Autoimmunity is the general name of the group of diseases in which the body's defense system attacks itself, which occurs when the immune system loses its friend-foe distinction. In this group of diseases, immune cells attacking their tissues and developing tissue damage, clinical pictures occur according to the tissue they attack and are named accordingly. Some examples of target tissues and examples of resulting diseases are shown below:
| AIMTARGET | DISEASE |
| Thyroid Tissue | Hashimoto (Goiter) |
| Skin Texture | Psoriasis, Rose Disease, |
| Liver Tissue | autoimmune hepatitis |
| Joint Tissue | Rheumatoid Arthritis (Joint Rheumatism) |
| Brain Tissue | MS ( Multiple Sclerosis ) |
| Eye Tissue | Optic Neuritis (Blinding optic nerve inflammation) |
| Kidney Tissue | Nephritic and Nephrotic Syndromes |
| Bowel Tissue | Crohn's, Ulcerative colitis |
We can call autoimmunity the plague of the 21st century.
Our world has been developing in recent years and our chronic diseases have been increasing rapidly and technological developments. One of these diseases is autoimmune diseases. This is the point of view of the classical medicine approach to these diseases. Since autoimmunity is how the immune system goes astray and attacks itself, the disease picture will regress if we weaken the immune system and render it inoperable. Patients have been treated with this method for years. This approach is not to eliminate and cure the causes of autoimmune diseases, but to keep the immunity under medication and a state of well-being that continues as long as you take medicine. The treatment process continues for years and sometimes for life. Most of the time, when the drug is stopped, it causes the complaints to increase with more severe symptoms than before the treatment. In other words, one lives a drug-dependent life with a temporary state of well-being. So, are these drugs innocent drugs? Unfortunately not, because thousands of perfectly functioning bacteria like the immune system, rendering a force capable of fighting viruses and fungi inoperable would significantly cost our health.
Functions of the immune system
- To distinguish between friend and foe and fight against germs that are enemies
- Tissue and cell regeneration with stem cells and the cytokines they synthesize
- Capture and kill cancer cells
As can be seen, as a result of the suppression of the above functions of immunity by the treatments given with a simple logic,
- Increased frequency of autoimmune diseases and severe infections
- Inability to regenerate tissues and cells and premature aging at the cellular level, impaired wound healing
- Increase in cancer cases
These are the most well-known side effects of suppressive therapies.
