Autoimmune Disease: Symptoms, Causes, and What Gets Missed

Fatigue, brain fog, digestive issues, joint pain, skin changes, flares, swelling and food reactions get treated as separate problems, by different people, over years. Sometimes they are one immune pattern nobody has connected yet.Colin Renaud, PA-C walks through what the autoimmune process actually is, the symptom cluster that should make you stop and look for a pattern, and what tends to set the immune system off, including stress, infection, mold and environmental exposure. He gets into why someone can have obvious symptoms and still not have a diagnosis, and what testing actually helps: full thyroid panels with antibodies, ANA, rheumatoid factor and anti-CCP.He also covers what managing a flare looks like, why recovery takes the time it takes, and how gut health, nutrition, stress and trauma fit in. The episode closes with live questions from viewers.For educational purposes only. Not personal medical advice.