All makes sense, although we do now have to question even our most basic understanding of cells. I am still reading it, but will recommend Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life by Gerald H Pollack
Where's the discussion of B and T cell MHC receptors creation where autoantibodies are selected against but certainly created in the process. You dont think something could go wrong, leak out and propogate? Framing autoimmune as fake without discussing the above sounds like a grift. I'm all for finding treatments though.
I see now he actually fully denied that random mutations can take place. The main point is mostly semantics and this guy has no idea about the mechanisms. He's speculating and passing it off as certain in all cases
That said, I'm all for lifestyle intervention. And the hypothesis that environmental factors trigger autoimmune seems very plausible for a lot of cases. I could just do without the hyperbole and certainty.
I can respect pointing out why the old system and way of dealing with "autoimmune" has been ineffective or even worse. I look forward to better causal understanding of these conditions
About 30 years ago out of the blue I have rosacea on my face. I go to the doctor and he has no clue, but prescribes an antibiotic cream. Within days it’s worse so I go back to the GP. He refers me to a dermatologist and as soon as he sees me he says “rosacea” and when I tell him I used antibiotic cream, he says that’s the absolute worst thing to do. He prescribes tacrolimus ointment, which he says he created. Tacrolimus is an organ transplant rejection medication, so he had the pharmacist grind up the pills and put them in an ointment. Within a week the rosacea was gone, and it has never returned. It seems modern medicine doesn’t care what the cause is as long as there is a treatment. It also seems “autoimmune” is a good tag to put on a disease when the real cause isn’t determined.
My autoimmune disease (IgE >3000) was finally diagnosed by a Dr in India as Strongyloids - a parasite. Treatment took a year - but after two days felt 90% better than I had in decades. Off all Xolair injections and most allergy/asthma meds. Occasionally have to treat for a couple of days if symptoms return. Meds will not eliminate eggs.
My daughter was diagnosed with juvenile dermatosisis and told it was fatal illness. Prescribed methotrexate and then prednisone. We accepted this diagnosis and treatment...
“The labels are Gospel, and the molecular wizardry used to justify the label is sufficiently esoteric that they cannot penetrate and see behind the curtain.”
As a herbalist I concur that strengthening the body to be a fundamental approach to healing. Luckily herbs are very effective that way and have been able to dismiss multiple aspects of prescription fixes. And although reductional science can teach us a lot it still pales in comparison when we are working with very complex systems.
Right now I’m fascinated with the effect that zombie cells or incomplete death in cell cycles and how it effects health as well as zeta potential in fluid systems.
I have long been fascinated by the idea of "autoantibodies" as fixed molecules.
My understanding is that the tests for specific antibodies actually detect nothing more than "whether there is something that will bind to a particular human antigen in vitro."
If the binding occurs, "Antibody X" is pronounced positive, and the degree of binding may be quantified.
But what if "Antibody X" would ALSO bind to a non-self-antigen, if tested? What if it's there because the body was originaly trying to "attack" something else? This is the idea behind molecular mimicry, yes, but I think it's under-theorized and its implications are under-explained. The point is that although the reaction occurs, there is no ONE thing that the term "Antibody X" is describing. If my antibodies were compared to another T1D patient's, they may be molecularly different. They may attach to their "target" cells in different ways because of these structural differences. They may have been triggered initially by a different exposure under different circumstances, leading to a different level and type of harm. The test is positive for a reaction, rather than for a discrete and universally identical entity.
I am still searching for a "fix" for my body attacking my own vascular endothelium (small vessel vasculitis) 45 years on.
Here I sit with another "flare". The worst part is the symptoms similar to CHF.
Other "autoimmune" troubles have resolved in the past (asthma, endometriosis, etc) but this most debilitating of all of them just keeps coming back. I now have permanent cognitive issues and CFS symptoms.
I have no clue what triggers it.
Only local and organic unprocessed food, raw local dairy. Some fermented and raw supplements. I don't eat out. Have only red light in the house after sundown, high dose melatonin and 7-10 hours of sleep. Walk two to four times a day. Minimalist electronics (just a cheap smartphone, no wifi). Filtered well water and the Milky Way out here in rural Florida.
Vasculitis is one of those topics I almost never see discussed.
