Dr. Singh explains autoimmunity using a police analogy: immune cells mistakenly attack the body's own tissues in conditions like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and Crohn's disease. He links autoimmunity to gut health, noting that 70-80% of the immune system lives in the gut and that leaky gut is virtually always present in autoimmune patients.
So friends, immune cells are like cops. So we need cops to keep the criminals, the bad people under control. But what happened in autoimmunity is these cops, you know, they start attacking the citizens, right? The good citizens. And this is what they were not supposed to do. So in autoimmunity, your immune cells start targeting your own body cells, right? When they start targeting your thyroid, it becomes Hashimoto or antibody-negative thyroiditis. When they start attacking your skin cells, it becomes psoriasis, lupus. When it starts attacking your intestines, it becomes Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis. You know, when it starts attacking your joints, you know, it becomes psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and list goes on and on, right? Now, here's a very important point, right? If somebody have autoimmune and they come to me, definitely, definitely there is a leaky gut profile. If somebody tell me, oh, they have autoimmune, but gut is super healthy. It is not true. It is not possible. They don't know about it. That's a different story. But the gut health is not optimal. Your 70 to 80% of your immune system is sitting in your gut. In autoimmunity, the training, so the immune cells get the training. It's like, you know, the cops training center. When it's not functioning properly, how can you expect the proper education, right? So similarly, your immune cells in autoimmunity, they are misdirected, they are miseducated. So very important. In the next video, I'm gonna talk to you guys about what I mean when I say bad gut health. It's a big topic, but I'll try to break it down on a very high level as it relates to your immune system health. All right guys, stay healthy, take care. We'll see you next in the next video.
