Certain foods and food components may help manage Mixed Connective Tissue Disease. These are our recommendations for the best and worst foods to eat for MCTD patients.
Food Spotlight on Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
Food Spotlight on Crohn’s Disease
Certain foods and food components may help manage Crohn’s. These are our recommendations for the best and worst foods to eat for Crohn's patients.
Spotlight on Celiac Disease
The "gluten-free" diet fad seems to have taken over today's nutrition industry, with endorsements from celebrities like Kourtney Kardashian and Gwyneth Paltrow. Beneath the hype, however, is an autoimmune condition that truly necessitates a gluten-free diet--celiac disease. Here Dr. Bonnie takes a deep dive into the details and intricacies of this increasingly common condition.
Food Spotlight on Lupus
Celebrities' such as Selena Gomez and Lady Gaga have recently brought Lupus to the media spotlight and have helped increase awareness of the disease through pop culture. For patients with this autoimmune disease, however, managing the symptoms is still an under-addressed and difficult process. Nutritional medicine, however, is providing a new avenue for battling the disease. Here are Dr. Bonnie's nutritional recommendations for Lupus patients.
Spotlight on Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS)
Spotlight on Fibromyalgia
Spotlight on Irritable Bowel Syndrome
The nature of invisible illnesses shrouds these conditions in ambiguity--the symptoms don't seem prominently visible to the onlooker and so the disease remains unknowable. One such invisible illness is Irritable Bowel Syndrome, a chronic condition involving functional bowel disorder. Here we shed light on everything you should know about IBS, from its symptoms to its diagnosis to a myriad of resources and treatments available to combat the illness
Spotlight on Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
This month, we shine our spotlight on mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), an autoimmune disorder that is considered an overlap disease, meaning it is a combination of other disorders.
Spotlight on Ulcerative Colitis
Written by: Bonnie Feldman, DDS, MBA, Anna Simon, Ellen M. Martin "My daughter was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at age 5, now 6. I am a physiotherapist working in MSK, occasionally treating RA. In my previous 'life' I was a biochemist.…
Spotlight on Scleroderma
Written by: Bonnie Feldman, DDS, MBA, Anna Simon, Ellen M. Martin Obtaining appropriate diagnosis, effective treatment, and quality care for autoimmune and chronic conditions is often quite challenging. If you have experienced such struggles, then you are not alone. Statistics show…