Dr. Mark and Dr. Chip's Healthy Blogs

The universe is saying to you today: “Trust that everything is happening exactly how it needs to, especially on difficult days. Some days you will feel immense clarity and motivation, and on other days you may question your life path & direction. Trust this: Storms come and pass and they always strengthen the roots of strong trees. Tough days are strengthening you. It can be tough to better yourself by improving your health, but the outcome is so rewarding. "Get Healthy, Stay Healthy, LIve Well"

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 ...