Cherise combines root-cause care, nutrition, and lifestyle management with conventional treatment to get to the root cause of your autoimmune disease. Your care is individualized, focused, and comprehensive, built around the treatment solutions you deserve.
Autoimmune disease is an immune system problem: your immune cells, the defense system that's supposed to protect you from viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens, start attacking your own healthy tissue instead.
There are over 100 recognized autoimmune diseases. Some you may have heard of:
Another 40-plus conditions have autoimmune involvement. Autoimmune disease has become an epidemic: the NIH estimates the cost of treating it at around $100 billion a year, nearly double what's spent on cancer care.
Diagnosis starts with a thorough evaluation of your symptoms and history, then gets confirmed with the right lab tests. Conventionally, that means an antinuclear antibody (ANA) test plus disease-specific antibody tests. Every patient at Wellness.Balance.You. is screened for Hashimoto's thyroiditis, since it's the most common autoimmune condition, alongside specialized blood tests that screen for a much broader spectrum of antibodies.
Conventional medicine focuses on diagnosing and treating symptoms, usually with prescription medication or surgery. That works well for acute illness, a heart attack or a trauma, but it's often less effective for chronic autoimmune conditions like inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid or psoriatic arthritis, lupus, or multiple sclerosis.
Newer pharmacologic drugs that suppress the immune system have improved life for many people living with autoimmune disease, but they often come with side effects and long-term risks, and they don't get to the root of the problem. Cherise's root-cause approach looks for what's actually triggering the imbalance in your body, true personalized medicine, combining the latest autoimmune research with nutrition, botanical therapies, lifestyle changes, and, when appropriate, a targeted prescription called Low-Dose Naltrexone. Together these can be real game-changers in arresting, and sometimes reversing, autoimmune disease.
If you're dealing with irregular periods, low libido, pelvic pain, hot flashes and night sweats, fertility concerns, adrenal or thyroid dysfunction, gut issues, trouble concentrating, anxiety or low mood, sleep disturbances, weight changes, or changes in your skin and nails, it's worth ruling out an underlying autoimmune or hormonal cause.
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