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In today’s Western health model, the only real treatment is to give the body an immunosuppressant. What this does is “turn off” your immune system, essentially leaving you open to get sick very easily, along with the potential to develop more autoimmune conditions down the road.
Here are signs of an autoimmune condition in your body.
1. Energy Loss
According to a doctor working with autoimmune patients for the past 12 years, there’s a consistency in the way my patients describe their symptoms:
“I feel like a bus hit me when I wake up.”
“I don’t feel I recover after working out, and sometimes, I feel worse after exercise.”
“I can’t make it through the day without needing naps.”
“Even working around the house (i.e. doing dishes and laundry), my energy is at an all-time low!”
2. Brain Fog
Patients describe brain fog as cloudy thinking, the inability to focus or concentrate, and a lack of clarity. Why does this occur? Because the body is being destroyed and the brain pays the price.
When the body is inflamed (let’s say due to an autoimmune condition), the heart continues pumping the blood, circulating the inflammation. Blood gets carried to the brain as well, meaning the inflamed blood goes to the main organ that keeps our body functioning properly.
Along with the heart pumping “dirty” or inflamed blood, autoimmune conditions cause “bad cells” within the brain to begin attacking healthy neurons. When the healthy neurons are destroyed, the inflammation gets perceived as brain fog. Quite the negative feedback loop.
3. Bouts of Bloating, Gassiness, Constipation, and/or Diarrhea
The gastro-intestinal tract is where 80% of the immune system is located. The symptoms of bloating, gas, constipation and diarrhea are all warning signs that something BAD is happening within your GI-tract.
When the GI-tract gets broken down, this is called Leaky Gut Syndrome/IBS/SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth).
4. Inability to Fall and/or Stay Asleep
Not all sleep disturbances mean a patient has an autoimmune condition. However, the main organs that affect sleep – the adrenal glands – are normally struggling to work properly when there is an autoimmune condition.
5. Unexplained Health Symptoms
Many times, patients describe a laundry list of health symptoms when they contact a doctor. This is always a red flag in my eyes, because the body works in concert, one organ system feeding into another organ system.There is no such thing as just being “diabetic” or having “just a thyroid problem.” When one organ is not functioning, like the thyroid, other organs have been struggling to function as well.
When doctors can’t figure out what is causing XYZ symptoms in a patient, I always necessary to start looking for an autoimmune condition.
6. Healthy symptoms persisting, even on medication
WATCH OUT – because I hear this a lot. If someone is still struggling with their symptoms, even though the doctor has put them on a medication, the diagnosis may have been incorrect to start with.A classic example of this would be a hypothyroid patient that has been put on Synthroid, Armour, or bio-identical medication, but they are still having hair loss, decreased energy, and/or weight gain.
Typically, this is an autoimmune patient who is struggling with Hashimotos disease. 90% of people with hypothyroid disease actually have Hashimoto’s.
7. The Doctors Say Your “Lab Tests Are Normal”
After all of these years helping patients turn their lives around, this is the most common thing I hear. When Western doctors run blood tests, they compare your results to the reference/laboratory range to see if something is high, low, or outside the range. If so, they tell the patient a medication and/or surgery is needed.
Where do those ranges come from? Generally, it is the sick population that gets blood work done, and the doctors are essentially comparing your blood to all these sick people. If your results fall within the bell curve, then things look “normal.”
