Natural Remedies for Autoimmune Disease Autoimmune diseases seem to be on the rise these days. Either you have one or you know somebody who does! What is an Autoimmune disease? Put simply, autoimmune diseases are conditions in which your immune system misfires and mistakenly attacks your body – organs, tissues, and cells. The immune system mistakes part of your body as foreign. It releases proteins called autoantibodies that attack healthy cells and cause a range of symptoms, often very debilitating. You might be familiar with autoimmune diseases like Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, Addison’s disease, Grave’s …