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Holly Carling
From a Western Medical perspective, an autoimmune disease is a condition in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s own cells, tissues and organs. Instead of focusing on harmful substances such as bacteria and viruses, it appears to get confused between healthy cells and harmful invaders, leading it to attack normal cells. Treatment involves suppressing this crazy, aberrant immune system, in order to control the behavior that appears to be defiant.
But what if this is a misconception? Our body is intelligent. When we injure ourselves, we don’t have to direct the body in how to heal it. It just does it without guidance from us. Inflammation, although uncomfortable and which can get out of control, is fundamentally a good thing. It is part of the healing process. A fever, although also uncomfortable, is a good thing as the body is attempting to battle an infection. Fortunately, we have ways to support the body if the infection or damage is getting to a dangerous level. But support is the key — not beating it into submission.
Mark Anderson, a respected researcher and teacher says “It’s not that there are so many auto-immune diseases — it’s that so many diseases reach the auto-immune phase.” Herein lies the heart of auto-immunity. When the immune system has become exhausted to the point of not being able to control the barrage of insults to it, continually over time, it has to drive itself into an emergency mode. We call it an auto-immune disease.
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