Getting To The Root Cause Of Autoimmune Disease

If you suspect your body is waging war against itself, you’re not alone…

For years, I’ve been convinced that autoimmune diseases were on the rise. I was seeing more and more patients in my clinic with symptoms. And finally, a landmark paper backs up what I’ve believed…

In the study, researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Durham, North Carolina, found that antinuclear antibodies — a common biomarker of autoimmune disease — have become significantly more prevalent in the US population over the past 25 years.1

The research team analyzed blood samples from more than 14,000 people over 25 years.

Their analysis found that the prevalence of the antibody biomarker showed a 45% increase. And over the past few decades, more people than ever have had conditions like

  • Type 1 diabetes
  • Lupus
  • Celiac disease
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Psoriasis
  • Thyroid diseases
  • Multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Chronic fatigue syndrome

In all, there are about 80 autoimmune diseases that can affect organs throughout your body.

Autoimmune disorders happen when your body turns against itself. Mainstream medicine will likely tell you the problem is a “defective” gene. But you don’t develop these conditions because someone in your family did.

They occur when your own immune system becomes overactive and attacks your body instead of diseases and foreign invaders.

When doctors tell you that your genes are at fault, it just means they have no idea how to cure you.

Most doctors still don’t understand the link between these diseases and our toxic Western diet.2

Getting to the root cause of autoimmune diseases

You see, the common thread between all autoimmune diseases is inflammation. Your body’s immune system mistakes its own tissue for a foreign object and mounts an attack.

In the case of autoimmune diseases, the overproduction of cytokines and chemokines leads to inflammation of body tissue. For example, too many cytokines in the joints can lead to rheumatoid arthritis.

Today, almost all people on the planet are inflamed thanks to a modern diet that includes inflammation-friendly ingredients like sugar, grains, and other refined carbohydrates.

As these unnatural toxins flood your bloodstream, your immune system kicks into high gear, and you develop chronic inflammation. Your stressed-out immune system is no longer able to attack these invaders.

Instead, it starts to turn on itself. Before long, you end up with an autoimmune disease.

To make matters worse, it can take almost five years just to get an autoimmune disease diagnosis. That’s years of unnecessary suffering.

And even if you do get diagnosed, the “cures” are often worse than the disease. Big Pharma’s drugs try to beat an out-of-control immune system into submission. They also use corticosteroids to try to reduce inflammation.

I don’t use those drugs with my patients. I don’t believe in attacking your immune system even further.

Instead, I help my patients support and balance their immune systems to restore proper functioning. This all-natural therapy is called hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT).

It works by healing inflammation. In people with autoimmune diseases, inflammation never goes away.

It becomes your new normal. These areas of inflammation block the flow of oxygen. That slows down the healing process. But HBOT saturates your body’s fluids and tissues with oxygen. It floods your cells with it.

And the high pressure in the HBOT chamber helps drain excess fluid. It pushes out toxic waste products. It stimulates the growth of new capillaries to restore circulation.

That’s just what you need to fight autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS)…

In an important study, 40 patients with advanced MS were divided into two groups. One group received pure oxygen for 90 minutes once daily. The other group received a placebo. At the end of 20 treatments, 12 of the 17 HBOT patients had improved symptoms. Only one patient in the placebo group improved.3

A study in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry confirmed those results. It showed that HBOT significantly preserved muscle coordination in MS patients.4

In another study, researchers followed 703 MS patients for years. All had been told there was no treatment for them.

The patients had 20 sessions of HBOT. After just four weeks, 64% to 77% of their symptoms improved.5

Now here’s what’s shocking…

Studies like these have been completely ignored in the U.S. But throughout the rest of the world, doctors are using this therapy to treat more than 80 conditions, including arthritis, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes, migraines, joint injuries, and PTSD.

Easily end your unnecessary suffering

Here’s what happens in a session:

    1. During HBOT therapy, you recline comfortably in a pressurized chamber. And you breathe in 100% oxygen. Most of my patients watch a movie or simply relax.
    2. A typical HBOT session lasts about 90 minutes. Treatments are repeated, depending on the condition.
    3. If you would like more information about HBOT and how it might help you, please contact my staff at 561-784-7852. They will be happy to explain it or answer any questions you may have.

My patients tell me HBOT gives them restored energy. They get relief from aches and pains in their muscles, joints, and back.

And they recover their brain function, something that typically suffers in autoimmune diseases.

To Your Good Health,

Al Sears, MD

Al Sears, MD, CNS

 

References:

1. Dinse G, et al. “Increasing prevalence of antinuclear antibodies in the United States.” Arthritis Rheumatol. 2020 Jun;72(6):1026-1035.
2. Rashid T, et al. “The link between ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn’s disease, Klebsiella, and starch consumption.” Clin Dev Immunol. 2013; 2013: 872632.
3. Fischer BH, Marks M, Reich T. “Hyperbaric-oxygen treatment of multiple sclerosis: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study.” N Engl J Med. 1983;308:181- 186.
4. Barnes, MP et al. “Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of multiple sclerosis.” J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1987;50(11):1402-6.
5. Rapid Recovery Hyperbarics. “Research on long term multiple sclerosis(MS).” Accessed 06/22/2022 http://www.hbot4u.com/Studies/Multiple%20Sclerosis/Research%20on%20Long%20 Term%20Multiple%20Sclerosis.pdf