Hi Amye, I don't know anything about small vessel vasculitis however I was drawn to reply to you based on you said symptoms similar to CHF. I have had amazing results using two protocols. I don't do doctors at all, but I do have a nursing background. Both I found lots of info online and in a book. I use high dose Vit B1 according to EO Nutrition on YouTube. Extremely helpful for reducing my symptoms. Now I combine that with Root Cause Protocol (Morley Robbins) and I'm getting better everyday. Neither are expensive to implement. I don't know if this will help you but you never know. God bless you, Diana
Don't really know where to place this--but several people were interested in my get-off-Levothyroxine story, so want to offer this news. Monday I had a tele appointmentt with a thyroid specialist (M.D.) to discuss the results of the blood test which I had mailed into Paloma Health (the on-line thyroid practice which I had discovered in Feb. '24) The results of the test were available to me a week ago today: all five were in the "normal" range. Monday's appointment, therefore, was a bit of pro forma (but a delight)--at which she dismissed me as a patient. We had a long very pleasant chat about my "life-style"[hate that phrase]; that possibly back at time of Hashimoto diagnosis, I was short on zinc or selenium.
your argument is very anecdotal - "I hear stories like this all the time..." As a reader who hasn't heard stories of people with "autoimmune" disorders curing themselves with lifestyle changes. I'm also not sure how the label of "autoimmune" is inconsistent with your point that we don't know why the organ is damaged. You aren't offering an alternative here for why someone develops an "autoimmune" condition just that we shouldn't call it that because by doing so we are playing into "industry" hands of perpetual medicine and return customers. There's a lot of heavy lifting being done by this idea that "industry" is not interested in curing disease, which may be true, but really isn't relevant to the efforts by medical professionals to discover why people suffer these conditions.
Not knowing why something happened is captured by the term idiopathic.
Autoimmune has a more clear causal inference, and it is in many cases incorrect.
You can look at this at population level data or with individual cases. Individual cases are always anecdotal, but it doesn't mean they are invalid.
From population level, you can see that many "autoimmune" diseases, which is supposed to be inherent physiologic confusion, relate very closely to latitude & sun exposure as one example.
Further, the article also exposes the fundamentally broken assumption of using autoantibodies and inflammation as an indicator of autoimmunity.
These are some of the reasons why the label "autoimmune" is inconsistent with the natural history of most cases of autoimmunity.
If you still like the term, idea, and mainstream approach to unsuccessfully treating (and worsening rates of) autoimmune disease...then feel free to continue utilizing it.
I am very clearly offering an alternative of why people develop autoimmune diseases. In the vast majority of cases it is obviously environmental. The critical point is that many people will ignore elements of the environment which are toxic, out of ignorance or incompetence or diagnostic inertia.
Whether you (or any person) likes or agrees with my argument is as meaningless to me as it would be to anyone trying to synthesize a new interpretation of known data.
Simply read " chronic diseases associated with malassezia yeast" for a better insight. Then read " cancer and malassezia " if that wets your appetite read pancreatic cancer and malassezia Aykut et al. This dimorphic lipid feeding yeast was not thought to live within us until very recently although well known as the cause of tinea versicolour, sebborheic dermatitis and dandruff, psoriasis and other skin diseases. That is the reason ivermectin, fenbendazole and cannabis oil are so efficacious in the alternative cancer realm, they are extremely antifungal and unbeknown to everyone all kill fungal organisms and intestinal worms the same way as microtubule disruptors unlike most other antifungals that work by interfering with the ergosterol component of the cell wall of fungi, and all three are suitable for long term use which isn't the case with many antifungals. Curcumin, soursop and wormwood work the same way, there may be others that I haven't got to as I haven't been looking lately. The chance of that finding being coincidence is zero.
refuting the idea that autoantibodies as the definitive test of autoimmune seems like a good argument but you are only offering your interpretation of diagnosis with little charity to an opposing view - strong argument but could be a straw man. Also you aren't offering an alternative. You say it's "environemental" which seems awfully similar in broadness to the "autoimmune" label. The study you link to about gestational diabetes points to the autoantibodies being a strong indicator for T1D development! Glossed over that in your summary to attempt to point to your point of view (again not charitable to opposing view)
Update on my Dec. 6, '24 comment regarding weaning self off levothyroxine, from Dec. 29, 2023 to Dec. 20, 2024. This morning I had the telemedicine appointment with thyroid specialist at Paloma Health. My blood test results had come back last week: all normal. Specialist, M.D. with interest in nutritiion (reason why I chose that doctor) said no follow-up needed. So, citizen science, N=1, worked out.
I’m not quite sure what you are asking—would be happy to respond if you can clarify (and I have two other nice tidbits to offer you following from your sunburn post last summer/early fall).
