An autoimmune disease is a condition in which your immune system mistakenly attacks your body.
The immune system normally guards against germs like bacteria and viruses. When it senses these foreign invaders, it sends out an army of fighter cells to attack them.
Normally, the immune system can tell the difference between foreign cells and your own cells.
In an autoimmune disease, the immune system mistakes part of your body, like your joints or skin, as foreign. It releases proteins called autoantibodies that attack healthy cells.
Some autoimmune diseases target only one organ. Type 1 diabetes damages the pancreas. Other diseases, like systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), affect the whole body.
Autoimmune diseases originatede in the gut. If proteins can get into the bloodstream through holes in the wall of the intestinal villi, which are just one cell thick, they alert the immune system system. If the protein is similar to a protein found somewhere in the body, the immune cells travel there and attack them, since they have been misidentified as “other” and not self. This is an autoimmune reaction. If it gets serious, it becomes an autoimmune disease. Perhaps the spike protein is identified as “other”, and the body attacks it where it finds it. That could be just about in any tissue
Autoimmune diseases originatede in the gut. If proteins can get into the bloodstream through holes in the wall of the intestinal villi, which are just one cell thick, they alert the immune system system. If the protein is similar to a protein found somewhere in the body, the immune cells travel there and attack them, since they have been misidentified as “other” and not self. This is an autoimmune reaction. If it gets serious, it becomes an autoimmune disease. Perhaps the spike protein is identified as “other”, and the body attacks it where it finds it. That could be just about in any tissue