Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Dr. D's Model for Inflammatory/Autoimmune Disease




This is my model to explain inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but I believe that it applies to so many other autoimmune processes, as well. Please note that I have only shown a few scenarios for disease, there are many more combinations in reality. The moving parts here have to do with the following:

  1. How much inflammation are you bathing in?
  2. Are you predisposed, presumably by genetics, to a hyper-sensitive immune response? (Represented by a wide plank, or short axle.)
  3. Do your microbiome, stress levels, diet, medications, and/or environmental exposures tip your scale in one direction?

Coming up: Which medications, herbs, supplements, hormones, etc. affect these individual factors and how to tell which what your unique situation is. 

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