hello i'm dr janine and this is my dr j9 top nine and nine so nine tips for autoimmune disorders and
an autoimmune disorder basically means that the body is attacking itself and there are a number
of different autoimmune disorders and there's things in the immune system like the t helper
cells and the t-reg cells that get out of balance so my tip number one is to make sure that we're
taking care of our gut health and making sure that we're closing up those tight junctions
because the tight junctions when they're opening up this is the leaky gut syndrome
and part of now that undigested food getting into the bloodstream
now the immune system is reacting to it and and sort of questioning well what are you
i don't really recognize you and this is part of that autoimmunity so really important to heal the
gut you want to look for functional proteins to help to actually heal that gut tissue and
that leaky gut and some accessory nutrients like selenium and acetylcysteine are really
important for that gut health tip number two is taking care of the microbiome so the microbiome
is that internal environment we need to have more of the good guys so more of the probiotics are
live microflora to really help to make sure that our immune system is working as it should
and maintains that balance when we have too many of those bad guys like the parasites the candida
what happens is that we get this imbalance in the microbiome and this is unhealthy so we want to
have probiotic foods so things like yogurt we also want to have kimchi sauerkraut which are fantastic
but also supplementation is important when we're talking about the microbiome studies have shown
with the microbiome that it's important to maintain that balance and specifically for
autoimmunity so just one that i have here from frontiers in microbiology talks about
the several articles that have emphasized that there's a connection between the intestinal
autoimmune disorders such as crohn's and with dysbiosis and this imbalance in that microbiome
as well as talking about other non-intestinal related diseases like graves disease ms type
1 diabetes and sle so lupus so and psoriasis schizophrenia these have all been related again
to that imbalance in the microflora and that my unhealthy microbiome and the autoimmunity
tip number three is to get enough vitamin d3 so vitamin d3 we know is a sunshine vitamin we all
need to make sure that we get are getting enough because it has an effect on our tea helper cells
and heaps helps to keep the t helper cells on track i have another study from human immunology
that talks about vitamin d3 specifically and the data has suggested that a potential insight into
the consideration of vitamin d3 in the prevention and control of the pro-inflammatory response and
autoimmune disorders so a lot of you know research is looking at vitamin d3 and why it's so important
to be able to have that positive impact and that finding that balance in the immune system which
of course can relate back to the gut as well tip number four is earthing so if you've not yet heard
or have been doing earthing what this means is getting your feet grounded in the earth without
wearing shoes of course so whether this is on the grass whether this is at the beach whether this is
you know in the mud that you're able to ground and much like you know in electronics when you
need to have that ground into the earth it helps to have that positive impact on all of the cells
of our body which are electrically charged and so a lot of research has gone into earthing and
finding this balance and what that grounding does is it helps to have that positive impact
on the electrical charge in our body which has an anti-inflammatory effect overall in our body
which is really promising tip number five is omega-3 fat so these are healthy fats yes we
need to have healthy fats in the diet so when we're getting omega-3 fats from a fish source
this would be certainly a non-vegetarian source but this is where we get our concentrated dha and
i tend to focus a little bit more on dha with dacosa hexanoic acid because as humans we tend
to be more deficient in dha as opposed to epa but they're both really important and they help
to decrease inflammation in the body overall but also in the gut another thing would be the
vegetarian sources certainly of the omega-3s and these have an anti-inflammatory effect as
well but they have a harder time converting into that active dha because we need that
special enzyme for that conversion so whether you're getting it from your omega-3s from a
vegetarian source or a non-vegetarian source it's totally up to you tip number six is to
trap heavy metals and chlorella helps to do this helps to decrease the heavy metals in our body so
heavy metals so things like mercury aluminum all of these heavy metals that are unfortunately in
our environment sometimes they're hidden in our beauty products they could be hidden in our foods
from the soils and this heavy metal toxicity is a big problem when we're talking about that
inflammatory response in the gut and of course in autoimmune disorders so what the chlorella does
is it helps to trap those heavy metals which have that negative impact on our body and our toxicity
and now we're able to have that decreased effect on our immunity and that one of those causative
effectors for that autoimmune condition tip number seven is exercise so exercise we know is
anti-inflammatory helps to relax the nervous system and for people who have autoimmune
disorders it's important to make sure that you're exercising you've got to get that blood flowing
you have to have that positive impact on the gut as well and when you're exercising you're moving
your blood blood flow and that's important also having that relaxing effect after exercise that
you have that good night's sleep and because when you have that good night's sleep your
body is actually regenerating and restoring itself and has a better detox ability in your liver and
your kidneys when you have that restful night's sleep so i find for a lot of people that exercise
really helps to have that balance between you know utilizing energy actively during the day
and then also having that restful night's sleep which is great for autoimmunity tip number eight
is fasting so yes fasting and whether you're doing intermittent fasting or prolonged fasting one to
two to three days of fasting we want to stimulate something called autophagy and autophagy is the
body's cleanup mechanism so in our body there's often you know we have good cells and old cells
so cleaning up we want those good cells to basically be eating away and getting rid of those
bad cells and that's what autophagy is in layman's terms so a great way to do that and to activate
that autophagy is to going into that fasting state so if you're not used to doing fasting for a long
period of time great to ease your way into it and a great way to do this is the intermittent fasting
so you're fasting you know for a few hours during the day then you have an eating window so and the
longer that you can make that fasting phase in a day so you know 18 six so 18 hours of fasting six
hours of eating of your eating window would be one of the ways that you could do this and i encourage
the intermittent fasting first before you're gonna go you know jump in with both feet on a prolonged
fast tip number nine is the dr j9 truth so in every episode i share that my own truth about
mind body and spirit connection as is relating to a topic so something to think about with
autoimmune disorders is to stop attacking yourself so if you have you know mentally emotionally
in most cases if you're hard on yourself this could be related to you know when you developed
and the continuation of that autoimmune disorder so something to think about so thanks for joining
me today i'm dr janine those were my dr j9 top nine and nine and my doctor j9 truth
for autoimmunity remember to always take care of your good health and do it naturally you