Sentences with phrase «under autoimmune attack»

Not exact matches

These cells synthesize insulin in the ER, and the ER may be placed under stress if it produces high level of the hormone while trying to handle insulin resistance or a type 1 diabetes autoimmune attack.

Unfortunately, we have similar tissue structures in our own body that also go under attack by mistaken identity, fueling the autoimmune disease.

Supporting the wrong side of the immune system can result in further destruction of the body's tissue that might be under the attack and lead to development of other associated autoimmune diseases.

This seemed to make sense to me at the time, and I took my doctor's word for it, and thus did nothing while my thyroid was under severe autoimmune attack.

In the fall, I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease among other coninfections of Lyme and understood that while I did not test positive for any autoimmune disease in particular, my autoimmune system was definitely under attack.

Second, low or negative thyroid antibodies can give a false sense of Hashimoto's being «cured» or going into remission when in fact your immune system continues to malfunction and your thyroid gland is being destroyed under the active autoimmune attack.