Autoimmune Disease.

According to the current medical model, 80+ percent of all medical diagnoses are autoimmune related. 100 years ago autoimmunity was basically unknown and now the majority of diagnoses are autoimmune. What happened?

If one considers that autoimmune diseases are conditions where our body’s own immune system attacks itself. Why would our immune system attack itself? Has our immune system forgotten its purpose? Absolutely not. Our lifestyles, stressors, the food we eat, and medications used on a regular basis may be directly or indirectly contributing to this new phenomenon .

Think about how medicine has changed over the last 100 years. Figure out what we are doing differently and you will discover the cause of autoimmune diseases. Walk into a pharmacy and almost every single product you can buy over the counter is designed to stop a symptom like pain. Drugs are almost like magic in reducing or eliminating a symptoms, but it comes with a cost and one of those costs is the complete confusion of one’s immune system. Let’s say you have a headache and you go to your doctor or to a pharmacy and take a drug that reduces your pain which is great because you no longer are suffering, but in a few days your headache comes back. You repeat the cycle and again your headache goes away and again a few days later your headache comes back. Did the medication you took solve the problem? or did it just treat the symptom? Basically you are telling the body to stop reacting by using a powerful drug which stops the symptom.

It is like putting tape on the dashboard of your car when the “Check Engine” light comes on so you can’t see it. The tape didn’t solve the engine problem, and by ignoring the engine light, the body will eventually have consequences. This is no different with the human body - eventually by suppressing symptoms, the body’s immune system shuts off or it becomes hyper or hypo reactive. Taking a medication to stop one’s pain or fever or any other symptom without determining the cause of the symptom may affect an individual later in the form of an auto-immune disease.

Drs. Lisa and Robert Abell are trained to determine the cause of the autoimmunity and remove it. This is typically methodological process of one or two years to resolve. It took years if not decades for your body to develop the autoimmune disease. By restoring the immune function back to its original behavior, autoimmune disease can be reversed and not just managed with powerful, dangerous medications.