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2010/04/29
Published
We have all experienced sugar cravings in some form or fashion. We eat one cookie and feel compelled to keep going until the bag is done! We feel tired and want a quick pickup, so we eat a candy bar or café mocha. We feel a little down and we crave a bite of chocolate. We just had dinner but we don’t feel satisfied until we’ve had a dessert. Between meals we crave some type of carbohydrate and don’t feel satisfied with an apple, egg, or carrot as a snack. We need that morning coffee or afternoon café mocha with the whip cream and chocolate drizzle to keep us going for a few hours before dinner.
Those with chronic illness such as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, eczema, seasonal allergies, candidiasis, pre-diabetics, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, arthritis, migraines, PMS, insulin resistance as in Syndrome X, adrenal fatigue, low blood sugar, and even the stressed, depressed and moody individuals will find themselves being driven by their cravings for sweets, either for energy or simply to satisfy the body’s apparent urge. Being driven by one’s sugar cravings are a sign of imbalance in the body. But what are some factors that cause this imbalance? Here are a few key ones to consider:
1)     You are not breaking down your carbohydrates into simple sugars
2)Â Â Â Â Â You have developed an immune sensitivity to some sugars
3)     You’ve developed insulin resistance
4)     Your brain’s opoid receptors are driving the cravings
5)Â Â Â Â Â You have low cortisol function
6)Â Â Â Â Â You are not eating enough protein
7)Â Â Â Â Â You have systemic viral, bacteria or fungal overgrowth in the body
8)Â Â Â Â Â You have an overgrowth of yeast or candida in the digestive tract (leaky gut)
9)Â Â Â Â Â You are magnesium deficient
10)Â Your cravings are an emotional response to stress, boredom or emotional repressio
When Sugar Digestion Goes Wrong
Normally when we eat any form of carbohydrate (starchy vegetable like potatoes, bread, honey, cereal, candies, pastries, cookies) our body takes enzymes made in our mouth and digestive tract to break down the “complex” carbohydrate from its polysaccharide chain to unlink them into simple sugars such as glucose, maltose etc.. It is these simple sugars that then fit into specific receptors sites on our cells and are transported into the cell and used for energy. A “complex” polysaccharide is too large of a molecule to fit into the cell receptor site for the sugar. Therefore, if we do not break down our carbohydrates into these “simple” sugars, then our cells will go without the essential energy they need as fuel. The result of inadequate cellular fuel from simple sugars is that the cell will send out signals to the body to eat carbohydrates, as if we never ate them, even if we’ve just eaten! The cells are telling us they need fuel, but we just ate!
A chain reaction is now set up that depends upon additional factors such as the amount, type and frequency a carbohydrate is eaten, and the development of cellular resistance to absorption of sugars, also known as insulin resistance. When the cell is unable to absorb its needed simple sugars, it prompts the body to increase the secretion of insulin which aids the cell to take in sugar. The problem is that if we are not breaking down our carbohydrates into simple sugars, then all the insulin in the world will not help that cell to get its simple sugars! The resulting “excess” insulin that is unable to “escort” the simple sugar to the cell receptor site begins to irritate the cell membrane causing the cell to ignore insulin’s signal. It is as if someone cries wolf repeatedly, soon everyone ignores the cry. The problem with ineffective breakdown of one’s carbohydrates into simple sugars and the resulting prompt of extra insulin secreted is that the cell still goes hungry and so your cravings persist, insulin resistance develops.
The third complication of inefficient breakdown of carbohydrates is the development of immune sensitivities to carbohydrates and simple sugars. This occurs because in the above example, when you have undigested carbohydrates in the form of long chain polysaccharides and unabsorbed simple sugars, they remain outside the cells and have to be removed by the body. Your white bloods cells see these unabsorbed polysaccharides as “foreign” and the more often they see them (based upon the frequency and amount you eat them) you begin to train your immune system to remember them. Anything the immune system remembers, it will react to, which is called an inflammatory response.
