Lupus is an autoimmune disease, which means that the body’s immune system attacks healthy tissues by mistake. This response could lead to inflammation in the blood vessels, heart, skin, kidneys, joints, lungs, brain and other part of the body. If you are one of the 5 million people worldwide living with lupus, I will recommend you work with a functional medicine practitioner to determine the kind of support or lifestyle changes that would keep the symptoms at the barest minimum and prevent flares. (1) Do you know that your diet for lupus, which is not a cure, can contribute to these goals? While lupus can affect different people in different ways, the inflammation that causes these symptoms is chronic.