A BRIEFING ON THE ARTHRITIC PROCESS: AUTOIMMUNE FACTORS IN OTHER DISEASES
It is important to note that this very same process occurs with virtually all diseases that have autoimmune factors. It is often the crippling factor in neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, polyneuropathy, and other demyelinating diseases. In these diseases, instead of cartilage it is nerve or brain tissue that is being attacked and destroyed through the autoimmune process.
Chronic inflammatory processes such as those found in fibromyalgia, emphysema, lupus, Crohn’s disease, diverticulitis, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, tendinitis, and many other ailments are also the result of faulty or detrimental autoimmune regulation. Autoimmune factors also play a role in diseases like myasthenia gravis, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, post polio syndrome, Grave’s disease, autism, attention deficit disorder, asthma, allergy, and many others.
It has also been recently discovered that chronic inflammatory processes play a very significant role in many cardiovascular attacks and diseases.
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