An 'autoimmune' condition.

What is the turmoil in a body that results in a sclerosis ( abnormal hardening of body tissues) in multiple places one may ask? To put things in context, the human body has two types of blood cells, white and red. Red being the obvious one, cut yourself and you'd probably see a lot of them if you're unsure! No don't do that just kidding, the other type being white (WBC) and these are part of the 'immune' system of a body, there being a specific one named the ' T killer cell' which attacks to kill foreign cells that enter the body presuming they would be things like bacteria which would lead to infections,viruses or the flu, not too sure if the infamous 'man flu' would count here but regardless that's the job of this group of white blood cells in the body and the immune system.

As by consensus MS is deemed an autoimmune condition by the this simply meaning the immune system is attacking the body it is in. It is thought that WBCs wrongly cross the blood brain barrier ( where the central nervous system is - the brain and spinal cord-  in the body) which is somewhere they are not really meant to be. Seeing many nerve cells which are 'foreign' to them as thinking back to school days, normal cells are a lot more simpler than nerve cells so the WBCs pretty much wage war and thus attack these cells, whichever of the billions that they may encounter, attacking the myelin sheath thus slowing or stopping signals that would've been sent across that specific nerve.

It being classified as an autoimmune condition has opened up the door to many conspiracies about things that cause these such conditions, from a reaction to gluten consumed, mercury in teeth fillings, genetically modified foods orvaccines given at their respective moments in our lifespan. Just to point, I'm on the fence with this, neither promoting or ridiculing any of these suggestions that have been or are being made!

I don't think the science would stop with me but I'll try not to cause an overload, have fun with this weeks one!