Marta Ribeiro,  —

Marta graduated from Universidade Fernando Pessoa in Porto with a degree in Communication Sciences and a Masters degree in New Communication Technologies. She has experience in social media, worked with several media channels, and has also worked as a freelance photographer and a graphic artist for almost 10 years.

Articles by Marta Ribeiro

Yoga for Lupus: How Exercise Can Help

Lupus is a serious, chronic autoimmune disease that debilitates your body. Fatigue, fever, skin rashes, and joint pains are just a few in a wide range of common symptoms. After being diagnosed and while learning to deal with all the symptoms and lupus flares, sometimes it’s hard to maintain…

Faces of Lupus: Meet Them, Know Them, Share Them

Lupus can affect anyone. You, me, your sister, your neighbor, your college roommate, anyone around you. Even though women are mostly affected by it, no one is safe from this disease that attacks you from the inside and which still remains a mystery on so many levels.

6 Lupus Symptoms You May Not Know About

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwgaRNC24dg Besides being an autoimmune disease which attacks those who suffer from it from the inside, lupus is also characterized by its enormous range of symptoms, which often makes it extremely difficult to diagnose. This multitude of symptoms includes fever, joint pain, rashes, hair loss and many, many…

10 Facts You Should Know About Lupus

There are many facts we already know about lupus, but there’s also much misinformation surrounding the condition. Known for being an autoimmune disease, lupus is also a mystery as to why it affects people differently and why the range of symptoms is so extended. Did you…

Does Every Lupus Patient Have the Same Symptoms?

Since lupus is an autoimmune disease – which means the immune system starts to attack healthy cells in the body – not everyone who suffers from lupus has the same symptoms and flares. Wondering what it triggering your lupus flares? Being such an individual disease, lupus is…

Whoopi Goldberg KNOWS Lupus. Do You?

The range of lupus symptoms is widespread which makes it a difficult disease to diagnose, taking an average of seven years for patients to get an accurate diagnosis. Unfortunately, there is still a lot that we don’t know about this disease which makes raising awareness of it an…

Makeup Cover Up for Lupus Rashes and Imperfections

Being a systemic inflammatory disorder, lupus commonly presents a multitude of symptoms. But what is lupus exactly? What is this autoimmune disease? Why does it attack the body like this? What are the symptoms of lupus? Interested in knowing what the symptoms of lupus are? Read more…

What You Should Know About Symptoms in Women and Men

Being a systemic inflammatory disorder, lupus commonly presents a multitude of symptoms. But what is lupus exactly? What are the symptoms of lupus? Find out more about what lupus is exactly. What is this autoimmune disease? Why does it attack the body like this?  Does it affect…

9 Symptoms of Lupus in Children You Should Be Aware of

Lupus is an autoimmune and chronic disease that can affect anyone of any age and gender. Even though it tends to affect mostly female adults, children can also develop lupus. Because the range of symptoms is so extensive, it is very difficult to diagnose. Wondering how lupus is diagnosed?…

Lupus and Food: Is What You’re Eating Making You Worse?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMCNG5ukMwY It’s a well-known fact that the cause of lupus is not yet fully understood and many things we do on a daily basis could be triggering lupus flares and symptoms, making this disease even more difficult to deal with than it already is. Read more about how infections…