Strategies To Reverse Autoimmune Disease

This episode is brought to you by Essentia and Cozy Earth. Simply
put, autoimmune diseases are conditions where the body’s immune
system attacks its own tissues rather than a foreign molecule like
bacteria, and they are a huge problem both in this country and
worldwide. You’re probably familiar with the most common autoimmune
diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis,
inflammatory bowel disease, type 1 diabetes, hypothyroidism, and
psoriasis. But there are many more autoimmune diseases that affect
the nervous system, joints and muscles, skin, endocrine gland, and
heart. In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I
talk about the main causes of autoimmune disease, the conventional
medicine approach versus the Functional Medicine approach to
treating autoimmune disease, and how to reverse the course of these
devastating illnesses.  This episode is brought to you by
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details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber
version): What is autoimmunity, and what causes it? (6:14 / 4:25) A
patient case I treated of a girl with autoimmune disease (8:51 /
7:04) A Functional Medicine approach to treating autoimmune disease
(13:00 / 11:14) Strategies to reverse autoimmune disease (26:22 /
24:35) Mentioned in this episode The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day
Detox Diet Diagnostic tests and biomarkers mentioned in this
episode Celiac Gluten antibodies Anti-gliadin antibodies* Tissue
transglutaminase antibodies* *IgA and IgG recommended for both