Immunocal for AutoImmune Diseases

The most common description of autoimmune disorder is that it is a condition that occurs when the body attacks itself. It is a disease or disorder that is caused by an inappropriate immune response to one’s own tissue. This response is considered to be a dysfunctional immune response to healthy processes.

What that means is that your immune system, which should normally attack foreign invaders, or the bad guys, is out of order. As a result, your immune system is overactive, attacking the good guys, or attacking itself. With an autoimmune disorder, your body mistakes healthy tissue for a foreign invader and attacks it, leading to the destruction of healthy tissue.

Common AutoImmune disorders:

• Lupus
• Myasthenia Gravis
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Polymyositis
• Scleroderma
• Lou Gehrig’s Disease or ALS
• Grave’s Disease
• Crohn’s Disease

According to immunologist, Dr. Jesse Stoff, there are four key things that damage the body’s internal environment. They are:

• poor eating habits and nutrition
• man-made toxins in our environment
• disease causing organisms and the toxins they produce
• trauma on the immune system from things like x-ray radiation and cross country flights, and stress.

The immune system, like most of the body, requires balance to function properly. T-helper 1 (Th1) cells and T-helper 2 cells (Th2) help regulate the body’s response to foreign invaders. Th1 uses white blood cells to go after viruses and cancer cells. Th2 immune cells use antibodies to go after bacteria. Normally, the body strikes a balance by switching back and forth between Th1 and Th2. In a person with an autoimmune disorder, one dominates and suppresses the other.

Autoimmune Disease and Women

Th1 dominance in women is associated with autoimmunity and recurrent miscarriage in the first trimester of pregnancy. Additionally, children in the autism spectrum tend to be Th1 dominant. Besides autoimmunity, Th2 dominance is characterised by a tendency toward allergies, frequent colds and viral infections, and cancer. Both Th1 and Th2 cells make a protein substance known as cytokines. Cytokines cause inflammation. Cytokines are a necessary part of our immunity. Inflammation should be a temporary response to injury or infection. It is the over-production of certain small cytokine molecules that leads to the invasion and inflammation of an organ or body system.

Autoimmune Conditions

Autoimmune conditions are named or categorised according to where in the body cytokines are being overproduced and how the disease manifests itself. For example, an overproduction of these cytokines in the joints causing pain and swelling is called Rheumatoid Arthritis. It may go by different names and occur in different places in the body.

Because immune system cytokines are the culprit, the most common conventional treatment for autoimmune disease is immunosuppressive drugs, like steroids. Steroids are used because they are able to suppress the over-productive cytokines. Unfortunately, the steroids don’t just stop the over-active part of the immune system, they also suppress the already under-active segment of the immune system.

Maintaining an Immune system for Autoimmune Sufferers

To successfully reverse the effects of autoimmune diseases, we must do two things: combat oxidative stress, and re-balance the immune system.

Is there something you can do that naturally takes care of both requirements?

Reverse Oxidative Stress With Glutathione

There has been much research done in the last 20 years or so about the antioxidant benefits of glutathione.

Glutathione is your body’s own master antioxidant, which means that if you keep your glutathione levels high, you will recycle all other antioxidants you take and keep them working longer. In this way, reducing oxidative stress, glutathione can be very helpful in reversing the damage done by autoimmune diseases.

Re-Balance Your Immune System With Glutathione