Immune Matrix has found consistently with its patients that those most chronic with allergies, chronic immune disorders such as eczema, asthma, seasonal allergies, chemical sensitivities, hives, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, arthritis, candidiasis, bloating, irritable bowel, adrenal fatigue, anyone with sugar cravings, has generally developed some type of immune sensitivity to some or many sugars and has compromises in their ability to break down carbohydrates into simple sugars.
The Type of Carbohydrate Eaten Can Drive the Cravings
There are two ways the type of carbohydrates you eat can drive your cravings. In the first type, the carbohydrate stimulates opoid receptors in the brain, creating a positive brain chemistry response. Unfortunately, the brain loves these opoids because of the mood it creates, either calmness or euphoria, and when the opoids wear off, the brain prompts us through our cravings to seek out more of those rewarding carbohydrates. Gluten and gliadin from wheat and white flour, oats, rye, spelt and rye all are known to stimulate opoid receptors in the brain to different degrees of intensity. This is why having a single cookie made of wheat or white flour can be impossible to stop at one! Our brain chemistry has become stimulated and now seeks to feed and continue the opoid response.
The second way that the type of carbohydrate can drive your cravings involves your immune system. When the immune system has developed a recognition for a type of sugar, or carbohydrate, it fosters a craving for it. The exact mechanism that creates the craving is not well understood. However, before and after blood tests for antigen titers to the sugar or carbohydrate decline and are eliminated over time after de-sensitization of the immune system to the substance. The result of de-sensitization is to stop immune interference in the breakdown of polysaccharides in the digestive process and its reactivity to the food you take in. The end result of improved sugar digestion is the elimination of specific food cravings!
Part 2 of 4 will discuss three more factors that contribute to sugar cravings.
Please note:
Information on this site is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional. You should not use the information on this site for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, or prescribing any medication or other treatment.
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2010/04/27
Published
In Part 1 we discussed how one is more likely to have mold and mycotoxin exposure. We also identified the types of common mycotoxins and a few key ways they contribute to aggravating our symptoms. Part 2 and 3 discussed specific health conditions and how molds and mycotoxins aggravate those symptoms. Here we will address what you can do to peel off this layer of irritation to your immune system to assist you in regaining your health.
ELIMINATE MOLD EXPOSURE IN YOUR HOME
1)     It is a good practice to weekly air out your home for at least one hour and to open the curtains and bring the sunshine into the home. The sun’s rays kill pathogens like mold and dry out accumulated dampness. Be especially mindful of the bathroom and laundry areas and keep them well ventilated.
2)Â Â Â Â Â Use a 10% Clorox solution (one part Clorox 10 part water) in a spray bottle and keep this away from children. Use it to clean around toilets and sinks and windowsills, it will kill mold and yeast on contact, bacteria and virus too.
3)Â Â Â Â Â Repair leaks and damaged floor boards as soon as possible
4)Â Â Â Â Â Buy a test kit from Home Depot and take samples of suspected molds for lab identification
AVOID EATING “MOLDY” FOODS
The type of moldy foods we are talking about are molds that grow in association with the food such as strawberry, grape, raisin, cantaloupe, corn, oats and wheat because of corn, wheat and oat smut. Avoiding these foods will greatly reduce the risk of inoculating your digestive tract with a food borne pathogenic mold. This reduces the risk of dysbiosis and aggravation of leaky gut syndromes.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO MINIMIZE THE EFFECT OF MYCOTOXINS
If mycotoxins are causing neurological problems such as brain fog, irritability, aggressive behavior, head banging and such in your child, alpha lipoid acid can assist the body in detoxifying the mycotoxins. It is suggested also to take one activated charcoal before bed to soak up the effects of mycotoxins not excreted while you sleep and detoxify. Many times patients feel better with the activated charcoal alone! In severe reactions from die-off or brain fog, or severe immune sensitivities to molds and their toxins, a prescription of cholestyramine will improve severe brain fog and help the body to excrete mycotoxins.
