About Dr. Micah Yu

I’m Dr. Micah, I’m a Triple Board Certified Rheumatologist and Autoimmune Warrior and have a private practice called Dr. Lifestyle in Newport Beach California where I see patients worldwide. I was diagnosed with autoimmune disease at a young age but found out ways to eventually use food as medicine and fight my disease. When I changed my diet to more plant based in 2018, I experienced first-hand the power of food for healing diseases. This changed me not only as a patient, but as a doctor. Now I am fighting for autoimmune warriors all over the world and trying to find out “What else can I do to treat autoimmune diseases?”

Because of my disease and personal journey navigating the integrative side of medicine, I created MYAutoimmuneMD to help people around the world navigate difficult autoimmune diseases as it can be a complicated journey.

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I graduated with a Doctor of Medicine at Chicago Medical School in Illinois.
After medical school, I went on to complete my Internal Medicine Residency and Rheumatology Fellowship at Loma Linda University in Southern California.
Because I felt that my conventional medicine training wasn’t enough, I further educated myself on other forms of treatments.

I am a graduate of the University of Arizona’s Andrew Weil Integrative Medicine Fellowship.

I am also certified in Lifestyle Medicine from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and also certified in Functional Medicine from the Institute of Functional Medicine

I use an integrative and functional medicine approach to treat a variety of autoimmune illnesses. He will consider the advantages and disadvantages of drugs and biologics and give you a personalized plan for managing your autoimmune disease.

I can treat a wide range of conditions including medical mysteries. In addition, the diseases below are just a sample of the diseases he treats:

• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Osteoarthritis
• Lupus
• Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Dermatomyositis
• Osteoporosis
• Polymyalgia Rheumatica
• Reactive Arthritis
• Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
• Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
• Psoriatic Arthritis
• Gout
• Scleroderma
• Sjogren’s
• Vasculitis
• Fibromyalgia
• Polymyositis
• Pseudogout
• Autoinflammatory conditions
• Chronic Inflammatory Response
• Syndrome
• Mycotoxin Illness
• POTS

I also see patients that have conditions other than rheumatic diseases. I have training in lifestyle medicine, integrative medicine, and functional medicine as well.