Autoimmune disease, if you will know it, is much a matter of the body's own attacking the body's own body. In this, is there a wonderful secret to fighting off death and aging?
Think of it: We know that if you take a heart out of one person, and place it in another, the body of the person getting the heart will reject it. The antibodies -- the body's natural defenses -- will attack the foreign heart.
Ahh, but we found a way around that didn't we. Way back in 1967 when we had the first successful heart transplant, we discovered that if we use the right drugs, they can convince the body to accept the heart instead of attacking it.
Should anything be any different with autoimmune diseases? They body's natural defenses attack parts of their own body. Science has probably thought this over, and it doesn't work, but not knowing how to look that up to verify it, I wonder if we could take those same medicines that persuade a person's body to accept a foreign heart, and use them to persuade the body's natural defenses to quit fighting the body.
Does it seem that no matter how much you sleep, you still become tired and sleepy? I'm told, that is the body's own antibodies attacking energy cells.
It does seem to me, that if there are medicines that get the body to accept a foreign heart, then we should be able to come up with a medicine to end autoimmune diseases. Think of all the long list of autoimmune diseases -- lupus, multiple sclerosis, Ankylosing spondylitis, etc. -- what if we could cure them as easy as this?
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