When the body senses an infection or injury, the immune system kicks into gear to defend itself. Unfortunately, there are diseases where the body’s immune system is under the false impression that it needs to defend or repair itself and starts attacking healthy tissues. This can lead to different chronic inflammatory conditions which affect nearly seven million Canadians. Depending on the location of inflammation, this can become arthritis (joints), psoriasis (skin), and Crohn’s disease & ulcerative colitis (bowels).