Make sure your detoxification support is adequate. It is best to work with an experienced health care provider knowledgeable in the genetic SNPs that impact detoxification pathways and experienced in determining organic acid tests, hair tests, fecal metals, urine toxic metal tests and other important labs. This is because not everyone is able to detoxify different things efficiently, and a good percentage of the population are non-secretors!  Some individuals are more compromised in their ability to detoxify metals. This has a significant impact upon the levels of pathogenic molds, bacteria and mycotoxins in the body. Other individuals have immune system interference in their detoxification pathways that impact their ability to excrete mycotoxins and therefore have severe reactions to the die off of pathogenic molds and additional environmental molds. Future articles will attempt to discuss the complex subject of evaluating one’s detoxification pathway and what things to look out for when detoxifying certain things from the body.
The number one concern is to be able to take in sufficient magnesium, selenium, B12, 5-tetrahydroxyfolate, lithium, manganese, B6 and zinc. They all act as crucial catalysts to fuel the detoxification pathway. If any one ingredient is missing or out of balance then the rate at which toxins are bound and eliminated in the liver will be hindered. This can have aggravating impacts upon the immune system, increase immune sensitivities and erosion of cell walls, impair nutrient absorption, and result in depositing toxins the body should be excreting.
ELIMINATE LEAKY GUT
The presence of pathogenic strains of bacteria, mold, candida and yeast will as mentioned in our other articles directly cause leaky gut. Immune Matrix has made available to the general public the Doctor’s Data Microbiology Stool kit online at www.immunematrix.com, Microbiology Stool (Doctor’s Data) SKU: SKU16263.
This test will culture and identify the strains of good probiotics in your intestines, culture pathogenic bacteria, mold, candida and other yeast and identify prescription and non-prescription products that are tested as effective against your strains. Eliminating all pathogenic molds, candida strains and yeast, will reduce their excretions, the mycotoxins that wreck havoc on the body. This can be a significant source of toxic exposure outside of environmental mold exposure.
STOP FEEDING MOLDS, YEAST, CANDIDA
Here are some basic guidelines to follow:
1) Stop eating carbohydrates between meals, and reduce the ratio of carbohydrates in your diet to twice as many vegetables (2 portions vegetables: 1 portion protein: 1 portion carbohydrate)
2) Stop eating high glycemic foods between meals and eliminate them if possible. (Bananas, carrot juice, fruits high in sugar)
3) Become aware of foods that make you acidic, and replace them with foods that make you more alkaline. This will reduce the growth of bacteria, virus, molds, yeast and candida in the body!
4) Take more magnesium to help you detoxify and stay alkaline.
In summary, eliminating the frequency of environmental mycotoxin exposure and reducing the synthesis of mycotoxins in your digestive tract will stop the constant onslaught of immune exposure and neurological inflammation from mycotoxins. Making lifestyle changes in your diet to discourage the growth of pathogenic dysbiotic flora will reduce internal sources of mycotoxin exposure. Taking alpha lipoic acid, activated charcoal and if necessary prescription cholastyramine will help combat the accumulated mycotoxins in the system. And finally, become aware of your liver’s needs to become more efficient at detoxification. Future articles will address specific factors that impact our liver’s ability to detoxify.
Please note:
Information on this site is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional. You should not use the information on this site for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, or prescribing any medication or other treatment.
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2010/04/25
Published
In Part 1 we discussed how one is more likely to have mold and mycotoxin exposure. We also identified the types of common mycotoxins and a few key ways they contribute to aggravating our symptoms. Part 2 and 3 discuss specific health conditions and how molds and mycotoxins aggravate those symptoms. Part 4 will discuss what you can do to peel off this layer of irritation to your immune system to assist you in regaining your health.
