Re: Caloric Restriction Linked to Reduced Inflammation Markers

On Sun, 13 May 2012 10:34:44 +0930
Canth <kwar6996@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not so. Auto-immune response diseases are a different but related
class of diseases to allergies.

Allergies are perfectly normal. They are not diseases.
Everyone has them, whether they know it or not.

Allergies are a part of the class of
immune response diseases, just as auto-immune diseases are. In an
allergy reaction, the body's immune system is reacting to the presence
of an external substance in an inappropriate way. In an auto-immune
disease, the immune system is reacting to the person themselves. You
can avoid an allergen; you cannot avoid yourself.

An auto-immune response is when the immune system attacks the body:
not when it is reacting to it. If it really was reacting to the
body itself, it would be quickly fatal. This happens sometimes to
fetuses that do not make it.

Autoimmunity is a reaction to *something* that *also* attacks the
body. The reason this happens is that we were *not* designed. The
immune system does not work very well. It is wrong to even call
it an immune system, because it does other things as well.
The same immune globulins that stick to food can also stick to
our internals and cause autoimmune conditions. When we develop an
immune response to a food, we call it an allergy if it also attacks
the nasal passages. We call it an autoimmune condition (you would say
disease) when it attacks an internal organ.

The medical textbooks have it wrong. That is my point.

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