Your immune system is your body’s built-in security team. It’s designed to spot anything that doesn’t belong (like viruses, bacteria, or toxins) and send out white blood cells to neutralize the threat.
But sometimes, that security team gets confused. Instead of protecting you, it starts attacking your own healthy cells. That’s what happens in autoimmune disorders — and there are more than 80 different types of them.
Learn more and what things you can do to address this.