In my two decades of working with autoimmune patients, I have observed one factor that is the most overlooked and yet has the biggest impact. You may expect it to be one of the following: A food A supplement A diet However, it’s not any specific treatment. So what is it? It’s your social environment.…
One of the more common approaches to autoimmunity in the alternative health world is heavy metal chelation, a process that pulls metals and other chemicals out of the body. But did you know that under the wrong circumstances — which are actually fairly common — this can make patients significantly and permanently worse? Heavy metal…
In the 20 years I’ve been working with autoimmune patients, three things have always stood out that separates them from other patients: No autoimmune diagnosis. Despite seeing numerous doctors and healthcare practitioners, they have not been diagnosed with autoimmunity. Without this step, treatment plans rarely succeed. One of my patients had been to 125 different…
With the media focus on cancer and heart disease, most people don’t know we are living in the midst of an autoimmune epidemic. Some shocking stats: The American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) estimates up to 50 million Americans have an autoimmune disease (AD). In comparison, cancer affects up to 9 million and heart disease…