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Hi, this is Dr. Rucho's Radio.

And this is Jennifer Ruchio.

Hey everyone, that very cute introduction was my four-year-old niece, Gianna Rucho. I was at home visiting family and I couldn't resist the temptation to get her cute little voice on microphone.

So that was her gracing us with an introduction during the Christmas season.

And today we're going to be talking about autoimmunity.

And we have Mickey Trescott and Angie Alt here to talk about this topic.

And these two definitely know a lot about it.

So I'm looking forward to kind of getting into some of the nitty gritty.

Mickey and Angie, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having us, Michael. We're excited to be here.

Absolutely. Thanks for having us.

My pleasure to have you guys here. So for people listening, in case you're not familiar with autoimmunity, I'm assuming most people are, but just in case, autoimmunity is a condition where your immune system attacks different tissues of your body.

And there's many different types.

Autimmune thyroid known as Hashimoto's is one of the more common ones.

There's autoimmunity against joint tissue which can manifest as rheumatoid arthritis.

There's celiac disease which is against intestinal tissue.

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