Health Condition - Autoimmune Disease
Dr. Pepi has been specifically researching autoimmune disease for about ten years. She has found that autoimmune problems are at the base of many conditions patients come to get help with, especially conditions that no one else has been able to relieve. Through her years of research, she has found the underlying causes for autoimmune disease and the way to effectively relieve it, and has had countless successes in this area.
What Causes Autoimmune Disease?
Autoimmune disease is an immune response caused by antibodies (disease-fighting proteins) being produced against the body’s own cells and tissues. This can include any gland, organ, joint or, in fact, any tissue of the body. Over eighty diseases are classified as either definite or probable autoimmune diseases. Common autoimmune diseases include:
- Hashimoto’s Disease (attacks thyroid)
- Grave’s Disease (attacks thyroid)
- Rheumatoid Arthritis (attacks joints)
- Multiple Sclerosis (attacks brain and nervous system)
- Diabetes Type 1 (attacks pancreas)
- Fibromyalgia (attacks muscle and connective tissue)
- Autoimmune hepatitis (attacks liver)
- Celiac Disease (attacks small intestine)
- Crohns Disease (attacks the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus)
The causes of autoimmune disease are generally considered to be unknown. Many scientists think that genetic factors are somehow involved in pre-disposing people to autoimmune reactions.
Through researching with actual patients and getting consistent results, Dr. Pepi has found that the inappropriate immune response is due to toxicity in the body and deficiency of certain essential nutrients.
Traditional Treatment of Autoimmune Disease
The traditional medical outlook toward autoimmune diseases is that they are incurable. Treatment consists of relieving symptoms, such as pain relief, an attempt to prevent damage to an organ with drugs and suppressing the immune system. Suppression of the immune system is done by administering various immune-suppressing drugs, including low dose chemotherapy or even surgical removal of the immune-system gland (the thymus) or the specifically affected gland or organ. None of these treatments handle the actual condition, and most of the drugs have serious, even life-threatening side effects.
How Can Dr. Pepi Help Me?
Although autoimmune disease manifests itself in many ways, Dr. Pepi found that the underlying causes for any autoimmune disease were the same and formulated a specific program to relieve autoimmune disease. She has been successfully treating people with this program for many years.
After examining your history, diet and lifestyle, Dr. Pepi tailors the program to your specific needs. A consultation can be done over the phone or as an in-office visit. Click here to go to our “Request a Consultation” form.
Success Stories
"Dr. Pepi is my practitioner of choice. No more bargain doctors for me. I’m worth it!!" P.C.
"I was diagnosed with Graves Disease -- hyperthyroidism (an autoimmune disease)-- in 1994. Since that time I have lived with the symptoms and controlled them to some extent only with acupuncture, finally agreeing to take anti-thyroid medication because of potentially serious long-term effects of an over-active thyroid.
"Dr. Pepi began treating me six months ago when I was taking 20 mg. a day. She pinpointed the source of the auto-immune reaction causing the thyroid disease and began treating me with supplements. The result is that I am now off the medication and for the first time in 12 years, my blood tests are reflecting dramatic change towards normal thyroid function. We are now moving on to address other conditions and I am very, very grateful!" K.M.
"I have been walking in circles between MDs and Chiropractors and Nutritionists for years while they tried to handle my thyroid. I was diagnosed with Hasimoto’s disease which is an auto-immune dysfunction effecting the thyroid. But despite the fancy name and the fancy treatments I was given, I was still exhausted most of the time. I would be doing fine and then the next day would just be unable to get out of bed. Or I would be working at my desk and suddenly find that I had been unconscious for the last 20 minutes and had not even known it. Yet the doctors found nothing wrong and no reason why the artificial thyroid supplement I was taking did not handle it.
