7 Surprising Causes of Autoimmune Diseases They Never Told You About ~ Dr. Eric Berg

immune diseases is ranked number three after cancer and heart attacks.

Yet there's other reports that show that there's more people with autoimmune disease than both of those combined.

In fact, the top selling drug on the planet is an anti-inflammatory that deals with autoimmune diseases.

So the question is, what the heck is going on? What is causing our own immune system to turn on us and attack our own tissues? That's weird, isn't it? So to answer that question, I think it's not a good question.

I think there's a better question because if you look up the underlying cause of autoimmune diseases, it's going to say unknown.

It could be genetics.

It could be environmental.

We just don't know.

We need to do more research.

But a better question to ask would be this.

What causes an immunodeficiency or an immunosuppressive state in your body? where your immune system is suppressed to the degree that it's non-functional.

So this barrier, this wall, this defense of your immune system somehow is lowered to the point where things can then happen and your body can incorrectly tag the wrong thing and end up with a Let's say, for example, you have to go to court, right? And there's a jury there and maybe there's confusion and they incorrectly label you as guilty.

And now they tag you as an enemy.

And then now you have to suffer all the consequences that go along with that.

Well, with an autoimmune disease, the same thing happens.

Your own tissue is incorrectly labeled, and now your immune system attacks that.

And then you have all this collateral damage that occurs from the inflammation that's caused by your own immune system.

Now, another interesting question that also relates to this.

would be what makes your microbes that are in a dormant state, like for example, Epstein-Barr virus, it goes into this dormant latent stage and then one day it comes out and it ends up attacking us, right? So the question is why? What's the difference between before and now? There's even a condition where your immune system becomes suppressed and friendly bacteria morph into unfriendly bacteria or microbes that are neutral they're kind of uh they're not hurting you or helping you turn on you that's called an opportunistic infection where your immune system is taking advantage of a situation and then the problem medically with these conditions is that they're just managed okay they just manage them with more medication like prednisone and then the side effects just to continue they don't really know what to do with this condition now what you might know about autoimmune disease is that they're triggered by certain chemicals in the environment okay maybe toxins leaky gut okay definitely if you have any type of digestive issues or even thyroid issues i mean certain things like bad eating can create holes in your gut that then cause proteins to leak through your gut so then your immune system incorrectly tags those as foreign proteins and then we have this whole immune reactions now certain drugs can cause autoimmune diseases cortical steroids are a well-known thing that can trigger autoimmune diseases and of course chemotherapy But let's talk about the underlying causes that you might not be aware of, okay? And this is actually quite interesting.