08/03/2026
More than 80 percent of autoimmune disease patients are women. That is confirmed by Yale, Stanford, and the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association.
The question medicine almost never asks is why.
When the nervous system is in a state of chronic activation, always on, always doing, never recovering, the immune system becomes dysregulated. It loses its ability to distinguish self from threat. It begins attacking its own tissue.
We are seeing an autoimmune epidemic in women. And the clinical response is almost always immunosuppression. Not investigation of what is driving the chronic nervous system activation that preceded the diagnosis.
Stress is not a lifestyle inconvenience. It is an immune system event. And it is one of the most underaddressed drivers of chronic disease in women today.
The immune system breaks down when the nervous system never rests.
Bring this to your next appointment.