Immune system on fire - the cause of autoimmune disease
Autoimmune disease could best be described as our body being at war with itself. An inflammatory disease afflicting 1 in 5 people (and rising) in the western world with 80 different varieties to choose from. The rate of Multiple Sclerosis has doubled in the last ten years and Hashimoto's and Lupus are now amongst the most common of all autoimmune diseases. Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system loses the ability to detect self from nonself, causing it your body's