Autoimmune Disease in Boca Raton FL

According to American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, up to 50 million Americans suffer from autoimmune diseases, and this number is on the rise. Putting this in perspective, heart disease affects 22 million and cancer affects 9 million. So there are more Americans suffering from autoimmune disease than heart disease and cancer combined.

Conventional medical treatment for autoimmune disease is limited to powerful immunosuppressant drugs that have serious side effects. In fact, most autoimmune patients are not prescribed these drugs because the risk outweighs the benefit. This approach, however, does not address the root cause.

Current medical approach also looks at autoimmune disease at the organ and tissue level. Hashimoto's thyroiditis is treated as a thyroid disease. Rheumatoid arthritis is treated as a joint disease. Multiple sclerosis is treated as a nervous system disease. However, the commonality between all autoimmune disease is the IMMUNE system attacking one's own body. Therefore, successful management of autoimmune disease must address the underlying triggers and root cause of immune over activation.