Dr. Deborah Gordon

Unraveling The Modern Diseases: Autoimmune In autoimmune disease a person's own immune system turns on itself.  Antibodies within our immune system are normally our defenses against injury (healing a cut) or intruders (viruses or bacteria) or chaos (growing cancers), but sometimes a body will make antibodies set out to attack the actual tissues of the body itself. We can identify autoimmune antibodies to tissues on simple blood tests [read more]