If you’re having a hard time making sense of what an autoimmune disease is, it’s understandable.  The definitions out there are either vague or confusing.  But, one way or another, they’re all pointing to the immune system overreacting, malfunctioning, or making a mistake.

Confusion is to be expected, given that we don’t really know why autoimmune diseases occur.  We know that the immune system gets involved, we just don’t know why.  The medical professionals do their best to explain it but we’re still left with questions.  Questions that we want answers to, especially when it comes to our health.

Here are some answers that, if nothing else, lessen the confusion about what autoimmune diseases are and how they form in the body.  There is definitely more to it but since we can’t connect the dots between the cause and the effect, we are left with only an interpretation.

There are three parts that make up an autoimmune disease:

1. The autoimmune condition
   The condition in the body that causes the immune system to overreact during an immune response.  The cause is unknown but assumed to be a genetic predisposition.

2. The trigger
   An event that causes the immune response which, by overreacting, develops into the disease.  The cause is unknown but assumed to be circumstantial factors, such as gene mutations, malnutrition, environmental toxins, and lifestyle.

3. The symptom / disease
   The part of the body where the immune response is overreacting.  The cause is assumed to be the immune system responding to a trigger (circumstantial factor) and overreacting due to the autoimmune condition (genetic predisposition.)

All diseases come in only two possible forms, infectious and noninfectious.  Since autoimmune diseases are noninfectious, they can only develop from circumstantial factors.  Which is how a noninfectious disease is defined.

Eczema develops due to an unknown trigger.  The trigger doesn’t cause eczema itself but it initiates the immune response.  For now, there isn’t much we can do about the actual cause, all we can do is try to find the trigger.  Since the trigger is circumstantial, it can be associated with an event, which makes it observable.

Once eczema surfaces, we have to rewind our life and examine the circumstances that could have led up to it, reviewing any events that were introduced.  Obviously, not every change can be observed but, given enough evidence, we can assume what the possible cause might be.

Gene mutations could be one cause for someone to develop eczema in the first place, but then it couldn’t still be the cause if someone recovers from eczema and it doesn’t come back.  Since I was able to keep eczema from returning, the gene mutation became less relevant than the trigger.  Which could mean that the gene mutation and the trigger are not connected.

This indicates that the reason we get eczema at all is more from an exposure to a new circumstance and less from a preexisting condition, like a genetic predisposition.  Theoretically, the trigger itself becomes a more immediate cause than the gene mutation in the body that allowed the trigger to become relevant.

Malnutrition could be another cause, but it’s not likely given that most people eat plenty, even if not always the right foods.  Looking at myself as an example, malnutrition didn’t make sense.  I was eating a more balanced diet when I started getting eczema than prior to getting it.  Also, the fact that I was able to heal my skin without having changed my diet, rules out malnutrition.

Environmental toxins could also be a cause but that didn’t make sense either.  My life consisted of going to work and being at home.  I was not exposed to varying toxins and I didn’t introduce any new chemicals into my life.  Over time, my observations pointed to something else.

As you can see, circumstantial factors seem like a wide range of possible causes but, through the process of elimination, they start to shrink pretty fast.  And, like me, you will soon find that the reason you’ve developed eczema is not from gene mutations, malnutrition, or environmental toxins, but from lifestyle.

Because, your lifestyle makes it possible for circumstances to become a trigger to any number of diseases.  And understanding yourself will determine whether that trigger stays a problem or becomes your only solution.

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