Microbiological and Biochemical Reasons Why Your Immune System Is Killing You(Auto-immune Diseases)
Autoimmune Diseases: What Are They?
Autoimmune Diseases:
An Autoimmune disease is an abnormal condition in the human body in which the human immune defense system fight against the human internal organs, tissues, and cells instead of pathogens or germs that cause diseases through a body defense mechanism called Inflammation.
In a normal body/health state, Inflammation is a normal process through which the human defense system use to protect the body against invaders called pathogens or germs that cause diseases.
Inflammation is a body defense mechanism which is activated when foreign agents like viruses, bacteria, parasites and or toxic chemicals enter the body or when any part of our body suffers injury. Whenever any of the two incidents mentioned above occurs, the body immune system sends out its first responders: inflammatory cells and cytokines (biochemicals) that stimulate more inflammatory cells.These cells initiate inflammatory response to trap bacteria and other offending agents/germs to destroy them, and start the process of healing any injured parts of our body that suffers injury.
Why Does A Normal Process Becomes Abnormal Causing Autoimmune Diseases?
As mentioned in the definitions above with regard to Inflammation as a response of the immune system to the presence of toxic chemicals in the body systems: the presence of toxic chemicals in the form of food preservatives, common in fizzy drinks, processed foods, junk foods, half digested junk food-byproducts of fermentation instead of digestion, pastries and baked foods, which people who eat junk foods consume everyday do cause Autoimmune Diseases in two ways, which are:
1. Consistently causing Chronic Inflammation.
2. Mutations of immune cells making them to malfunction.
Explanations and expatiation.
A. Mutations of Immune Cells Causing Immune Cells Malfunction.
The toxic chemicals used in the processing and preservation of junk and processed foods while in the process of digestion and assimilation(metabolism) are consistently being taken into our body cells (through a process known as bio-accumulation), where they tamper with the DNA or genetic code or information directing and guiding the day to day activities of our body cells.
Whenever this DNA tampering take place in a strategic and integral cells like the cells of the immune system, malfunction is what do occur: because their DNA or genetic code or information had been changed, they had got another code, directing them to perform abnormally. Whenever this occurs, their normal functions of attacking foreign agents such as pathogens like viruses and bacteria change, they now start to attack the human body cells instead, leading to the diseease condition called Autoimmune Diseases.
Some common diseases that are generally considered autoimmune include:
Celiac disease,
Graves' disease,
Inflammatory bowel disease,
Multiple sclerosis,
Alopecia areata,
Addison’s disease,
Pernicious anemia,
Psoriasis,
Rheumatoid arthritis, and
Systemic lupus erythematosus.
B. Consistently Causing Chronic Inflammation: as earlier said, the presence of toxic chemicals found in junk and processed foods do cause inflammation. But the inflammation that they do cause is of two types. Which are;
• Acute Inflammation, and
• Chronic Inflammation.
Acute Inflammation: whenever processed and junk foods full of their toxic chemicals are consumed by a person, inflammatory responses do occur to the presence of these toxic or poisonous chemicals in the human body systems. But if the person consuming these toxic or poisonous foods stop consuming them, the inflammatory response by the immune system to these poisonous chemicals will stop.
If the person that stopped consuming these poisonous or toxic foods continued to consume them, these chemicals or toxins bioaccumulate or store up in his or her body. When the body cells store them in their cytoplasm or are deposited at strategic places in the human body like the joints, organs, where they consistently or continue to activate or elicit continuous immune response or inflammation called Chronic Inflammation.
Chronic Inflammation: occurs when the immune cells/ systems now continue to attack the sites or organs where these chemicals are deposited and in the process of consistently attacking the sites where these toxic chemicals are deposited, they attack the human body cells or tissues through their inflammatory biochemicals causing the disease condition that I have been trying to explain called Autoimmune Diseases.
Though Autoimmune Diseases can be brought about by by microorganisms, the autoimmune diseases brought about by toxic chemicals are not of microorganisms origin, so they are called: Non-Microbial Autoimmune Diseases.
They do manifest in the human body in the following ways;
• Chronic Gastro-intestinal Tract Inflammation-Autoimmune Disease.
• Chronic Liver Inflammation-Autoimmune Disease.
• Chronic Pancreas Inflammation- Autoimmune Disease.
• Chronic Kidney Inflammation-Autoimmune Disease.
• Chronic Joint Inflammation-Autoimmune Disease.
• Chronic Nerve Inflammation-Autoimmune Disease.
• Chronic Lung Inflammation-Autoimmune Disease.
A. Gastro Intestinal Tract(GIT) Inflammation(Autoimmune disease)
When junk and processed foods full of toxic chemicals are consumed, they are not fully digested i.e. they are half- digested of or ferment in the gastrointestinal tract producing harmful byproducts such as organic acids, alcohol etc. which damage the gastrointestinal tracts.
Also, these half-digested byproducts do leak or get assimilated into the blood stream where they get deposited or lodged in the body sites such as joints, organs and tissues of the human body.
The direct damage to the Gastrointestinal tracts (GIT) do cause inflammation because the immune system or cells will produce immunological biochemicals(cytokines) at the sites of damage produced by the harmful byproducts of fermented junk and processed foods, to prevent pathogenic microorganisms e.g. bacteria and viruses etc. present in the GIT from gaining entrance into the blood stream. When the immune system produce immunological biochemicals at the sites of damage by the harmful byproducts of fermented junk and processed foods, these immunological biochemicals inflames the GIT, causing Inflammations. The consistent damage to the GIT by the harmful byproducts of junk and processed foods do elicit or produce consistent/chronic Inflammations in the GIT causing various GIT diseases such as Ulcerative colitis, Crohn disease, etc.
