”Approximately one person in 20 will suffer from a ‘self-attack’ autoimmune disease during the course of their lifetime. These may vary from diseases that principally affect a single organ – such as diabetes, where the attack is directed towards the pancreas – to diseases in which many organs and systems are directly attacked. The factors that conspire to cause these diseases, many of which are life-threatening, will be discussed in the context of a card game analogy.”