I apologize for delaying my response to you. Rate of change, would be my answer. Once I had decided to take courage in hand, and to actually do this, at the end of December, ‘23, I sat down with calculator and very sharp knife. Figured out how to arrange 90% of a week’s total, and cut tablets to that amount, such that I was getting, daily, 90% of the original 137 mcg. Did that for a full two months, during which I discovered Paloma Health (the on-line practice of thyroid specialists). Which discovery made me realize that a) after taking their little quiz, I had none of the symptoms of thyroid disease, and b) I didn’t have to wait 9 weeks. So I cut the time to 8 weeks, then later, in June, to 6 weeks—dropping another 10% each time. By fall I thought to make 5% changes every 3 weeks. Through it all I paid very close attention to my “state of being”. About 30 years ago, I had wondered “Do I really need this stuff?” and went cold turkey, in July. Bad idea. Very bad idea. But I knew no better. By Christmas there were yellow bags beneath my eyes; I rose as usual at 6:30, got breakfast and lunches for children, kissed them good-bye, and by 8:30 I was on my bed, having to spend the whole day there. Didn’t then know about “slow and steady” when tapering off a drug. So I had an idea of what to expect if my experiment were going the wrong way. However, I only observed positive changes. I am now, today, 11 weeks and two days from my 75th birthday, and I confess to having energy and strength that I haven’t had since about 30-35 years ago (oddly enough, that pretty much corresponds with the time of being prescribed levothyroxine….). In the last 3 months, almost daily, I’ve been hauling logs , innoculating logs (I’m setting up my own little mushroom farm), hauling cartloads of woodchips, broadforking nearly 5000 square feet of ground.
And while I’m here, talking to you, I wanted to offer another tidbit. You wrote last summer about sunscreen, and how you used to burn badly. The complete essay was pay-walled—and wanting to read it is what turned me into a paid subscriber. My husband, in his teens and twenties, was so fair that he had white skin with very red cheeks (a source of embarrassment to him at the time). And he burned terribly easily, terribly badly—on one beach day, his toes were so burned that he couldn’t put on his sneakers. I, suffered much less—but my shoulders were always subject to sunburn. We both grew up with margarine as the only fat. In our first 15 married years, we went through a pound of margarine per week—two sticks for the weekly cookies, some in my bread, the rest on bread/toast. At sometime, probably in the late 90’s, the price of butter had dropped to an affordable level; and I never went back to margarine. And my husband no longer gets sunburn, although he does wear a hat when mowing, because there’s no natural cover on his head any longer! We both don’t use sunscreen at all; I’m outdoors a lot, and I don’t burn. All our food is prepared by me; most of our plant food comes from my garden. My bread contains, with rare exceptions, only 4 ingredients. My cooking fats, in order of use frequency, are EVOO, butter, beef fat, lard, with a rare use of coconut oil.
Interesting about sunburn. I burnt as a kid (margarine, corn oil), and young adult. We've stopped both since...decades now. Burning was less of an issue. But it was when I started with Lugol's iodine and magnesium that I noticed I almost never burned.
Thank you. So refreshing to hear your story, since I also cured my UC in my 20s with lifestyle and dietary modifications. Have been told for years by the medical community that was impossible to cure and I still must have UC, but it is in ‘remission’. But, there is no evidence of ‘dis-ease’, so I never listened to them. Now it has been 30 years without re-occurrence.
Critical care doctor here. Docs will only abandon a paradigm when a better paradigm is offered and proven in their terms. Even so, it might take a generation because, as Kuhn postulated, paradigm changes are more about succession than about personal convincing.
I think the non-allopathic doctors should work harder on establishing consistent, convincing disease models. I see lot of cure claims, in which I trust, but some laziness when it comes to biological plausibility. They usually take the easier (and profitable) path of playing the “anti-system” hero.
I am an enthusiastic advocate for selective lifestyle changes to heal or maintain health. Preventive medicine has nothing to do with taking medications and lab tests.
However, if you come to ICU with a life-threatening flare of an autoimmune disease I will give a large methylprednisolone dose.
God luck in your quest.
If you interest in biological plausibility please visit
All makes sense, although we do now have to question even our most basic understanding of cells. I am still reading it, but will recommend Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life by Gerald H Pollack
that’s a great book
Where's the discussion of B and T cell MHC receptors creation where autoantibodies are selected against but certainly created in the process. You dont think something could go wrong, leak out and propogate? Framing autoimmune as fake without discussing the above sounds like a grift. I'm all for finding treatments though.
