CONTRIBUTED CONTENT — More than 50 million people suffer from autoimmune disease. That’s just the ones who are diagnosed. Many more have undiagnosed autoimmune reactions and are the most misdiagnosed and overlooked patient population.
Symptoms of autoimmunity vary depending on the tissue being attacked. However, symptoms of systemic inflammation are common. These include gut problems, skin rashes, chronic pain, inflammation and puffiness, fatigue, brain fog, weight gain or loss, hair loss, infertility and symptoms that come and go.
Different people have different triggers, but the top 10 triggers we see clinically are:
- Not enough quality sleep.
- Not enough physical activity.
- Poor gut microbiome diversity.
- Chronic stress.
- Toxins.
- Gluten.
- Food sensitivities.
- Infection.
- Blood sugar is too high or too low.
- Air pollution.
Antibodies tag tissue but they don’t destroy it; T cells destroy it. It’s good to know your baseline antibody level and then monitor if it goes up or down. Don’t get hung up on “normal” antibodies. If your T cells aren’t attacking your tissue, an abnormal antibody count might be normal for you.
Personalize your autoimmune management protocol around strategies that dampen inflammation and modulate immune function. These include the following:
- An anti-inflammatory diet. Get my free inflammatory reset guide here.
- Good sleep.
- Daily exercise. Each patient is different, but find your baseline of exercise that doesn’t flare up symptoms and do that each day.
- Remove/mitigate personal immune triggers.
- Nontoxic household and body products.
- Practice joy and gratitude.
Also, supplementation of omega-3 in combination with vitamin D was more effective than omega-3 alone. Both are great for supporting regulatory T cells, which help keep autoimmunity in check.
Liposomal glutathione, resveratrol and curcumin help dampen inflammatory cytokines. Products I like are Omega Co-3, Liqua-D, Trizomal Glutathione, ResveroActive and TurmeroActive, all by Apex Energetics.
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Written by JOSH REDD, chiropractic physician at RedRiver Health and Wellness Center.
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About Josh Redd
Josh Redd, MS, DABFM, DAAIM, is a chiropractic physician and author of the Amazon bestselling book “The Truth About Low Thyroid.” Redd owns seven functional medicine clinics in the western U.S. and sees patients from across the country and around the world who are suffering from challenging autoimmune, endocrine and neurological disorders.
He studied immunology, virology and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins, where he is a MaPHB candidate. He also teaches thousands of health care practitioners about functional medicine and immunology, thyroid health, neurology, lab testing and more.
Resources
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