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hey dr. Berg here again in this video

we’re going to talk about autoimmune

conditions it’s a very complex situation

for most people there’s there’s

basically autoimmune is the body is

developing antibodies which are things

immune wise that attack your own tissue

so it’s kind of like having an allergy

to your own tissues so if you had

autoimmune of the thyroid gland it would

call it be called Hashimoto’s where the

your cells your immune cells are killing

off your own thyroid in there creating

inflammation or if you have another type

of thyroid condition it’s called Graves

where your body is attacking itself or

sarcoidosis where your body’s has

antibodies against your lungs or you

have MS multiple sclerosis where you

have antibodies against your own nervous

system or lupus against the connective

tissue and your in your body or

rheumatoid arthritis you have enemies

against your own joints or Cushing’s you

have antibodies against your own adrenal

glands so I want to just kind of take

this complex problem and dissect it one

of the things that I do for complex

problems is I’ll take one piece of the

problem and I’ll try to figure it out

and then usually that will help me look

at other areas of the problem so we

eventually the whole thing could be

understandable so all I want to take one

little piece of the autoimmune and try

to understand it more so let’s just take

one point about the autoimmune

conditions if you take any oven any

autoimmune conditions which i’ve had

hundreds and hundreds of people come in

with autoimmune conditions and it always

ask them when did it start to get the

clue and they always tell me it happened

after a stress event and I found it very

interesting usually after a loss of a

loved one a divorce a severe injury a

loss of a job so so it’s it’s definitely

triggered by a stress thing okay so

stress can activate autoimmune I’ve

never found a condition where they

didn’t have

some something like that and losses are

a thousand times more stressful than any

physical trauma that could ever be

that’s why people can get stuff stuck in

a loss for many many years and grieve

and grieve and cry and things like that

so it’s very very very stressful okay

now number two how our autoimmune

disease is treated well one of the most

common treatment they use is cortisol or

prednisone what is that

that’s adrenal hormones so now we have

two situations we got stress and what’s

treated with the adrenal hormones what

is what what Glen the stress effect on

the body of the adrenals so really those

losses those stressful events severely

damaged the adrenal gland the treatment

for autoimmune is adrenal hormones well

right there now we’re starting to

unravel this mystery and make this a

little bit less complex now let’s get

into because the autoimmune conditions

are immune related let’s take a look at

what controls your munis tum’ what parts

of your body well you have the thymus

gland you have the spleen you have the

bone marrow you have the gut but did you

know the adrenal gland controls the

immune system as well

yeah the adrenal gland controls the

white blood cells in fact I’m reading

right now

biological actions of the adrenal

hormone cortisol it says that the

adrenal glands release antibodies from

the from the lymph nodes and they create

a decrease if they’re the Drina glands

are over working they will create an

overall decrease in anybody production

interesting and also when you have a

dysfunctional adrenal you will lose the

barriers to the immune system and it

makes your body more susceptible that’s

interesting so based on these three

things

autoimmune conditions are really adrenal

situations even though they affect the

and tissues so when people have

Hashimoto’s for example they’ll start

treating the thyroid but they never look

at the adrenal they never look at the

stress part of this when I think about

adrenal I’m really thinking just think

about stress accumulation of stress in

the body so I think really what causes

autoimmune is the stress state which

then causes the adrenal gland to

dysfunction and causes a loss of control

of the immune system because it lowers

your susceptibility and all sorts of

things can happen when you do that

because you have no more barriers to the

immune system so you could have microbes

come out viruses come out of remission

and just hammer that gland and you can

have all sorts of dysfunctional things

so that’s my two cents on what causes

autoimmune now what I’m going to

recommend for you if you have an

autoimmune condition is do an experiment

on yourself talk with your doctor in and

start to go in the direction of

improving your own body stress and just

see what happens to your condition see

if you could put this condition back in

remission because a lot of these

conditions can go in remission which

means they’re more viral start to do

things to improve stress rather than

treat the condition directly with drugs

and things like that just my

recommendation you don’t have to do it

but I’m just telling you that I’ve seen

good success with instead of treating

the condition reducing the stress state

changing the environment doing things to

get over that loss of a loved one and

you may find that these conditions

greatly improve okay so I hope that

helped you I will see you in the next

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