I've written about B/T/MHC in past articles.
But, do elaborate your point.
I see now he actually fully denied that random mutations can take place. The main point is mostly semantics and this guy has no idea about the mechanisms. He's speculating and passing it off as certain in all cases
That said, I'm all for lifestyle intervention. And the hypothesis that environmental factors trigger autoimmune seems very plausible for a lot of cases. I could just do without the hyperbole and certainty.
You seem to have a reading comprehension problem.
This can lead to much autoimmune disease.
I can respect pointing out why the old system and way of dealing with "autoimmune" has been ineffective or even worse. I look forward to better causal understanding of these conditions
About 30 years ago out of the blue I have rosacea on my face. I go to the doctor and he has no clue, but prescribes an antibiotic cream. Within days it’s worse so I go back to the GP. He refers me to a dermatologist and as soon as he sees me he says “rosacea” and when I tell him I used antibiotic cream, he says that’s the absolute worst thing to do. He prescribes tacrolimus ointment, which he says he created. Tacrolimus is an organ transplant rejection medication, so he had the pharmacist grind up the pills and put them in an ointment. Within a week the rosacea was gone, and it has never returned. It seems modern medicine doesn’t care what the cause is as long as there is a treatment. It also seems “autoimmune” is a good tag to put on a disease when the real cause isn’t determined.
My autoimmune disease (IgE >3000) was finally diagnosed by a Dr in India as Strongyloids - a parasite. Treatment took a year - but after two days felt 90% better than I had in decades. Off all Xolair injections and most allergy/asthma meds. Occasionally have to treat for a couple of days if symptoms return. Meds will not eliminate eggs.
My daughter was diagnosed with juvenile dermatosisis and told it was fatal illness. Prescribed methotrexate and then prednisone. We accepted this diagnosis and treatment...
“The labels are Gospel, and the molecular wizardry used to justify the label is sufficiently esoteric that they cannot penetrate and see behind the curtain.”
Beautifully stated!
As a herbalist I concur that strengthening the body to be a fundamental approach to healing. Luckily herbs are very effective that way and have been able to dismiss multiple aspects of prescription fixes. And although reductional science can teach us a lot it still pales in comparison when we are working with very complex systems.
Right now I’m fascinated with the effect that zombie cells or incomplete death in cell cycles and how it effects health as well as zeta potential in fluid systems.
Pharma is a poison that may have a beneficial side effect.
I have long been fascinated by the idea of "autoantibodies" as fixed molecules.
My understanding is that the tests for specific antibodies actually detect nothing more than "whether there is something that will bind to a particular human antigen in vitro."
If the binding occurs, "Antibody X" is pronounced positive, and the degree of binding may be quantified.
But what if "Antibody X" would ALSO bind to a non-self-antigen, if tested? What if it's there because the body was originaly trying to "attack" something else? This is the idea behind molecular mimicry, yes, but I think it's under-theorized and its implications are under-explained. The point is that although the reaction occurs, there is no ONE thing that the term "Antibody X" is describing. If my antibodies were compared to another T1D patient's, they may be molecularly different. They may attach to their "target" cells in different ways because of these structural differences. They may have been triggered initially by a different exposure under different circumstances, leading to a different level and type of harm. The test is positive for a reaction, rather than for a discrete and universally identical entity.
I am still searching for a "fix" for my body attacking my own vascular endothelium (small vessel vasculitis) 45 years on.
Here I sit with another "flare". The worst part is the symptoms similar to CHF.
Other "autoimmune" troubles have resolved in the past (asthma, endometriosis, etc) but this most debilitating of all of them just keeps coming back. I now have permanent cognitive issues and CFS symptoms.
I have no clue what triggers it.
Only local and organic unprocessed food, raw local dairy. Some fermented and raw supplements. I don't eat out. Have only red light in the house after sundown, high dose melatonin and 7-10 hours of sleep. Walk two to four times a day. Minimalist electronics (just a cheap smartphone, no wifi). Filtered well water and the Milky Way out here in rural Florida.
Vasculitis is one of those topics I almost never see discussed.
Hi Amye, I don't know anything about small vessel vasculitis however I was drawn to reply to you based on you said symptoms similar to CHF. I have had amazing results using two protocols. I don't do doctors at all, but I do have a nursing background. Both I found lots of info online and in a book. I use high dose Vit B1 according to EO Nutrition on YouTube. Extremely helpful for reducing my symptoms. Now I combine that with Root Cause Protocol (Morley Robbins) and I'm getting better everyday. Neither are expensive to implement. I don't know if this will help you but you never know. God bless you, Diana
Sorry to hear that, Amye.