B. Chronic Liver Inflammation(Autoimmune Disease):
Liver is the final resting place of harmful byproducts of fermented junk and processed foods. The presence of these products of fermentation or half-digested byproducts junk and processed foods along with the toxic chemicals with which they are processed and preserved do overwhelm the liver of a person that is given to the consumption of junk foods which the immune system see as foreign bodies not Food, thereby eliciting their normal responses: production of immunological biochemicals e.g. cytokines aimed at destroying these toxic chemicals, that are not food though they are consumed as foods.
Since these junk foods are lodged or deposited in the tissue or cells of the liver, the immunological biochemicals sent or aimed at neutralizing or attacking them do surely damage the liver cells or tissue in the continuous process earlier called Chronic Inflammation. In the efforts of the liver to repair these consistent and continued Chronic Inflammation, Cirrhosis of the liver do occur.
Normally, the repair of worn-out body tissues is always an ongoing natural process, but the repair that is caused as a result of Chronic Inflammation damage that junk and processed foods and their harmful byproducts caused to the liver leads to the further damage not repair of the liver cells or tissue thereby causing Cirrhosis of the liver or outright liver damage or failure, making the afflicted person to be in need of liver transplant.
C. Chronic Kidney Inflammation(Autoimmune Disease):
As it happens to the liver, it also happens to the kidney since the circulation of blood with its attendant harmful byproducts of junk and processed foods do pass through the kidney cells and tissues for filteration where these toxic chemicals are lodged causing Chronic Inflammation. The immunological responses of the immune of the immune system/cells through chronic inflammations cause damage to the functional unit of the kidney called Nephron resulting in Nephritis- a condition in which the blood vessels in the kidney's Bowmans capsule (glomerular) becomes inflamed(Inflammation) and porous, thereby preventing ultrafiltration function of the Nephron, resulting in kidney impairment or damage.
D. Chronic Joint Inflammation(Autoimmune Disease):
As represented in Rheumatoid arthritis, which is brought about by chronic/consistent inflammation of the joints when the harmful byproducts of junk and processed foods get lodged or deposited in the joints of the human body: the immune system in its response to the presence of these toxic chemicals produce cytokines(biochemicals) to attack these toxic to neutralize them, but in the process of neutralizing these toxic chemicals, it damage the human joints with its inflammatory biochemicals(which are cytotoxic or cytolytic-they destroy or kill living cells) as a result of the chronic inflammation that these cytotoxic or cytolytic biochemicals produce in the joints.
E. Chronic Pancreas Inflammation(Autoimmune Disease)
The pancreas is an integral organ responsible for the intake of glucose from the blood stream through its production of insulin. As it is certain that the blood always reach or pass all the organs and tissues in the human body and do transport nutrients including toxic byproducts of junk and processed foods, these toxic byproducts of junk and processed foods do get lodged or deposited in the pancreas with associated immune responses causing chronic inflammations of the tissues or cells of the pancreas thereby causing damage to the cells of the pancreas responsible for the production of insulin. The chronic or consistent inflammations of the tissues or cells of the pancreas do cause damage to the pancreas cells or tissues making the pancreas to lose its function of insulin production/synthesis leading to or resulting in the disease condition called Diabetes insipidus(type 1)
F. Chronic Nerve Inflammation(Autoimmune Disease):as it pertains to all the tissues and organs of the human body, the nervous system is also affected. Whenever the toxic chemicals associated with junk and processed foods are being circulated and lodged or deposited at various sites in the human body, they do attach or get deposited at the human nervous tissues. When these toxic chemicals get lodged or attached to the nervous system either in the brain or at the nervous tributaries(nerve branches), they do elicit or produce associated immune responses causing chronic inflammations that destroy nerve tissues and cells resulting in debilitating nervous system disorders or diseases as presented in Multiple sclerosis (MS), Guillain-Barre syndrome, Autism, Alzheimer's, Hyper activity (ADDH) in children, etc.
G. Chronic Lung Inflammation (Autoimmune Diseases):
The ubiquitous circulation of the blood stream as aforementioned do transport the toxic chemicals associated with junk and processed foods ( toxic byproducts of half-digestion/fermentation e.g.alcohols, acids) to the lungs where they are deposited in the lungs tissues causing allergic/immune response which cause the accumulation of fluids or mucor in the air sacs, thinning or clogging of the air way as presented in Asthmatic conditions and other Non-Microbial lung diseases or malfunctions.
Conclusion and Recommendations
It is a great privilege when we are made to know the negative effects of what we are exposed to in our daily food consumption. But what is of great importance and fortune, is when we avail ourselves of this great privilege by taking drastic actions to avoid the negative effects in the short and the long run in light of the dire consequences that the consumption of NON-FOODS or Junk foods(processed foods) bring about in the human body with regards to the aforementioned Autoimmune of diseases that Junk and processed foods and their toxic chemicals produce in the human body.
P.S. If you find this article educative and informative, you can endeavour to help share it around to other people who will be in need of it. This endeavour of yours will go a long way in breaking the vicious cycle of diseases in our society and contribute alot to improving the Public Health.
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