This thread will be for Modern Diseases and info that could help direct people toward good treatment options and away from Disease Triggers. add what you have. I am starting with this little portion of an article I found on Myasthenia Gravis. Do your research. Maybe something we put here will help someone suffer less.
CAUSES OF MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
"Myasthenia gravis has been shown to be an autoimmune disease. This means that the immune system attacks some of its own body proteins. Specifically, the transmission of signals from the nerve endings to the muscle receptors is partly blocked by antibodies. The messenger chemical or neurotransmitter released as signal from nerve endings to muscles is acetylcholine. Acetylcholine molecules travel the short distance in the gap between nerve ending and muscle to find a receptor on the motor end plate. When a sufficient number of acetylcholine molecules are attached to muscle receptors, there is an electric discharge of the normal membrane potential and the muscle fibre can contract.
In myasthenia gravis many or most of the receptors are already occupied by antibodies, therefore, not enough acetylcholine molecules find receptors to trigger this discharge and subsequent muscle contraction. Normally, the acetylcholine is split by an enzyme and, with this, removed from the receptor in a fraction of a second. Using drugs, which hinder this enzyme, acetylcholine molecules have more time to find receptors with an increased chance to lead to a discharge.
However, if too much of this enzyme antagonist is present, the cells remain discharged for too long and the muscles become more or less paralysed. This is a 'cholinergic crisis' in which heart and breathing may stop. A modern complication is the additional antagonistic action of fluoride on this enzyme. Fluoridated water may trigger a crisis or contribute to the long-term deterioration. This also applies to commercial liquids, such as soft drinks, soymilk or reconstitutet 100% fruit juices in countries where water fluoridation is practised.
It has been stated that myasthenia gravis has manifested after exposure to crop sprays with chemicals which have an antagonistic effect on acetylcholinesterase.
To test the theory that antibodies clog up muscle receptors serum from a myasthenia gravis patient was injected into mice, which promptly developed M .G. symptoms. The same electrical symptoms as in myasthenia gravis could also be produced in healthy human muscle when exposed to the serum of a myasthenia gravis patient.
This is as far as the conventional medical understanding of myasthenia gravis goes. The cause of the main event, the blocking of the muscle receptors by antibodies, is not known. There is also at present no attempt to overcome this disorder with nutritional therapy. CAUSES OF MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
Myasthenia gravis has been shown to be an autoimmune disease. This means that the immune system attacks some of its own body proteins. Specifically, the transmission of signals from the nerve endings to the muscle receptors is partly blocked by antibodies. The messenger chemical or neurotransmitter released as signal from nerve endings to muscles is acetylcholine. Acetylcholine molecules travel the short distance in the gap between nerve ending and muscle to find a receptor on the motor end plate. When a sufficient number of acetylcholine molecules are attached to muscle receptors, there is an electric discharge of the normal membrane potential and the muscle fibre can contract.
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However, if too much of this enzyme antagonist is present, the cells remain discharged for too long and the muscles become more or less paralysed. This is a 'cholinergic crisis' in which heart and breathing may stop. A modern complication is the additional antagonistic action of fluoride on this enzyme. Fluoridated water may trigger a crisis or contribute to the long-term deterioration. This also applies to commercial liquids, such as soft drinks, soymilk or reconstitutet 100% fruit juices in countries where water fluoridation is practised."
So, in this first example, avoidance of FLUORIDE and products containing FLUORIDE, can help patients with this disease. See how easy and helpful that was?
link to article source : https://www.health-science-
spirit.com/myasthenia.html