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Hello my name is Dr. Alderoy Vochdani. I am a physician practicing in Los Angeles

our clinic is dedicated to treating chronic complex autoimmune conditions and appropriately for

today's deep dive we are going to be looking into the world of autoimmune.

So our objectives for this lecture are first and foremost to really understand what an autoimmune

disease is and it's important to understand that autoimmunity is something that is dramatically

on the rise in today's modern society. Conservative projections have a set about 15% with the

current population suffering from a known diagnosed autoimmune disease and those numbers are

rapidly escalating. For reasons that we'll go through in this lecture we expect another big

push in that direction unfortunately so we need to understand the mechanisms of these diseases

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