We all know diseases that are called autoimmune diseases. We have heard of lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis (MS), and a whole bunch of such diseases, all categorized as autoimmune.
To live and not to die from everyday invaders to our bodies, a highly functional, miraculously working immune system in our bodies is fighting with a state-of-art functionality. Cancer cells are produced in our bodies, but killed and arrested right off by intelligent service section of this army. Viruses, bacteria and fungi enter. bash!!! they are killed before you even know you are there.
As long as this army works, miracles happen everyday. If not, disaster follows.
consider two scenarios:
- there is some invaders in the town. Army drops bombs to kill the invaders. Civilian casualties are inevitable.
- there is no invaders in the town. Army drops bombs and takes machine guns to kill anybody for just an imagined paranoid reason
We are gonna talk about the latter, when army's shooting while there is no reason to.
You might consider autoimmune diseases like a coup. They seize the city they were to protect. They invade a self organ, self cells and those innocent civilians in your body who were supposed the get defended by that army. The army is angry, the army goes insane, the army becomes paranoid and thinks of its nation as aliens.
A schizophrenic patient hears voices that do not exist (auditory hallucinations) and reacts to those non-existing voices. He talks back, curses and at times becomes violence and makes homicidal attempts in response to those imagined sounds. In such circumstances we modulate the patient, acutely by tranquilizers, or antipsychotic drugs. We shut down the patients consciousness and then bring balance to neurochemicals in their bodies.
When immune system becomes paranoid and makes extreme detrimental attempts against non-existing or minimal provocations, we should shut it down too. How? steroids or other immune-system suppressants or modulators to shut it down. To sedate it. To make it not as competent; and here comes the most feared adverse outcome of such approaches in treatment:
An asleep immune system cannot kill the body. right. But it can't kill foreign invaders too. They dance into you body and throw a party.
In modern medicine, we have tons of tools to shut down, suppress and sedate the immune system. A little bit of good evil. What we have been reluctant to think of in depth, other than solely relying on evidence-based science, is the origin of such reactions.
What if there is something wrong beyond our conventional science-based knowledge? What if there is just a misunderstanding between be the governing authority, the brain, and the army it has under control. What if an autoimmune disease is just an attempted coup to take over the control in a destructive manner? and what if it is just an anarchistic response to what is going on so wrong inside us?
I need you to think about it. Come back to you with some answers. Till then feel free to ask
Cheers