MOLD AND CHRONIC FATIGUE
The immune recognition of mycotoxins in patients suffering from chronic fatigue increases the overall inflammation of the patient. Unfortunately, this will take away energy the body needs to fight other common chronic invisible infections, such as viral infections (Epstein Barr, cytomeg, echo and coxsackie, Rocky Mt. Spotted fever among others). The more elements aggravating one’s immune system, the more diluted it becomes and ineffective, exhausting one’s adrenal glands in the process. In chronic fatigue patients it is common to see immune system interference in the metabolism of sugars, fats, protein, mineral salts, sulfur, acids, ineffective anti-viral immune recognition, ineffective anti-bacterial immune recognition, and ineffective anti-fungal immune recognition.
When you add the presence of mycotoxins to one’s immune burden, your body can:
1)Â Â Â Â Â create neurological inflammation (headache, migraine, brain fog, aggressive behavior, irritability, insomnia, anxiety, short attention span, brain fatigue)
2)Â Â Â Â Â create digestive inflammation (irritable bowel, bloating, gas, diarrhea, constipation, nausea, lack of appetite, sugar cravings)
3)Â Â Â Â Â allow for opportunistic bacteria, and viral co-infections from the immune suppressive action of mycotoxins
4)Â Â Â Â Â allow for explosions of populations of intestinal yeast, and candida, increasing leaky gut and irritable bowel symptoms, decreasing nutrient absorption and increasing food sensitivities
5)Â Â Â Â Â weaken adrenal function resulting in lowered cortisol hormone levels, causing fatigue after meals and during levels of low cortisol, causing a further weakening of the immune system and sugar digestion inefficiency, contributing to insulin resistance and syndrome X!
6)Â Â Â Â Â increase cellular toxicity, aggravating an already inefficient liver detoxification pathway system. This can increase food sensitivities and sensitivity to key metabolities in key metabolic pathways involving hormones (adrenal and thyroid, and neurotranmitters), detoxification pathways, mineral processing and nutrient absorption.
MOLD AND HEADACHES
Some strains of mold, like black mold (stachybotrys) have specific targets to create neurological symptoms such as brain fog, brain fatigue, numbness, tingling in the limbs and body. Other strains of mold create neurological inflammation based on their excretions (mycotoxins). Depending upon the degree of immune system recognition to the mycotoxin there can exist a linked recognition to a neurotransmitter. Immune Matrix has consistently seen in its testing of patients a linked association with Gaba, serotonin, or dopamine or their metabolites and certain mycotoxins. The result is that the presence of the mycotoxins can interfere via the immune system to inhibit synthesis of a core neurotransmitter. Over time patients develop deficiency symptoms in serotonin, gaba or dopamine independently of the toxic neurological effects of the mycotoxin on brain neurons.
A second mechanism of headache involving mold and mycotoxin exposure is the aggravation of liver detoxification pathways. When the toxic load of the liver reaches a certain threshold, toxins become accumulated in the liver and then are deposited in other organs and tissues of the body. The increased toxic load to the liver does not necessarily increase liver enzymes and therefore is NOT detected by liver enzyme blood tests, as this is late stage stress for a liver. Symptoms of toxicity to the liver can develop way before the liver enzymes become elevated.
A toxic liver contributes to the back up and re-distribution of toxins into other areas of the body. Increased liver toxicity symptoms will include feelings of frustration, anger, agitation, short temper, feeling bottled up, sighing, red eyes, pain over the liver, nausea, lack of appetite to name a few. Increased liver toxicity affects detoxification of estrogens and aggravates estrogen type headaches seen cycling in certain women.
The location the toxins are accumulating in the body determines the type of symptoms one can have from toxic overload. Immune Matrix has seen toxic accumulations in the stomach that result in mild stomach pains, and lack of appetite. Toxic accumulation in the colon can and does interfere with nutrient absorption and greatly impacts chronic fatigue patients in their sugar metabolism and adrenal function. Toxins can impact any organ and system of the body. Toxic accumulation in the nervous system increases any pre-existing neurological symptoms, from anxiety, brain fog, numbness and tingling, fatigue, weakness, and depression, headache and migraine, making the symptoms more frequent and more severe.
