Using Gene Therapy
Scientists are developing a new approach to treat autoimmune diseases—conditions where your immune system attacks your own body—using special materials to …
Read MoreWhy Your Body Attacks Itself: New Hope for Autoimmune Diseases
Scientists are learning why some people's immune systems mistakenly attack their own bodies, causing diseases like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 1 …
Read MoreCan Extra Vitamin D Help Fix Your Immune System?
Scientists are investigating whether taking high doses of vitamin D might help people with autoimmune diseases—conditions where the body's defense system …
Read MoreUnderstanding Gluten Problems: What Doctors Are Learning
Researchers at a specialized medical center in Russia studied 60 patients with gluten-related health issues to better understand how these conditions develop …
Read MoreNew Hope for Celiac Disease: Beyond the Gluten-Free Diet
Celiac disease is an autoimmune condition where the body's immune system attacks itself when someone eats gluten, a protein found in wheat and similar grains. …
Read MoreCan Better Nutrition Help People With Systemic Sclerosis Feel Better?
Systemic sclerosis is a serious disease that makes skin and organs thick and stiff, often causing people to lose weight and feel weak. Researchers are testing …
Read MoreWhy Celiac Disease Takes So Long to Diagnose
Celiac disease is an autoimmune condition where eating gluten damages the small intestine, but it's often hard to diagnose because symptoms like tiredness and …
Read MoreWhy Vitamin A Might Protect Your Pancreas from Autoimmune Disease
Scientists discovered that vitamin A plays an important role in protecting the pancreas from a rare autoimmune disease called autoimmune pancreatitis. When …
Read MoreWhy People with Sjögren's Syndrome Need Strong Bones
Sjögren's syndrome is an autoimmune disease that mainly affects middle-aged and older women, causing dry eyes and dry mouth. Researchers have discovered that …
Read MoreBetter Blood Tests Help Doctors Correctly Diagnose Pernicious Anemia
Doctors use blood tests to diagnose pernicious anemia, a serious condition that prevents your body from absorbing vitamin B12. However, some blood tests can …
Read MoreVitamin D Genes May Affect Multiple Sclerosis Risk
Scientists in Jordan studied whether certain variations in the vitamin D receptor gene might make some people more likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS), a …
Read MoreYour Gut Bacteria and Your Immune System: What Scientists Are Learning
Scientists are discovering that the trillions of bacteria living in your gut do much more than help with digestion—they actually control important parts of …
Read MoreWhy People With Lupus Have Lower Vitamin D Receptor Levels
Researchers studied a protein called vitamin D receptor (VDR) in people with lupus, an autoimmune disease where the body attacks its own tissues. They compared …
Read MoreVitamin D May Help Control Immune System in Type 1 Diabetes
Researchers discovered that vitamin D might help calm down the overactive immune system in people with type 1 diabetes. Using computer analysis and lab tests, …
Read MoreWhy Vitamin D Levels Matter for Lupus Patients
Researchers studied 158 people newly diagnosed with lupus to understand how vitamin D affects their immune system. They found that people with lupus often have …
Read MoreRare Throat Bumps Linked to Autoimmune Diseases
Researchers found that unusual bumps in the throat called "bamboo nodules" may be connected to autoimmune diseases—conditions where the body's immune system …
Read MoreWhat Happens During Pregnancy May Affect Autism Risk
Scientists reviewed research about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to understand what causes it. They found that several things happening during pregnancy might …
Read MoreMouth Sores Linked to Blood and Vitamin Problems
Researchers studied people with oral lichen planus (OLP), a condition causing painful sores in the mouth. They discovered that some OLP patients have …
Read MoreLow Vitamin D Linked to Lupus Flare-Ups in New Study
Researchers studied 60 patients with lupus, a disease where the body's immune system attacks itself, to see if vitamin D levels affect how active the disease …
Read MoreHow Viruses, Vitamin D, and Genes Team Up to Cause MS
Scientists discovered that multiple sclerosis (MS) develops when several risk factors work together through a shared biological pathway. The study found that …
Read MoreYour Genes and Autoimmune Disease: What a Key Enzyme Reveals
Scientists have discovered that a gene called MTHFR, which controls how your body processes folate (a B vitamin), may play a role in autoimmune diseases like …
Read MoreHow Your Immune System Changes Your Gut in Celiac Disease
Scientists discovered something new about what happens inside the stomachs of people with celiac disease. When someone eats gluten and has celiac disease, …
Read MoreNew Medicines Being Tested to Help People With Celiac Disease
Scientists are working on new medicines that could help people with celiac disease without requiring them to avoid gluten completely. This research reviews …
Read MoreNew Blood Test for Methotrexate Drug Levels Works Better
Methotrexate is a powerful medicine used to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases, but doctors need to carefully monitor how much is in a patient's blood to …
Read MoreCan Vitamin D Help People With Lupus Feel Better?
