Monthly Archives: September 2018
You form antibodies or lymphocytes that attack your tissues; you destroy yourselves. LUPUS, a family of autoimmune conditions, ravages your body, especially systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Your immune system, which normally works to protect you from illness, mutates into a devouring, cannibalistic animal intent on destroying your body. The potential for this destruction hides in your deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). DNA contains the molecular basis of your heredity and is localized in your cell nuclei. LUPUS can attack any system of…..
GHRELIN is an interesting hormone. According to a recent article in WebMD (July/Aug 2018), this hormone is released from your stomach in large quantities when you lose weight. So, while you’re trying to reduce your weight, you’re releasing a hormone to encourage yourself to eat more so that you’ll gain weight! Not only that, the hormone ghrelin doesn’t level off after this roller-coaster ride. After you have been successful in losing weight, your body does what ever it can to…..
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), according to an article in WebMD (5/2018), isn’t our grandparents’ arthritis. This form of arthritis is based in our autoimmune system. Inflammation is the driving force behind many major disorders and rheumatoid arthritis is only one of them. In a publication by the Arthritis Foundation (Vol.10, Issue 2), RA Today – The theory is that when a person is genetically predisposed to develop RA, and when the inflammation from that disease flares, the increased inflammation is equivalent…..