MOLD AND ASTHMA
Studies all over the world have confirmed increased risk for asthma linked to dampness in homes and the workplace. The mechanism of action is variable in how the molds induce asthma. Some mold and mycotoxins cause an allergic reaction that affects the bronchioles, causing inflammation and restriction. Other types of asthma are induced by immune reactivity to the mycotoxins from the molds, whether they are indoor molds, outdoor molds or food borne molds.
Sometimes the effect of the mold is indirect. The mold suppresses the immune system sufficiently to allow for secondary infection to affect the lungs. Flu, bronchitis and pneumonia become opportunisitic infections and secondary to the initial immune weakening effect of the mold exposure. Overlay this secondary infection with increased immune inflammation from reactivity to the mycotoxins and you have the ingredients for asthma to take effect.
Part 4 will discuss what you can do to identify the effects of molds contributing to leaky gut, how you can abate mold exposure, and peel of one more layer irritating your immune system and assist you in regaining your health.
Please note:
Information on this site is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional. You should not use the information on this site for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, or prescribing any medication or other treatment.
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2010/04/23
Published
In Part 1 we discussed how one is more likely to have mold and mycotoxin exposure. We also identified the types of common mycotoxins and a few key ways they contribute to aggravating our symptoms. Part 2 and 3 will discuss specific health conditions and how molds and mycotoxins aggravate those symptoms. Part 4 will discuss what you can do to peel off this layer of irritation to your immune system to assist you in regaining your health.
MOLD AND DEPRESSION
Studies have confirmed a direct association between dampness in the home that causes mold to grow and an increased risk for depression. (Am J Public Health. 2007 Oct;97(10);1893-9) What is interesting to note is that the symptoms of depression persisted irrespective of whether the individuals living in the home perceived they had the power to abate the mold and improve their health. What was not discussed was why we are susceptible to depression from mold exposure!
The toxins our immune system recognizes, such as mycotoxins, take action upon our nervous system. They disrupt the synthesis and balance of neurotransmitters that control brain speed (acetylcholine), mood and calmness (GABA and seratonin), and focus and processing speed and metabolism (dopamine). Imbalances in neurotransmitters will aggravate existing symptoms of low mood, fatigue, depression, weepiness, brain bog, anxiety, increased aggression and agitation, OCD, ADD, ADHD, impaired verbal, auditory or mental processing.
Toxins from mold also increase brain inflammation in susceptible individuals. Brain fog and processing disorders become easily aggravated especially because the temporal lobes of the brain are focal centers for these functions and are more susceptible to localized inflammatory attack from pathogens such as streptococcus and mycotoxins.
MOLDS AND ECZEMA, CANDIDA AND DYSBIOSIS
Immune Matrix has found clinically a high degree of correlation between immune sensitivity to molds, yeast, candida, and mycotoxins to the severity of eczema. With the suppression of the immune system in the presence of chronic mycotoxin exposure, pathogenic candida and bacteria can invade and take a foothold in the lining of the large intestine. This is how “leaky gut” is created. The pathogens bind to the lining creating microscopic holes in the intestinal lining. Undigested food “leaks” through these holes. The immune system begins to see these undigested food particles as “foreign” antigens and the creation of immune sensitivities, and chronic inflammation begins.
