16/06/2025
“Higher intake of ultraprocessed foods among women was associated with a >50% higher risk for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).”
stating the obvious here, as usual.
I think you’ll find that ultraprocessed foods are associated with higher risk for EVERY disease. .
Constenbader: “Basically, my whole career has been trying to figure out what causes lupus and rheumatoid arthritis -- mainly lupus. We know that there are genetic factors, but these aren't the whole explanation. There are a lot of environmental factors.
We've looked at a variety of different environmental exposures or exposures in general, including healthy and unhealthy behavioral factors, lifestyle and social factors, pesticides, and air pollution.”
Then your whole career has been utterly worthless, hasn’t it, Costenbader? It’s taken your whole career just to figure out step 1.a - that a poor diet leads to health issues.
BTW, you forgot to mention PHARMACEUTICALS in your “exposures” that can contribute to diseases.
“No studies of the relationship between ultra-processed food intake and SLE risk had been performed. This was the goal for our study.”
Why are studies necessary? Don’t you have the natural instinct to know how temporary tummy fillers with no nutritional content being passed off as ‘food’ will impact health?
“Good nutrition can definitely help.”
I think that good nutrition is key with any health issue. The problem is, you aren’t trained in diet or nutrition, and you certainly do not yet recognize that your patients have food addictions. You have neither the insight, intelligence, knowledge, nor the time to deal with the root causes of disease.
“We don't have a lot of prevention studies in autoimmune disease, but at least the retrospective observational evidence is that a healthy lifestyle -- including a healthy diet -- does decrease systemic inflammation. Starting to cut out the ultra-processed food is a good step in the right direction in taking care of yourself and perhaps decreasing the risk of autoimmune disease such as lupus.”
If you don't have much evidence, then why are you speaking on a topic you clearly don't understand? Allopathic medicine insists on having 'evidence' before making any claims or taking action - that's the very foundation of its own rules. You can’t selectively ignore them when it's convenient. But congratulations for recognizing that a poor diet leads to systemic inflammation. It took Dedpage Today forever to understand that one.
BTW, you can’t just expect people to “cut out” highly addictive foods.
“There's a lot more work to be done.”
It’s already been done by FMDs, NDs, HDs, HHPs, HHCs. You’re just going to steal their education and methods, and pretend they’re yours.
“I think there's a lot of understandable hype around the microbiome and lupus. But ingredients that are put into ultra-processed food could be stimulating the immune system and trigger autoimmune disease in myriad ways. It is tempting to think that everything about diet is related to the microbiome and the bugs in our gut. This may be one mechanism, but it's not everything.”
Microbiome is absolutely key. And I guess you don’t yet know of, or perhaps understand, what intestinal permeability is. Never would any alternative health practitioner tell you that microbiome is the ‘only’ mechanism. They are the ones that have championed the whole body connection for diseases, and address the areas of diet, nutrition, toxic exposures, infections, natural medications, the mind-gut-body connection, emotional wellbeing, stress, sleep, etc - and not allopathic. Allopathic believes infections are the only reason for disease
Karen Costenbader, MD, MPH from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, you need to return your remuneration, not only for this article, but the salary for your “whole career”. You’re clearly clueless, and someone wasted their money hiring you.
