Episode 68: What’s the deal with Lectins and Autoimmunity? with Dr. Datis Kharrazian

If you’re practicing functional medicine, you’re aware of (and
likely prescribing) the autoimmune paleo diet, pulling folks off of
many foods, lowering carbs, reducing or eliminating lectins (and
nightshades). In this terrific podcast with Dr. Datis Kharrazian,
we talk about his research in stratifying who’s who with regard to
autoimmunity. For example, Dr. K suspects that very roughly about
30% of his autoimmune patients are truly lectin sensitive; they
tend to be those with arthritic musculoskeletal autoimmunity, most
classically, RA. For many of these folks, lectins must be
eliminated. However, lectin/nightshade elimination may not be
required for, say, Hashimoto’s; although there IS a collection of
potential cross reactive foods that could play a role in promoting
antibody production (and removing will reduce ab production)….
Check out the podcast. And there are loads of citations (DK
publishes only in open access journal.)Listen and learn, then
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Frontiers! ~DrKF