The body does not make mistakes

Medicines to blame for autoimmune disease?

- DAWN LESTER & DAVID PARKER

THE concept of an autoimmune disease is based on the existence of the 'immune system'.

The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) explains: 'Your immune system is the network of cells and tissues in your body that work together to defend you from viruses, bacteria, and infection. It tries to identify and destroy the invaders that might hurt you.

'In autoimmune diseases, proteins known as autoantibodies target the body's own healthy tissues by mistake, signalling the body to attack them.'

It would seem, therefore, that, according to the medical establishment, the human body is not only a passive receptacle that is attacked by disease, but it also makes mistakes and is capable of self-destruction.

However, despite the apparent confidence displayed by their statements about the body making mistakes and attacking itself, the medical establishment admits to not knowing the causes of these conditions.

Under the heading, Autoimmune Disease Risk Factors on the Johns Hopkins Medicine web page entitled: What Are Common Symptoms of Autoimmune Disease? is the statement that 'researchers don't know what causes autoimmune disease.'

This statement continues: 'But several theories point to an overactive immune system attacking the body after an infection or injury.'

This does not provide a convincing argument that the immune system actually attacks the body if there are only theories that point to this idea.

More importantly, the concept of the immune system itself is flawed because it is based on the idea that viruses and bacteria attack and infect the body to cause disease, which, as we have shown in many of our previous articles, remains an unproven theory.