Autoimmune Disease, Is There a NEW Breakthrough?

To order Products please go to: http://www.PurchaseMaxGXL.com To Join Max International and become an Associate, Please go to:http://www.SignUpToMaxInternational.com Flora Bialo, (818) 222-8714 - http://www.vipsearch.us Your body's immune system protects you from disease and infection. But if you have an autoimmune disease, your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body by mistake. Autoimmune diseases can affect many parts of the body. These diseases tend to run in families. Women - particularly African-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American women - have a higher risk for some autoimmune diseases. There are more than 80 types of autoimmune diseases, and some have similar symptoms. This makes it hard for your health care provider to know if you really have one of these diseases, and if so, which one. Getting diagnosed can be frustrating and stressful. In many people, the first symptoms are being tired, muscle aches and low fever. The diseases may also have flare-ups, when they get worse, and remissions, when they all but disappear. The diseases do not usually go away, but symptoms can be treated. What is the immune system? The immune system is the body's means of protection against microorganisms and other "foreign" substances. It is composed of two major parts. One component, B lymphoncytes, produces antibodies, proteins that attack "foreign" substances and cause them to be removed from the body; this is sometimes called the humoral immune system. The other component consists of special white blood cells called T lymphocytes, which can attack "foreign" substances directly; this is sometimes called the cellular immune system. It takes time for both components of the immune system to develop. The only protections a newborn will have are the antibodies that have transferred from the mother to the baby before birth. T lymphocytes become protective, and antibodies are developed after a person is exposed to specific "foreign" threats. Over a lifetime, the immune system develops an extensive library of identified substances and microorganisms that are cataloged as threat or not threat. Vaccinations utilize this process to add to the library. They expose a persons immune system to weakened or inactivated forms of bacteria and viruses that can no longer cause disease, so that the persons immune system will recognize them and create antibodies that will be ready to protect against the infectious forms of these microorganisms if the person comes in contact with them in the future. Normally, the immune system can distinguish between self and not self and only attacks those tissues that it recognizes as not self. This is usually the desired response, but not always. When a person is given an organ transplant, the immune system will correctly recognize the new organ as not self (unless it is from an identical twin) and will attack it in a process called rejection. To prevent rejection, the transplant patient must take drugs that reduce the activity of the immune system (immunosuppressants) for the rest of his life. What are autoimmune disorders? Autoimmune disorders are diseases caused by the body producing an inappropriate immune response against its own tissues. Sometimes the immune system will cease to recognize one or more of the bodys normal constituents as self and will create autoantibodies antibodies that attack its own cells, tissues, and/or organs. This causes inflammation and damage and it leads to autoimmune disorders. The cause of autoimmune diseases is unknown, but it appears that there is an inherited predisposition to develop autoimmune disease in many cases. In a few types of autoimmune disease (such as rheumatic fever), a bacteria or virus triggers an immune response,