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When it comes to autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, the standard medical approach is often to suppress the immune system with heavy-duty drugs—immune suppressants, steroids, biologics. But what if the immune system isn’t misbehaving so much as trying to adapt? A fascinating new paper just published in Medical Hypotheses explores this idea in depth, proposing a shift in how we view autoimmunity—not as a rogue malfunction, but as a kind of misguided adaptabil …