Autoimmune Conditions – When Your Own Body Lets You Down
Often, there will be one particular area of your body that is signaling more than others, causing your symptoms and the condition to develop. However, your autoimmune condition will always be a complex interplay of several systems in your body, along with several triggering factors, that have caused your condition to develop. Once your body has gotten into this category of immune system dysfunction, there must be several measures put in place, just to manage the condition.
How do you not just cope with the condition and its symptoms though, and move through them, into remission, and regaining function? The answer lies in discovering the root cause of why the autoimmune condition(s) developed in the first place.
Functional Medicine and Autoimmunity
Any autoimmune condition involves looking deeper into gut function, and rebalancing it, as 70% or more of our immune system is contained in the gut. It also involves creating an environment for the body to heal. This environment is different for everyone, but will typically require: