Chronic immune conditions — ranging from autoimmunity and autoinflammation to mast cell activation and chronic inflammatory response syndromes — are often treated as separate diseases. Yet beneath their different names and symptoms lies a shared set of organizing principles. This document introduces the metaphor of the body as a house of alarms, helping readers understand how immune systems misfire, why flares seem unpredictable, and what deeper patterns connect these conditions. Drawing on insights from biology, systems thinking, and lived experience, it explores themes such as thresholds, loads, resolution, energy, barriers, rhythms, and attractors. The document translates these insights into seven practical rules for restoring coherence and concludes by showing how the same principles extend beyond the body to ecosystems, communities, and societies.
