Jill Harrington recovered from lupus in 1995. She stayed at TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California for a 2-week medically supervised water-only fast. After the fast, she switched to WFPB (Whole Food Plant Based) Diet. Eventually, she wrote a book on lupus recovery — see below.

Videos: The Autoimmune Answer (61 mins, 2013) by Jill Harrington: the talk meanders from topic to topic; no slides. However, there are some great ideas sprinkled throughout the talk. It's for these nuggets that I love this talk — it's worth watching.

One of the key points in the talk is 'Find a reason to cure yourself', 'Why do you want to do it?' She then mentions that most mothers do it for their kids, 'who will take care of them if something happens to me?' Finding this reason is important for recovery.

The idea of taking care of yourself for the well being of others reminded me of an idea I heard in a talk by Daniel Amen. He asked us to find 'the photo'. Which photo? A photo of somebody to whom we dedicate our self care efforts. For example, it could be a child, a sibling, a parent, a partner, fellow human beings, or anybody else whom we care for. Then remember that 'I am taking care of myself (physically and mentally) so that I can be of service to this person'. The degree of motivation generated by this outlook is pretty large!

YouTube Channel: Jill Harrington also has some nice cooking videos at her YouTube channel.

The Lupus Recovery Diet: A Natural Approach to Autoimmune Disease That Really Works (211 pages, 2007) by Jill Harrington.

The first half of Jill's book is personal stories and testimonials of various individuals who recovered from lupus by adopting plant-based diets. The recovery protocol and why it works constitutes the latter half. The actual recovery protocol is described in pages 127-150.

Jill Harrington is neither a medical doctor nor a researcher. I felt that her writing lacks scientific rigor. However, the book does a great job of presenting the big picture of lupus recovery protocols centered around WFPB. These protocols include some combination of these steps in sequence: (a) medically supervised fasting (water-only fast or juice fast) for several days, (b) switching to a WFPB diet that includes foods (grains, fruits, vegetables, and so on) that are known not to cause any inflammation in anybody, (c) over time, introducing families of other foods one by one to figure out which of these cause inflammation in specific individuals. See Dr Klaper's article for details on how to re-introduce foods and in what sequence.

Personally, I believe that all steps in Jill Harringtons's book should be done under the supervision of a qualified doctor who is familiar with protocols outlined in her book. Two names that come to my mind are Dr Brooke Goldner, and Dr Michael Klaper. And it would be awesome if we could visit TrueNorth Health Center founded by Dr Alan Goldhamer.

Misc: Clinical Evidence! Diet and Fasting Heals Autoimmune Conditions lists several studies that connect food and autoimmune response; this list seems to have been copied from Jill Harrington's book 'The Lupus Recovery Diet'.