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RE: What are autoimmune diseases? Why do we get them?

in #science7 years ago

I went to one nutriopathic lecture where they suggested that many autoimmune diseases were a result of a previous infection from a stealth, or long term infection. This is the same way that lymes disease is a stealth pathogen that causes an autoimmune disease. The lecturer spoke of having strong results when treating autoimmune diseases similarly to ways you would treat a stealth pathogen infection and that he had had much success with this.

Do you have an experience with this?

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This is another hypothesis of how autoimmune diseases arise known as the cryptic infection hypothesis. As far as I am aware the current evidence is now swaying in favour of the hygiene hypothesis as opposed to the cryptic infection hypothesis.

Here is a link to more information on this hypothesis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12848953