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Linda recommends: Bombshell, Suzanne Sommers newest book

HEALTH FLASH…… OK folks RUN don’t walk RUN to your nearest Amazon or book store and get Suzanne Sommers newest book “BOMBSHELL”…… got mine this am and can’t put it down.

Dr Garry Gordon DO, MD, MD(h) has an 18 page interview with Suzanne on detoxifying the body and how to do it….THIS IS OUTSTANDING….

I have most of Suzanne’s books….KnockOut was outstanding BUT THE “BOMBSHELL” is the BEST book yet……get out your yellow highliter and red pen….get out your stickies to mark pages….this book will enlighten you beyond belief…

GREAT JOB SUZANNE……YOU GO GIRL…..I will never forget our recognition dinner and enjoying an afternoon/evening with you…

YOU ROCK WOMAN….THIS IS A MUST BOOK FOLKS….like I said, RUN don’t walk RUN TO YOUR NEAREST STORE TO BUY IT…..

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PEMF and M.I.C.E

Linda’s comment: Please share with all……

Excerpt:

This was designed for a presentation to firefighters in NYC by Dr Garry Gordon, DO, MD, MD

This was designed for a presentation to firefighters in NYC by Dr Garry Gordon, DO, MD, MD

DETOX with M.I.C.E (Magnetically Induced Cellular Exercise)

 

The dust and smoke from the collapsed World Trade Center towers, and the fires that burned continuously for three months, consisted of more than 2,500 contaminants.  50% non-fibrous material and construction debris; 40% glass and other fibers; 9.2% cellulose; and 0.8% asbestos, and toxic amounts of crystalline silica, lead, mercury, cadmium, dioxin and PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) which are known carcinogens and can also trigger kidney, heart, liver and nervous system deterioration.   

According to two studies published in the 10th anniversary edition of the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, firefighters exposed to the World Trade Center attacks are nineteen percent more likely to get cancer.  They and other 9/11 rescue workers are also suffering higher pulmonary, respiratory and stress related illnesses in comparison with the general population. 

Of 27,000 rescue workers who are voluntarily enrolled in a federally funded monitoring program, 28 percent have developed asthma, 42 percent chronic sinusitis, and 39 percent have developed gastroesophageal reflux disease.

 

M.I.C.E. (Magnetically Induced Cellular Exercise) utilizing pulsed electro-magnetic frequency therapy, re-energizes damaged cells by inducing electrical changes within the cell that restore it to its normal healthy state. 

 

Cellular Exercise – Induces Autophagy

 

Autophagy is an internal “housekeeping” and recycling system that degrades damaged or unwanted organelles and proteins in a cell, and produces energy. This process has been shown to protect against cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, infections, diabetes, and more.   The failure of autophagy is thought to be one of the main reasons for the accumulation of cell damage and aging.  

 

 

 

PEMF – PMT100

 

Electricity and magnetism are vital to life.  A deficiency of magnetism in the body is like the body running out of oxygen.  With the loss of over 90% of the earth’s electromagnetic field, almost everyone today is operating at far below their true potential. Magnetic therapy restores what earth changes have depleted, the vital electromagnetic energy needed to produce optimal health. 

 

In clinical studies PEMF has been shown to reduce pain and inflammation, increase cellular energy production and detoxification, stimulate the body’s own stem cell production, heal non-union bone fractures.  PEMF is used to treat various cancers through facilitation of cellular alkalinity and apoptosis.  PEMF demonstrates amazing results in the treatment of mood disorders and depression, as well other neurological disorders like Autism, Alzheimer’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. 

 

PEMF has even been documented to completely reverse a case of
advanced coronary artery disease!

 

PEMF repairs damaged and diseased tissue, repairs torn tendons and fractured bones, and enhances the synthesis of protein in the cells.  Pain, swelling, inflammation, and irritation are reduced while endorphins, serotonin, and the body’s natural healing processes are stimulated.  Nerves regenerate.  Range of motion is increased.  Metabolism is improved.  Nitric oxide is produced which dilates the blood vessels.  The formation and development of new cells, known as cytogenesis, is stimulated.  Edema, or swelling, is reduced.

