date:Mar 07, 2013
netically predisposed.
It's not bad genes. It's not bad environment. It's a bad interaction between genes and the environment, said Dr. David Hafler, a professor of immunobiology at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and senior author of one of the three papers.
High salt intake is already a known culprit in increasing the risk of heart disease and hypertension. The new study now implicates high-salt diets in increasing rates of autoimmune disease. It can't be just salt. We know vitami