An autoimmune disease is a condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissue causing damage. Having a leaky gut may make you prone to having an autoimmune disease. Without going into too much detail, I will try to explain the above statement in bold.
Okay, our immune system has within it a multilayer subsystem with a series of checks and balances built in to prevent self-attack. This process eliminates auto-reactive immune cells (immune cells that attack the body’s own tissue). Immunologists call this subsystem “Tolerance”. Unfortunately this system like any other system in our body is not perfect.
So, at any given time an unknown amount of auto-reactive immune cells (a.k.a. self-reactive cells), can slip through the checkpoints of Tolerance and end up floating around our body via the bloodstream. The programming of these self-reactive cells floating around our body is flawed. Without a well-designed seek and neutralize plan to follow – self-reactive cells will attack any foreign substance and provoke a misguided immune response.
Properly programmed immune cells are designed to identify one particular type of foreign substance and attack it. Our immune system sees all foreign substances as antigens. Part of and located on the surface of an antigen are epitopes, also known as antigenic determinants.
These antigenic determinants allow our properly programmed immune cells to recognize friend from foe. If identified to be an antigen, our immune cells will bind with it. In order to provoke an immune response our immune cells must bind with the antigen.
Now, if the self-reactive cells bind with the epitopes on the foreign substance (antigen), before the correctly programmed immune cells does. And the antigen happens to carry epitopes (antigenic determinants), that closely resemble those on the cells of an organ in our body. Then, our self-reactive cells will provoke a misguided immune response that will stimulate the production of immune cells to attack that particular organ.
A Situation immunologists call “molecular mimicry” which may trigger a new autoimmune disease. The good news! Self-reactive cells have a short life span, less than 12 hours.
At this point you’re probably asking yourself. How can unintentional faults on the part of my immune system have anything to do with a leaky gut? Well, directly it doesn’t but indirectly it may.
Normally, the spaces between the cells that line our intestines are sealed tight. But when you have a leaky gut, the lining of your small intestine is inflamed and that tight junction between cells begins to loosen. The damage can be enough to allow large foreign substances (antigens) to pass between cells and into our bloodstream.
What happens when a leaky gut is allowed to continue unchecked (unintentionally or stubbornly) for yet an unknown number of years? Answer – antigens and self-reactive cells, like partners in crime, will eventually link up. So, it shouldn’t be hard to see, the indirect role a leaky gut plays in making you prone to having an autoimmune disease.
Self-Renewal
As for a cure, consider stem cell therapy as a treatment. Stem cell therapy may stop immune cells from attacking the body permanently by performing a complete — immune system reset. A process scientifically referred to as inducing immune tolerance.
Instead of just suppressing your immune system like traditional drugs (chemotherapy). Certain stem cell treatments eliminate the rogue, self-destructive immune cells entirely and train the newly grown immune system to recognize the body’s own tissues as safe. To fix an autoimmune disorder permanently, doctors must first remove the old one.
Patients undergo a conditioning phase using chemotherapy. This step selectively deletes the mature, autoreactive T cells that are responsible for the autoimmune attack. That said, I will never advocate for the use of chemotherapy.
IMO, that’s the LSI procedure for applying a scorched-earth cure to the body, metaphorically speaking. Chemotherapy only makes you a cash cow for the LSI because it is not designed to help heal the body. There are other options worth exploring.
However, once the faulty immune system is cleared via your chosen method, harvested hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) are then injected into the body. These stem cells migrate to the bone marrow and begin generating completely new immune cells. As these new T cells mature in the thymus gland, they will and must undergo a rigorous screening process called central tolerance by your body.
The risk of infection is high during the reset phase, but will slowly normalize as your immune response goes back to its calm, resting state. Based on the type of autoimmune disorder and how quickly a person’s body responds to the treatment, it can take 1 to 2 years for your new immune system to fully mature. During the reset phase, it is important that you safely support your body daily.
This means: getting 9–10 hours of sleep/rest daily, staying well hydrated, eating nutrient-dense organic foods, only doing light exercise like walking, a casual stroll is enough, avoiding crowded places and, last but not least, avoiding sick and stressful people/situations as best you can.