 

PEMF therapy promotes the same responses and benefits that physical exercise produces, without the stress and strain upon your muscles and bone.  PEMF is Magnetically Induced Cellular Exercise or M.I.C.E.   It re-energizes damaged cells by inducing electrical changes within the cell that restore it to its normal healthy state.  Because of this, cellular metabolism is boosted, blood cells are regenerated, circulation is improved and oxygen carrying capacity is increased.   

 

Ultimately, with PEMF and M.I.C.E. the immune system becomes healthier as the vital organs such as the liver, kidneys and colon are able to rid themselves of impurities thus detoxifying the body.  PEMF Therapy can reduce pain and improve the quality of your life by allowing your body to function as it was designed to do.”

 

For more information on Detoxing with MICE go to Gordon Research Institute website
www.gordonresearch.com/autophagy-detox/

New brain tumor treatment?

Linda’s comment:  How many more are going to die bald and burnt from the nonsense that the Western world is shoving off on everyone.  They tried to do the same thing with me, but I ran like Forest Gump…Yes, I battled (5) Cancers and won using ONLY alternative IV’s, modalities, supplements/herbals/remedies, electromedicine, energy medicine, juicing and changing my life style…I removed all toxins, like body lotions, perfumes, soaps, makeup that contained carcinogenic compounds.  I stopped eating GMO foods and I do organic for the most part.  The best part is I began the FIGHT protocol, which helps protect my body from the environmental toxins that slam me daily…..Just remember, that most cancers are environmentally caused.
Also, get rid of the toxic chemicals you use for cleaning and stop exposing yourself to pesticides and herbicides…..
 
We have to pay attention folks, as the western boys/girls will continue to push chemo/radiation on us.
Dr. Gordon’s Comments:

Do not fail to watch this three minute trailer, as this film will help stop the fraudulent cancer treatments that “mainstream” promotes to the detriment of everyone. It can open the door to alternative cancer therapies.  

The facts here are indisputable; the little girl is dead because of the chemo radiation, which did not cure her cancer, as it seldom has ever done. After the treatment failed, instead of letting their daughter just die, the family then went to my brilliant friend in Texas, Dr Burzynski, and got his antineoplastons, which led to the complete eradication of all her brain cancer twice. But the medical treatment, chemo and radiation had destroyed her brain tissue and that led to her death in a cancer-free body!

This nonsense needs to stop. The alternative cancer treatments that I support always work better then the mainstream with the possible exception of acute leukemia of childhood and maybe testicular cancer where at least those treatments have some data showing some real benefit. But, in a head to head test with the best that I know in alternative, I believe even in those cases alternative will also induce remissions without the risks of long-term damage from those toxic therapies.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Excerpt:
Burzynski’s Antineoplastons Hold the First Cures in History of Childhood Brain Cancer 
from burzynskimovie.com

Dr. Gordon commentsd on Harvard study

Linda’s comment:  This is a great read……

Dr. Gordon’s Comments:

Finally they hit pay dirt with turning on Telomerase. This is the real thing; read it carefully!!! Yes, we will soon be able to substantially reverse aging even when you are near death! This is the most exciting proof that anti-aging will one day work that I have ever seen. This makes it worthwhile to really take good care of your body now, as this major breakthrough will happen for humans in our lifetime I am sure.

This Harvard associated study is the most credible research I have seen that we may one day really take years off our age even when we are very old and sick. This involved tweaking the genes to turn on Telomerase and worked even when the mice were near death’s doorstep. Then the mice still were able to grow new brain and other cells and clearly the effects are systemic and rejuvenating.

“These mice were equivalent to 80-year-old humans and were about to pass away,” says Ronald DePinho, co-author of the paper and a scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. After the experiment, “they were the physiological equivalent of young adults.”

