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Autoimmunity

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How to Start Exercising When You Have an Autoimmune Disease

An autoimmune disease can make it difficult to exercise. This expert guidance can help you get moving again.
By Jessica Migala
AutoimmunitySpecific Health Conditions
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Do You Have an Autoimmune Disease? Here Are 3 Reasons to Keep Moving

An autoimmune disease can make exercise challenging, but it is vital to your health and well-being to keep moving. Here's why.
By Jessica Migala
AutoimmunitySpecific Health Conditions
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Ask the Expert: What Are Stem-Cell and Exosome Therapies?

Life Time’s chief science officer, Jim LaValle, RPh, CCN, MT, explains.
By Jim LaValle, RPH, CCN
AutoimmunityInflammation
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How to Manage Exertion With an Autoimmune Disease

An autoimmune disease can make exercise challenging. Learn expert strategies to manage exertion and move in a way that supports your health and well-being.
By Jessica Migala
AutoimmunitySpecific Health Conditions
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How to Stay Active When Living With an Autoimmune Disease

An autoimmune disease can make it difficult to exercise, but intentional movement can help you feel better — physically and mentally. Learn more.
By Jessica Migala
AutoimmunitySpecific Health Conditions
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Are Autoimmune Diseases Becoming More Common?

Yes, and many experts suspect environmental triggers. Here's why.
By Experience Life Staff
AutoimmunityInflammation
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Lindsay Karp on Living With Multiple Sclerosis

A woman with MS shares how she’s learning to love life — and her body — after her diagnosis.
By Lindsay Karp
AutoimmunityFunctional/Integrative Medicine
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Talks — S7, EP1 / Be Your Own Best Health Advocate

A Lyme disease diagnosis and accompanying body-wide pain and debilitating fatigue led Ryan Sutter — firefighter, endurance athlete, and Bachelorette alum — to take action to find answers, treatment options, and a path toward wellness. In this episode, Sutter shares his health journey, as well as advice for pushing through challenge, fighting health obstacles, and advocating for your well-being.

With Ryan Sutter
Attitude/MindsetAutoimmunity
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Which Health Conditions Are Considered Inflammatory?

Chronic conditions such as autoimmune disorders, Alzheimer's, and certain types of arthritis indicate some level of inflammation.
By Mo Perry
AllergiesAlzheimer’s & Dementia
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Demi Church’s Success Story

A woman struggling with three autoimmune diseases discovers the healing power of food and lifestyle changes.
By Demi Church
AutoimmunityGut Health
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A New Look at Chronic Lyme

Many physicians who treat tick-borne diseases now combine conventional medicine with gentler integrative strategies — and more long-term patients are getting well.
By Pamela Weintraub
AutoimmunitySpecific Health Conditions
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Long-Haul-Covid Recovery and Vaccines

Some people with long-haul COVID have seen their symptoms abate after getting one of the mRNA vaccines. Here's what might be at play.
By Mo Perry
AutoimmunityCovid-19
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Why Autoimmune Diseases Are on the Rise — Especially After COVID

Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and other autoimmune conditions are on the rise, partly because of the prevalence of long COVID. Discover what can trigger autoimmunity and how a functional-medicine approach can help.
By Mo Perry
Arthritis & Joint HealthAutoimmunity
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How to Treat Long-Haul COVID

COVID-19 is leaving many with a disturbing array of chronic symptoms. These functional-medicine strategies can help.
By Mo Perry
AutoimmunityCovid-19
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5 Ways Your Body Tells You It’s Toxic

Our bodies are pretty good at letting us know when something is off. See if one of these signs might be indicating that it's time to detox.
By Anika Christ, RD, CPT
AutoimmunityGut Health
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Autoimmune Disorders: When Your Body Turns on You

There's been a stark rise in autoimmune disorders over the past 50 years, from type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis to celiac disease and asthma. What is autoimmune disorder? The first step toward a cure is understanding and controlling the causes.
By Catherine Guthrie
AutoimmunityInflammation
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The Parasite Paradox: How Parasites May Benefit Health

Intestinal organisms can be a trigger for troubling health issues. But new research finds they can also help the body heal, especially from autoimmune diseases.
By Pamela Weintraub
AutoimmunityFunctional/Integrative Medicine
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First Blood Biomarker for MS Discovered — and What It Means for Treatment

MS expert — and patient — Terry Wahls, MD, on what the recent discovery means for those with the neurodegenerative disease.
By Anjula Razdan
AutoimmunityFunctional/Integrative Medicine
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Lyme Disease in the Limelight

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are taking a closer look at Lyme disease.
By Jill Metzler Patton
AutoimmunityGeneral Health
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The Connection Between Leaky Gut and Autoimmune Diseases

Scientists find that leaky gut syndrome can lead to the onset of an autoimmune disease.
By Catherine Guthrie
AutoimmunityGut Health
Beating Lyme

Beating Lyme Disease

For patients with tick-borne diseases, the path to health can be confounding. Combining integrative and conventional approaches may be the best way forward.
By Pamela Weintraub
AutoimmunityFunctional/Integrative Medicine
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