Ultra processed Foods and Auto Immune Disorders: What PTs Need to Know?

New research has shown how ultra processed foods may be contributing to the generation of auto immune disorders like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Our video explores these mechanisms and what physical therapists need to know to help their patients!

(0:00) Hello, Dr. Wells here from St. Augustine Beach. Hope you're having a great day. Today, we're going to talk about a new study published in Nature Reviews (0:08) Immunology by Maki, (0:11) Sack, and Hall.

Kevin Hall, one of our favorite authors, right? (0:15) It focuses on ultra-processed food and its increased risk in autoimmune disorders. (0:20) They talk about defining what ultra-processed food is, but then they actually go into possible mechanisms. (0:24) So for one, we know that when you eat high amounts of ultra-processed food, (0:28) it changes the gut microbiome.

By changing the gut microbiome, what we see is that (0:32) the mucosal layer th...