Autoimmune Disease Treatment in Greenville, SC
Autoimmune Disease Treatment at IHP Greenville. Dr. Hendry, DAOM — functional medicine, root-cause diagnostics, personalized care. Call (864) 365-6156.
Autoimmune disease — where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues — affects an estimated 23 million Americans, with incidence rising steadily. Conventional management typically uses immunosuppressive drugs to reduce the immune attack, but does not address the environmental and biological triggers that initiated and sustain it. At Integrative Health Partners, Dr. Hendry's integrative approach to autoimmune disease targets the identifiable root causes — gut dysbiosis, molecular mimicry, vitamin D deficiency, environmental triggers, and stress-induced immune dysregulation — while supporting the immune system to self-regulate rather than simply being suppressed.
How Autoimmune Disease Treatment Works
Autoimmune treatment at IHP combines functional medicine investigation (identifying triggers: gluten, gut dysbiosis, leaky gut, vitamin D deficiency, heavy metal toxicity, chronic infections), acupuncture (for immune modulation — specifically reducing pro-inflammatory Th17 activity and restoring Treg immune regulation), Chinese herbal medicine (anti-inflammatory and immune-regulating classical formulas), and dietary protocol (autoimmune protocol diet, elimination of identified triggers).
Conditions Treated with Autoimmune Disease Treatment
Your First Appointment
Bring documentation of your autoimmune diagnosis, all lab results (ANA, disease-specific antibodies, inflammatory markers), and current medications (biologics, DMARDs, corticosteroids). Describe the disease activity, flare patterns, and triggers you have identified.
Why Dr. Hendry for Autoimmune Disease Treatment
Dr. Hendry's functional medicine training in the gut-immune axis and autoimmunity gives him the ability to identify and address the specific environmental triggers driving your autoimmune disease — an approach that conventional rheumatology does not take but that produces meaningful clinical improvements alongside conventional treatment.