Robert Whitfield MD explains how autoimmune diseases happen when your immune system attacks your own cells. Most arise from genetics plus environmental triggers like infections or stress. Doctors diagnose them with tests like antinuclear antibody and C-reactive protein.
So your body has a set of defenses that protects you. And when your immune system attacks your own cells, that's basically an autoimmune disease. And there's a whole host of these. And we can go into that in just a moment. True to form, in most cases we don't actually know. So I think, as everybody's probably gathered by listening to my show, is I'm not super accepting of the I don't know answer. So curious about this and I'll give my 2 cents and my thoughts about it. I think most of what we consider to be autoimmune issues will be a combination of pre existing genetics, you know, certain system, you know, issues that may be enzyme related, what have you. You do that, you couple it to some sort of environmental exposure or infection or virus or something and then you, you trigger this effect, stress in life. You know, there's all sorts of things that this, this kind of plethora of, you know, diseases can come from and you know, people are like, well, how do you figure out if you even have one? And tests that could be done to diagnose this, or the antinuclear antibody test, autoantibody tests, T reactive protein, and the list goes on and on.
