The Secret is Out!

Auto Immune Diseases are Knocking at your Door!

According to the American Autoimmune Related Disease Association, more than 50 million people in the U.S. suffer from one or more autoimmune disease. That’s an alarming one out of every five people!

Do you know five people? One of them has an autoimmune disease and that one person could, be you? 50 million people with an autoimmune disease is an epidemic. That’s more people that have been diagnosed with cancer and heart disease put together!

My Story

30 years ago, I suffered from fibromyalgia for 15 years without knowing it was an autoimmune disease. Read my story in my About section.

The term autoimmune didn’t exist 30 years ago, yet I had a serious case that was riddling my body.

Symptoms

Other examples of Autoimmune Disease symptoms and diagnosis include but are not limited to;

• Multiple Sclerosis
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Hashimoto’s thyroid issues
• Constipation Chronic fatigue
• Joint painIrritability
• Reoccurring headaches
• Skin issues
• Weight gain and more

In fact, there have been more than 100 confirmed autoimmune diseases people are coping with on a daily basis. Many are under-diagnosed and therefore not treated. They are just not aware that what they have is an autoimmune disease, like what I experienced over 30 years ago.

It’s a hard diagnosis because the symptoms affect many parts of the body. The symptoms are hard to pin down and they can be very sporadic in nature.

Over the years we’ve been trained to seek out ‘quick fix’ solutions such as medication to manage symptoms while all the while the condition continues to grow and get worse right under our own skin causing internal inflammation as we age.

There are two hard facts to know

1) There is no cure for autoimmune disease.

2) Once you have an autoimmune disease you are prone for others to develop.

Although not curable they can be managed through diet, lifestyle, and supplementation.

However, left untreated autoimmune diseases open the door to other serious health disease like Lupus, other cancers, skin, heart, and brain diseases.

I had fibromyalgia 30 years ago that went untreated as an autoimmune disease. Now I recently learned that I have two more conditions. One is called IBS and Leaky Gut.

I have learned to identify the symptoms and therefore live life in a state of management that’s works for me. If you have any symptoms or diagnosis stated above you will want to get tested. Treating the symptom alone, as an example a skin condition with creams and pills, does not get to the root cause of the condition.  All conditions have a root cause which normally is tied to gut health. You cannot address fatigue without addressing the gut. You cannot address weight gain without addressing the gut, you cannot address even a flinching eye without addressing the gut. All conditions start with a dysfunction in the gut.

If you think you might have Leaky Gut, please contact me through my website: thegutsylady.com or email: diane.gutsylady.coach@gmail.com, or book a Free 20 Minute Discovery Session.