Cause of autoimmune diseases

[CherryAA]

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568997215000245?via=ihub

An interesting paper that examines the correlation between the industrial diet and growth in autoimmune conditions and describing the mechanism of how they interplay.

"Epidemiological data provide strong evidence of a steady rise in AD throughout westernized societies over the last three decades [2]. Multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel diseases (mainly Crohn's disease), systemic lupus erythematosus, primary biliary cirrhosis, myasthenia gravis, autoimmune thyroiditis, hepatitis and rheumatic diseases, bullous pemphigoid, and celiac disease"

"The recent increased knowledge on the functions, mechanisms and abnormalities of intestinal permeability and the specific relationship between some common food additives and their deleterious effects on the tight-junction, prompted us to review these observations and put forward the hypothesis that increased intestinal permeability induced by the industrial food additives explains the observed surge in autoimmune disease."

"In the 20th century, global wheat output expanded by about 5-fold, whereby until about 1955 most of this reflected increases in wheat crop area, with limited (about 20%) increases in crop yields per unit area. Since 1955 however, there has been a dramatic ten-fold increase in the rate of wheat yield improvement per year, and this has become the major factor associated with increases in global wheat production"

 

[DavidGrahamJones]

An interesting paper that examines the correlation between the industrial diet and growth in autoimmune conditions and describing the mechanism of how they interplay.

Can we call you doctor, LOL

I'm happy doing the research but my brain closes down once it gets from the read to trying to understand.

 

[CherryAA]

Can we call you doctor, LOL

I'm happy doing the research but my brain closes down once it gets from the read to trying to understand.

LOL

Well the ultra simplified message is - various processed food additives are crossing various internal body barriers that they should not do - when they do , eventually it manifests in all sorts of intolerances and contributes to the rise in everything in sight .

In the end I think it simply means that no matter what the illness T1 , T2 or anything else - part of the solution is moving to real foods properly cooked at home without industrial additives and preferably excluding anything from highly modified new strains of wheat which have been bred in the last 20 years. .

The human body is a remarkable machine and it will do its best to try and help you recover from that damage if you stop damaging it. For some diseases that may not be enough - e.g T1, for others it may be. For most of us it took years for our bodies finally to be unable to help us overcome the poison we were putting in.
As such it will probably take years for the opposite to happen if we stop doing it. In fact the speed of improvement of T2 is simply astounding when looked at in that light.

For everyone getting rid of anything in the industrial food chain can only be positive.

 

[badcat]

Many moons ago before myy diagnosis as diabetic, I was diagnosed with multiple food intolerances
At the time, there was much in alternative health literature linking both forms of diabetes with food intolerance issues with the intolerances being a precursor to diabetes
I thought nomore about it until some 15 years later when I was diagnosed with diabetes and mentioned what Id read to the diabetes docs who basically told me it was American rubbish.
Call me old fashioned but Im agreat believer in the old position of " if it looks like duck and sounds like a duck, then its probably a duck"

 

[DavidGrahamJones]

part of the solution is moving to real foods properly cooked at home without industrial additives and preferably excluding anything from highly modified new strains of wheat

By coincidence, possibly, I've gone a long way towards that. My diet is very simple, lots of vegetables, some meat or chicken or fish. I'm trying an experiment with some sunflower and pumpkin seeds bread mix. I'm no expert at cooking bread but at a guess I need to mix it better to get more air into it and also a better container for baking, perhaps a proper bread tin. It's expensive, but just experimenting, see what my BG does.

 

[ickihun]

By coincidence, possibly, I've gone a long way towards that. My diet is very simple, lots of vegetables, some meat or chicken or fish. I'm trying an experiment with some sunflower and pumpkin seeds bread mix. I'm no expert at cooking bread but at a guess I need to mix it better to get more air into it and also a better container for baking, perhaps a proper bread tin. It's expensive, but just experimenting, see what my BG does.

Ive removed veg and supplement instead. My underactive thyroid reacts better on it.