What Causes Autoimmune Conditions?

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 26 May 2020

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Today we’re going to talk about autoimmune conditions and what causes autoimmune conditions?

An autoimmune condition is a situation where your body has created immune cells that are attacking itself.

This creates inflammation, and the inflammation creates a lot of collateral damage. It’s all of the free radicals that end up actually destroying the tissue.

The immune cells that are attacking itself are called autoantibodies. You can have these autoantibodies to pretty much any tissue in the body.

What autoimmune conditions boil down to is one cell called the Th17 cell becoming overactive. Excessive amounts of this cell are responsible for autoimmune conditions.

In your immune system, you have a lot of different T cells. The T stands for thymus. Typically T helper cells do things like recruiting help to fight infection and generating weaponry. It’s the main controller in the battle against infections.

One of the functions of these cells is to maintain the intestinal barrier. This is the barrier that helps keep out viruses and pathogens. If there’s a break in the wall and harmful bacteria get in, they can invade the inside of the body, causing an immune attack. Now, your body is going to start creating antibodies against these cells. If those cells are pathogens, this is a good thing. But, what if those cells are your own cells? This, of course, wouldn’t be good.

Another function of Th17 cells is making sure that the body doesn’t destroy its own tissue. This cell could help prevent autoimmune conditions.

The Th17 cells also work with the T regulatory cells, which have an even greater function of preventing autoimmune diseases. It may also help suppress autoimmune diseases and hyperinflammatory conditions. T regulatory cells also calm down infections.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and an autoimmune condition.
0:48.0	Let me just briefly tell you what an autoimmune condition is.
0:52.0	It's a situation where your body has created immune cells that are
0:57.4	attacking itself and that creates inflammation and the inflammation creates a lot of collateral damage and it's all those
1:05.2	free radicals that end up destroying the tissue.
1:09.7	And the immune cells that are attacking itself are called auto antibodies.
1:15.0	And you can have these auto antibodies to pretty much any tissue in your body.
1:20.2	You can have them to receptors of cells. You can have these immune cells attack pretty much any tissue of the body.
1:26.4	And so what an autoimmune condition boils down to
1:30.0	is this one cell called the TH17 cell, becoming overactive.
1:38.0	Excessive amounts of the T, it's called helper cell 17 are responsible for autoimmune conditions.
1:48.4	So now let me just kind of explain what the cell is.
1:51.4	In your immune system you have a lot of different players and you have different
1:56.0	types of T cells and the T stands for thymus because that's where it gets its training and that's
2:02.0	where it matures and develops.
2:04.0	And typically the T helper cells have to do with command control.
2:09.0	They're like the quarterback or the general that recruits help for infection that generates the weapon tree like
2:17.0	cytokines in the inflammatory process. So it's the main controller of the battle with infections. So it's a real key element.
2:26.7	When someone's infected with the HIV virus, what that virus does is it targets the T helper cells and it knocks those guys out
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