Caylee Clay, RDN (they/them)
@autoimmune-eats.bsky.social
Nutrition for autoimmune disease based in science, not BS diets. Anti-diet dietitian, speaker, & author with psoriasis + psoriatic arthritis. Neurodivergent & non-binary 🌈 Insurance covered appointments: https://visit.berrystreet.co/providers/Caylee-Clay
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Research demonstrates links between psoriasis and ADHD, IBD and autism, plus multiple autoimmune diseases and OCD.
To ignore this fact is to ignore the daily reality & challenges that autoimmune folks face.
Research demonstrates links between psoriasis and ADHD, IBD and autism, plus multiple autoimmune diseases and OCD.
To ignore this fact is to ignore the daily reality & challenges that autoimmune folks face.
Increased pollution is connected to rising rates of autoimmune disease.
Air pollution increases systemic inflammation, oxidative stress, epigenetic modification, and pro-inflammatory cytokines.
The US federal "government" feigns concern about chronic diseases. Their actions tell the real story.
Air pollution increases systemic inflammation, oxidative stress, epigenetic modification, and pro-inflammatory cytokines.
The US federal "government" feigns concern about chronic diseases. Their actions tell the real story.
Scoop: The EPA will no longer estimate the lives saved by reducing air pollution when writing clean-air regulations, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Increased pollution is connected to rising rates of autoimmune disease.
Air pollution increases systemic inflammation, oxidative stress, epigenetic modification, and pro-inflammatory cytokines.
The US federal "government" feigns concern about chronic diseases. Their actions tell the real story.
Air pollution increases systemic inflammation, oxidative stress, epigenetic modification, and pro-inflammatory cytokines.
The US federal "government" feigns concern about chronic diseases. Their actions tell the real story.
As an American, all I can say to the rest of the world is:
Help.
Help.
January 18, 2026 at 2:14 PM
As an American, all I can say to the rest of the world is:
Help.
Help.
Almost verbatim what I told my new nutrient client this week 🎯
Small changes snowball. One baby step repeated many times becomes a huge step
The trick is to make healthy habits easy, simple, & - brace yourself - enjoyable!
Dietitians help you break through all the noise & move forward efficiently
Small changes snowball. One baby step repeated many times becomes a huge step
The trick is to make healthy habits easy, simple, & - brace yourself - enjoyable!
Dietitians help you break through all the noise & move forward efficiently
January 17, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Almost verbatim what I told my new nutrient client this week 🎯
Small changes snowball. One baby step repeated many times becomes a huge step
The trick is to make healthy habits easy, simple, & - brace yourself - enjoyable!
Dietitians help you break through all the noise & move forward efficiently
Small changes snowball. One baby step repeated many times becomes a huge step
The trick is to make healthy habits easy, simple, & - brace yourself - enjoyable!
Dietitians help you break through all the noise & move forward efficiently
TL;DR Wear an N95 mask to significantly reduce your chances of getting a new autoimmune disease.
97 MILLION people.
New meta-analysis: +49% risk of new-onset autoimmune disease after SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Highest risks?
🧬 Vasculitis
🩸 Antiphospholipid syndrome
🧠 Connective tissue disease
🧫 Immune thrombocytopenia
Severe infection ↑ risk
Vaccine cuts risk~half
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41452424/
New meta-analysis: +49% risk of new-onset autoimmune disease after SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Highest risks?
🧬 Vasculitis
🩸 Antiphospholipid syndrome
🧠 Connective tissue disease
🧫 Immune thrombocytopenia
Severe infection ↑ risk
Vaccine cuts risk~half
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41452424/
Association between COVID-19 and New-Onset Autoimmune Diseases: Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 97 Million Individuals - PubMed
SARS-CoV-2 infection may induce long-term immune dysregulation; however, its contribution to the development of autoimmune disease remains disputed. We aim to quantify the relative risk of new-onset autoimmune diseases following COVID-19 and its modifiers through a systematic review and meta-analysi …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
TL;DR Wear an N95 mask to significantly reduce your chances of getting a new autoimmune disease.
Look at this fool talking as if he isn't supposed to be one of those "experts" he's bashing.
The truth is that the current fed guidelines are about money.
We've seen them promote expensive health wearables, supplements, excessive protein - all to enrich their co-conspirators.
That is their goal.