Telomerase, as cancer treatment or cancer cause, needs to be understood since anti-aging benefits might be offset by increased cancer. Since enhancing telomerase has recently been shown to dramatically reverse aging then doing the opposite might be worth looking into for treating cancer. Please note, however, that this makes it clear why those who will be researching the antiaging benefits from inducing telomerase will be very concerned about the possibility that they will also increase cancer in those using the treatment.

I sent this research to you so that you will understand that Cancer is is a realistic possibility to consider. But there can be balance to this using non-toxic small conditional RNA’s that identify and kill cancer cells. And, since I lecture a great deal about How to Stem the Tide of Cancer, I am confident that a healthy outcome will be possible with telomerase induction, as we can monitor with tumor marker testing early tendencies toward developing cancer in patients receiving anti-aging telomerase therapy. 
We will plan to use therapies that we are already familiar with.  We can expect then that, in most instances, as Dr. Kobayashi proved in is ten year study in Japan that a World without Cancer is available now. He proved that simple things will bring early cancer marker tests back under control and death from cancer can be avoided.

But in case that is not sufficient control for some cases, then the new research about RNA curing cancer should be the safety blanket that will promote the safe use of antiaging based telomerase induction using gene tweaking, as described in Nature this week.  Their only fear from this approach is moving toward cancer and of course they have no idea about how nutritional and herbal approaches can keep that tendency under control.

So start exercising and detoxing now, as it now seems it is never too late to plan to live much longer with a healthy younger body!

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link 1: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703785704575642964209242180.html?mod=djemHL_t

Link 2: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101128/full/news.2010.635.html

More on cancer diagnostics … with Dr. Gordon

Cancer diagnosis and treatment is ready for an overnight revolution. This WSJ report has vital information about how bad current diagnosis is and offers some real hope for the future. If you add this information to the new Johnson and Johnson test that finds one cancer cell in a billion in peripheral blood and therefore alerts doctors and patients. Most cancers are not local by the time they are found; if you find a 6 mm lump in a breast there are already 100 million cancer cells present there!! Now that we know radiation offers no help nor does lymph node dissection in the axilla offer any benefit, this is the time to move on to any tests that will motivate patients to take better care of themselves.

My FIGHT program is the answer but patients need some test that they believe is worth paying attention to in order to follow my program and then see that the less than optimal test results are all improving and they are no longer getting sick.

Also note in this report that there is a high false positive rate on skin biopsies for melanoma so who is getting needless surgery again? Please join me in alerting patients to the futility of current cut, burn and poison and the value of a total health program like my FIGHT program. We know we can improve the outcome of every measurable parameter of disease including cancer, cv, dx and dementia and slow aging.

Note that researchers at UC San Diego find that high cholesterol is protective against environmental toxins!  The cholesterol myth needs to be destroyed; low cholesterol is associated with bad outcomes. Only oxidized cholesterol is worth dealing with and simple things like Kyolic Heart formula has been proven by Dr Budoff at UCLA 
(http://search.barnesandnoble.com/cholesterol/matthew-budoff/e/9781935297109) to be 7.5 times more cardio protective than aspirin and statins together!

The public is brain washed today and they, therefore, have most of the facts all wrong! You need to educate your patients and office visits do not provide the needed time so rent space and invite patients to an evening or a Saturday afternoon free lecture; you could plan on at least 1/2 day for your patients and their families. Do this once or twice a year, as it doubles your practice and increases your satisfaction with your work. Use a Holiday Inn or some affordable large space.

Also refer them to all my lectures on my website and all my PowerPoint lectures are downloadable to use in your office. Contact Liz at Longevity Plus, 928-472-4263, ext 133, for assistance on using one of my PowerPoint lectures.

If we are to avoid bankrupting our nation with bad medicine, you need to become a spokesman for our FACT brand of Advanced Medicine. Put together a flyer, hand out and mail to everyone in your area and rent a space to share what you learn in FACT with your patients and friends and the public. They are ready to listen as Andrew Weil’s book title says No One Can Afford to Get Sick!

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703749504576172564063944284.html?mod=djemHL_t

Excerpt:

Cancer can be notoriously difficult to spot, so scientists are working to develop new techniques to better detect tumors in the body. 