"I had begun to believe that there was nothing really wrong with me physically and that it was all in my mind and I was just lazy. Finally, I came to Dr. Pepi. I had heard that she is the best and can really get results. I heard right. She determined that the thyroid was actually not giving me a problem at present, but that I had such low blood sugar that I was simply going unconscious. Dr. Pepi got me onto some supplements to get my system properly functioning along with a diet to handle the blood sugar problem. It took a while for me to make the needed changes in my life so that I could stay on her program, but she worked with me and I did make the changes. The program kicked in and I am now doing much, much better. I have energy again. This is increasing as time goes on. I have also lost about 8 pounds without being hungry at all!
"Dr. Pepi definitely gets results and her results are like magic!" L.R.
"In December of 2000 I went to a bargain doctor complaining of persistent chest pain and pressure with numbness down my left arm and in the area of my heart. My heart skipped beats, I felt lightheaded, very, very tired, and was short of breath and at times felt like I would fall over dead. Being as I was only 27 years old and in otherwise apparent good health, that doctor told me that what I was suffering from was Anxiety Disorder, not a heart attack or anything related, and he offered me anti-anxiety psychotropic drugs which I vehemently refused. At my insistence, he did an EKG, which came out normal and showed no signs of heart stress.
"I left that office and went straight to an M.D. After listening to my heartbeat, the M.D. told me I have a mitral-valve prolapse (the valve between the two chambers of my heart doesn’t close correctly) which was aggravated by not having slept one week before, after months of poor sleep, mediocre diet and emotional stress. He told me the condition is common in women of my age and slim build; and that to avoid such symptoms in the future, I should eat, sleep and exercise sufficiently. I changed my lifestyle and didn’t have much attention on my heart for many months.
"In July of 2001 the chest pains, pressure and numbness returned. Over the course of the next few months, the condition rollercoastered. Some days it didn’t bother me; other days it was so bad I could barely work: I had trouble controlling my left arm, I could barely breathe, I could barely think, I had constant pain and pressure in my chest are. I almost fell over several times. There were nights where I didn’t want to close my eyes because I felt there was a better chance of dying than of waking up in the morning; yet I was usually too exhausted to keep my eyes open. (Exhaustion usually hit me around 7:30 or 8PM.)
"Dr. Pepi detected an auto-immune situation where my body was attacking my heart as if it were a foreign object, along with a blockage in my arteries. She treated my body to stop attacking my heart, and she treated my body to break down the blockage in my arteries. She prescribed specific supplements for my heart as well as raw ginger root to break down the blockage.
"She also recommended I see a cardiologist, for the sake of gathering more data. I refused, confident that Dr. Pepi’s diagnosis, treatments and supplement recommendations were spot on..
"I had noticeable immediate improvement and after also eliminating certain stresses in my life, my heart symptoms disappeared 99%.
"I soon had the urge to exercise again, which I hadn’t for months. I regained the certainty that I wouldn’t accidentally die, I had energy and was soon able to operate again 16-18 hours per day as opposed to 12.
"Now, 3 or 4 months after my last set of bad heart symptoms, I’m off many of the supplements I had to take during my condition at its worst, and my body has not relapsed to the condition it was in. I feel and look in much better overall health than I was when I first came to see Dr. Pepi.
"Dr. Pepi is my practitioner of choice. No more bargain doctors for me. I’m worth it!!" P.C.
"I used to have a lot of trouble with gallbladder pain and gallstones. A few months ago it was at its worst. I had a gall bladder attack after eating some kind of fat or oil. It was PAINFUL! I couldn’t sleep all night and had no idea what was going on. It was very upsetting.
"I was told by Dr. Pepi my body was having an autoimmune response to the gallbladder and that the healthier and stronger I got, the more my body attacked my gallbladder. Now I understood why all the things that I had been doing to try to make my body stronger and healthier seemed to make this problem worse. It was such a relief to know what was going on because it hadn’t made any sense at all.
"She treated me and found that there were specific nuts and seeds that had nutrients in them that I was deficient in and which stopped my body from attacking my gallbladder. I followed her instructions carefully. Now it is several months later. I just realized that I ate a half cup of cream the other night and had NO adverse reaction. Before, that would have had me up in pain all night. This has made a HUGE difference in my lifestyle and my freedom to eat what I want. Thank, Dr. Pepi." N.K.
