Autoimmune diseases can be caused by a dysfunction of the immune system.
Normally, the immune system protects the body from inflection and diseases. But when it cannot work properly, it can attack healthy cells, tissues, and organs.
This can lead to autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and other diseases.
Recently, researchers have found several possible ways to prevent this type of diseases.
One study from the University of Edinburgh found that vitamin D could influence the immune system and may reduce people’s susceptibility to multiple sclerosis.
They found that vitamin D can affect the mechanism in the body’s immune system — dendritic cells’ ability to activate T cells.
In healthy people, T cells play a crucial role in helping to fight infections. But In people with autoimmune diseases, they can attack the body’s own tissues.
This explains why vitamin D deficiency may change the immune system and increase the susceptibility to autoimmune diseases.
People can get vitamin D from sunlight and dietary supplements.
The study is published in Frontiers in Immunology.
A second study found that eating red meat in a Mediterranean diet may lower the risk of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
In the study, Australian researchers examined whether there was a link between eating a Mediterranean diet that includes unprocessed red meat, such as lamb, beef and pork, and a reduced risk of multiple sclerosis.
They found that eating one serving (65 g) of unprocessed red meat every day in a healthy Mediterranean diet was linked to lower disease risk.
They explain that red meat contains important macro and micronutrients that may help build healthy immune functions.
The team also suggest that people should only eat a moderate amount of unprocessed lean red meat because too much red meat in diet could bring health risks.
The study is published in The Journal of Nutrition.
A third study from Augusta University in Georgia found that drinking baking soda may help people prevent autoimmune diseases.
The researchers found that drinking baking soda could help fight the inflammation of autoimmune diseases.
In healthy people and rats, drinking baking soda could help the stomach make more acid to digest the next meal and prevent the stomach from mounting a protective immune response.
After drinking baking soda, there is a shift from inflammatory to an anti-inflammatory profile occurs in multiple regions in the body.
The finding is published in the Journal of Immunology.
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