Autoimmune Conditions
In fact, autoimmune disease is as much of a medical frontier today as syphilis or tuberculosis was in the nineteenth century - Meghan O'Rourke
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What’s Wrong with Me?
Today, researchers believe that they have discovered some eighty to a hundred autoimmune disorders, including disorders as various as lupus, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis. But exact numbers are hard to come by, because researchers still don’t agree on how to define an autoimmune disease, and find it hard to come up with objective measures.
Even the term “autoimmune disease” may be imprecise: we don’t know in every case whether autoimmune dysfunction is the cause of the disease, rather than, say, a consequence. Then there’s the complexity of the immune system. Thyroid patients tend to be preoccupied with antibodies,…
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An autoimmune-like antibody response is linked with severe COVID-19
A harrowing turn in the COVID-19 pandemic occurred with the realization that the immune system’s power in fighting infection was sometimes pyrrhic. In patients with severe COVID-19 infections, evidence emerged that the inflammatory process used to fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus were, in addition to fighting the virus, potentially responsible for harming the patient.
A Breakthrough in the Mystery of Why Women Get So Many Autoimmune Diseases
Evolution might have played a trick on women’s immune systems.
Having an Autoimmune Disease Makes Me Feel 50 Years Older
A night out for me usually means a week spent recovering from that very night out.
3 Things That Wreck Your Hormones
When it comes to your hormones, there are many ways diseases can screw things up. By far, the most common is when the immune system attacks your hormone-producing glands. This is called autoimmune disease.
7 Things You Should Know About Autoimmune Diseases
As if living with chronic illness wasn't challenging enough, living with an autoimmune disease can be even more difficult. Still highly misunderstood by medical professionals and the public alike, autoimmune diseases are characterized by nebulous symptoms that can make diagnoses difficult to come by. Treatments vary, and in some cases rely entirely on behavior changes.
A big list of The Best Autoimmune Disorder Blogs
The thing about Autoimmune disorders is that people rarely have just one. We are making a huge list of great Autoimmune Blogs for those of us who are blessed with more than one Autoimmune Disorder.
A Diabetic Dream
Can synthetic biology finally cure the autoimmune disease?
Autoimmunity Is From Venus
Why do women have more problems like Sjögren's syndrome and lupus?
Before He Died, Paul Allen Gifted $125 Million To A New Institute To Study The Immune System
The new institute will study the immune system in three ways: by looking at immune responses in healthy people, then by looking at the immune systems of people with cancer, and then by comparing those to the immune systems of people with diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn’s disease, which are caused by an overactive immune system.
Competition Heats Up in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Other Autoimmune Conditions
With the wide variety of treatment options currently available and more in the pipeline, payers are faced with the challenge of identifying the most clinically and economically effective allocation of treatments for RA.
Explainer: what are autoimmune diseases?
Autoimmune diseases, which include a range of around 80 different illnesses from rheumatoid arthritis to type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, occur when the immune system attacks the body.
How to Stop Attacking Yourself: 9 Steps to Heal Autoimmune Disease
It you want to cool off inflammation in the body, you must find the source. Treat the fire, not the smoke. In medicine we are mostly taught to diagnose disease by symptoms, NOT by their underlying cause. Functional medicine, the emerging 21st paradigm of systems medicine teaches us to treat the cause, not only the symptoms, to ask the question WHY are you sick, not only WHAT disease do you have.
How to Stop Attacking Yourself: 9 Steps to Treating Autoimmune Disease
Autoimmune diseases now affect 24 million people and include rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, thyroid disease, inflammatory bowel disease and more. These are often addressed by powerful immune suppressing medication and not by addressing the cause. That’s like taking a lot of aspirin while you are standing on a tack. The treatment is not more aspirin or a strong immune suppressant but removing the tack.
Scientists are trying to treat autoimmune disease with intestinal worms
“Worm therapy” has a mixed record in clinical trials.
The Autoimmune Protocol
The Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) is a diet used to heal autoimmune disease and inflammatory disease. From my research I’ve read that this diet helps heal leaky gut and allows the digestive tract to heal and recover from damage and assaults from certain foods.
We Might Have Finally Found The Trigger For Autoimmune Diseases
The problem comes when the body incorrectly identifies a normal protein as a threat. When that happens, the B cell selection process produces what are known as autoantibodies that prove very effective at harming our own bodies.
Why Your Immune System Doesn't Eat You Alive
Contrary to conventional wisdom, T cells that cause autoimmune disease actually abound in the body but are held in check.
Your Immune System Is Made, Not Born
New research dispels the belief that the strength of the body’s defense system is genetically programmed.
What’s Wrong with Me?
I had an autoimmune disease. Then the disease had me.
American Autoimmune
The American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association is dedicated to the eradication of autoimmune diseases and the alleviation of suffering and the socioeconomic impact of autoimmunity through fostering and facilitating collaboration in the areas of education, public awareness, research, and patient services in an effective, ethical and efficient manner.
Autoimmune Advocacy Alliance
Autoimmune diseases affect as many as 1 in 5 people living in the United States. That’s more than 50 million individuals. Our alliance is a community of patients, family members, advocacy groups and healthcare professionals dedicated to a common cause — raise awareness, educate the public, and advocate for those in need. We are the Autoimmune Advocacy Alliance.
Autoimmune Encephalitis Alliance
The Autoimmune Encephalitis Alliance promotes collaboration to improve care, find a cure and create community so that no one faces autoimmune encephalitis alone.
Autoimmune List
#Autoimmune diseases: information and worldwide medical news updates.
Autoimmune Mom
AutoimmuneMom.com was born out of a frustration with a lack of online information about autoimmune conditions beyond the surface-level articles and blog posts, even on the top health websites. Believing there must be a way to develop content that dug into current research and examined deeper questions, the planning for the site began.
Autoimmunity Research Foundation
Patients are no longer waiting for current medical practice to catch up with today’s understandings in metagenomics and microbiology. They are looking for ways to take steps to recover now, not two decades from now.
IG Living
Our mission is to support the IG community through education, communication and advocacy.
Life in the Autoimmune Lane
With this blog I hope to accomplish a couple of things. One is the therapeutic aspect of getting it all out so it’s not jumbling around in my mind driving me crazy, and two, if anyone out there is battling an autoimmune disease they can know that they’re not alone. All of your fears and frustrations I share.
PANDAS Network
PANDAS Network is dedicated to improving the diagnosis and treatment of children with PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections) and PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome).
PBCers
The PBCers Organization is a wonderful source of education and support for those who suffer from Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and other autoimmune liver diseases.
MedicineNet
Autoimmune diseases are more frequent in women than in men. It is felt that the estrogen of females may influence the immune system to predispose some women to autoimmune diseases. Furthermore, the presence of one autoimmune disease increases the chance for developing another simultaneous autoimmune disease.
MedlinePlus
There are more than 80 types of autoimmune diseases, and some have similar symptoms. This makes it hard for your health care provider to know if you really have one of these diseases, and if so, which one. Getting a diagnosis can be frustrating and stressful. Often, the first symptoms are fatigue, muscle aches and a low fever. The classic sign of an autoimmune disease is inflammation, which can cause redness, heat, pain and swelling.
The Paleo Mom
The Autoimmune Protocol is a therapeutic version of the paleo template designed to help regulate the immune system, mitigating autoimmune and other chronic diseases. Learn about the Autoimmune Protocol HERE.
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