Rheumatoid Arthritis - How To Increase Your Options With Alternative Medicine

August 14th, 2007 | Category: General Health

Think of the immune system as a huge army of white blood cells ready to defend our body against attack by outside invaders such as germs, bacteria, viruses and parasites (also known as antigens). Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease is when

our immune system turns on the body that hosts it and systematically tries to destroy it by attacking healthy body tissue such as the joints (rheumatoid arthritis), muscles (fibromyalgia), pancreas (type 1 diabetes) or nerves (multiple sclerosis).

Original post by iseowen@bigpond.com (Wendy Owen)

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.