Hi, I’m Laure Marin.
(Pronounced /lôr/, like folklore.) They/them.
I have lived with immune thrombocytopenia for twenty-five years. It is a condition in which the body clears its own platelets. I was diagnosed at five. My spleen was removed when I was five. I lost functional sight in my right eye as a child. I have spent decades inside the medical system and inside several systems that run parallel to it, and I am still here, navigating a condition that does not resolve.
This newsletter is the public record of that navigation.
Autoimmune Theory and Practice develops a coherent framework for autoimmunity across traditions. The writing draws on clinical immunology, Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, ecological systems theory, philosophy of biology, and the practical knowledge that accumulates when you spend twenty-five years reading your own body. The premise is that immunity is not a military operation. The body is not at war with itself. Something else is happening, and it takes more than one discipline to describe what.
I write about autoimmunity as an ecological process rather than a biological error. About how Ayurveda understands immunity as distillation rather than defense, and why that reframe changes what you do with your body. About what the medical system holds and what it cannot. About inflammation, digestion, grief, seasons, and the daily mechanics of a condition that continues.
Some posts are essays. Some are podcast episodes. Some are clinical readings. None of it is medical advice. All of it is written from inside the terrain.
I am also a practitioner. I work one-on-one with people navigating autoimmune conditions, chronic illness, burnout, and the long aftermath of bodies under difficult conditions. The work is Ayurvedic: dietary, herbal, and structural. It unfolds over months. I am Adjunct Director of the Académie Québécoise d’Ayurveda. I am trained in tuina, craniosacral therapy, and somatic education. I practice qigong daily. I live and work between Tiohtià:ke/Montréal and Kerala.
If you want to work with me directly:
I offer remote consultations for people whose health has fundamentally shifted and who need more than symptom management. The work is dietary, herbal, and structural. It unfolds over time.
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The text is the map. Your body is the territory. I offer you my map, but you must walk the territory.
Find me elsewhere:
mxmarin.ca — practice
@queerqigong — Instagram
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