
Autoimmunity: Starting at the Barrier
Different autoimmune conditions attack different tissue, but they share a mechanism — and one of the few modifiable inputs sits in the gut wall.
Autoimmunity is the immune system responding correctly to the wrong signal. The interesting question is what the signal is: intestinal permeability, molecular mimicry from a food protein, a chronic infection, a nutrient the immune system cannot regulate without. These pages work backwards from the diagnosis toward that question.
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