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Natural Health and Autoimmune Disease


Natural Health and Autoimmune Disease

            At Natural Health, we’re always looking for the cause of a disease process. Autoimmune disease seems to be a mystery in the medical world and the treatment for it are drugs that suppress the immune system and drugs that reduce inflammation. These may be good treatments for pain relief, but they do nothing for the cause of the problem. And actually taking these drugs makes the problem worse as the body is never able to heal itself plus their side effects.
            The underlying cause of autoimmune disease is a chronic degeneration of whatever organ or system is being affected. The dead tissue from this organ or system gets into the lymphatic system and the body starts to develop antibodies to fight what it thinks is an invasion of foreign protein, somewhat like the cause of food allergies with leaky gut syndrome. Once these antibodies have been formed, they start attacking the tissue of the person’s own organ or system. Unless this organ or system can heal itself, the antibodies produced by their own body continue on the attack and cause the degeneration known as autoimmune disease. The goal, then, should be to get the body to fix the organ or system and reduce the inflammation and immune response caused by the degeneration of that organ or system.
            At Natural Health, we use Standard Process whole food supplements. SP has some great products known as Protomorphagens or PMG’s (new speak is micro RNA). These PMG’s act as decoys in this autoimmune hyper response and let the organ or system that we are targeting with the specific nutrition, to heal. This allows the body to down regulate the immune system response thereby reducing inflammation and stopping the autoimmune “disease”. The body is very touchy about having these wayward proteins circulating around the body as they are blueprints and can start tissue growing in the wrong place. For instance, you wouldn’t want breast tissue growing in the leg. This is how the autoimmune response gets started but then seems to get out of control because the person keeps damaging the organ or system somehow, usually bad diet or lifestyle, and it never heals. The PMG’s, and other products we use, allow the body to heal itself, as it should, and normal natural health is restored. No need for harmful drugs and further deterioration of these organs or systems.

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