Autoimmune Disease
Repairing a confused immune system so it stops attacking your body, and protecting and healing the tissues that have been affected.
Understanding Autoimmune Disease
When you have an autoimmune disease, you really have two problems: your immune system is confused, and some part of your body is being attacked and destroyed.
Conventional medicine takes two different approaches to autoimmunity, depending on the disease. In the case of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, doctors simply wait until the thyroid is dead and then prescribe synthetic T4 in the form of levothyroxine. In the case of Graves’ disease, they radiate the thyroid or remove it surgically. In either case, you have to take thyroid hormones the rest of your life. In the case of other autoimmune diseases, doctors are taught to use a variety of immune-suppressing drugs to shut down the arm of the immune system that is overreacting. This is great, except that it increases your risks of cancer, systemic fungal diseases, etc.
One of the problems with these approaches is that they ignore a critical feature of autoimmunity: Once you get one autoimmune disease, you are at high risk of developing another one. If your immune system is confused enough to attack your thyroid, what’s to stop it from attacking your intestines, your joints, or your nerves? Nothing.
Common Signs and Symptoms
Autoimmune diseases can affect almost any tissue, so symptoms vary with the part of the body under attack. Common signs include:
Root Causes We Look For
Autoimmunity has triggers. We look for the factors that may have set your immune system against you and that keep it there.
How We Help
At Prestige Wellness Institute, we address the whole problem. This means repairing your immune system so it stops attacking you. It means repairing your gut lining, which has to be damaged in order for autoimmunity to occur. It means removing infections and/or toxins that triggered the immune dysfunction. And it means protecting, healing, and compensating for the impaired function of whatever tissue has been attacked.
Your plan begins with bioenergetic testing, lab work, and an in-depth consultation. From there, we draw on the tools that fit your needs:
- Gut repair, nutrition, and targeted supplements
- Detoxification therapy and chelation to reduce toxic burden
- IV therapy to restore nutrients and support immune balance
- Nervous System Reset to help your body shift out of survival mode
- Bioidentical hormones, including support for thyroid disease
You Don’t Have to Live With Autoimmune Disease
Ideally, it is best to treat autoimmune disease before any symptoms appear.
Antibodies can appear in your bloodstream up to 15 years before any symptoms occur. Unfortunately, it’s not particularly practical for healthy people to get a variety of autoantibodies checked every year. But the sooner you start treating an autoimmune disease, the better your outcome. For example, if you get appropriate treatment during the “honeymoon” period of Type 1 diabetes, you can save the cells in your pancreas that make insulin and reverse your diabetes. But you don’t have time to fool around. At the same time, it’s never too late to treat autoimmune disease. Even if it has caused irreversible damage to a tissue or organ, the sooner you fix your immune system, the better your chance of avoiding other autoimmune diseases.
Fix the Immune System, Not Just the Symptoms
When we repair what confused your immune system in the first place, we protect the rest of your body too.
Testimonials
Hear from patients in their own words about their recovery from autoimmune disease.
Treatments We Use for Autoimmune Disease
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Gut Health
Testing and gut repair to restore the lining, balance, and digestion your immune system depends on.
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Detoxification Therapy
Medically guided support for your body's natural ability to clear heavy metals, environmental pollutants, and metabolic waste.
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IV Therapy
Nutrients delivered directly into your bloodstream to support energy, hydration, immune function, and recovery.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Autoimmune Disease
An autoimmune disease happens when the immune system becomes confused and attacks part of your own body, such as the thyroid, joints, intestines, skin, or nerves.
Conventional care often waits for an organ to fail and then replaces its function, or suppresses the immune system with medication. We work to repair the immune system itself, heal the gut lining, remove the infections and toxins that triggered the problem, and protect the tissue that has been affected.
Yes. Once you have one autoimmune disease, you are at higher risk of developing another. That is why we focus on repairing the immune system, not just the tissue that is under attack.
It is never too late to treat autoimmune disease. Even if a tissue or organ has been damaged, fixing your immune system can help protect the rest of your body.
No. Do not stop or change any medication without talking with the provider who prescribed it. We are happy to work alongside your other doctors.
Looking for Hope? Looking for Solutions?
If you are looking for hope, if you are looking for solutions, if you believe there has to be a better way to address your problem than your doctor has recommended, call Prestige Wellness Institute to get going on a new and healthier path.