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Autoimmune Diseases — for Health & Wellness Coaches, Holistic Healthcare Providers, Yoga Therapists, Yoga Teachers

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Lesson Overview

In this lesson, we explore autoimmune diseases as a category and techniques that reverse them.

Objective

Be familiar with a dozen of the most common autoimmune diseases, root causes of autoimmune disease as a category, and with health and wellness techniques that reverse autoimmune disease.

Description

Define autoimmune disease and describe a dozen or more specific autoimmune diseases. List root causes of autoimmune disease, and considerations for choosing healing techniques.

Vocabulary

addison’s disease, autoimmune disease, celiac disease, chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, crohn’s disease, graves’ disease, guillain-barre syndrome (GBS), hashimoto’s disease / hashimoto’s thyroiditis, IBD (irritable bowel disease), lupus / systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis (MS), myasthenia gravis (MG), pernicious anemia, primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI), psoriasis & psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), sjogren syndrome, type 1 diabetes, ulcerative colitis, vitiligo

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