What could cause one of Nature’s greatest achievements, the human immune system, to attack us resulting in more than 100 autoimmune diseases? Approximately 2.1 million Americans have rheumatoid arthritis. Approximately 400,000 Americans have Multiple Sclerosis. Approximately 18 million Americans suffer from asthma, with about six million of them children. Approximately one million Americans have Type I Diabetes Mellitus, the most common metabolic disease of childhood. That’s four. There are 96 others. Given these staggering statistics one would think we have a handle on this disease, yet the official cause of autoimmune disorders is unknown.
However, what we do know is that plant proteins’ amino acid sequences are 100 percent different than human proteins, where animal and human proteins share some common amino acid sequences. Is it possible that our immune system considers these common proteins foreign invaders? If so, it would follow that our immune system considers our proteins, which mimic the animal proteins, also uninvited visitors. It would have to, because it can’t tell the difference, and our immune system can’t take a chance. The result being, antibodies are dispatched to attack them, in essence, us. How and where they attack determines which one of the 100 names the condition gets.
Of course, all this is speculative. But the disease, if we get it, is very real.