Why do people pretend that medical science is so advanced, when we can't even figure out basic things like what causes autoimmune diseases? I've had crohns disease for years and there isn't even one treatment for it yet that definitively works. I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that my life is going to progressively get worse and worse as I get older and the inflammation gets worse. The only "treatments" are things that weaken your entire immune system and increase your chances of dying from an infection or getting cancer, and even then they don't even work most of the time. Everything I read about it is bleak and nobody is any closer to figuring out what causes it or how to cure it then they were 100 years ago. I don't get how people think that we're going to cure cancer or even reverse aging anytime soon when we can't even figure out how to stop someone's own cells from destroying themselves for no reason.