Vasculitis is a complex spectrum of disease.
What have you found gives you the most relief from the flare, or the longest time between flares?
Don't really know where to place this--but several people were interested in my get-off-Levothyroxine story, so want to offer this news. Monday I had a tele appointmentt with a thyroid specialist (M.D.) to discuss the results of the blood test which I had mailed into Paloma Health (the on-line thyroid practice which I had discovered in Feb. '24) The results of the test were available to me a week ago today: all five were in the "normal" range. Monday's appointment, therefore, was a bit of pro forma (but a delight)--at which she dismissed me as a patient. We had a long very pleasant chat about my "life-style"[hate that phrase]; that possibly back at time of Hashimoto diagnosis, I was short on zinc or selenium.
your argument is very anecdotal - "I hear stories like this all the time..." As a reader who hasn't heard stories of people with "autoimmune" disorders curing themselves with lifestyle changes. I'm also not sure how the label of "autoimmune" is inconsistent with your point that we don't know why the organ is damaged. You aren't offering an alternative here for why someone develops an "autoimmune" condition just that we shouldn't call it that because by doing so we are playing into "industry" hands of perpetual medicine and return customers. There's a lot of heavy lifting being done by this idea that "industry" is not interested in curing disease, which may be true, but really isn't relevant to the efforts by medical professionals to discover why people suffer these conditions.
Not knowing why something happened is captured by the term idiopathic.
Autoimmune has a more clear causal inference, and it is in many cases incorrect.
You can look at this at population level data or with individual cases. Individual cases are always anecdotal, but it doesn't mean they are invalid.
From population level, you can see that many "autoimmune" diseases, which is supposed to be inherent physiologic confusion, relate very closely to latitude & sun exposure as one example.
Further, the article also exposes the fundamentally broken assumption of using autoantibodies and inflammation as an indicator of autoimmunity.
These are some of the reasons why the label "autoimmune" is inconsistent with the natural history of most cases of autoimmunity.
If you still like the term, idea, and mainstream approach to unsuccessfully treating (and worsening rates of) autoimmune disease...then feel free to continue utilizing it.
I am very clearly offering an alternative of why people develop autoimmune diseases. In the vast majority of cases it is obviously environmental. The critical point is that many people will ignore elements of the environment which are toxic, out of ignorance or incompetence or diagnostic inertia.
Whether you (or any person) likes or agrees with my argument is as meaningless to me as it would be to anyone trying to synthesize a new interpretation of known data.
Simply read " chronic diseases associated with malassezia yeast" for a better insight. Then read " cancer and malassezia " if that wets your appetite read pancreatic cancer and malassezia Aykut et al. This dimorphic lipid feeding yeast was not thought to live within us until very recently although well known as the cause of tinea versicolour, sebborheic dermatitis and dandruff, psoriasis and other skin diseases. That is the reason ivermectin, fenbendazole and cannabis oil are so efficacious in the alternative cancer realm, they are extremely antifungal and unbeknown to everyone all kill fungal organisms and intestinal worms the same way as microtubule disruptors unlike most other antifungals that work by interfering with the ergosterol component of the cell wall of fungi, and all three are suitable for long term use which isn't the case with many antifungals. Curcumin, soursop and wormwood work the same way, there may be others that I haven't got to as I haven't been looking lately. The chance of that finding being coincidence is zero.
refuting the idea that autoantibodies as the definitive test of autoimmune seems like a good argument but you are only offering your interpretation of diagnosis with little charity to an opposing view - strong argument but could be a straw man. Also you aren't offering an alternative. You say it's "environemental" which seems awfully similar in broadness to the "autoimmune" label. The study you link to about gestational diabetes points to the autoantibodies being a strong indicator for T1D development! Glossed over that in your summary to attempt to point to your point of view (again not charitable to opposing view)
Update on my Dec. 6, '24 comment regarding weaning self off levothyroxine, from Dec. 29, 2023 to Dec. 20, 2024. This morning I had the telemedicine appointment with thyroid specialist at Paloma Health. My blood test results had come back last week: all normal. Specialist, M.D. with interest in nutritiion (reason why I chose that doctor) said no follow-up needed. So, citizen science, N=1, worked out.
Wonderful to hear.
What do you think was most effective for you?
