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When Your Body Attacks Itself – Autoimmune

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell | February 3, 2026



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What happens when the immune system meant to protect you becomes your worst enemy? This is the betrayal of autoimmune diseases like Type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, celiac disease, lupus, Crohn’s disease, and many others. What exactly goes on in your body and why does it happen in the first place?

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  1. @GMTheEpic

    February 3, 2026 at 10:27 pm

    Wow, so nice overview. You know what would be even nicer, if you knew that we have a very good treatment for all 100+ autoimmune diseases since 2000 that puts them permanently into remission. The professional research articles on the topic are practically doubling each year on PubMed, and you missed that. I am baffled how we enjoy people suffering each year without hospitals practicing what research has already confirmed at the beginning of the 2000s.

  2. @Elka0201

    February 3, 2026 at 10:27 pm

    I was diagnosed with Anti-MAG-Neuropathy in November 2025. The symptoms started shortly after Covid in July 2020. Anti-MAG-Neuropathy is very rare, with a ratio of 1:100,000. Thanks for this video, it explains what is happening very well.

  3. @RealAsclepius

    February 3, 2026 at 10:27 pm

    As someone with Type 1 Diabetes, I love how you described the disease. "Turns your blood into acid". The fact that the description is actually accurate (Diabetic Keto Acidosis) is even better.

    I'd always wondered how a disease that shows up typically during young childhood before sexual maturity could even still be around today as I figured evolution would have "weeded it out" due to the carriers of the disease dying before sexual maturity. But the explanation you gave for the autoimmune disease still being around actually made a lot more sense as to why it still exists.

  4. @Abm693

    February 3, 2026 at 10:27 pm

    TD1- over 40 yrs, RA, moderate and still raging, + 3 more auto immune diseases. Goals- 50 miles in steps weekly, 200 miles a month , lots of walking and running in place, light indoor cycling. 60 yrs old, no athlete, just moving

  5. @Tiger_Dawn_Studios_Official

    February 3, 2026 at 10:27 pm

    My mom has genetic Psoriasis, but it’s probably the least deadly form of autoimmune diseases. I don’t have it, I only have ADHD(from my dad) with a high functioning autism component. She has the most common psoriasis form. Also, I was unlucky enough to obtain her myopia, but it didn’t set in until I was in 3rd grade, yet I didn’t get glasses until 4th grade.

  6. @what-hq1gl

    February 3, 2026 at 10:27 pm

    my mom had ms and ive always been curious on how the disease functioned 🤔
    i remember that when i was about… 4-10 maybe, my mom was not completely wheelchair-bound and could still walk somewhat, just with support (without it she cant)
    but then in around.. 2021, maybe? cant remember, she had a sudden severe seizure (i recall she had had more seizures in the hospital?) which then severely impacted her ability to function 😭 she had to be completely wheelchair bound and eventually, she couldnt even get on the wheelchair so we got a hospital bed to our house

    she also eventually lost her ability to not just choke on food so she got on like. tube feeding. yk a tube that just goes into your stomach?
    okay but after the surgery which changed the tube, she had some issues apparently. she had problems with her intestines (aka. diarrhea) and at one point she had gotten a big fever again

    this one thursday was wild, my mom was discharged from the hospital but because things happened with my dad (he had a stroke. erm) she had to be brought back to the hospital and guess what? boom she had died. i dont remember what was the official cause, maybe sepsis? so i have my suspections it was a fatal care-mistake from the doctors. i suspect the surgery could have also somehow caused an infection

    sorry for the random vent but- felt like yapping 🤯

  7. @what-hq1gl

    February 3, 2026 at 10:27 pm

    autoimmune diseases are so weird. like wdym your body just suddenly starts attacking itself. its so stupid why is the human body so stupid sometimes but also so resilient as well

  8. @vv55213

    February 3, 2026 at 10:27 pm

    1:33 dont say it evolved if you cant prove what it evolved from and the process fully. Also, evolution doesnt exist and did not exist, consciousness does not come from unconsciouss and alive doesnt come from dead.

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