Page 3 - Int Autoimmune Institute Booklet

all walks of life with numerous health needs.
Although treatments are tailored to individual
goals, and need of each patient, one aspect
remains constant—everyone is always
respected, valued, and treated with utmost
care and priority.

Many people come to us from around the
world who have developed an autoimmune
disease. A combination of genetics, altered
“terrain”, and an environmental trigger has
caused a disruption, resulting in their immune
system to mistakenly attack the body’s own
tissue. By testing to determine the specific
problem areas, we can then go in and fix
them. This can have a profound and positive
impact on the body, the immune system, and
gene expression.

It’s important to realize that when a person
gets one autoimmune disease they are much
more likely to get a second, third, fourth
and so on. Often times when someone gets
an autoimmune disease, they are placed
on immunosuppressants that don’t fix the
problem. That is because what the body
needs is not immunosuppression. It needs
immunomodulation, or immune balancing.

No longer will people be told “we don’t
have any idea why you got this autoimmune
disease.” No longer will people be only offered
medications that don’t fix the underlying
problem and thus don’t prevent a second,
third, or even a fourth autoimmune disease
from developing later on. We strive to
eliminate our patients’ use of medications that
further increase the risk of life threatening
infections and cancer when the immune
dysfunction has already raised the risk of these
diseases in the first place.