This is not a new thesis. Multiple Sclerosis is thought by many to be an autoimmune disease. That is to say the individual’s own immune system after some stimulus begins to react against their own tissue, erode it and cause disease. It is speculation with no documented experimental proofs to date. The theory is that an individual with the right predisposing genotype when exposed to a virus or bacteria, develop a destructive auto-immune response. Actually rheumatic fever, which destroys heart tissue is thought to be a autoimmune response to some strains of streptococcus. Many physicians believe that juvenile diabetes is an auto immune disease. A virus, with little or no symptoms, goes through a school or community, almost all get well but six to eight weeks later a genetically susceptible previously healthy child presents with diabetes.
As we now see with the COVID-19 pandemic, the future of Medicine will be centered on understanding genetics and the complexity of immunology.
I am in the middle of this mess right now.
So hear me well.......if you think you might have an autoimmune disease please look into MRI contrast and educate yourself before getting that MRI with contrast
I am not saying don’t get the MRI. I am saying educate yourself well. Read the black box label FDA finally put on the contrast. And read about the wife of Chuck Norris
Also, DirectLabs has the ANA test as well as the one that tests for AMA