The truth is that the current fed guidelines are about money.
We've seen them promote expensive health wearables, supplements, excessive protein - all to enrich their co-conspirators.
That is their goal.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr: "This idea that you should trust the experts, a good mother doesn't do that"
January 16, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Look at this fool talking as if he isn't supposed to be one of those "experts" he's bashing.
The truth is that the current fed guidelines are about money.
We've seen them promote expensive health wearables, supplements, excessive protein - all to enrich their co-conspirators.
That is their goal.
The truth is that the current fed guidelines are about money.
We've seen them promote expensive health wearables, supplements, excessive protein - all to enrich their co-conspirators.
That is their goal.
Oh hey - I'm interviewed in this article 😊
How Diet Influences Psoriasis: Best Foods and Dietary Patterns - Everyday Health - goo.gl/alerts/aYMkgC #GoogleAlerts
How Diet Influences Psoriasis: Best Foods and Dietary Patterns
Discover how diet impacts psoriasis. Learn about anti-inflammatory foods like those in the Mediterranean diet and their role in managing symptoms and improving health.
goo.gl
January 15, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Oh hey - I'm interviewed in this article 😊
In case you're wondering: yes, the current protein craze is bunk.
Ignore it if you can.
And while we're ignoring things - also ignore the latest nutrition recommendations put out by the federal "government".
They are also bunk.
Ignore it if you can.
And while we're ignoring things - also ignore the latest nutrition recommendations put out by the federal "government".
They are also bunk.
January 14, 2026 at 2:03 PM
In case you're wondering: yes, the current protein craze is bunk.
Ignore it if you can.
And while we're ignoring things - also ignore the latest nutrition recommendations put out by the federal "government".
They are also bunk.
Ignore it if you can.
And while we're ignoring things - also ignore the latest nutrition recommendations put out by the federal "government".
They are also bunk.
Happy New Year! 🎆 Friendly reminder that now is a terrible time to start a restrictive diet.
Actually, any time is a terrible time to start a restrictive diet
If you do have a health goal for the new year, now is a good time to identify the first realistic baby step you can take in that direction
Actually, any time is a terrible time to start a restrictive diet
If you do have a health goal for the new year, now is a good time to identify the first realistic baby step you can take in that direction
January 1, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Happy New Year! 🎆 Friendly reminder that now is a terrible time to start a restrictive diet.
Actually, any time is a terrible time to start a restrictive diet
If you do have a health goal for the new year, now is a good time to identify the first realistic baby step you can take in that direction
Actually, any time is a terrible time to start a restrictive diet
If you do have a health goal for the new year, now is a good time to identify the first realistic baby step you can take in that direction
I recently attended a medical conference on an autoimmune disease.
In a room full of doctors, I was the only one wearing a mask.
All while flu, COVID, & RSV are surging. Several people traveled to be there. The MD sitting behind me was clearly sick. Predictably, 3 days later, I was sick too.
In a room full of doctors, I was the only one wearing a mask.
All while flu, COVID, & RSV are surging. Several people traveled to be there. The MD sitting behind me was clearly sick. Predictably, 3 days later, I was sick too.
December 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I recently attended a medical conference on an autoimmune disease.
In a room full of doctors, I was the only one wearing a mask.
All while flu, COVID, & RSV are surging. Several people traveled to be there. The MD sitting behind me was clearly sick. Predictably, 3 days later, I was sick too.
In a room full of doctors, I was the only one wearing a mask.
All while flu, COVID, & RSV are surging. Several people traveled to be there. The MD sitting behind me was clearly sick. Predictably, 3 days later, I was sick too.
I'm forever reminded of the Tupac lyric: "They got money for war, but can't feed the poor"...
It costs the average taxpayer $34 a year to fund SNAP.
It costs nearly $200 a day to detain an immigrant in an ICE camp.
Your tax dollars are paying to detain people without due process instead of providing healthcare, food & housing.
Let that radicalize you.
It costs nearly $200 a day to detain an immigrant in an ICE camp.
Your tax dollars are paying to detain people without due process instead of providing healthcare, food & housing.
Let that radicalize you.
December 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I'm forever reminded of the Tupac lyric: "They got money for war, but can't feed the poor"...
Glad I wasn't the only one who clocked this 🏃♂️💨
Watching RFK jr run away from someone collapsing feels like a harbinger of things to come
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Glad I wasn't the only one who clocked this 🏃♂️💨
It's done! One in each arm.
