New Targets for Treating Inflammatory, Autoimmune Diseases Discovered

Thats actually old news :P That site posts stuff as if it was brand new but Il-17 has been known to make auto immune diseases worse for a long while... I remember seeing studies about Il-17 receptors in rats a while back.

But great post regardless! Intermittent fasting can down regulate Il-17... Hence why I strongly support intermittent fasting.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Controlled%20meal%20frequency%20without%20caloric%20restriction%20alters%20peripheral%20blood%20mononuclear%20cell%20cytokine%20production.

Article is posted there if you want to read it.



Controlled meal frequency without caloric restriction alters peripheral blood mononuclear cell cytokine production.
Dixit VD, Yang H, Sayeed KS, Stote KS, Rumpler WV, Baer DJ, Longo DL, Mattson MP, Taub DD.
Source

Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Immunology, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, (251 Bayview Boulevard), Baltimore, MD, (21224), USA. taubd@grc.nia.nih.gov.
Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Intermittent fasting (IF) improves healthy lifespan in animals by a mechanism involving reduced oxidative damage and increased resistance to stress. However, no studies have evaluated the impact of controlled meal frequency on immune responses in human subjects.
OBJECTIVE:

A study was conducted to establish the effects of controlled diets with different meal frequencies, but similar daily energy intakes, on cytokine production in healthy male and female subjects.
DESIGN:

In a crossover study design with an intervening washout period, healthy normal weight middle-age male and female subjects (n = 15) were maintained for 2 months on controlled on-site one meal per day (OMD) or three meals per day (TMD) isocaloric diets. Serum samples and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) culture supernatants from subjects were analyzed for the presence of inflammatory markers using a multiplex assay.
RESULTS:

There were no significant differences in the inflammatory markers in the serum of subjects on the OMD or TMD diets. There was an increase in the capacity of PBMCs to produce cytokines in subjects during the first month on the OMD or TMD diets.Lower levels of TNF-α, IL-17, MCP-1 and MIP-1β were produced by PBMCs from subjects on the OMD versus TMD diet.
CONCLUSIONS:

PBMCs of subjects on controlled diets exhibit hypersensitivities to cellular stimulation suggesting that stress associated with altered eating behavior might affect cytokine production by immune cells upon stimulation. Moreover, stimulated PBMCs derived from healthy individuals on a reduced meal frequency diet respond with a reduced capability to produce cytokines.

Interesting. I too am on no meds yet I also take curcumin and where you have this :

Eggs, High gluten foods, Aspartame & sucralose, Larges amounts of meats

I eat a high amount of all of those items. Because of my work style I used to go all day without eating, now I try to keep eating. Interesting concept 'intermittent fasting'. Remission duration right now is 13 months.