Dr. Deborah Gordon
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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]