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Stress isn’t just uncomfortable, it’s an immune insult
Ever noticed how your symptoms flare right when life starts getting hard? That’s not an inconvenient coincidence, it’s biology. Your nervous system and your immune system are in constant conversation and chronic stress changes how your immune system behaves within minutes, not weeks. In this article I break down the science of psychoneuroimmunology, why a hypervigilant nervous system creates a hypervigilant immune system, and what you can actually do about it, drawing on my own story along the way.
Why your immune system isn't broken… it's confused (and what confused it in the first place)
If you've been handed a diagnosis and sent on your way with a prescription and a leaflet, you are not alone and you deserve a better explanation than ‘your immune system is misfiring’.
Autoimmunity is not a random malfunction. It is a loss of immune tolerance, usually years in the making, driven by a specific set of conditions that conventional medicine rarely investigates. Understanding what those conditions are, and why your immune system ended up where it did, changes everything about what's possible from here.
In this article I walk you through what autoimmunity actually is, how and why the immune system loses its ability to distinguish self from threat, why the same diagnosis looks completely different from person to person and what we know about the factors that drive immune confusion in the first place. This is the context nobody gives you in a 10-minute appointment. It's the explanation I needed and didn't get and it's the foundation of everything that follows.