Such tools could potentially identify cancer cells more reliably and earlier than currently available methods, such as mammography, biopsies and magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI. Improved detection methods could help speed up treatment decisions and monitor whether a therapy is working.

Breast Biopsies reveal surgery used too often

Linda’s comments:  What Dr Gordon says is true…..it is tragic what Western Medicine is doing when treting Cancers….

Dr. Gordon’s Comments:

80% of breast biopsies turn out to be benign. Unfortunately greed is leading to unjustifiable open biopsies, which mean that if there was cancer present, women will have two surgeries back to back. But, with the new research about cancer and wound healing, there is more to the story. We need to carefully review those articles I have sent you and come to the conclusion that I have that even simple needle biopsies carry risk of spreading cancer. So a safe preventive approach using IV vitamin C makes real sense if the patient is you or loved one.

This article from the New York Times has some proof that greed is driving the cancer market. One doctor seeing these statistics stated that “it was ‘outrageous’ that 30 percent of breast biopsies were done by surgery.  He said some of the unnecessary procedures were being performed by surgeons who did not want to lose biopsy fees by sending patients to a radiologist”

Of course, all this can be avoided now when we finally realize that annual use of breast cancer screening tests using tests like thermography and the caprofile.net or the new Johnson and Johnson test for cancer. Simply throw out useless and dangerous mammograms, which are feeding these mercenary surgeons that push for open biopsies that almost no one needs!

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/health/19cancer.html

Excerpt:

February 18, 2011
Study of Breast Biopsies Finds Surgery Used Too Extensively
By DENISE GRADY

Too many women with abnormal mammograms or other breast problems are undergoing surgical biopsies when they should be having needle biopsies, which are safer, less invasive and cheaper, new research shows. 

Acesulfame -k in china – Biggest Manufacturer

Linda’s comments:  Thank Dr Martini for posting this….and you are right their doors should be closed for making poison just like the FDA’s door should be closed, as they are NOT protection the consumers, like they want you to believe!!!  <sigh>

Go out of business.  Acesulfame potassium caused cancer and leukemia in original studies.  The Delaney Amendment in the US forbid allowing anything in food you know that causes cancer.  However, our FDA cares not for safe food and drugs.  Their only loyalty is to the aspartame industry and Big Pharma.  People can die and they don’t care.  They even want to get rid of supplements for good health.  They are simply Big Pharma’s Washington Branch Office.  This is the reason companies like ours exist to warn the public not to use your poison in food. 

Your doors should be closed for making poison just like the FDA’s doors should be closed.  They are responsible for more unsafe food and drugs than any agency in history.  Find a place that entombs poisons like plutonium and have Acesulfame K destroyed so it won’t kill any more.  Then apologize to the world for all the disability and death this poison has caused.

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International (warning the world off poisons like aspartame, AminoSweet, Neotame, Splenda and Acesulfame Potassium.
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PSA Rise as Cancer Predictor – with Dr. Gordon’s Comments

Dr. Gordon’s Comments:

PSA level velocity is a red herring; another myth about cancer diagnosis and treatment falls apart. How many men have lived in fear for years and some have had multiple biopsies, which I do not order for my patients because prostate cancer is the easiest of all cancers to treat with natural products.

– the “velocity” of rising PSA has needlessly tripled the biopsy rate providing risk without benefit for patients”

Since biopsies are now known to help spread cancer, the benefit to risk ratio for 2 out of 3 biopsies is  clearly negative. What we need, of course, is something that motivates people to follow a health promoting life style. I have called my life style program F.I.G.H.T. It is based on Dr Kobayashi’s ten years of research where some ten thousand patients avoided death from cancer.

