Autoimmune Disease Archives

Prebiotics, Probiotics, and your Gut Health

The gut microbiota is a complex ecosystem of bacteria that live in your digestive tract. It's essential for your digestion, immune function, and even your mental health. But what if it's out of balance? What can you do about it?

Leaky Gut: What is it and why does it matter?

You may have heard of leaky gut before, but what is it and why does it matter? It sounds scary, but the truth is that you probably already have a leaky gut. We all have some degree of leaky gut, as this barrier is not completely impenetrable (and isn’t supposed to be!).

Health Begins in the Gut: Why Gut Microbes Produce Health or Disease

The health of your gut is the foundation of your overall health. But the opinions on how to restore your gut health are varied, and quite frankly, confusing. It’s time to separate fact from fiction.

Autoimmune Disease: Why Your Conventional Medicine Approach is Not Helping You

If you suffer from an autoimmune disease, have the limitations of conventional medicine become frustrating for you? With a background in Rheumatology, I’ve seen firsthand that conventional medicine often prescribed powerful immune-suppressing medication to autoimmune patients rather than searching for the root causes.

Restoring the Gut: Understanding the 5 Rs to Healing Leaky Gut

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Therapeutic Plasma Exchange 101: Get Answers to Your Questions

Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE) is a truly revolutionary tool for physical healing and longevity. It can be transformative for people who have suffered with serious conditions like autoimmune disease and dementia because it helps to clean your blood and removes certain harmful substances circulating in your plasma.

Autoimmune Disease: A comprehensive approach to get you the help you deserve

Your immune system is indispensable. It acts as your main line of defense, protecting you from harmful bacteria, viruses, and other invaders that would otherwise wreak havoc on your body.

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Therapeutic Plasma Exchange: Hope for dementia: Hope for dementia, Alzheimer’s, memory loss, and autoimmune disease

Autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases are some of the most frustrating and frightening chronic illnesses for patients and their families and they’re both on the rise. The rate of autoimmune disease has skyrocketed in the past two decades and the number of dementia cases more than doubled between 1990 and 2016.

The Five “R”s of Gut Restoration

What happens when your gut doesn’t function properly? Problems with your gut can lead to more than just stomach aches, gas, and bloating. Your gastrointestinal system is a highly complex system involving trillions of living organisms alongside your own human cells.

What is Autoimmunity (really)?

Your immune system is smart. It learns from each challenge it encounters...Until it doesn’t…Autoimmunity occurs when your immune system gets confused and starts reacting to healthy tissue in your body.