Archive - Autoimmune Theory & Practice

Autoimmune Disease Is Ancestral & Ecological

Research shows autoimmunity is ancestral. Autoimmunity is ecological. It is the immune system operating exactly as it was built to operate, but built…

Mar 17 • Laure Marin

Autoimmunity is a heart that is breaking.

Autoimmune signals are not an error. They are the body reorganizing around what it cannot digest. An essay on the depletion of ojas, the vagal channel…

Mar 3 • Laure Marin

January 2026

How I Eat With Autoimmunity - part 3 - Chiang Mai, Thailand edition

I do not eat like a monk; I eat as applied pharmacology. If I don’t eat right, I bleed. I need to cool it with the overthinking, the dizziness of trying…

Jan 28 • Laure Marin

December 2025

Health Is Not A Thing

I cannot fix my gaze on it, hold it in my hands, feel its weight and say: “Yes. This is it.”

Dec 23, 2025 • Laure Marin

My Spleen Was Removed in 2001.

In Ayurvedic anatomy and physiology, the spleen is called pliha, and it is the mula (root) of the channels which carry blood (rakta) throughout the…

Dec 10, 2025 • Laure Marin

November 2025

We Desire “Health”

The idea that “we” ought to be healthy is a recent invention. It co-evolves with the enclosure of the commons, the erosion of lifeways which share in…

Nov 25, 2025 • Laure Marin

Auto-Anti-Bodies

What if autoimmunity isn't a medical mistake, but a meaningful response? A philosophical look at the "auto-anti-body" as a somatic expression of our…

Nov 12, 2025 • Laure Marin

October 2025

How do I know if it's helping?

What is health, and how do we know if we're working in harmony with it, or against its flourishing?

Oct 30, 2025 • Laure Marin

What if you stopped trying to get better?

Your body is not a home improvement project. Healing is not an end goal but a process, and you have done nothing wrong by needing rest.

Oct 15, 2025 • Laure Marin

Autoimmunity Is Self-Defence

What if your body isn't attacking itself, but defending you from a toxic world?

Oct 2, 2025 • Laure Marin

September 2025

The Transience of The Body is Holy

Octavia Butler put it most succinctly: God is Change.

Sep 18, 2025 • Laure Marin

Will you come make sanctuary with us?

An invitation to join our December 2025 somatic nervous system regulation retreat in Sutton, QC.

Sep 4, 2025 • Laure Marin

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