Auto Immune Disease: New Discoveries for Less Pain & Less Meds for Auto Immune Diseases

New health discoveries about how the immune system works, and the mechanisms of auto immune disease, are giving people the knowledge they need to reduce their symptoms – including pain, swelling and inflammation, and to greatly reduce their need for medications.

Your Immune Is “Picking On” You?

With an auto immune disease, including Graves disease, Menieres disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, asthma and allergies, say scientists, there is an “over-reactive” immune response that causes the symptoms.

Medical scientists say that with auto immune diseases, the white blood cells, or the immune system, “picks on” or “attacks” different areas, causing pain, swelling and inflammation...

...in the joints with Rheumatoid Arthritis, RA

...the skin with Psoriasis and Eczema

...the gut with Crohn's disease and Irritable Bowel Syndrome, IBS

...the lungs with asthma and allergies

...the nerves and spinal cord with MS, or Multiple Sclerosis,

...the inner ear with Meniere's, (Vertigo, Tinnitus)

...varies for Lupus, Tachycardia, Myasthenia Gravis, MG

Autoimmune diseases tend to be painful and debilitating, and among the more than 80 of these diseases are: Grave's disease, Lupus, Scleroderma, Myasthenia Gravis, MG, Sjogren's syndrome, and insulin dependent diabetes -- Type 1.

According to the American Autoimmune related Disease Association, these diseases affect one in five people!

Both TOO High and TOO Low?

“Overactivity,” it turns out, is not the whole story, because your immune system can be both "UNDER" and "OVER-active" at the same time.

Medical studies in fact show POOR T-CELL activity and at the same time -- OVERACTIVE B-CELL activity – in the SAME PERSON, as for instance, in the joints of people with Rheumatoid arthritis, or RA.

Often with auto immune diseases, thus, one type of immune cell can be UNDER active while another type of immune response is OVER active.

Correcting the Immune Response

How best to deal with this over and under-activity?

Because your immune system is already “over the top,” with an auto immune disease, it is generally considered unwise to “boost” or to “stimulate” your immune system.

Fortunately, the immune can be regulated and “brought back into line,” regardless of whether it is “over” or “under” active, and this can be done naturally and gently through strengthening the body’s own protective system -- even with an auto immune disease.

What's Missing in the Immune System?

The immune cells of patients with autoimmune diseases have been shown to be deficient in glutathione, a protein that is key in regulating the immune function.

Research shows that chronic inflammatory conditions have been associated with low glutathione concentrations in both serum and red-blood-cell.

And, scientists have also shown that enhancing the body’s glutathione levels, which drop as a result of aging and stress, can improve T-cell function, and at the same time “modulate” the over-active B-cell activity.

Immunologists have suggested that this is virtually a natural cure for balancing the immune.

Since the healthy growth and activity of immune cells depends upon the availability of glutathione or GSH, it is very important for anyone with an autoimmune condition to enhance their body’s ability to produce adequate amounts of glutathione.

NOTE: raising glutathione is NOT simply a matter of taking a glutathione PILL -- which is not effective -- but of providing the proper nutritional pre-cursors.

This is best done with foods and supplements that are proven, such as a protein supplement -- A NUTRACEUTICAL -- that is listed in the book on your doctor's desk, the PHYSICIAN'S DESK REFERENCE:

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Less Pain and Inflammation

Much of the pain and inflammation of auto immune disease has been shown to be the consequence of “oxidative stress” and “free radical damage.”

The best way to increase the body’s ability to “mop up” excess free radicals before they can cause damage – to the joints, nerves, brain, lungs, skin or gut – is by increasing glutathione levels.

Researchers have indeed demonstrated the lessening of inflammation in the affected areas by raising glutathione levels in the tissues. (e.g. Rheumatologists at Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands.)

Therefore, even though the “target” of these auto immune diseases is vastly different, enhancing the natural mechanism that reduces the inflammation will be of benefit to all.

Enhanced glutathione levels have been reported as beneficial for auto immune diseases including:

Allergies, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, Scleroderma, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Scleroderma, Rheumatoid Arthritis, or RA, Psoriasis, Graves disease, and Myasthenia gravis...

...as well as digestive diseases such as Crohns disease, ulcerative colitis -- inflammatory bowl disease -- irritable bowel syndrome, IBS... and allergies, asthma and also Menieres disease.

Feeding and Balancing the Immune System

People are finding that by “keeping those white blood cells in line,” as well as “mopping up” free radicals before they can cause damage from “oxidative stress,” decreases both pain and inflammation, and helps slow the progression of their disease.

Although there is no effective “glutathione pill,” it is no longer a mystery as to how to enhance the body’s own ability to make glutathione. Dr. Gustavo Bounous, a researcher at McGill University, discovered the nutritional pre-cursors for balancing the immune naturally and without drugs.

As a result of his research, it is now known how to naturally “balance” or “modulate” the cells that are on both sides of the equation – either too low or too high -- so that they return to functioning normally.

His clinical trials have demonstrated that “intra-cellular glutathione” can be raised by as much 30% by providing the nutritional building blocks.

(NOTE: taking a glutathione PILL does not work, according to researchers, because it is a protein and gets digested.)

An auto immune disease natural cure?

This is good news, as it is allowing many people to alleviate their symptoms, and to significantly reduce their medications.

People can now go a long way to prevent the effects of stress and aging – and with balance instead of auto immune diseases!

Autoimmune Diseases and Symptoms

Autoimmune diseases often painful and debilitating, and among the more than 80 diseases are:

Psoriasis, Eczema, Grave's disease, Lupus, Scleroderma, Myasthenia Gravis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis MS, Sjogren's syndrome, Crohn's, ALS, Lou Gehrig's and insulin dependent diabetes -- Type 1.

Asthma and allergies are part of an “over-reactive” immune response, as are skin conditions such as Psoriasis. Meniere’s syndrome -- or tinnitus – where people experience ringing in their ears, is now thought to in part be autoimmune.

Digestive diseases such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis -- inflammatory bowl disease -- irritable bowl disease, IBS, are also autoimmune diseases.

Auto-immunity can affect the glands or organs, such as the thyroid, the liver, or the pancreas. Those with chronic viral Hepatitis C can develop autoimmune thrombopenia and neutropenia during interferon therapy.

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Auto Immune Disease Links:

• American Auto immune Related Diseases Association

• Crohn's Disease

• Meniere's Disease, Tinnitus & Vertigo

• Multiple Sclerosis

• Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Arthritis Linked to the Immune System

• Lou Gehrigs Disease, ALS

Less Pain & Meds with Auto Immune Disease:

Arthritis, Psoriasis, Eczema, Rheumatoid Arthritis, RA, Sjogren's syndrome, Lupus, Myasthenia gravis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, MS, Polymyositis, Scleroderma, Myasthenia Gravis, MG, Lupus, Grave’s Disease, Vertigo & Crohns disease

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