Autoimmunity and Immune Confusion: How to Help Your Body Recognize You Again
Stress Is Killing You Faster Than You Think- Part Five
When Your Immune System Stops Recognizing You as Safe
The Truth About Autoimmunity, Identity, and Self-Repair
There’s a moment in chronic illness that nobody talks about.
The moment when your immune system - the one that’s supposed to protect you - starts to turn on you.
Not all at once.
Not dramatically.
But slowly.
Through inflammation that never resolves.
Through symptoms that don’t make sense.
Through flare-ups, food reactions, and fatigue that doesn’t answer to sleep.
This is what autoimmunity often looks like in the beginning:
Your body starts misreading signals.
Your immune system gets so overworked, so overstimulated, so inflamed that it loses the ability to tell the difference between a virus and a vital organ.
And that’s not just a physical problem.
That’s an identity crisis - at the cellular level!
But here’s something else we don’t talk about enough:
Sometimes your immune system doesn’t need to be flooded or shut down.
It just needs to be reminded.
Reminded of its job.
Reminded of the self it’s supposed to protect.
Reminded that not everything is a threat and not everything needs to be destroyed.
We’ve spent years bombarding the immune system with stress, medications, infections, environmental toxins and sometimes, even the good intentions of aggressive treatment.
But what if less really is more?
When my mom was diagnosed with rectal cancer, the instinct from the system was full force: chemo, radiation, heavy intervention.
But we chose differently.
Just a low-dose 5 Gy radiation plan over five days and everything else natural and holistic.
Because sometimes all the immune system needs is a cue. A nudge…
A moment of clarity to say:
“It’s time. Wake up. Defend what matters.”
T-cells can be reminded.
Natural killer cells can be activated.
And often, what looks like breakdown is really just an overwhelmed system waiting for direction.
Chronic stress mutes those signals.
So does inflammation.
So does trauma.
But the message can be restored.
And when it is?
Healing doesn’t have to be a war.
It can be a remembering.
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