Unlike colonoscopies, endoscopies are only done if a patient is feeling symptoms—they're not done for screening purposes. So, if you’re having an endoscopy, usually [that means] something's going wrong. One thing endoscopies miss is they don't tell us too much about the microbial ecosystem in the small intestine.
Autoimmune diseases are a cluster of more than 80 chronic, and often debilitating, diseases affecting 22.5 million Americans. Generally speaking, an autoimmune disease is a condition wherein the body’s immune system begins to attacks its own cells. The immune system is not “over-active”; rather, it is confused….
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