Dr. Robert G. Lahita M.D., Ph.D. - Autoimmune and Rheumatic Disease

Dr. Robert G. Lahita M.D., Ph.D. (“Dr. Bob”) is the Director of the Institute for Autoimmune and Rheumatic Disease at Saint Joseph Health in Paterson, New Jersey, and the author of IMMUNITY STRONG: Boost Your Body's Natural Healing Power and Live to 100.

Dr. Bob is the ultimate expert on the immune system and is consulted constantly by media across the globe including Reuters, Newsmax, Fox Business, Fox News, NBC Now, MSNBC, EWTN and CBSN. Dr. Bob is the author of more than 150 scientific papers, and has written or edited 14 books, including Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, which is now in its 6th edition. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Master of the American College of Rheumatology, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He's a reviewer for some 15 medical journals and on the editorial boards of three.

Beyond avoiding excessive negative behavior, there are positive ways to mitigate the aging process and manage your immune system. [Full Story]
Beyond avoiding excessive negative behavior, there are positive ways to mitigate the aging process and manage your immune system. [Full Story]
Hormones affect both men and women at the cellular and molecular level, and in general, the change of these individual hormones decrease optimal immune responses in both sexes. [Full Story]
When we get old, we have increased susceptibility to infectious diseases and a decreased response to vaccination, as your immune system might be a bit crotchety and unable to respond robustly to the boost. [Full Story]
When the brain is developing, the immune system is also developing, and both play a mutual role in each other’s maturation. [Full Story]
Some scientists have compared patients with chronic fatigue as reminiscent of hibernating bears. [Full Story]
While your immune system and brain organ systems maintain your homeostasis, your brain tries to run the show in your body. [Full Story]
Women are also usually born with an abundance of a hormone or chemical messenger called estrogen. Men are born with an X and a Y chromosome and usually an abundance of androgens or steroid hormones, the major one being testosterone. [Full Story]
A vaccine is medicine that trains your body to fight foreign invasions, and in many cases, provides acquired immunity to the invader. [Full Story]
Bacteria are in virtually all parts of your body , your face, genitals, underarms, bowel, lungs . . . they make up the biomes of each organ system, your skin among them. [Full Story]

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