I’m not quite sure what you are asking—would be happy to respond if you can clarify (and I have two other nice tidbits to offer you following from your sunburn post last summer/early fall).
What do you believe was most effective in helping you come off of the levo without compromising thyroid function?
I apologize for delaying my response to you. Rate of change, would be my answer. Once I had decided to take courage in hand, and to actually do this, at the end of December, ‘23, I sat down with calculator and very sharp knife. Figured out how to arrange 90% of a week’s total, and cut tablets to that amount, such that I was getting, daily, 90% of the original 137 mcg. Did that for a full two months, during which I discovered Paloma Health (the on-line practice of thyroid specialists). Which discovery made me realize that a) after taking their little quiz, I had none of the symptoms of thyroid disease, and b) I didn’t have to wait 9 weeks. So I cut the time to 8 weeks, then later, in June, to 6 weeks—dropping another 10% each time. By fall I thought to make 5% changes every 3 weeks. Through it all I paid very close attention to my “state of being”. About 30 years ago, I had wondered “Do I really need this stuff?” and went cold turkey, in July. Bad idea. Very bad idea. But I knew no better. By Christmas there were yellow bags beneath my eyes; I rose as usual at 6:30, got breakfast and lunches for children, kissed them good-bye, and by 8:30 I was on my bed, having to spend the whole day there. Didn’t then know about “slow and steady” when tapering off a drug. So I had an idea of what to expect if my experiment were going the wrong way. However, I only observed positive changes. I am now, today, 11 weeks and two days from my 75th birthday, and I confess to having energy and strength that I haven’t had since about 30-35 years ago (oddly enough, that pretty much corresponds with the time of being prescribed levothyroxine….). In the last 3 months, almost daily, I’ve been hauling logs , innoculating logs (I’m setting up my own little mushroom farm), hauling cartloads of woodchips, broadforking nearly 5000 square feet of ground.
And while I’m here, talking to you, I wanted to offer another tidbit. You wrote last summer about sunscreen, and how you used to burn badly. The complete essay was pay-walled—and wanting to read it is what turned me into a paid subscriber. My husband, in his teens and twenties, was so fair that he had white skin with very red cheeks (a source of embarrassment to him at the time). And he burned terribly easily, terribly badly—on one beach day, his toes were so burned that he couldn’t put on his sneakers. I, suffered much less—but my shoulders were always subject to sunburn. We both grew up with margarine as the only fat. In our first 15 married years, we went through a pound of margarine per week—two sticks for the weekly cookies, some in my bread, the rest on bread/toast. At sometime, probably in the late 90’s, the price of butter had dropped to an affordable level; and I never went back to margarine. And my husband no longer gets sunburn, although he does wear a hat when mowing, because there’s no natural cover on his head any longer! We both don’t use sunscreen at all; I’m outdoors a lot, and I don’t burn. All our food is prepared by me; most of our plant food comes from my garden. My bread contains, with rare exceptions, only 4 ingredients. My cooking fats, in order of use frequency, are EVOO, butter, beef fat, lard, with a rare use of coconut oil.
Interesting about sunburn. I burnt as a kid (margarine, corn oil), and young adult. We've stopped both since...decades now. Burning was less of an issue. But it was when I started with Lugol's iodine and magnesium that I noticed I almost never burned.
Thank you!
Lovely!
Thank you. So refreshing to hear your story, since I also cured my UC in my 20s with lifestyle and dietary modifications. Have been told for years by the medical community that was impossible to cure and I still must have UC, but it is in ‘remission’. But, there is no evidence of ‘dis-ease’, so I never listened to them. Now it has been 30 years without re-occurrence.
Critical care doctor here. Docs will only abandon a paradigm when a better paradigm is offered and proven in their terms. Even so, it might take a generation because, as Kuhn postulated, paradigm changes are more about succession than about personal convincing.
I think the non-allopathic doctors should work harder on establishing consistent, convincing disease models. I see lot of cure claims, in which I trust, but some laziness when it comes to biological plausibility. They usually take the easier (and profitable) path of playing the “anti-system” hero.
I am an enthusiastic advocate for selective lifestyle changes to heal or maintain health. Preventive medicine has nothing to do with taking medications and lab tests.
However, if you come to ICU with a life-threatening flare of an autoimmune disease I will give a large methylprednisolone dose.
God luck in your quest.
If you interest in biological plausibility please visit
https://thethoughtfulintensivist.substack.com
There is nothing more biological implausible than a conserved evolutionary tendency of sporadically attacking your own organs.
Thank you for sharing. Following.