Category: Autoimmune

Neither Shrunken Nor Useless: Thymus Remains Essential to Long-Term Health

In this series, we explore the true power of the body’s immunity and the organs that work tirelessly to achieve it. Previously: The spleen protects the body in remarkable ways, so it’s essential to learn how to keep it healthy.  The thymus is an organ that has puzzled scientists and scholars for centuries. It’s an…


New Clues Suggest How Autoimmune Diseases Begin

New research in mice may upend current ideas about how autoimmune diseases get started. After cancer and heart disease, the most common group of diseases in the US are autoimmune diseases, which occur when the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s own organs, tissues, and cells. Autoimmune diseases can affect just about any part of…


Heartburn Is a Red Flag for Serious Health Risks

When a patient complains of subtle bloating and heartburn, typically doctors diagnose them with high stomach acid and prescribe acid-blockers. However, reducing stomach acid frequently compounds the problem because in many cases the issue isn’t high, but low stomach acid caused by a pervasive H. pylori infection. H. pylori is a common bacterium that burrows into the…


Autoimmune Disease: A Modern Epidemic

Although few doctors know how to successfully manage autoimmune disease — a condition in which the immune system attacks the body — researchers say it has become a modern epidemic, affecting more people than heart disease and cancer combined. Conventional medicine also argues autoimmune disease has mysterious origins and is primarily genetic, but again research paints…


CCP Virus Cases Drop Drastically on Sunday

Johns Hopkins University data shows that CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus cases of infection and death in the United States on Sunday dropped drastically, to the lowest in weeks. According to Johns Hopkins, there were 150,100 new cases of infection and 1,209 deaths on Sunday in the United States, the lowest number of new cases…