Overgrowth of yeast and other dysbiotic pathogens in the digestive tract cause intense sugar cravings. Sugars rob the body of B vitamins. Deficiencies in B vitamins increase the severity of eczema symptoms and delay skin healing. Dysbiosis also throws off one’s mineral balance making you more acidic; a prime environment favoring further pathogenic growth. Acid body terrain further imbalances core alkaline minerals in the body such as magnesium, molybdenum, selenium, manganese, zinc, all crucial for efficient liver detoxification pathway function. The result is increased extra-cellular toxic load and decreased cell membrane repair. Increased cellular toxicity increases immune inflammation, and antigen recognition causing ever increasing levels of food sensitivities to trigger more hives, skin rashes and eczema. Â
MOLD AND PMS
Women that suffer PMS in any of its forms are not efficient in degrading and excreting their estrogens through their liver. The detoxification process is called methylation. For those susceptible individuals, mycotoxins will accumulate in the liver and not be efficiently excreted. This results in increased toxic stress and accumulation to the liver. The more toxins that burden the liver, the less efficient the liver is at excreting all toxins and estrogen will tend to accumulate in the body as a result. This is how women become more estrogen toxic and increase their estrogen dependent cancer risk! Excessive estrogen creates breast tenderness, uterine and abdominal bloating, irritability, fatigue, sugar cravings, headache, red eyes, flushed face and digestive disturbances that include either episodic diarrhea, constipation or both, bloating, vomiting, nausea and water weight gain.
MOLD AND LEARNING DISABILITIES
Certain strains of molds cause more neurological symptoms such as the dreaded black mold, stachybotrys. Many indoor, outdoor and food borne molds have mycotoxins that trigger immune inflammation which target the nervous system less intensely but lead to marked increase in symptoms a few hours after exposure. These symptoms include brain fog, fatigue, sleepiness, aggressive behavior, anger outbursts, irritability, and hyperactivity. Children seem to show more marked reactivity because their brains are developing and the coatings of their neurons are not completely methylated. Increases in toxic burden reduces the body’s ability to methylate. This reduces the body’s ability to coat and protect neurons. The result, toxins become more detrimental to nerves in the body, especially the brain.
In addition, many children have been exposed to streptococcus infection, aka strep throat. In many cases, the streptococcus then proceeds to live in the colon contributing to leaky gut, a silent infection. In fewer cases, the strep will attack the brain especially those with repeated ear infections. The temporal lobes are particularly sensitive to streptococcus infection and this area of the brain affects verbal and auditory processing. Streptococcus can continue to live in the intestinal system through adulthood. Overlay mycotoxins’ effect of increasing neurological inflammation and you can begin to see symptoms that did not previously exist in the presence of silent strep infection.
Part 3 will discuss the impact of molds on chronic fatigue, headaches and asthma.
Please note:
Information on this site is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional. You should not use the information on this site for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, or prescribing any medication or other treatment.
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2010/04/20
Published
Mold is a living organism. All living organisms have excretions. In the case of molds, these excretions are called mycotoxins. Mycotoxins are the particular excretions from molds that cause toxic and immune reactions to humans. In some cases mycotoxins are used to make medicines and flavor for cheeses! However, people can still be reactive to these products. Here is an example of common mycotoxins that patients at Immune Matrix are routinely tested for: patulin, penitrem A, cephalosporin C, fusaric acid, gliotoxin, cyclopiazonic acid, rubratoxin, aflatoxin, islanditoxin, penicillin, trichoverrols, nivalenol, scirpentriol, butenolide, trichoverrins, enniatins, acetyl-T-2 toxin, destruxin B, trichothecin, brevianamide, zearalenone, viriditoxin, xanthhocillin, crotocin, fumonisin B1, roridin E, roquefortine C, acetaldehyde, citreoviridin, lateritin, aflatrem, slaframine, citrinin, kojic acid and many more.
HIDDEN MOLD IN THE HOME
Mold exposure is more than the dreaded “black mold” called stachybotrys. All indoor and outdoor mold strains can cause subtle symptoms in the body. Most of the time the symptoms are not direct and immediate but rather invisible and aggravate other pre-existing conditions. Many patients suffering seasonal allergies, chronic fatigue, bloating, acid reflux, headache, migraine, lyme disease, autism, ADD, ADHD, brain fog, insomnia, irritability, PMS, frequent colds and flu, impaired digestive function, skin rashes, eczema all have in common immune sensitivities to indoor, outdoor or food borne molds.
