The phrase "attacks healthy" is not correct in English.
Did you mean "attacks healthily"? If this is the case, you can use it when describing an action that is done in a way that promotes health or well-being.
Example: "The new diet plan attacks healthily by focusing on whole foods and balanced nutrition."
Alternatives: "targets health" or "approaches healthily".
(Autoimmune disorders are thought to arise when the immune system attacks healthy tissue, mistaking it for a threat).
When the Nod2 gene is damaged, researchers said, the immune system probably overreacts and mistakenly attacks healthy intestinal cells, causing chronic inflammation.
Lupus is an autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation of the joints, skin, major organs and central nervous system as the immune system attacks healthy tissues and cells.
The intestinal bypass, by disrupting the microbiome, resets the signal, and the diabetes vanishes.Signal failuresBesides heart disease and type-2 diabetes, Dr Nicholson also thinks several autoimmune diseases, in which the body's immune system attacks healthy cells, involve the microbiome.
Fifteen years ago, I was ambushed by a mysterious illness that turned out to be a chronic autoimmune disorder one of the broad and complex range of rheumatological diseases that result when one's own immune system attacks healthy organs and tissues.
She assisted more than 5,000 clients in filing claims with insurance companies so they could receive increased coverage of what she called invisible disabilities — among them Crohn's disease, autoimmune disorders (in which the immune system attacks healthy body tissue), congenital metabolic disorders and sickle cell anemia.
Engineered T-cells have attacked healthy tissue in patients at other centers.
Lupus is a poorly understood autoimmune condition that can cause the immune system to attack healthy cells, tissue and organs.
These arise because of what we pharmacologists call "off-target toxicity", where drugs attack healthy cells as well as disease cells.
He had what is called a paraneoplastic syndrome, a rare complication in which antibodies to his cancer attacked healthy cells in his brain.
The true screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) and the secondary screwworm (Callitroga macellaria) develop in decaying flesh; they may also attack healthy tissue.