✅️ COVID 💉
✅️ Flu 💉
18 years ago, I got very sick with strep & the flu simultaneously. My psoriasis first appeared soon after. This is a well-known phenomenon.
Now, I simply do not play with respiratory infections. Hard pass 👋
✅️ COVID 💉
✅️ Flu 💉
18 years ago, I got very sick with strep & the flu simultaneously. My psoriasis first appeared soon after. This is a well-known phenomenon.
Now, I simply do not play with respiratory infections. Hard pass 👋
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
It's done! One in each arm.
✅️ COVID 💉
✅️ Flu 💉
18 years ago, I got very sick with strep & the flu simultaneously. My psoriasis first appeared soon after. This is a well-known phenomenon.
Now, I simply do not play with respiratory infections. Hard pass 👋
✅️ COVID 💉
✅️ Flu 💉
18 years ago, I got very sick with strep & the flu simultaneously. My psoriasis first appeared soon after. This is a well-known phenomenon.
Now, I simply do not play with respiratory infections. Hard pass 👋
If you live with an autoimmune disease, there's a good chance that you're no stranger to joint pain.
It totally *could* be gluten, nightshades, or sugar causing your joint pain...
... but it's much more likely that you're deficient in an essential nutrient, like omega-3 fatty acids.
It totally *could* be gluten, nightshades, or sugar causing your joint pain...
... but it's much more likely that you're deficient in an essential nutrient, like omega-3 fatty acids.
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If you live with an autoimmune disease, there's a good chance that you're no stranger to joint pain.
It totally *could* be gluten, nightshades, or sugar causing your joint pain...
... but it's much more likely that you're deficient in an essential nutrient, like omega-3 fatty acids.
It totally *could* be gluten, nightshades, or sugar causing your joint pain...
... but it's much more likely that you're deficient in an essential nutrient, like omega-3 fatty acids.
Just a lil taste of my recent podcast recording with @dishwithdina.bsky.social
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/Re62k_pvktI?...
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/Re62k_pvktI?...
July 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Just a lil taste of my recent podcast recording with @dishwithdina.bsky.social
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/Re62k_pvktI?...
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/Re62k_pvktI?...
Reposted by Caylee Clay, RDN (they/them)
This is a hydration reminder for me, specifically
But you are free to use it
But you are free to use it
June 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is a hydration reminder for me, specifically
But you are free to use it
But you are free to use it
"Have you ever stopped to think how the food on your plate got there?"
These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸
June 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Have you ever stopped to think how the food on your plate got there?"
Such a pleasure hanging with my friend Dina! Thankful for this awesome opportunity to be on her podcast - again! ❤️
Out now! 🎙️🎙️🎙️
One of my first—and favorite—podcast guests RETURNS! Check out my interview with Caylee Clay, RDN CDN CYT (@autoimmune-eats.bsky.social).
Available on Spotify, Apple, and other platforms, or watch on the DishWithDinaTV channel on YouTube:
youtu.be/Re62k_pvktI?...
One of my first—and favorite—podcast guests RETURNS! Check out my interview with Caylee Clay, RDN CDN CYT (@autoimmune-eats.bsky.social).
Available on Spotify, Apple, and other platforms, or watch on the DishWithDinaTV channel on YouTube:
youtu.be/Re62k_pvktI?...
S11 E136 | Rethinking Nutrition Approaches for Autoimmune Disease with Caylee Clay, RDN CDN CYT
YouTube video by DishWithDina
youtu.be
June 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Such a pleasure hanging with my friend Dina! Thankful for this awesome opportunity to be on her podcast - again! ❤️
You don't have to pick a category and can comment anonymously.
My comment: "Limiting COVID vaccine access is an absurb policy that's based in pseudoscience and divisive politics, not actual science or genuine public health. Please, stop this insanity."
My comment: "Limiting COVID vaccine access is an absurb policy that's based in pseudoscience and divisive politics, not actual science or genuine public health. Please, stop this insanity."
GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
You don't have to pick a category and can comment anonymously.
My comment: "Limiting COVID vaccine access is an absurb policy that's based in pseudoscience and divisive politics, not actual science or genuine public health. Please, stop this insanity."