Your living condition does not have to have a roof or plumbing leak or black mold growing under the kitchen counter or lining the floor of the bathtub to aggravate health problems. Several factors contribute to mold growing in a home, under carpets, in basements, in crawl spaces under the home, in bathrooms, air ducts and along windows:
1)Â Â Â Â Â living in an older home (older than 22yrs)
2)Â Â Â Â Â having no or missing insulation
3)Â Â Â Â Â lack of sun exposure in the home
4)Â Â Â Â Â lack of fresh air in the home
5)Â Â Â Â Â amount of rainfall or fog
6)Â Â Â Â Â unflued gas heating
7)Â Â Â Â Â frequency of baths and showers in the home among members
8)Â Â Â Â Â frequency of use of washing machine
9)Â Â Â Â Â damp spots in the home, visible mold and mildew in the home
Home Depot Stores has a mold test kit that one can use to take samples of suspicious areas of the home for mold identification and to rule out the presence of black mold.
THE EFFECT OF MYCOTOXINS
Mycotoxins exert powerful metabolic effects on our metabolism. One of their effects is to act as neurotoxins. This means that they increase inflammation in our brains. Inflammation in our brain often affects the weakest part. For example, it can affect an area of old head injury, like soccer head, or other traumas to the head. Depending upon the area of the brain where the inflammation takes hold, auditory or verbal processing can be affected either acutely or slowly, with intermittent challenges to focus, or affect our ability to process what we hear and to communicate and express ourselves.
Some mycotoxins alter our brain chemistry. Patients exposed to mycotoxins can have symptoms of chronic fatigue, brain fog, aggressive tendencies, irritability, insomnia, increased anxiety, weakness in the limbs, headache, migraine, digestive disorders, hypoglycemia, chronic candida, intestinal dysbiosis, skin rashes, chronic eczema, and weakened immune systems.
Other mycotoxins inhibit our immune system. For pathogenic molds, those that can live in our body, especially our digestive tract, mycotoxins are their tool to inhibit our immune system from evicting them from our bodies. Mycotoxins are also the cause of sugar cravings, stimulating us to feed these pathogenic molds. Therefore, some mycotoxins become the chemical signals directing our body to feed pathogenic molds and prevent our immune system from waging an attack against them! Is it no wonder that many strains of pathogenic molds and candida are so difficult to eradicate from our body?
Part 2 and 3 will discuss the impact of molds and mycotoxins have on certain conditions such as depression, eczema, candida, dysbiosis, PMS, learning disabilities, chronic fatigue, headaches, and asthma. Part 4 will discuss what you can do to peel off this layer of irritation to your immune system to assist you.
Please note:
Information on this site is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional. You should not use the information on this site for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, or prescribing any medication or other treatment.
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2010/04/17
Published
Emotions and Weight
In Part 1, we learned that emotions are chemistry and the unextinguished chemistry of negative emotions (aka NECs) can be stored within the body. In Part 2 we began to show key ways in which these negative unextinguished neuropeptides of emotion contribute to throwing off our health contributing to weight gain. Here we will discuss further examples of how these NECs drive our weight out of balance.Â
Emotions Can Suppress our Immune System
Western medicine acknowledges the link between immune system strength and stress. What no one knows is the exact biochemical processes that allow the nervous system to communicate with our immune cells. Studies confirm the link of chronic stress on our nervous system with inhibiting immune function.
The nervous system and our emotions are intimately linked. The foundations of chiropractic and acupuncture theory study the body’s linked associations between the nervous system and our organs. As discussed in Part 1, all emotions exist because they are biochemicals in the body.
