Autoimmune diseases (AIDs), virtually unknown a few years ago, now represent the 3rd largest cause of morbidity after cardiovascular disease and cancer.
These diseases result from a disturbance of the immune system which gradually becomes the patient's worst enemy by attacking his body as if it were a foreign body. Faced with this phenomenon, the solutions offered by allopathic medicine bring only mediocre results accompanied by disturbing side effects. Natural medicine has better proposals to make.
The immune system defends our body against infections and cancer cells. This defense can be defective by insufficiency at one or more levels of its functioning. This is called immunological deficiency.
It can also be defective in excess: the immune system attacks the cells or components of our own body. It is then a question of autoimmune diseases.
Normally, the immune system recognizes the constituents of the body in which it functions and does not attack it. When it is disturbed by excess, there is production of autoantibodies directed against certain food proteins (or bacterial of intestinal origin) which are fixed on certain cells of our body. The immune system actually turns against the organism to which it belongs, causing autoimmune diseases to develop.
The two types of autoimmune diseases (AIDs)
Organ-specific IAMs
Among which we find diabetes insulin-dependent (dysfunction of the pancreatic cells that produce insulin), Hashimoto's thyroiditis (dysfunction of the thyroid gland), certain neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS, nerve damage), digestive disorders with celiac disease (CD, intestinal damage), ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease. In this type of autoimmune disease, no organ or gland is spared, since the adrenals, ovaries (early menopause) or testicles (sterility) may also be affected.
The autoimmune process can also attack circulating fluids such as blood and its components such as red blood cells, white blood cells or platelets.
Non-organ specific MAIs
In this case, it is a systemic autoimmune disease that affects several parts simultaneously. Among these are rheumatoid arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis (APS), chronic juvenile arthritis (CJA), which affects the cartilage and the main joints, Gougerot-Sjogren's syndrome (GS, affecting the salivary, lachrymal and vaginal glands), polymyositis (affecting the muscles), and scleroderma (affecting the skin and connective tissue).
The case of systemic lupus erythematosus is even more typical since this disease affects the joints, skin, vessels, kidneys, lungs, heart and digestive tract.
The multiple origins of IAM are still poorly defined
The origin of these diseases is multiple since autoimmune diseases are always poly-factorial. Their development seems to require the combination of several factors: genetic, immunological, environmental, hormonal and psychological.
They can be caused by certain medications that disrupt the immune system. They can also be induced by mass vaccinations. Thus, the link between hepatitis B vaccination and the onset of multiple sclerosis has now been proven. Heavy metal poisoning (dental amalgams) can also sometimes be a triggering factor.
MAI: a key factor: nutrition
The main problems with today's diet are the consumption of animal milks and their derivatives, the consumption of domesticated cereals, the cooking of most products, the extraction of oils at high temperatures and the consumption of many hydrogenated fats, the pollution by additives and other substances and the quite frequent deficiencies in minerals and vitamins.
Our current mode of nutrition favors an abnormal permeability of the small intestine and the formation of dangerous food and bacterial waste which, crossing the enlarged meshes of the intestinal mucous membrane, can cause harmful immunological reactions. The mucosa of the small intestine should normally provide an effective filter, both very extensive and very thin. This wall is formed by a single layer of cells, the enterocytes (cells of the intestine), well welded to each other, in the normal subject. Under these conditions, the intestinal barrier allows only amino acids and very few peptides or proteins to pass through.
In order to carry out its function of normal digestion of food, the small intestine has enzymes, in charge of splitting proteins into amino acids, and mucus, in charge of protecting the enterocytes against the aggressive agents present in the intestinal lumen. However, it is quite possible that enzymes and mucus (Seignalet, 1994) are adapted to ancestral nutrition and not to current nutrition. Enzymatic maladjustment would result in digestive insufficiency with an overload of the enterocytes by an excess of peptides, proteins and other nutritional waste.
Therefore, a food or bacterial peptide can cross the intestinal wall and reach the bloodstream. It seems impossible to incriminate a single food peptide in the genesis of all modern food. This phenomenon leads to the dispersion of harmful macromolecules which, once disseminated in the organism, will cause anarchic reactions of the immune system. Depending on the genetic weakness, programmed or not, of the human body, we see the development of autoimmune pathologies. This is seen in autoimmune diseases such as RA, where there is often damage to the intestinal mucosa and increased permeability of the small intestine.
The diet proposed by Dr. Jean Seignalet is an interesting and effective diet for these autoimmune pathologies for which conventional medicine is once again devoid of any treatment and which, as usual, only treats the symptoms and not the original causes. His hypothesis is that man is not programmed to assimilate the modern food completely denatured; he advocates a return to an ancestral type of food.
This diet, which is identical for all autoimmune diseases and strictly followed, generates quite exceptional results that are still unequalled at the present time by any other, and certainly not by the treatments proposed by classical or allopathic medicine.
Again, the dietary advice offered here is entirely up to you.
Conventional therapies and natural alternatives .
The classic treatment proposed is relatively heavy, anti-inflammatory drugs, cortisone and sometimes immunosuppressive drugs which reduce the symptoms, but which have worrying side effects.
However, there are natural and effective alternatives. It was Dr. Nieper, a famous German physician, who first gave hope to the sick by using natural substances he called mineral carriers.
The EAP-Calcium is the most commonly used transporter in autoimmune disease. It is a cellular protector that acts as a shield by protecting cells from immuno-aggressions.
The calcium orotate, used for its remineralizing action, also proves to be a remarkable natural anti-inflammatory very useful in case of inflammatory flare-ups.
The Moducare, natural treatment that is a must for immune disorders.
It is an immunomodulator that allows both to stimulate desirable immunity (the defense of our body) and deficient during repeated infections, AIDS, cancers..., while decreasing undesirable immunity found in allergies or autoimmune diseases.
The Moducare is not a drug: it does not interfere with any metabolic process in the body. Rather, it is a catalyst or messenger that initiates a correction of immune system imbalances or maintains the balance if it is adequate.
Organic Silicon is a cellular rebalancer or reharmonizer. Because of its particular electronic structure, this organic silicon molecule is constantly seeking ionic balance, which allows it to improve the electrical potential of deficient cells. The membrane potential being thus rebalanced, the cell regains its autonomy and the control of its permeability. Thanks to this regained capacity, the cell is able to receive nutrients, reject waste and react to immuno-aggressions.
By its analgesic and anti-inflammatory action, organic silicon will relieve a large number of bone, joint, muscle and tendon pains.
The Probiotics normalize the permeability of the gut. In recent years, the relationship between the gut and the immune system has been clearly demonstrated. The use of probiotics can completely normalize intestinal permeability. Probiotics, based on living bacteria, have the ability to suppress the harmful immunological effects of the absorption of foreign proteins, such as cow's milk.