A new study shows that many individuals from the global population are experiencing various autoimmune diseases. This report came from data that showed how the immune systems in many people are responding in the body and how they confuse healthy cells from bad microorganisms that invade the system.
Surging Cases of Autoimmune Disease
LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 24: Signs for Taco Bell, Grinder, McDonalds, Panda Express fast-food restaurant line the streets in the Figueroa Corridor area of South Los Angeles on July 24, 2008, Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles City Council committee has unanimously approved year-long moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a 32-square-mile area, mostly in South Los Angeles, pending approval by the full council and the signature of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to make it the law. South LA has the highest concentration of fast-food restaurants of the city, about 400, and only a few grocery stores. L.A. Councilwoman Jan Perry proposed the measure to try to reduce health problems associated with a diet high in fast-food, like obesity and diabetes, which plague many of the half-million people living there.
To align the proper readings by the immune system of many people and solve the issue, experts have been conducting several types of research about the subject. One of the institutes that exert effort for the cause is the Francis Crick Institute. The experts who led the study, Carola Vinuesa and James Lee, set up separate teams to gather information and investigate the factors that trigger autoimmune diseases and how it is affected in the specified conditions.
According to a report by EuroWeekly News, Lee said that the full detection of autoimmune diseases had surged over 40 years ago in the regions of the west. However, contrary to the increase of the issue in the continent, there are still many countries around the globe that do not have the same disease.
Today, these rates prominent in the west are being detected already in Asia and the Middle East. Lee said that the cases of inflammatory diseases are already jumping to both the general regions, which is bizarre considering that the disease is rare to be diagnosed out of patients in the previous years.
Autoimmune disease is not just one term or a lone condition. The medical term covers many issues correlated to immunity, elevated by its weakness, and the lack of the system's maintenance. The problems under autoimmune diseases range from chronic inflammation and pain on joints called rheumatoid arthritis to the spinal cord and brain conditions induced by multiple sclerosis.
According to the report, autoimmune diseases that are detected in the global population increases from three to nine percent every year. Many studies point out that the causes of this surge could be credited to environmental factors.
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How Food, Gut Microbiomes, and Genetic Susceptibility Induce Autoimmune Diseases
Lee said that the problems with the immune system are not likely regulated by any changes in human genetics, as there are no known alterations discovered yet in our structure for the past decades. It means that there are external factors on the outside world that could be aggravating situations around the system, allowing gates to open for autoimmune diseases.
Lee's insights were backed up by College of Health & Medicine expert and Centre for Personalised Immunology cp-director Carola Vinuesa. According to them, there are many aspects that could be harnessed just by eating foods. With the imminent distribution of western-style foods throughout many countries, dietary routines have changed.
Vinuesa said that diets based on fast food certainly lack supporting nutrients for the immune system and other functions of the body. Ingredients missing in these foods could alter an individual's microbiomes, a collection of bacterias necessary to regulate our guts and provide management to many of the body's internal behaviors.
The changes in the microbiomes are dangerous and could lead to several issues, including autoimmune diseases. Today, there are already 100 types of the illness discovered to have links with the significant changes in the gut bacteria. Among future studies regarding the matter will concentrate on identifying how people are genetically susceptible to autoimmune disease.
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