Sentences with phrase «immune disease which»

I also have an auto immune disease which led me to your blog with my interest in Paleo cooking.

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He had been following the emerging science of immunotherapy, which is the use and augmentation of the human immune system to fight disease.

The problem with some intractable diseases, especially cancer, is that they inhabit the body's own cells, which the immune system is hard - wired to leave alone.

Autoimmune disorders run in his family: His mom suffers from Hashimoto's disease, in which the immune system attacks the thyroid gland.

The psoriasis field is among the most lucrative (if not the most lucrative) in biopharma, thanks to a combination of a massive patient pool and the ways in which these treatments can extend to somewhat related immune and inflammatory conditions, like arthritis and Crohn's disease.

Eventually, hurry sickness really can make you sick, since it increases the body's output of the stress hormone cortisol, which suppresses the immune system and has been linked with heart disease.

Second, many teas — like green tea — are rich in antioxidants, which can boost your immune system and prevent certain chronic diseases.

AIDS: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy.

One that is probably not already mentioned here: Because tattoos are a result of injecting foreign chemicals into your body, they undermine the immune system, which is a great way to increase the possibility of getting cancer and other diseases.

When our digestive junctions are loose, this can lead to compounds entering the bloodstream where they shouldn't be, which may contribute to leaky gut and other immune - activated conditions like inflammatory bowel disease.

The research is still new, but coconut oil may be helpful with heart disease prevention, weight loss, and keeping our immune systems at their best (which we could all use this time of year)....

It's full of vitamins A and C, which are helpful in maintaining good vision and a healthy immune system, and boasts loads of antioxidants, specifically carotenoids (think orange and yellow fruits), which can prevent cancer and heart disease.

Unlike other autoimmune diseases, however, doctors know the trigger for coeliac disease: gluten, which provokes an immune response that causes the body to attack itself.

Top tennis star Venus Williams says that, for her, giving up meat has helped reduce the joint pain associated with Sjogren's syndrome, an auto - immune disease from which she suffers.

Raw honey contains polyphenols, which are powerful antioxidants that have been shown to give a boost to the immune system and reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer.

This recipe calls for a wonderful blend of strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries, which are high in phytonutrients that reduce inflammation, boost the immune system, and make it hard for chronic diseases to thrive in the body.

Crisco is very unhealthy — it's highly processed, hydrogenated and contains trans fats which have been linked to cancer, type 2 diabetes, hardening of the arteries, stroke, immune dysfunction and a whole host of other diseases.

Half the medium chain fatty acids in Coconut Oil are composed of Lauric Acid which is anti-viral, anti-bacterial anti-microbial and anti-fungal and help to boost the immune system and keep most common diseases at bay.

Reishi and Chaga are medicinal mushrooms that contain immune - modulating properties, which means that they may help to promote the production of immune cells to prevent disease.

Getting a RhoGAM or other Rh immune globulin shot is a precaution against a situation called Rh incompatibility, which could affect future pregnancies and cause hemolytic disease in the newborn.

An estimated 12 million people in the United States have food allergies, and an additional 2 million have celiac disease, a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks itself when exposed to gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye.

Breast milk is a great way to improve and increase immunity in children, because it contains antibodies and white blood cells, both of which boost the immune system and help the body to fight against diseases.

You pass your baby antibodies as you breastfeed, which boosts your baby's immune system and resistance to disease.

«Inflammation occurs when our immune cells release inflammatory messengers, or cytokines, which is a normal response to disease.

The hypothesis which links the herpes virus and Alzheimer's disease is based on that a weakened immune system among the elderly creates opportunities for the virus to spread further to the brain.

In the present study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general.

For unknown reasons our immune system attacks healthy cells, tissues and organs in a process called autoimmunity, which can result in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.

The researchers also report that saliva increased DENV infection of immune cells in the skin and enhanced immune cell migration to neighboring lymph nodes, which could promote the spread of disease throughout the body.

Mice with this eye disease, which damages the optic nerve and causes vision loss, have higher levels of the immune molecule, which accumulates at retinal synapses before the neurons die.

In the Brain, Behavior and Immunity paper, Raper, Chan and colleagues describe their investigation of emotional and immune symptoms in two transgenic Huntington's disease monkeys, which were five years old.

The work was on the role of interleukin - 1 in the pathology of graft - versus - host disease (GVHD), the mechanism by which the new immune system, which a patient receives as a bone marrow transplant, attacks the patient's body following the transplantation.

These cells play a key role in autoimmune disease — in which the immune system mistakenly identifies the body's own tissues as foreign and attack them.

They also found AXIN2 in the damaged nerve cells of adults with multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the immune system attacks myelin.

Psoriasis is a disease of the immune system in which inflammation causes skin cells to multiply faster than normal.

The results of this study suggest that Nodding syndrome may be an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system incorrectly attacks the body's own proteins.

Bone marrow transplants are sometimes needed to treat immune diseases that attack these stem cells, or in certain types of anaemia, in which the body can't make enough blood cells or clotting factors.

A DNA vaccine's tolerizing effect could potentially be used to combat autoimmune diseases — such as some forms of diabetes and arthritis — in which the immune system attacks and destroys its own tissues.

Scientists have discovered the first example of a gene solely responsible for an autoimmune disease, a type of disorder in which the immune system attacks the body.

Prof. Khatri and his team studied the way the immune system responds to infection by looking at gene expression — which genes are active and which are not — and whether there are differences in patients with malaria compared to other infectious diseases.

Type 1 diabetes, which usually starts in childhood, is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body's own beta cells.

With the potential to affect such a diverse array of neurological ailments, many of which have no known therapy, the hope is that an improved understanding of immune - CNS interactions will bring to light new paradigms for preventing and treating neurological disease.

Despite having been vaccinated against the disease in 1989, which was 3 years before Sousa and her colleagues examined them, 58 % of the Indians had a weakened or nonexistent immune reaction in skin tests that measure cell response to the tuberculosis bacterium.

«The disease develops because the immune system reacts to gluten, which is an alien substance.

His eventual diagnosis: a deadly form of Castleman disease, a rare immune disorder for which knowledge was in depressingly short supply.

The study supports the «hygiene hypothesis,» which contends that such auto - immune diseases are more common in the developed world where the prevalence of antibiotics and antibacterials reduce children's exposure to microbes.

But Acinetobacter also ramped down the production of regulatory T cells, which help prevent autoimmune diseases by dampening the immune response.

A team led by Ron Dagan, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Soroka University Medical Center in Beer - Sheva, Israel, wanted to know if a new pneumococcal vaccine based on tetanus toxoid would change infants» immune responses to the standard regimen of vaccines, including those for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP), and Haemophilus influenzae type B, which protects against meningitis.

They have discovered that «itaconate» — a molecule derived from glucose — acts as a powerful off - switch for macrophages, which are the cells in the immune system that lie at the heart of many inflammatory diseases including arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and heart disease.

The research team, led by Georgia State University and the University of Michigan, wanted to understand how a wound heals in the intestine because in IBD, which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, damage to the intestinal epithelial barrier allows bacteria in the intestine to go across the barrier and stimulate the body's immune system.

Some 23 % of humans die of cancer, but blind mole rats — which can live for 21 years, an impressive age among rodents — seem to be immune to the disease.