🧬 Autoimmune Education

This article explores how genetics, environmental triggers, gut health, and hormones may work together to cause autoimmune diseases, while highlighting how new research is improving diagnosis and treatment.

Autoimmune and inflammatory flares occur when immune activity increases and disrupts the body’s normal balance. Factors such as stress, poor sleep, infections, and environmental triggers can intensify inflammation, while tracking symptoms and triggers may help patients better manage and anticipate flare episodes.

Approximately 1 in 100 people have celiac disease (CD). Although CD is quite common, over 80% of people with the autoimmune disease are undiagnosed. Since so many people are unaware of its existence, they may have the question; “what is Celiac Disease?” CD is an autoimmune disorder that becomes triggered by the consumption of gluten prompting the immune system to strike the gluten protein in the small intestine. This can lead to inflammation of the small intestine’s lining, w

Type 1 diabetes is a long-term autoimmune condition in which the body’s immune system attacks the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Without insulin, the body cannot properly regulate blood glucose levels, resulting in daily treatment necessary for survival.

There are over 100 known autoimmune diseases, but what exactly is an autoimmune disease? The dictionary definition explains it as “a disease resulting from a disordered immune reaction in which antibodies are produced against one’s own tissues…"According to the University of Oxford, autoimmune diseases affect approximately one in ten people. Systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis are examples of significant autoimmune diseases.