Eli5: why can’t your brain stop you from getting sick?

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When someone has an autoimmune disease, their brain is sending electrical waves to tell the immune system to attack what it believes to be bad cells. So why can’t you just tell your brain to stop sending those messages, since it’s the one sending them in the first place?

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Your immune system is not controlled by your brain. It runs itself without any kind of boss or authority for the most part. All the little parts work together to tell each other what they need.

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