Starchy foods can reduce autoimmune reactions in patients with lupus

Starchy foods can reduce autoimmune reactions in people with lupus. Experiments on mice showed that some intestinal bacteria exacerbated exposure, but that starch consumption could stop its growth.

Lupus is a disease in which the body's immune system attacks the body and can be affected by the bacterial structure of the intestine.

Dr. Martin Craigel, of Yale University in the United States, gave antibiotics to lupus-infected mice to drain bacteria into their intestines.

The results indicated that these mice had less severe autoimmune responses and were twice as likely to survive as mice not taking antibiotics.

The researchers found that mice in poor health had high levels of bacilli (a type of bacteria); Bacteria also spread to the intestines, liver and spleen, which is not the case in healthy mice, which is why lupus causes systemic immune responses in many organs, as well as in the intestine.

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