Autoimmune Disease

Your body’s immune system is tasked to protect you from diseases. It’s also responsible for warding off foreign substances that it deems harmful for you. But when you have an autoimmune disease, your immune system starts attacking itself. It’s unable to distinguish what’s good from the bad and this wreaks havoc on your health.

COMMON AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE CONDITIONS:

Lupus

Psoriasis

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Multiple Sclerosis

COMMON RECOMMENDATIONS

LIFESCIENCE HEALTH MANAGEMENT ORGANIC ACIDS TEST GUT HEALTH 360 TEST FOOD SENSITIVITY TEST LIFESCIENCE SUPPLEMENTS

LIFESCIENCE HEALTH MANAGEMENT

Autoimmune conditions are very complex, with multiple contributing factors across different body systems. Getting down to the root cause/s is not a simple process. Our Functional Medicine consults dig deeper into your clinical history, from birth to the present, and explores different aspects of your lifestyle, connecting dots among all these bits of information to figure out the root causes and come up with the best way to manage it.

The goal of the consult is to get a deep-dive into the patient’s history so as to shed more light on the details of the symptoms experienced and treatments undergone in the past. After this, we identify and address the causes of each symptom and work with you on your path to wellness.

Since autoimmune conditions can be quite tricky, the process of achieving a healthier you takes time. There will be days when you might feel the treatments aren’t working, and this is all okay. Finding the root causes of the symptoms will help immensely in working towards a more effective and sustainable health plan.

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ORGANIC ACIDS TEST

The OAT gives our doctors a bird’s-eye view of how your diet and lifestyle is affecting your body. Eating healthy doesn’t automatically result in a healthier self if you are unable to absorb the important nutrients. It is essential that your body is able to do this so you are at your optimum best.

With OAT, we are able to check at the micro-level for lack of vitamin deficiencies/excesses, detoxification issues, and more. Knowing the imbalances in your body at the micro-level allows your Care Team to identify the root causes of your autoimmune conditions. This helps them address and personalize your health plan and supplements to get you healthier.

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GUT HEALTH 360 TEST

With FM, you start by treating the gut. It’s the same for autoimmune conditions. A healthy gut means your internal organs are functioning at their optimum. A healthy gut means a balanced community of microorganisms that help normalize body functions like absorption, digestion, and repair. Even your immune system depends greatly on the state of your gut health. The test will be able to tell the doctors if your gut is healthy or not, as well as its current state. Knowing these details will help the Care Team in providing you the right diet to restore and repair your gut for it to function well again.

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FOOD SENSITIVITY TEST

A healthy gut also has to have an intact and properly functioning gut lining to ensure adequate absorption of nutrients. An impaired gut lining is termed as a “leaky gut” and can prevent proper and timely absorption of food and nutrients.

The FST works on the premise that food sensitivity could be evidence of a leaky gut. When you eat a food you’re intolerant to, you trigger your immune system and cause inflammation in the gut and in any other organ system that is affected by that inflammation. You fix a leaky gut by eliminating these sensitivity and giving your gut a rest from these triggers, affording it a chance to repair itself.

The main purpose of the FST is to personalize the patient’s elimination diet. The actual healing process starts when these foods are eliminated. The inflammation triggered by consuming these sensitivity goes down. The elimination diet is a form of treatment and is not meant to be permanent.

Autoimmunity is evidence of an immune system imbalance — an inappropriate reaction to your own body tissues. Seventy percent of inflammatory tissue in the body resides in the gut, so if you can manage the inflammation triggered by the leaky gut and food sensitivity, you decrease your immune system triggers by a good percentage. That can be one way to help restore balance to an immune system that is attacking its own “home”.

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LIFESCIENCE SUPPLEMENTS

Each patient’s needs are unique. With FM, testing and assessing the types of food a patient eats helps a lot in figuring out what will work to aid the body in healing. Of course, one still has to adjust one’s lifestyle, sleep, exercise, and stress management in order to achieve better health. Relying on supplements is not the ideal approach to any condition, autoimmune or otherwise. Remember that what works for one may not work for another, and dosages can vary among patients, so always better to measure and check beforehand.

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Before my treatments at LifeScience, when I was taking medicines without being mindful of what I eat, the numbers weren’t going down unless I had pulse therapy or steroids. It was only when I did the elimination diet that my numbers improved.

Daniela G.