Is Meniere's Disease an Autoimmune Disorder?
We are an adaptive organism. If you move to a high altitude, it's harder to breathe, until you acclimate. Lungs increase in size, and the body makes more red blood cells and capillaries to carry more oxygen. The body adapts to its environment.
We adapt when we meet new people by learning new ways to communicate, and these ways become a part of us. We grow.
We're adapting all the time to our emotional/mental environment - work, home life, and how we respond to it - and our biological environment - how good our nutrition is, water and fluid balances, how many toxins are hanging out in our body. As our bodies make little changes inside to protect us from possible harm, cells pass on instruction to new ones coming down the line: "Hey white blood cells, there are extra toxins in here, make sure there's enough of you to fight 'em off."
Body functions continue as they've been instructed, quietly in the background. We assume everything is going along just fine unless we wake up one day with a symptom.
We go see a doctor, get medication and a diagnosis, and we like the certainty of knowing that what we have is recognized by a professional. We have hope that the doctor's treatment will make the discomfort "go away", and we can get back to our daily routine.
If the symptoms are classified as Meniere's disease, patients are told that there's no cure. Instead, there's alot of testing with medications and procedures, and hopefully, the dizzy attacks can be reduced. We're told to hope for the best, but it will never go away for good.
The ENT acknowledges the environmental role in health by suggesting Meniere's patients look for triggers - foods and chemicals and stress that provoke attacks. Can we not use the same logic and ask this question: "What has my body been adapting to, bringing me negative symptoms, and what can I add/remove to change the direction of adaptation, and bring me closer to health?"
This is the old way of thinking: accidental disease = doctor = medication and procedures.
Here's the new way: body's adaptive nature = power to get it adapting toward well-being by adding nutrition and removing toxins.
We live in a toxic society.
There are some 200,000 new chemicals around us that didn't exist before 1950. More medications, chemicals, pesticides come out every day. Our bodies are doing heavy work handling chemicals we can't see or smell or taste.
By the time we feel a symptom, cell creation and direction has already gone awry. We just didn't know it because we didn't feel it yet.
What is auto-immune dysfunction?
If we grew up believing that the sky was red because everybody said so, the sky would be red, not blue. Who would know any different? In autoimmune dysfunction, this is how cells learn to attack the body.
Our cells are smart: they will adapt to whatever comes into the body to keep it alive. they accommodate toxins by stepping up the removal process. It's like having a huge trash-pickup force because everybody suddenly put out an extra 5 bags of trash on the sidewalk. It has to go somewhere. Next thing you know, you can't get to work because the trucks are in the way.
If this happens in our cells, they take on the same hyper activity. This means inflammation (too many garbage men) and autoimmune disorders (trash isn't picked up, but your new car's gone).
When toxins get past our body's main defences, they change identity and influence other cells to do the same. They can change your DNA.
Here's a story about how toxins replicate.
What this has to do with you
If it's possible to feel better by helping the immune system, it means we can shift our thinking to a place of power - we used to be helpless and dependent, but now we can take our own action to feel better. It's a game-changer.
Lots of people who have Meniere's and AIED are finding relief, not from suppressing the immune system (like some prescription drugs do), but by getting it back on track. It's a retraining, so to speak.
Here's some further reading about the connection between Meniere's Disease and autoimmune dysfunction:
http://www.hearinglosshelp.com/articles/aied.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1825685
Knowledge is power
New science says that if we take away toxins that our body has adapted to in a negative way, and add positive nutrition and emotional balance, the body will re-adapt in a healthy way, back to our inherant well-being.
To do this we remove what doesn't work and replace it with what does. All we have to know is where to begin.
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