Keto diet and autoimmune disease

A November 2024 study by the University of California at San Francisco said,

• “What was really exciting was finding that we could protect these mice from inflammatory disease just by putting them on a diet that we supplemented with these compounds,”

• “The big question now is how much of this will translate into actual patients,”

• “But I think these results provide hope for the development of a more tolerable alternative to helping those people than asking them stick to a challenging restrictive diet.”

Vitamin D and Lupus

A March 2021 study lead by the University of Birmingham and University of Manchester said, 

"Our results suggest that co-existing physiological abnormalities may contribute to long-term cardiovascular risk early on in [lupus].”

"We found a link between lower levels of vitamin D and metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance. Further studies could confirm whether restoring vitamin D levels helps to reduce these cardiovascular risk factors and improve quality of life for patients with lupus."

"This is the largest-ever study examining associations between vitamin D levels and metabolic syndrome in [lupus]; it also has the advantage of being an international cohort with diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds - generating results that will be applicable across many settings,"