Sentences with phrase «destroying gut tissue»
Standard testing also only looks at whether gluten sensitivity is destroying gut tissue.
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To be diagnosed with most autoimmune diseases, the immune system has to destroy a significant amount of tissue (such as the brain, gut, or thyroid) to be officially diagnosed.
The cause is autoimmune, meaning that your immune system gets overactivated, perhaps beginning in the gut, and attacks and ultimately destroys thyroid tissue.
The body's immune system (t - cells, b cell antibodies) mounts an attack on thyroid tissue, but the thyroid proteins are not the enemy — it's an overactive immune system that is misfiring (due to any number of reasons, usually gut - related) that causes the attack, destroying thyroid tissue.
In addition to comprehensive gluten sensitivity testing, Cyrex also tests for the following: foods that cross react with gluten, damage that gluten can cause to your gut and your brain, and autoimmune reactions (when your immune system attacks and destroys body tissue) that may have gone undiagnosed yet cause chronic symptoms.