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The mystery of autoimmune diseases revealed Taking control of autoimmunity: a scourge of our modern age Autoimmune diseases—such as multiple sclerosis (MS), lupus, Crohn’s disease, type 1 diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis—cause the body to destroy itself. Recent studies suggest that the mechanisms...

The medical sector does not know what is or what causes MS. But it's even worse than that. In fact, they don't know what is autoimmunity, what causes autoimmune diseases. But I am sure some day the health paradigm will change. If we look back at the old (= our current) health paradigm in say 2030, w...

The iNOS Activity During an Immune Response Controls the CNS Pathology in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6458273/ from https://www.thisisms.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30982 My view: iNOS is the result of a physiological trauma induced by T c...

Vesta, You are right: the medical sector does not know what is or what causes MS. But it is a lot worse than that. In fact, they ain’t got a clue what is autoimmunity, what causes autoimmune diseases. If, at some point in the future we look back at 2019, we will look at it in a way that people looke...

Thank you Petr

iNOS is the result of a physiological trauma induced by T cells (inflammation).
Highly localised oxidative stress results from EBV B cell cross reaction (progression).

The full story is here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15188&start=885#p257234

Thank you Petr for this link. The herpes virus causes MS, EBV is a herpes strain. The recognition of the virus at cellular level is done by SNPs. And likely via SNPs the miRNA is involved in B cell transformation. The SNPs function within the miRNA and within miRNA targets. As such, SNPs modulate mi...

A short of minerals could derail anti-oxidant working, but then only in the progressive phase. And one would need to be clearly deficient as well to see an effect. The oxidative stress cycle only starts gradually after the inflammatory cycle(s). But here they look more to the onset and thus inflamma...

2018 Nov 6 UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, California Multiple Sclerosis-Associated Changes in the Composition and Immune Functions of Spore-Forming Bacteria PMC Article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6222044/ ....

exactly, the concept needs to change. and exactly, oxidative stress, mitochondrial failure and hypoxia are important factors. for more information about what's really underlying MS, see for instance my thinking on https://www.thisisms.com/forum/general-discussion-f1/topic15188-825.html#p251748 and h...

Autoimmunity and our society [later amendments and additions in italics] Our cells have very small deviations, called Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) which have always been considered to be irrelevant. But they are not, they are very important as they are gatekeepers that signal whether a cel...

Elliot, Vesta, thank you. I agree with you that we must take care of ourselves. That is what I try to do as well. But besides what we do in our own private sphere, public intervention and funding would seem logical because there is not a patentable molecule involved here, the underlying thinking (se...

On the Internet we find a mountain of medical publications, often in the open literature. Most of these publications consider the problem "in their own domain" resulting in an incomplete picture. But if we bring it all together, we can see a huge breakthrough on the horizon built on a series of inte...

We have seen that the oxidative stress cycle originates from a herpes viral infection. As the following article suggests, it may now well be that herpes viral spreading is facilitated by oxidative stress. That is bad because it would be a further stimulous for the vicious cycle, a sort of self-perpe...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29457866 on Epigenetic effects of metformin: From molecular mechanisms to clinical implications If we assume for a moment that all autoimmune diseases originate from the same underlying mechanism (i.e. B cells that cross react with viral epitopes after epigenetic ...

From the other thread on MTA and MS https://www.thisisms.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3628 and in particular https://www.thisisms.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3628#p256597 If the methylation cycle is restored (normally should be done by restoring the gut function but here is it is done by oral adm...