Recalibrating Your Immune System: A New Hope for Autoimmune Disease
Receiving an autoimmune diagnosis can feel like a betrayal by your own body. You’re told your immune system—your natural protector—has mistakenly turned against you, creating a state of “civil war” within your own tissues. The conventional medical approach is often a blunt instrument: powerful medications that suppress your entire immune system to stop the attack.
While these drugs can be necessary to manage severe symptoms, they come with significant side effects and don’t answer the most important question: Why did your immune system become overactive in the first place?
At Life Care Centre, we believe that your immune system isn’t broken; it is reacting. Our Second Opinion is designed to investigate the reasons behind this reaction, offering a path not just to manage your disease, but to recalibrate your immune system and restore balance.
The Paradigm Shift: Your Genes are Not Your Destiny
You may have been told that autoimmune disease is “in your genes.” This is only half the story. The prevailing wisdom in modern science uses a powerful analogy:
“Your genes load the gun, but your lifestyle pulls the trigger.”
This is where our approach begins. We focus on the two key areas you have the power to change: the epigenetic signals you send to your genes, and the triggers that provoke your immune system daily.
An overactive immune system is often responding to a constant barrage of triggers that cause confusion and inflammation. Our clinical team acts as detectives to help you identify and systematically remove your specific triggers, which commonly include:
- Intestinal Permeability (“Leaky Gut”): When the lining of your gut is compromised, undigested food particles and toxins can “leak” into your bloodstream, provoking a massive immune response. This is a primary driver of many autoimmune conditions.
- Dietary Factors: Specific foods can act as major inflammatory triggers for susceptible individuals.
- Chronic Infections & Gut Dysbiosis: An imbalance in your gut microbiome or hidden, low-grade infections can keep your immune system on permanent high alert.
- Environmental Toxins: Exposure to heavy metals, pesticides, and other chemicals can disrupt immune function.
- Chronic Stress: Relentless psychological stress dysregulates cortisol and other hormones, directly impacting immune cell behaviour and promoting inflammation.
This is the most empowering frontier of modern medicine. Epigenetics is the science of how your lifestyle and environment send chemical instructions to your DNA, telling your genes which ones to switch on and which to switch off.
You cannot change your genes, but you can absolutely change the instructions they receive.
Our Clinically Supported Lifestyle Correction (CSLC CAP) program is, at its heart, an applied epigenetic therapy. Through targeted changes in your nutrition, sleep, stress management, and physical activity, you can:
- Switch ON genes that produce anti-inflammatory compounds.
- Switch OFF genes that promote inflammation and immune overactivity.
This is not a passive approach. This is you, actively participating in a science-backed program to instruct your body to heal and find balance.
Our Goal: True Immune Balance, Not Lifelong Suppression
The goal of our Second Opinion and the subsequent CSLC CAP program is to restore harmony to your immune system. By removing the triggers that provoke it and changing the epigenetic signals to promote calmness, the need for the “civil war” diminishes.
For many patients with conditions like Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, Psoriasis, Lupus, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), this approach can lead to a significant reduction in symptoms, improved quality of life, and the potential to safely reduce their reliance on immunosuppressive medications over time.
Unique Advantage Of Second Opinion At Dr Jolly Thomson’s Life Care Centre
- Conventional modern medical treatment protocols are based on the available human trials conducted by developers- the pharmaceutical and surgical instruments industry.
- Therefore treatment protocols are similar all over the world. Difference in treatment at different treatment centres depends on the infrastructure of the centre and availability of latest equipment and pharmaceutical agents.
- An unbiased second opinion about a surgical or medical intervention can come only from a treatment centre which is not only well aware of all the latest developments but not depending on surgical or pharmaceutical interventions.
- Universally lifestyle correction is the first line of management for lifestyle diseases. Only when the patient is not able to correct their lifestyle effectively do doctors prescribe medication. But effort for lifestyle correction should be continued along with chronic medication and also after surgical intervention to deal with the co-morbidities of the disease process or side effects of chronic medications.
- Life Care Centre offers scientific and evidence-based treatment approach focussing not on medical or surgical remedies, but concentrating to find the root cause in the patient’s lifestyle and helping out with CSLC CAP – Clinically Supported Lifestyle Correction with cell activation protocol to reverse the disease processes.
Unique Advantage Of CSLC CAP
- Most lifestyle diseases coexist and patients will have more than one disease or many diseases and discomforts. In conventional medical treatment protocol, lifestyle diseases are seen and treated separately by concerned specialists with specific medications for that particular disease condition or surgical interventions focussing on symptomatic relief.
- In CSLC CAP the first step is on identifying the root cause in current lifestyle. Then focusing on eliminating the causative factors and helping to provide an enabling environment for repair of the body at cellular level by ensuring optimal nutrition, activity and minimizing toxin. Therefore CSLC CAP practice addresses all the lifestyle associated health issues simultaneously and gets relief for all health issues through a single protocol.
- With CSLC CAP support most of the patients are able to come out of most of the medications for lifestyle diseases like type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, arthritis, allergy, liver kidney diseases etc within a month.
Limitations Of CSLC CAP
- Willingness of the patient to make changes in lifestyle including food habits and activity pattern and invest time and resources for the purpose is essential. In CSLC CAP a patient is an active participant in treatment not just an on looker as in other conventional medical systems.
- The mental and physical ability of the patient to understand and do mild to moderate physical activity in lying and sitting position is essential.
- Children below 10 years are not generally suitable for CSLC CAP.
- Minors below 18 years if joining CSLC CAP at least one parent should also join the program and understand, support and guide the child.
- Patients with severe hearing, visual, mental impairment if joining CSLC CAP, one of the close family members who is residing with the patient and taking care of the patient should also join, learn and practice the program to fully understand and support the patient.
- Those with severe deformities, movement restriction, failure of multiple organs etc are not suitable for CSLC CAP.
- In case of organ failure success depends on the stage of the organ failure and the ability of the patient’s immune system for repair.
- Support of the close family members and friends, especially those staying with the patients has a major impact on the success of the treatment.
- The speed and extent of relief depends on the body’s ability to repair and the willingness and efforts of the patient to practice CAP principles.
- Even after the correction of body and blood parameters and tapering of medication, practicing the CAP principles and maintaining body and blood parameters are crucial for maintaining health.