Auto-immune Disorders: Treatment with Functional Medicine
By Dr. Brenda Gill
Since functional medicine is the cornerstone of what natural medicine doctors do, one of the most common problems I treat is auto-immune conditions, since there are very few pharmaceutical options that help and most of them have many side effects. An auto-immune condition means the immune system is over-reacting against your own proteins somewhere in the body. There are more than eighty illnesses caused by auto-immunity, which can be chronic, debilitating and life-threatening, and have been estimated to be one of the ten leading causes of death among women in all age groups.
