Winning the Battle Against Autoimmune Diseases
By Kerry Greening
First, what do we mean by autoimmunity or autoimmune disease?
A process in which the bodys immune system causes illness by mistakenly attacking healthy cells, organs, or tissues in the body that is essential for good health. Your own immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys your body tissue that it believes to be foreign.
Some of the major autoimmune diseases are;
Active Chronic Hepatitis, Addison's Disease, Anti-phospholipid Syndrome, Celiac Disease, Crohns Disease, Cushings Syndrome, Dermatomyositis, (Type I) Diabetes, Discoid Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, Pemphigoid, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosis, and Fibromyalgia Fibromyositis.
There are many many more.
An estimated 50 million Americans suffer from symptoms -- everything from fatigue to joint pains to depression, to numb hands and feet, to heart palpitations -- signs that the immune system has turned upon itself.
Many people are looking for treatments for reversing autoimmune disease what works. You need to understand what caused your body to attack itself in the first place. If you address these issues your body can reverse the symptoms.
We're all familiar with the term immunity now that AIDS a disease that directly attacks your immune system has become so prominent. To truly understand the word, it means, essentially, resistance to disease. Generally we are speaking of infectious disease, and immunity comes through your body's exposure to the disease. If you have mumps as a child, you know that we are not susceptible to a second episode of mumps because your body has built up immunity to the condition.
Also you acquire immunity through artificial means such as vaccination or immunization. Originally immunity was thought of as the body's way of defending itself against disease. One of the basic concepts of immunity in the early days of the twentieth century has been that if immunity is going to benefit us, it has to be directed to something foreign, something outside of the body. So it has always been the understanding of immunologists that the immune response only concerns bacteria, viruses and foreign.
You body can distinguish what is itself from what is not itself. But something has gone wrong, as we have seen a dramatic increase in autoimmune conditions in the past 20 years. Your own immune system is attacking itself; your immune response attacks your body the host.
Autoimmune disease is a disorder that occurs because of autoimmunity--a disease that is caused by an immune response to the body of the patient himself or herself. There are currently over 80 autoimmune diseases.
Why and how does autoimmunity arise in some people's body?
What is causing your body to produce an immune response to itself?
Many people in this world do not have these autoimmune conditions; therefore we know that the body normally distinguishes self from non-self. Every one of us has some degree of autoimmunity naturally, and it does not seem to do us any harm unless something has gone or goes wrong.
To help us to understand that all of these autoimmune diseases as varied as they are in their location in the human body and the systems and organs they affect they are related because they are all caused by autoimmunity.
Once diagnosed, while doctors may prescribe pain relievers, hormones, or immunosuppressants to treat the symptoms, but when a patient asks about the cause, the life-long health implications, or how to heal such conditions, doctors simply shrug their shoulders and say they do not have any answers.
So begs the question, what causes autoimmunity?
We really need to understand the root causes of this major problem that is leading to these autoimmune disease conditions. If we understand what the root cause or causes of this devastating problem, then we can address it and restore health and vitality. America's abundant and prosperous culture has resulted in a substantial decline in our food supply's nutritional content.
Over the past 60 years or so, the increase of chemicals in our environment through the industrial revolution, the use of insecticides and preservatives, hormones and steroids induced into our meat and food supplies, the increase of fast food and junk foods in our diets combined with the lack of proper soil management has left us with a basic food supply contaminated and lacking the necessary life sustaining nutritional elements.
Literally we are being starved of nutrients that our body's must have to maintain health in the westernized cultures combined with high levels of hundreds of chemicals a stressful lifestyle and lack of proper regular exercise are the major contributing factors to autoimmunity.
Current allopathic medicine knows no cause or successful treatment for most autoimmune diseases, however when you look at the root causes of these disease conditions you know how address and stop autoimmune disease. Simply by rejuvenating and optimizing our cell communication function the Autoimmune Disease is terminated by the then full functioning, optimal and healthy immune system.
In other words people with autoimmune conditions have deficient mis-communicated cells and immune systems. All disease conditions are ultimately a result of improper cell-to-cell communication at some level. All diseases have an immune and /or glandular component. Cell to cell communication is the critical key to homeostasis (balance of health) and immune system function.
By providing key nutrients that are missing from your diet back into your daily food can give you back the health you lost due to auto immunity. In 1996 it was discovered that there are essential nutrients for health, that are non-toxic, do not interfere with bodily functions like drugs do and with these the body can recognize, defend, nourish, regulate, repair and cleanse itself. Every chronic degenerative disease is responding very positively, often to the elimination of every symptom. The nutrients are made from natural foods and they work harmoniously with prescription drugs and are not intended to take the place of needed medical treatment. They are a complement to our modern day medicine, not an alternative. The word is slowly spreading amongst the medical community that there is help out there. It always takes time for a new discovery of any kind to be accepted but the time is coming when this information will be common knowledge.
Inside your body there is an amazing protection mechanism called the immune system. We do not notice it when it is working as it should be, but we do notice when it is not. Your complex immune system is made up of many components, cells and systems working together to serve and protect your health and well being.
To work effectively each of these cell groups and systems must have proper structure and function, when your body is overtaxed with chemicals, stress, toxins, overuse of antibiotics and has nutrient deficiencies your body becomes vulnerable to microbes, bacteria, and loses the ability to function properly. As we discussed earlier, the result with an autoimmune disease is your body starts attacking itself and you end up with a miscommunicated dysfunctional immune system.
Science is validating that virtually every disease has altered and missing structures of glycoforms on the cell of the person affected with the specific disease. Where a healthy person has the proper structure and assembly of glycoforms coating their cells.
Your body will repair itself, regenerate itself, restore itself, and defend itself as long as you provide your body with the right tools it requires to function correctly. Restore Your Health and Balance Your Immune System
By providing essential and required nutrients back into your diet, your body will have the nutrients (tools) it requires to reassemble the proper immune system structures at the level of your cells. You can restore proper function to your bodys cells, so you no longer have to live with the debilitating auto immune challenge. Eliminate Your Auto Immune Condition Today
Kerry Greening is a health and wellness consultant helping people with autoimmune conditions restore their health and vitality. Learn about the cellular health program and balance your immune system so you can live without the devastating symptoms from your autoimmune condition. Visit disease education today
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