By: Asha Shrestha, MD, Rheumatologist, CareMount Medical June 5, 2020 Rheumatoid arthritis, or RA, is an autoimmune systemic inflammatory disease, which affects multiple joints in the body. Your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body by mistake, causing inflammation (painful swelling) and this tissue damage can cause long-lasting or chronic pain, unsteadiness (lack of […]

By Ronen Marmur, MD PhD FACR | Rheumatology  The importance of nutrition has been demonstrated by multiple studies that reinforce “we are what we eat.”  In the field of rheumatology, there is growing recognition of the importance of diet and its impact on tissue inflammation and the composition of “healthy bacteria” which play important roles in […]