Autoimmune Reactivity Screen (Array 5)

Cyrex Array 5 – Predictive Antibody Screening

Assesses multiple tissues commonly target by auto-antiobodies, including thyroid, joints, heart, gut, brain, pancreas, liver, ovaries, bone and others. Autoimmune disorders occur when your immune system “attacks itself”. Your body’s affected organ or tissue (eg thyroid, colon, pancreas, joints, etc) is “mistaken” for a foreign/toxic antigen (eg bacteria, toxic chemical or food antigen such as gluten). In a similar way to which you may have an allergic (immune) reaction to gluten or pollen or parabens, your body reacts and begins to mount an immune response to the particular organ or tissue that it mistakes for a foreign antigen, thus it “attacks self”. As time progresses, if the underlying causes are not addressed, the tissue/organ may become sufficiently damaged/destroyed so as to require medical attention (eg thyroid hormone for autoimmune thyroiditis, or insulin for type-1 diabetes). Your condition may then be medically defined as “autoimmune disease”.

Auto-immune disorders commonly occur in clusters, so that if you have an autoimmune disorder, you are at a higher risk of developing more. In other words, they exhibit a tendency to “multiply”.

Leaky gut and food sensitivities are commonly linked with auto-immunity, as foreign particles, microbes, chemicals and undigested food are able to gain entry to your bloodstream and thus circulate throughout your body. The manner in which your immune system may intervene, and the tissues/organs that may be targeted, and to what degree, depend son your unique biochemical individuality as well as multiple environmental factors. Susceptibility to various different autoimmune disorders can vary vastly between identical twins.

Many autoimmune conditions are reversible, if detected early enough (especially if identified before the “end-stage” at which medical diagnosis occurs). Once reversal has been initiated, you may be able to avoid developing other autoimmune diseases, if you address the underlying causes, triggers and mediators of your health issues. Even if your condition is not fully reversible, it might be possible to reduce medication (strictly under medical supervision) applying a functional medicine approach.

The sooner an autoimmune condition is identified, the greater chance of reversal or at least minimizing tissue damage. This is why we use Cyrex Array 5: Multiple Autoimmune Reactivity Screen™.

Cyrex Array 5 detects the presence of “auto-antibodies” in your body, by measuring both IgG and IgA antibodies to 27 different human tissues. Auto-Antibody identification is the first stage in detecting auto-immune disease and the tissues/organs that are affected. Antibodies can be present in your body many years prior to a medical diagnosis and before you exhibit signs and symptoms of disease.

Array 5 is an economical and effect way to assess possible tissue damage to multiple organs of your body, and helps us assess predictive antibodies. Elevated numbers of “predictive antibodies” are measurable as much as ten years before the clinical onset of the disease. Early detection and identification of pathogenesis, before extensive tissue damage has occurred, provides opportunity to address and arrest your autoimmune disorder, and in some cases entirely reverse the condition.