7 Autoimmune Diseases and Weight Loss Gain — Autoimmune Weight Gain
Khadija Horton Effed-up fact alert: Recent research suggests that more Americans have blood markers signaling autoimmunity, or that their body is making antibodies that could fight a person's own immune system, and that could translate to a rise in autoimmune disorders. If that made your brain hurt, just know that autoimmune diseases are becoming more and more common. “An autoimmune disease is any condition that causes your own immune system, which is designed to fend off foreign bodies, mistakenly attacks parts of your own body,” says Deepa Kirk, M.D., associate professor of medicine...