Woolygimp
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They can pop up at any point in a persons life without warning, one day healthy, one day you'll feel like you have the flu, can't walk, and never recover. They're brutal because the immune system is the most efficient system in the body.
Autoimmunty has gone up nearly 10-50 fold in the past 100 years. Before the industrial revolution, they were fucking rare as hell. It's probably either our food or chemicals we're being exposed to that's causing it, or the Hygiene Hypothesis which states we're too clean and instead of finding pathogens to fight, it just starts arbitrarily attacking healthy cells.
Cancer is a red herring. Autoimmunity kills and ruins the lives of far more people. And the treatment? Chemotherapy drugs like Methotrexate or Cellcept. The first real Lupus drug in 50 years was recently released and it costs nearly $10,000 a month.
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Scleroderma is a real fun one. It's when your facial tissue becomes filled with collagen due to inflammation, along with your internal organs, and you die a very painful death while people don't even want to look at you because you look worse than having Leprosy.
Autoimmunty has gone up nearly 10-50 fold in the past 100 years. Before the industrial revolution, they were fucking rare as hell. It's probably either our food or chemicals we're being exposed to that's causing it, or the Hygiene Hypothesis which states we're too clean and instead of finding pathogens to fight, it just starts arbitrarily attacking healthy cells.
Cancer is a red herring. Autoimmunity kills and ruins the lives of far more people. And the treatment? Chemotherapy drugs like Methotrexate or Cellcept. The first real Lupus drug in 50 years was recently released and it costs nearly $10,000 a month.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/classconne.../linear_scleroderma_2-14A4A5A683514B25756.png
Scleroderma is a real fun one. It's when your facial tissue becomes filled with collagen due to inflammation, along with your internal organs, and you die a very painful death while people don't even want to look at you because you look worse than having Leprosy.
