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Is There a Trigger in Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Bergen: There has been this theory for many years, that a lot of human disease actually originates in the gut. Bergen: Your immune cells can sometimes see a protein on the outside of a bacteria that sits in your gut and it attacks that bacteria to get rid of it. That then triggers an autoimmune reaction, meaning you are now making these antibodies who proteins that look a lot like your proteins in other parts of your body," says Bergen.