It proved that cancer level in our body invariably diminishes with the simple health promoting steps he developed, which lead to my developing the F.I.G.H.T. program. It is important that these steps are initiated before the lump/bump stage develops. This proves that all cancer tests have some potential benefit to motivate patients to improve their health but only if we can limit the damage that overly aggressive treatment can lead to, including unwarranted biopsies. Cancer is a systemic disease and attacking the prostate or whatever tissue seems to be the focus is not the answer.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/medical/cancer/story/2011/02/Study-PSA-rise-not-good-prostate-cancer-predictor/44135930/1

Excerpt:

Study: PSA rise not good prostate cancer predictor
Updated Feb 24, 2011 5:58 PM |

A rising PSA level isn’t such a good a predictor of prostate cancer after all, and can lead to many unnecessary biopsies, says a large new study.

Most men over 50 get PSA blood tests, but they’re hugely problematic. Too much PSA, or prostate-specific antigen, only sometimes signals prostate cancer is brewing — it also can mean a benign enlarged prostate or an infection. And screening often detects small tumors that will prove too slow-growing to be deadly. Yet there’s no sure way to tell in advance who needs aggressive therapy.

On the other hand, some men have cancer despite a “normal” PSA count of 4 or below. So for PSAs that are rising, yet still in the normal range, some guidelines urge doctors to consider a biopsy.

How quickly the PSA number rises is something “that patients and doctors worry a lot about,” said Dr. Andrew Vickers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. “Men show up here with a PSA of 2 and we say, ‘Why are you here?’ And they say, ‘Well, I used to be a 1 and my doctor’s worried. Am I going to die?'”

So Sloan-Kettering researchers studied whether considering PSA velocity adds value to the biopsy-or-not decision in those otherwise low-risk men — and concluded it doesn’t.
“This is a really important study,” said Dr. Otis Brawley of the American Cancer Society, who wasn’t part of the research. “A lot of doctors are going to stop looking at a PSA rise of 1 and ordering biopsies.”

Vitamin C – with comments from Linda & Dr. Gordon

Linda’s comments: Well I would blow their boxers off…I take 16,000 to 24,000 daily of the BioEnergyC from www.longevityplus.com My dogs get a minimum of 4000 mg in a one gallon water bowl….the five gallon water dish gets 20,000 mgs. I quiet frankly sick and tired of hearing the NIH and FDA and the pharmaceuticals squawk about taking high dosing of VitC….poor fellows, don’t have a clue…

Dr. Gordon’s Comments:

Everything  you think you know about vitamin C is probably more than 50% wrong  and, if you relied on this official appearing document re vitamin C, you would not use it.  The attached document is from NIH so it gives you all the negative but you must know all that too.

But I am providing you with the contrary opinion. You will be amazed at how the right hand of the government does not know what the left hand is doing! FDA has approved vitamin C for treating one type of cancer!  That opens the door to great speculation and further research about non-toxic cancer therapies and I am excited to incorporate into this program the power of PEMF, which makes each cell ALKALINE and restores transmembrane potential. So I believe I have two or more non-toxic approaches that need to be looked at concurrently and incorporated with my FIGHT program for long term success.

Using IV VIT C with  my FIGHT program and PEMF ( Pulsed Electromagnetic  Field Therapy )  you will see and feel results  with PEMF on top of my FIGHT program, I am clearly  getting younger!

There are other ways to enhance the effectiveness of high dose IV Vitamin C in treating cancer and using it alone I do not find that IV VIT C is very often curative but it almost always helps and buys time for other therapies to be instituted.

Remember   we all need to improve outcomes, as our patients pay cash. We are not endowed by Government funds like our brethren using their chemo/radiation.  They are generally covered and   just bill the system and are ok no matter what the outcome.  We are NOT OK unless we turn out superior results and have data that shows we can beat mainstream outcomes hands down.

This NIH authoritative appearing well– referenced document would make anyone think oral low dose (2000 mg and under) Vitamin C is dangerous and causes cancer and heart disease. It appears to be fully referenced up to date through November 2009 yet it is missing an important point; somehow IV vitamin C WITH K-3 is now FDA approved for treating bladder cancer!! After all if anyone knew that vitamin C could be FDA approved for one cancer then some doctors would have some interest in trying it in other cancers just like the oncologists do everyday.

