Just curious, have you tried any kind of autoimmune diet? It seems a bit strange to me that RSI never seemed to be a thing before the past few decades.
I read that 1 in 6 Americans have an autoimmune condition. I'm not sure if it's true however if it is that may explain a lot of this. Often autoimmune condition treatments include non-mainstream diets that can be extreme and therefore require supplementation.
It's worth mentioning the GAPS diet here I think: http://www.gaps.me/. It seems that autoimmune/inflammatory problems are being associated with more and more diseases.
That is an interesting proposal. I do have one autoimmune disease, that from reading the entire body of research literature is not known to cause a large majority of my symptoms. But I do hear that autoimmune diseases travel in herds… will look into it. Thank you!
I've been dealing with autoimmune issues for years as well. I have yet to find a doctor that is willing to help me get to the bottom of it. I too have seen doctors in multiple countries.
For me, the trigger is carbohydrates. Doesn't make having a good social life easy. I'm on a forced ketogenic diet because of it.
As a matter of fact, I do know what you're talking about (AS). And I can't downvote, but I would ! ;) Promising mountains with "diets" is as bad or worse than doctors not really considering what's it like to live with autoimmune diseases / having trouble establishing diagnosis. Please link to peer-reviewed, serious papers showing results in double-blind studies if you wish to convince fellow hackers.
I have medical issues that are completely unrelated to lifestyle. Unfortunately, autoimmune issues often don't respond to anything but drugs with horrible side effects.
Where is the evidence that diet alone can cause autoimmune disease? As far as I am aware, development of autoimmune disease is a complex process involving many factors such as genetics and the effect of infections on the immune system. Certainly there is anecdotal evidence of people improving their symptoms or possibly eliminating them through diet but this is not the case for every patient.
For what it’s worth I started developing auto immune symptoms after my exposure to Covid (nerve pain in my face, legs, feet, inner ear was burning and had a lack of balance, fatigue, trembling) only thing that resolved it was exercise (moderate to heavy weight lifting) and a strict carnivore diet over 3 months. I’d probably put more stock into the exercise but my working theory was low testosterone and poor diet was preventing me from recovering.
3 years later and if I go a few months without exercise the nerve pain starts to come back in my face heh
Many autoimmune diseases don't appear to be caused by immune memory, at least alone. There is evidence for cyclic inflammation by the innate immune system and also latent inflammation from gut bacteria and their outputs.
What you are describing (bone marrow radiation) has been used to treat Multiple Sclerosis. But diets (which radically change gut bacteria) have also been used to treat MS. So it's complicated, and it's possible for what is currently considered a single disease to be a common symptomatology for different root causes.
This would be lovely if it pans out. I’ve been grappling with a neurological issue for a while now that might be autoimmune (testing inconclusive so far); fortunately the neurological symptoms are reversible, but having an autoimmune variant of this issue would be life-altering with how treatment progresses.
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