Re-educate the Immune System: Gerald T. Nepom at TEDxRainier

As Director of the Benaroya Institute at Virginia Mason and the Immune Tolerance Network, Immunologist and Biomedical Researcher Gerald Nepom, MD, PhD, has dedicated himself to understanding the moment when the body turns against itself, causing diseases such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis, and how by decoding our genes we can better relate to our immune system.

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[mvrao]

Best lecture on immune system within the short time of about 12 minutes 🎉

[bethellen]

Fascinating. Thank you for that clear, concise explanation. 💜😊💜

[nathanbenkhe]

Glad I stumbled upon this TED talk. I just recently developed a general auto-immune disease that is attacking my joints and connective tissues. Resulting in not being able to work. I can barely get out of a chair or off the toilet and in some cases, if a chair is too low I simply can't get up without assistance. My hands are like claws and I'm unable to open them or grip anything. Pain and swelling in my feet makes it impossible to be on my feet for long. I am finally getting treatment and starting to improve on a long list of drugs but the side effects and long term damage from these drugs are horrible and I hope someday we can move past this current method of treatment. I have since signed up for a clinical trial. I hope I can be involved in changing the outlook for others like myself. Donations can also be given. I highly suggest anybody who knows somebody with an auto immune disease to make a donation to help possibly make a positive change in treatment options.

[tamaralarimore]

Nutrition from early on and detoxification from a biotherapeutic aspect can retrain and allow the body to heal and right itself. Drugs can only temporary at best deal with symptoms of the body, but never eradicate the core issue. Drugs become ineffective leading to other drugs that ultimately create more problems in the body and oftentimes worsening the original problem or creating a bigger problem than the original dis-ease(simply a body out of balance.)

[okmmom]

Autoimmune disease starts in the mind, the #1 cause is Stress as it imbalence your hormone levels and create disease, ever wonder why xortisone which is a sress hormone is the #1 drug used to treat such diseases, also autoimmune flares are often preceded by stressful situations, something went wrong with your stress hormones which caused disease, we should teach children in school of the negative effects and biology of stress

[dawnandy]

If you have MS, re-educate your immune system with diet as well. Look into Dr. Jelinek (overcoming MS) and Dr. Wahls (another TED talk). I was diagnosed in 1992 and am doing much better than the doctors predicted over the years. But I have to admit, I really miss cheese.

[jacquiwilliams]

Thank you-for being positive I’ve been recently diagnosed with rare autoimmune diseases and I believe as an individualI can have power of the mind and change my conditions with so many lifestyle choices! I am coming off the steroids and next the immune suppressant and working hard being holistic! So many people give up and that’s when you see conditions progress at faster rates ….

[chrisb]

People need to understand that if you look at people living a simple life away from the modern world, they dont have these diseases.
Then ask yourself why, live like these people is your answer!

[karlafelix]

Hello, please increase the volume of these videos.

[Newearth]

over 80 autoimmune diseases. How does our chronic stress - physical, emotional, psychological, anxiety, PTSD and trauma affect our immune response?

[lindaoneill]

That was great info .my daughter takes immune suppressant drugs I have sent her this info thank u xx

[Amours]

and so ? how do we re-educate the immune system ?

[kingie]

Please hurry, I cant live with my body attacking itself everyday,

[ZRazzleDazzle]

I have ankylosing spondylitis almost my whole life. I can't bear this pain anymore. What should I do? I have made diet related changes years ago, but still don't feel great.

[dominicvarrasso]

So can hypnosis help to redirect the IS

[gustavbloom]

Not a word about how it's done. Please just a hint.

[dr.deepakpaudel]

Healthy diet, healthy circadian rhythm = good immune system

[sisthebest]

Yes, please make a permanent cure for rheumatoid arthritis I don't wanna die with this crappie disease. I want to travel the world by singing and dancing happily 🙏😊😊😊😊😊

[loveyourselves]

We are expecting this treatment in india

[Tlyne]

My immune system is drunk too
Attacking good cells