How can I and many of our colleagues be successfully using oral and IV vitamin C to keep Cancer patients alive far longer than their oncologists predict and still be considered by mainstream oncologists to be so wrong?  They tell their patients to never use vitamin C!

This report even has recommendations about not exceeding what they have established now, as their safe upper limit of oral vitamin C at 2000 mg MAX. Yet it is hard for them to ignore entirely what we are doing with cancer so they throw in some words to try to sound plausible with their otherwise very negative review of vitamin C. This is BURIED in the attached report but of course they have their numbers about what the maximum serum levels achievable with oral vitamin c vs.  the high serum levels achievable with IV Vitamin C. Those that are interested to get to the bottom of this mystery will find that vitamin c deserves your serious attention, IV and ORAL because there is always the rest of the story.

This is just one paragraph from many articles you may want to review once you read my comments: ’The bottom line is: Apatone selectively targets and kills tumor cells using non-toxic biochemistry that protects surrounding healthy tissue.” Licensed in 2004 to IC-MedTech, Inc., a California-based biotechnology company, the first clinical trial began in 2005 to evaluate the drug in prostate cancer patients. The clinical studies, which were conducted at Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio and with Dr. Ananias Diokno at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., examined the safety and effectiveness in 17 end-stage prostate cancer patients for 12 weeks. These patients took Apatone orally each day. The trials were supported by the Beaumont Foundation, Summa Health System and IC-MedTech.

Yet this is the best that the NIH report can offer the informed patients and physicians trying to help cancer patients. They admit there could be some discrepancy in the research but clearly tell no one that vitamin C is working when mixed with the correct form of vitamin K-3 (Apatone), which increases its oxidative capacity.

Remember this  work using vitamin C  for cancer  goes back several years now  and it consists IV vitamin C with the correct form of vitamin K, which unfortunately it appears that  most physicians  have never found  the correct form since there appears to be as many as 6 molecules being sold as vitamin K-3 and some are toxic. Yet in the lecture I will deliver for The Oxidative Training Workshop during IMOSAIC on April 7th at the Minneapolis conference, sponsored by ACAM, AHIMA, AAEM and ICIM, I will educate you about how easily you can kill the therapeutic effect when you are trying to master oxidative therapies with something as simple as giving NAC or GLUTATHIONE concurrently.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminC-HealthProfessional/

Excerpt:

Introduction
Vitamin C, also known as L-ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin that is naturally present in some foods, added to others, and available as a dietary supplement. Humans, unlike most animals, are unable to synthesize vitamin C endogenously, so it is an essential dietary component [1].

Vitamin C is required for the biosynthesis of collagen, L-carnitine, and certain neurotransmitters; vitamin C is also involved in protein metabolism [1,2]. Collagen is an essential component of connective tissue, which plays a vital role in wound healing. Vitamin C is also an important physiological antioxidant [3] and has been shown to regenerate other antioxidants within the body, including alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) [4]. Ongoing research is examining whether vitamin C, by limiting the damaging effects of free radicals through its antioxidant activity, might help prevent or delay the development of certain cancers, cardiovascular disease, and other diseases in which oxidative stress plays a causal role. In addition to its biosynthetic and antioxidant functions, vitamin C plays an important role in immune function [4] and improves the absorption of nonheme iron [5], the form of iron present in plant-based foods. Insufficient vitamin C intake causes scurvy, which is characterized by fatigue or lassitude, widespread connective tissue weakness, and capillary fragility [1,2,4,6-9].

Autoimmunity as a Predisposition for Infectious Diseases

Link: http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1001077

Excerpt:

Autoimmunity refers to an inappropriate immune response against self-components of the host that results in pathological conditions. Autoimmune diseases are characterized by an activation of autoreactive T and B cells, are associated in some cases with the production of pathogenic autoantibodies against self-molecules, culminating in inflammation and tissue damage. The reasons for the breakdown of tolerance mechanisms leading to autoimmunity are not clearly known. However, a combination of genetic, immunological, and environmental factors plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of autoimmunity