Autoimmune Diseases

This list, once short twenty years ago, is now a growing list of over eighty different diseases. Today 1 in 12 individuals in the US have some type of autoimmune disease. The immune system is closely linked with mental health, cardiovascular health, endocrine function as well as growth and repair in response to physical and environmental stressors. Autoimmune diseases are conditions in which a person’s immune system mistakenly attacks their own body, and it loses the ability to differentiate self from non-self. A Functional Medicine physician looks for the root cause of the disease and doesn’t simply treat the symptoms. A small listing of the potential factors in autoimmunity include dysbiosis, chronic infections, neuroendocrine disruptors, heavy metals, chemical mitochondrial toxicants, environmental toxicants, aerosolized petroleum microparticles, mineral and vitamin deficiencies, etc. … This approach has to be individualized due to the multiple causes for immune system dysregulation.

Apthous Stomatitis
Allergies
Hypothyroidism
SICCA Syndrome
Dry Eye
Lupus
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Hashimoto’s Hypothyroidism

Autoimmune Diseases

This list, once short twenty years ago, is now a growing list of over eighty different diseases. Today 1 in 12 individuals in the US have some type of autoimmune disease. The immune system is closely linked with mental health, cardiovascular health, endocrine function as well as growth and repair in response to physical and environmental stressors. Autoimmune diseases are conditions in which a person’s immune system mistakenly attacks their own body, and it loses the ability to differentiate self from non-self. A Functional Medicine physician looks for the root cause of the disease and doesn’t simply treat the symptoms. A small listing of the potential factors in autoimmunity include dysbiosis, chronic infections, neuroendocrine disruptors, heavy metals, chemical mitochondrial toxicants, environmental toxicants, aerosolized petroleum microparticles, mineral and vitamin deficiencies, etc. … This approach has to be individualized due to the multiple causes for immune system dysregulation.

Apthous Stomatitis
Allergies
Hypothyroidism
SICCA Syndrome
Dry Eye
Lupus
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Hashimoto’s Hypothyroidism