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What is Autoimmune Disease? Part I

Autoimmune disease is best described as an allergy to oneself. The body actually becomes allergic to its own tissue. When human tissue enters the blood stream, the immune system believes that the tissue is a “foreign protein” and creates an antibody to destroy and eliminate it.

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This tissue enters one’s blood stream from some traumatic event. The “trauma” not only includes injuries such as slips and falls, but also trauma caused by overwork, infection, injurious chemicals in our environment and foods, heart attacks, ulcers, smoking, trauma to your mouth and other organ and glandular systems. When your body attacks its own tissue, you are the victim.” As your immune system is directed to protect you from this “foreign protein,” your own body is broken down. The result of this autoimmune reaction can be any number of conditions depending on which tissue is being attacked.

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When antibodies to viruses cross-react with uninfected host cells this is called molecular mimicry. There are sequence similarities between microbial and human proteins.

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The common factor in all autoimmune disorders is inflammation. Inflammation is the bodies attempt to heal. When you take an anti-inflammatory – you STOP the healing process in its tracks. The body does not heal.

Autoimmune reactions can be the cause of many common conditions. Low energy, impaired health and lack of vitality may be the result of your immune system spending its energy protecting YOU from YOU when it fact it does need to.

Do you or a loved one suffer chronic fatigue?

YOU MAY HAVE AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE AND NOT EVEN KNOW IT!

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Let’s summarize and consider some examples of how autoimmune disease occurs:

1. Your own injured tissue, due to some type of trauma, infection, or stress from overwork, enters your bloodstream.

2. Your immune system believes this is “foreign protein” and creates an immune reaction to protect you.

3. Your own tissue is broken down from the attack.

4. The function of that tissue to your whole body is then impaired.

5. Your health suffers with resulting fatigue, pain and disability.

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Autoimmune disease examples:

  • When firefighters, smokers or anyone in a polluted environment breathes smoke or chemicals, lung tissue may be damaged and enter the blood stream – the result is reduced health of the lungs and lung diseases can begin – chronic bronchitis, emphysema and chronic allergies.

  • Injured people whose muscles and ligament tissue enters the blood stream - the result can be conditions such as fibromyalgia, muscle pains and joint problems.

  • Any gland or organ which suffers injury, overwork or infection may release damaged tissue into the blood stream which will similarly cause the development of an autoimmune reaction to that tissue. Diseases relating to that organ or gland can set in.

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Common autoimmune conditions:

Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis ADEM

Addison’s Disease

Alopecia Areata

Ankylosing Spondylitis

Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome (APS)

Autoimmune Hepatitis

Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia

Autoimmune Hepatitis

Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease

Bullous Pemphigoid

Celiac Disease

Chagas Disease

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Crohn’s Disease

Dermatomyositis

Type I Diabetes

Endometriosis

Goodpasteur’s Syndrome

Grave’s Disease

Gullian-Barre Syndrome

Hashimoto’s Disease

Hidradenitis Suppurativa

Kawasaki Disease

IgA Nephropathy

Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

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Interstitial Cystitis

Lupus Erythematosus

Mixed Connective Tissue Disease

Morphea

Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Myasthenia Gravis

Narcolepsy

Neuromyotonia

Pemphigus Vulgaris

Pernicious Anemia

Psoriasis

Psoriatic Arthritis

Polymyositis

Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

Rheumatic Arthritis (RA)

Schizophrenia

Scleroderma

Sjogren’s Syndrome

Stiff Person Syndrome

Temporal Arteritis

Ulcerative Colitis

Vasculitis

Vitiligo

Wegener’s Granulomatosis

Tune in next week to hear how we treat autoimmune conditions with herbs, nutrients, and these most powerful healing factors called Protomorphogens or PMG’s. This is where the real healing begins. If your medical doctor, chiropractor, acupuncturist, naturopathic doctor or other practitioner has not discussed PMG’s a primary component for your autoimmune disorder then ask them about it. Be proactive in your care. After all if you wear your body out, where are you going to live?

Wellness is a choice not a chance. Be well.

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