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Thank you for your interest in the Natural Medicine approach to treating disease and healthy living! Caring Medical is currently a full time Prolotherapy doctor's office, headed by Ross Hauser, MD and we are blessed to fill the needs of patients seeking an alternative to surgery. We are accepting new patients and athletes suffering from chronic pain, sports injuries, and arthritis for treatment with Prolotherapy. Due to this large demand in Prolotherapy, we are not currently accepting new patients for natural medicine conditions, this includes autoimmune conditions, weight loss, menopause, hormones, or cancer. Through the years, we have seen so many lives turn around for the better with some of the methods discussed on this page, and encourage you to seek a Natural Medicine practitioner at www.acam.org.
The immune system is a complex network of cells and cell components that normally work to defend the body and eliminate infections caused by bacteria, viruses and other invading microbes. Normally, the immune system is capable of differentiating "self" from "non-self" tissue. However, if an individual has an autoimmune disease, the immune system mistakenly turns on the self, targeting the cells, tissues and organs of the individual's own body. Many different autoimmune diseases exist, each affecting the body in different ways. For example, in multiple sclerosis, the autoimmune reaction is directed against the brain, while in Crohn's disease it’s the large intestine. Although many of the individual autoimmune diseases are rare, as a group they afflict millions of Americans. Most autoimmune diseases tend to strike women more often than men, and they particularly affect working-age women as well as women during their childbearing years.
How does an autoimmune disease develop?
Some autoimmune diseases begin or worsen in response to certain triggers such as viral infections. Some factors, such as sunlight, not only acts as a trigger for the autoimmune disease, in this case lupus, but can also worsen the course of the disease. Certain factors, such as “excessive” exposure to sunlight, if avoided, can help prevent or minimize the amount of damage from a given autoimmune disease. Other, less-understood factors influencing the immune system and the course of autoimmune diseases include aging, chronic stress, hormones and pregnancy.
In addition, the genes people inherit contribute to their susceptibility to develop an autoimmune disease. Certain diseases such as psoriasis can occur among several members of the same family. This suggests that a specific gene or set of genes predisposes a family member to psoriasis. In addition, individual family members with autoimmune diseases may inherit and share a set of abnormal genes, although they may develop different autoimmune diseases. Organs and tissues commonly affected by autoimmune disorders include blood components such as red blood cells, blood vessels, connective tissues, endocrine glands such as the thyroid or pancreas, muscles, joints, and skin.
What are the symptoms of an autoimmune disease?
The symptoms of autoimmune disease vary widely depending on the disease and an individual’s immune system, as well as from patient to patient. Inflammation is a common symptom among many of the different diseases. Dizziness, fatigue, malaise and a low-grade fever are among non-specific symptoms associated with collagen vascular–type of autoimmune diseases. A specific autoimmune disease may result in the destruction of an organ or tissue, or the increase in the size of an organ or tissue.
Conventional medical treatments may help relieve the symptoms of an autoimmune disease but they do not address the root of the problem. Generally, by undergoing comprehensive natural medicine testing, the reasons the body is producing antibodies against itself can be found. Some of these reasons include sensitivities or allergies to foods, inhalants and chemicals and various infections.
Discover why we believe that natural medicine treatments are the best way to treat autoimmune diseases.
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