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Immunology is a relatively young discipline. For sufferers of autoimmune conditions, a range of treatments exist which are often unknown to the patient. These are some suggested by readers, and should be undertaken in consultation with a health professional.

Causes

Family and Upbringing
As we shall see later, auto-immune conditions can be triggered and exacerbated through higher than normal levels of stress hormones, such as cortisol (right spelling). A tendency for an individual to produce, and be chronically dependent upon, high cortisol levels can be triggered by factors in one’s childhood.

Oliver James writes, in the highly acclaimed They F*** You Up, by Bloomsbury Publishing (Amazon link to come):

“The chemistry of the body is tremendously influenced by early upbringing. For instance, the hormone cortisol is secreted as a response to threats or other demands for action from the environment. In normal people it goes up and down according to what is happening at any given moment, but if we were living in a highly stressful family in our first six or so years of life this acts like a thermostat, setting our cortisol levels too high or too low in adulthood. If an adult was under constant threat as a child, with aggressive or neglectful or intrusive parents, that person’s system can either close down (low levels) or become jammed on permanent alert (high). He or she may have low, blunted cortisol levels because he has simply got too used to the stimuli that demand fight-or-flight, so that they no longer trigger the hormone; or he may have constantly high levels, always ready for a rapid response to danger. Adults who suffered childhood maltreatment have specific cortisol patterns that reflect the type of maltreatment. Those who were … abused as children have high levels as adults, whereas those who suffered coldness and lack of love have low levels.

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