My comment: "Limiting COVID vaccine access is an absurb policy that's based in pseudoscience and divisive politics, not actual science or genuine public health. Please, stop this insanity."
Wow, what a terrifying account.
I've said it before & I'll say it again: once autoimmune disease causes permanent organ damage, there's no going back.
It's, well, permanent.
I've said it before & I'll say it again: once autoimmune disease causes permanent organ damage, there's no going back.
It's, well, permanent.
Wrath keeps overtaking me everytime I think about RFK. Why? I'm a type 1 diabetic. I got it when I was 14. Guess what you need if you're a type 1 diabetic? Insulin. Or you die. But my family believed that it could be cured with herbs & faith healing. I had a near death experience when I was 14. 🧵
May 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Wow, what a terrifying account.
I've said it before & I'll say it again: once autoimmune disease causes permanent organ damage, there's no going back.
It's, well, permanent.
I've said it before & I'll say it again: once autoimmune disease causes permanent organ damage, there's no going back.
It's, well, permanent.
Reposted by Caylee Clay, RDN (they/them)
Registration is now open for our next *FREE* monthly Wellness Webinar: Toxicities & Deficiencies
Thu, May 8 @ 12-1pm ET
Register here:
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All registrants will receive link to recording after the event.
Thu, May 8 @ 12-1pm ET
Register here:
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All registrants will receive link to recording after the event.
May 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Registration is now open for our next *FREE* monthly Wellness Webinar: Toxicities & Deficiencies
Thu, May 8 @ 12-1pm ET
Register here:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
All registrants will receive link to recording after the event.
Thu, May 8 @ 12-1pm ET
Register here:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
All registrants will receive link to recording after the event.
Reposted by Caylee Clay, RDN (they/them)
New Yorkers, keep calling your NY State Senator and Assemblymember! They're trying to wear us down, but we've already gotten them to shift their mask ban policy. Our pushback is working! Keep going!
#NoNYMaskBan
#NoNYMaskBan
May 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
New Yorkers, keep calling your NY State Senator and Assemblymember! They're trying to wear us down, but we've already gotten them to shift their mask ban policy. Our pushback is working! Keep going!
#NoNYMaskBan
#NoNYMaskBan
I'm in the middle of preparing a presentation that will be given to doctors about nutrition interventions for psoriasis (an autoimmune disease) for the National Psoriasis Foundation.
This makes my slides on the correlation between psoriasis and ADHD so much darker and heavier...
This makes my slides on the correlation between psoriasis and ADHD so much darker and heavier...
"In its founding documents, the MAHA Commission... singled out autoimmune diseases, autism, and ADHD, which it said “pose a dire threat to the American people and our way of life” and “harm us, our economy, and our security.”
www.additudemag.com/maha-commiss...
www.additudemag.com/maha-commiss...
April 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I'm in the middle of preparing a presentation that will be given to doctors about nutrition interventions for psoriasis (an autoimmune disease) for the National Psoriasis Foundation.
This makes my slides on the correlation between psoriasis and ADHD so much darker and heavier...
This makes my slides on the correlation between psoriasis and ADHD so much darker and heavier...
Reposted by Caylee Clay, RDN (they/them)
You can eat all organic food, drink green juice every day, do yoga, get vitamin D and touch grass… and still become disabled.
Wellness culture can’t save you from disability. What’s worse, most wellness “gurus” will blame you when you become ill.
Wellness culture is toxic & eugenics adjacent.
Wellness culture can’t save you from disability. What’s worse, most wellness “gurus” will blame you when you become ill.
Wellness culture is toxic & eugenics adjacent.
April 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
You can eat all organic food, drink green juice every day, do yoga, get vitamin D and touch grass… and still become disabled.
Wellness culture can’t save you from disability. What’s worse, most wellness “gurus” will blame you when you become ill.
Wellness culture is toxic & eugenics adjacent.
Wellness culture can’t save you from disability. What’s worse, most wellness “gurus” will blame you when you become ill.
Wellness culture is toxic & eugenics adjacent.
🤦♀️
RFK Jr seems unaware that JFK had Addison’s, an autoimmune disorder
April 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🤦♀️
And RFK. Which is what my brain read at first.
I have an autoimmune disorder and I wouldn’t wish this shit on anyone EXCEPT JK Rowling ¨̮
April 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
And RFK. Which is what my brain read at first.