Immune Health
Chronic Immune Dysfunction Can Have A Significant Effect On Your Quality Of Life
Chronic immune dysfunction affects a growing number of individuals each year – showing up in a variety of ways, such as uncontrolled inflammation, increased susceptibility to colds and flu, allergies, and autoimmunity. If you’re looking for a doctor to help with your immune system, Dr. Williams can help!
Although these autoimmune diseases and symptoms can vary dramatically, the major underlying factors of autoimmune disease are surprisingly similar.
The development of your immune system begins before you’re born.
The health of your mother, her diet and lifestyle habits, and infections during pregnancy can have dramatic effects on your immune development. Starting the day you’re born, the body’s defenses must protect you from the myriad of viruses, bacteria, and harmful substances in our environment. As you grow, the immune system becomes adept at identifying and responding to invasions by microbes or toxins.
Your natural defenses can lose their swift and efficient abilities for a number of reasons. Poor diet, lack of exercise, poor digestion, chronic stress, or impaired ability to detoxify harmful substances can all lead to immune imbalance and even autoimmune disorders.
Chronic immune dysfunction can show in a variety of ways, such as uncontrolled inflammation, increased susceptibility to colds and flu, allergies, and autoimmunity. Although these conditions and symptoms can vary dramatically, the major underlying factors are surprisingly similar making it important to evaluate factors of diet, lifestyle, gastrointestinal health, stress, and toxins to uncover the root causes.
If left unchecked, chronic immune dysfunction can lead to an autoimmune disease, where your immune system attacks your own body. The good news is that with the functional medicine approach, you can target immune dysfunction, rebalance your immune system, and restore well-being.
Ready to recover your immune health? Dr. Sarah Williams in Concord can help you optimize your health by restoring balancer to your immune system. Call us now!