Re: the question of heredity
AZMAINIAC (AZMAINIAC(AT)prodigy.net)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:28:45 -0800
JHarper33(AT)aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 1/21/99 7:57:00 AM EST, A.Ryder(AT)ix.netcom.com writes:
>
> > I am reasonably certain that TM, per se, is not.
> >
> > One of the causes is viral; that's not.
> >
> > Another causes seems to auto-immune; the propensity
> > for an auto-immune disorder might well be; I dunno.
>
> That is my understanding, that TM itself is not hereditary, but the body's
> tendency toward an auto-immune reaction might be. In my own case, though, I
> can't think of any relative at all who has any kind of auto-immune problem.
>
> Barbara H.
Barbara,
I showed the members my family with autoimmune diseases, but I didn't
say that I had mononucleosis at the time and a flu shot about 6 weeks
before.
It is probably that we all have a deficient autoimmune system ands there
is someting that triggers it: a disturbance of the spinal cord,
internal(virus,flu shot, needle....) or external(stress, falling, being
hit). Due to the disturbance, our body is not able to fight it due to
the defective autoimmune system.
Something like an allergy. A person is fine until a certain pollen that
he is allergic to is in the air and then the body reacts--sneezing.
John