As a person's own immune system attacks their body instead of microbes or cancerous cells, they can experience chronic fatigue, chronic pain, drug dependency, depression, and social isolation. These symptoms annihilate mental health, wreck promising careers, destroy lives and, often, ruin families. For too many, these illnesses result in early death.
Some estimate there are at least eight million people in the U.S. with psoriasis, four million with Sjogren's disease, and three million with inflammatory bowel disease, which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Most autoimmune diseases are being diagnosed in increasing numbers ranging from 3 to 12 percent annually across the globe.
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