To the legions of those with an autoimmune disease, I extend a hand of hope. Oh, I'm not knowledgeable, far from a doctor, and may well not know what I'm talking about.
But listen, anyway.
Way back in the day, 1967 it was, the first successful heart transplant in history took place in Cape Town, South Africa. Now, it would never have been successful except that doctors had learned that when you place a heart from one person into another, the natural response of the body getting the heart is to reject it, attack it. The new heart is foreign to the new body, so it tries to rid itself of it.
You got to use a little medicine to change that. So, Dr. Christiaan Barnard made sure his patient got that medicine.
I read how with autoimmune diseases, the body does the same. The antibodies that should be protecting your body, turn on it, instead. You are always tired, regardless how much sleep you get, because your own antibodies attack your energy cells.
I just wonder if the same medications that persuade the body to accept a new heart, might benefit those with autoimmune diseases. Those same medications might also help against other debilitating diseases and conditions.
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