Theory of Autoimmunity

By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News Ditching meat and fish in favor of a vegetarian diet can have a dramatic effect on the health of your heart, research suggests. A study of 44,500 people in England and Scotland showed vegetarians were 32% less likely to die or need hospital treatment as a result of heart disease. Differences in cholesterol levels, blood pressure and body weight are thought to be behind the health boost. The findings  were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition . Heart disease is a major blight in Western countries. It kills 94,000 people in the UK each year, more than any other disease, and 2.6 million people live with the condition. The heart's own blood supply becomes blocked up by fatty deposits in the arteries that nourish the heart muscle. It can cause angina or even lead to a heart attack if the blood vessels become completely blocked. Scientists at the University of Oxford analysed data from 15,100 ...

The two most common reasons for chronic kidney failure are diabetic nephropathy and chronic glomerulonephritis. Diabetes I have mentioned above. Now I would talk about nephritis: As we all know all kinds of nephritis are autoimmune deceases. In the nephron are accumulated antigen-antibody complexes, or there is a direct reaction of an antibody against the epithelia of the nephron. For example we develop autoimmune reaction against a protein in the glomeruli. This causes the nephron destruction and chronic kidney failure. This can be a false autoimmune reaction of the human organism against its own protein, caused by the consumption of foreign protein common to the human protein. Or there is an accumulation of antigen- antibody complex in the nephron that causes inflammation and destruction of the nephron. Antibody and antigen can be human proteins found in blood. Antibody is produced against foreign protein, common in structure to human and reacts falsely to human protein. Th...