Lupus is a disease where the body's immune system attacks itself, causing pain and inflammation. Scientists have noticed that many people with lupus don't have …
Read MoreCan Vitamin D Help Calm Inflammation in MS?
Researchers are investigating whether taking vitamin D supplements might help reduce harmful inflammation in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). This letter …
Read MoreWhy It Takes Years to Diagnose a Blood Condition Called Pernicious Anemia
Pernicious anemia is a blood condition where the body can't absorb vitamin B12 properly because of an autoimmune problem. Researchers surveyed over 1,100 …
Read MoreRare Case: Stomach Growths Turn Cancerous in Autoimmune Disease Patient
Doctors found a small growth in a 75-year-old man's stomach that turned out to be early-stage cancer. The patient had autoimmune gastritis, a condition where …
Read MoreEating More Variety May Help Control a Serious Skin Disease
A new study looked at whether eating a wider variety of foods helps people with pemphigus vulgaris, a rare disease where the body attacks its own skin cells, …
Read MoreWhy Don't We Know More About Vitamin D? A Science Review
Despite thousands of studies on vitamin D, scientists still don't have clear answers to basic questions like how much vitamin D we actually need. A new review …
Read MoreWhy Optic Nerve Inflammation Affects Men and Women Differently
A new review of research shows that optic neuritis—a condition where the nerve that carries images to your brain becomes inflamed—affects men and women very …
Read MoreWhy Some Kids With Type 1 Diabetes Get Sicker Earlier
Researchers studied 37 children with type 1 diabetes to understand why some get the disease earlier and develop more health problems. They found that children …
Read MoreSpecial Bacteria May Help Prevent Type 1 Diabetes in New Study
Scientists discovered that a specially engineered probiotic bacteria called Lactococcus lactis containing a protein called HSP65 may help prevent type 1 …
Read MoreSpecial Immune Cells May Help Stop Brain Inflammation
Scientists discovered that a specific type of immune cell called iTreg can better control brain inflammation than similar cells. These special cells work by …
Read MoreNew Blood Test Better at Spotting Rheumatoid Arthritis
Researchers in Libya compared two blood tests used to diagnose rheumatoid arthritis, a disease where the body's immune system attacks joints. They tested 70 …
Read MoreCan Vitamin D Help Prevent Type 1 Diabetes?
Scientists are investigating whether vitamin D might help prevent or manage Type 1 diabetes, a condition where the body's immune system mistakenly attacks …
Read MoreCan Gut Bacteria Treatments Help Autoimmune Diseases?
Researchers are planning a major review of studies testing whether treatments that change gut bacteria can help people with autoimmune and inflammatory …
Read MoreVitamin D and MS: Why Sunlight Matters for Disease Control
Researchers studied 1,861 people with multiple sclerosis (MS) over 10 years to understand how vitamin D affects disease flare-ups. They found that people with …
Read MoreVitamins C and E May Help Protect Kids at Risk for Type 1 Diabetes
Scientists followed nearly 6,000 Finnish children who had genes that put them at higher risk for type 1 diabetes. They tracked what vitamins the kids ate from …
Read MoreGene Change That Raises Homocysteine May Actually Protect Against MS
Scientists studied a common gene variation that affects how our bodies process folate and found something surprising. People with this gene change, which …
Read MoreWhy Some Kids Get Multiple Sclerosis: Genes and Environment Both Matter
Scientists are studying why some children develop multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that affects the brain and nervous system. They've found that kids who get …
Read MoreScientists Find Natural Vitamin D Alternatives That May Help MS Patients
Researchers used computer modeling to discover two natural compounds that work like vitamin D but may be more effective for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. …
Read MoreMediterranean Diet May Help Fight Multiple Sclerosis Through Body Chemistry
Scientists reviewed how the Mediterranean diet might help people with multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that damages the nervous system. They found that this …
Read MoreWhat Parents Need to Know About Celiac Disease in Kids
Celiac disease is a condition where eating gluten (found in wheat, barley, and rye) causes the body's immune system to attack the small intestine. This review …
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