Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: EEGator

What could go wrong?
Just about everything. Auto immune diseases as they morph out of control, causing the immune system to treat everything as the enemy...


8 posted on 05/23/2013 11:58:46 AM PDT by ImaGraftedBranch (...By reading this, you've collapsed my wave function. Thanks.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]


To: ImaGraftedBranch

Isn’t that called a cytokine storm?


9 posted on 05/23/2013 12:06:59 PM PDT by EEGator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: ImaGraftedBranch; EEGator
Just about everything. Auto immune diseases as they morph out of control, causing the immune system to treat everything as the enemy...

Current understanding about autoimmune diseases rests on an organism's inability to recognize self. Many believe that is because our environment is now too clean. Some call it the hygiene hypothesis.

The 'hygiene hypothesis' for autoimmune and allergic diseases: an update.

Into the eye of the cytokine storm.

That's the usual description of what happened 90 plus years ago with the Spanish Flu. Check Table 1.

10 posted on 05/23/2013 3:02:07 PM PDT by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson