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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We’re just starting to understand the stomach and how it creates enzymes or hormones for the brain. It’s definitely an integrated Network working together and it has to be in harmony which it’s not with many people. Our bodies are also running into problems that are newer problems and we haven’t even had time to adapt to them evolutionarily. Even things like the scents in our detergent can affect our hormone levels, we’re basically creating all these immune issues that our body doesn’t know how to handle and clogging our system with things like microplastics and other chemicals.
I just heard a brief discussion on how there’s a bacteria in women’s bodies that excretes and enzyme, I believe, that processes estrogen which has been linked to causing depression in women because they’re estrogen gets metabolized faster than natural. Basically if you get your gut bacteria into proper working order this rogue bacteria will not overly consume estrogen and you will be less depressed is the idea. 🤯
So there’s so many little factors to consider that contribute to the overall good of the body and when too many of those get out of line it starts to cause bigger and bigger problems. Ideally we want to do what’s best for our body and things like depression, sickness, and disease will naturally minimize and our body will run better.
Your body has a just unbelievable amount of foreign stuff in it. Your immune system could not handle attacking it all. You are perpetually overrun with outside things. Your immune system has to act selectively. To do this your body creates antibodies, which are designed to attach only to specific organisms, and your immune system has standing orders to obliterate anything and everything with an antibody attached to it. When a bacteria/virus enters your body, it just hangs out until it causes problems, and your body figures out that the problems are from this virus/bacteria, and then it designs antibodies and releases them across your body.
Several of these steps function outside of your nervous system. If any part of this doesn’t work right, there isn’t a lot your brain can do about it. Like if your white blood cells thing they see antibodies (when there aren’t any) and attack, your brain can’t stop it.
>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.
This isn’t remotely accurate, and doesn’t consider the many different mechanisms of immunopathology that *do* happen in various autoimmune disease. The whole premise is just wrong.
There are other nervous/hormonal axes involving the brain, though. The easiest way to conceptualize why those aren’t possible to consciously control is that they’re separately wired.
We’re just starting to understand the stomach and how it creates enzymes or hormones for the brain. It’s definitely an integrated Network working together and it has to be in harmony which it’s not with many people. Our bodies are also running into problems that are newer problems and we haven’t even had time to adapt to them evolutionarily. Even things like the scents in our detergent can affect our hormone levels, we’re basically creating all these immune issues that our body doesn’t know how to handle and clogging our system with things like microplastics and other chemicals.
I just heard a brief discussion on how there’s a bacteria in women’s bodies that excretes and enzyme, I believe, that processes estrogen which has been linked to causing depression in women because they’re estrogen gets metabolized faster than natural. Basically if you get your gut bacteria into proper working order this rogue bacteria will not overly consume estrogen and you will be less depressed is the idea. 🤯
So there’s so many little factors to consider that contribute to the overall good of the body and when too many of those get out of line it starts to cause bigger and bigger problems. Ideally we want to do what’s best for our body and things like depression, sickness, and disease will naturally minimize and our body will run better.
Your body has a just unbelievable amount of foreign stuff in it. Your immune system could not handle attacking it all. You are perpetually overrun with outside things. Your immune system has to act selectively. To do this your body creates antibodies, which are designed to attach only to specific organisms, and your immune system has standing orders to obliterate anything and everything with an antibody attached to it. When a bacteria/virus enters your body, it just hangs out until it causes problems, and your body figures out that the problems are from this virus/bacteria, and then it designs antibodies and releases them across your body.
Several of these steps function outside of your nervous system. If any part of this doesn’t work right, there isn’t a lot your brain can do about it. Like if your white blood cells thing they see antibodies (when there aren’t any) and attack, your brain can’t stop it.
>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.
This isn’t remotely accurate, and doesn’t consider the many different mechanisms of immunopathology that *do* happen in various autoimmune disease. The whole premise is just wrong.
There are other nervous/hormonal axes involving the brain, though. The easiest way to conceptualize why those aren’t possible to consciously control is that they’re separately wired.
Your body has a just unbelievable amount of foreign stuff in it. Your immune system could not handle attacking it all. You are perpetually overrun with outside things. Your immune system has to act selectively. To do this your body creates antibodies, which are designed to attach only to specific organisms, and your immune system has standing orders to obliterate anything and everything with an antibody attached to it. When a bacteria/virus enters your body, it just hangs out until it causes problems, and your body figures out that the problems are from this virus/bacteria, and then it designs antibodies and releases them across your body.
Several of these steps function outside of your nervous system. If any part of this doesn’t work right, there isn’t a lot your brain can do about it. Like if your white blood cells thing they see antibodies (when there aren’t any) and attack, your brain can’t stop it.
>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.
This isn’t remotely accurate, and doesn’t consider the many different mechanisms of immunopathology that *do* happen in various autoimmune disease. The whole premise is just wrong.
There are other nervous/hormonal axes involving the brain, though. The easiest way to conceptualize why those aren’t possible to consciously control is that they’re separately wired.
First, the brain doesn’t communicate using electrical waves. It communicates via chemical signals. These signals are released through an electrochemical reaction in individual synapses, but that doesn’t travel through the body.
Second, and more important, the brain doesn’t directly control the immune system.
First, the brain doesn’t communicate using electrical waves. It communicates via chemical signals. These signals are released through an electrochemical reaction in individual synapses, but that doesn’t travel through the body.
Second, and more important, the brain doesn’t directly control the immune system.
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