Anything created in the body has to be eliminated. When too many negative emotional biochemicals accumulate in the body, their effect can over stimulate the biochemistry of our nervous system. The result is depletion of core pathway nutrients, trace minerals, alkaline minerals such as magnesium, manganese, zinc, lithium, selenium, chromium, molybdenum, B6, B12, 5-tetra-hydroxy-folate to name a few. Besides depletion, imbalances in nutrients can also result, such as excess copper accumulating in our systems, pushing us towards anxiety and insomnia.
If these NECs are contributing to drive our biochemistry out of balance, our battle to digest and absorb the nutrients necessary to optimize our energy and metabolism will continually be off.
Emotions Can Drive us to Eat the Wrong Foods
When unextinguished negative emotions continue to bubble up within us, we seek solace sometimes in self-soothing behavior such as eating. The repetitive act of eating in and of itself is soothing to our bodies. Recall the baby that calms down to feed.
Sometimes we simply have bad habits, like coming home from work and going straight to the refrigerator to have a snack before dinner that begins to tip our weight out of balance. However, more often, if we dig deeper, and especially if we have an NET practitioner test us, we can find out that at the root of our need to soothe ourselves with comfort foods is a feeling of anxiety, boredom, loneliness, even anger and frustration! Removing the neuropeptides of emotion that trigger this ongoing need to soothe ourselves can help us to overcome the cycle of weight loss and gain! You don’t need to know what emotions are triggering your desire to eat, as the certified NET practitioner is trained to know how to test you.
Chronic Challenges in Weight Loss can Elicit Emotions that Block our Progress
Chronic states of illness or weight loss plateaus can have a payoff to no conscious fault of our own. As much as we hate being ill, stuck on a weight loss plateau or on a roller coaster of weight loss and gain, sometimes our subconscious (limbic system) can use our condition to our detriment. The result is that we find a practitioner to help us heal, loose weight, get some treatments, get better but eventually lapse back to our prior state. Repetitive relapses should be checked by a certified NET practitioner to determine if there are subconscious “laws” or “programming” that hinder our overcoming our plateaus.
Some key statements that are used to check our limbic system for congruency are “I’m ok being well”, I’m ok overcoming chronic fatigue”, “I’m ok having better health than anyone in my family”, “I’m ok loosing weight.”, “I’m ok with receiving attention from having a great physique!”, “I’m ok with failure”.
These statements may look obviously positive to the conscious mind as it doesn’t make sense to our conscious mind to not be ok being well. However, the limbic brain does not operate in a logical manner and unextinguished negative emotions in the form of fears, lack of self esteem etc. will use our chronic conditions to protect itself from breaking through to the conscious (cognitive) mind.
For example, if one has a subconscious fear of failure, they are less likely to want to overcome chronic fatigue or reach their weight loss goals because this now exposes the individual to the risk of failure, whose emotion can be overwhelming to the patient emotionally. The patient will either self-sabotage, stop taking their medications or supplement or become entangled with additional health issues that are also not efficiently dealt with for “emotional” reasons unknown to the patient.
In the case of weight loss, being ok with being attractive and the attention it attracts is a huge subconscious detriment for those who have suffered rape, or sexual abuse. Therefore, those patients suffering cycles of weight loss and gain, or relapses, stalled progress, should see a certified NET practitioner to check their congruency in overcoming their condition. The more layers one can peel off that contribute to imbalance the further and faster one will see progress.
Please note:
Information on this site is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional. You should not use the information on this site for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, or prescribing any medication or other treatment.
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2010/04/15
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Emotions and Weight
In Part 1 we discussed that emotions are chemistry and the unextinguished chemistry of negative emotions (aka NECs) can be stored within the body. In Part 2 we discuss some ways in which these negative unextinguished neuropeptides of emotion contribute to throwing off our health, contributing to weight gain. Â
Emotions can Cause Food Sensitivities
When dealing with emotions from the biochemical side, they can impact any aspect of one’s health in complicated ways. Here we address a few ways emotions impact our weight. Negative unextinguished neuropeptides of emotion do contribute to weight gain and form an emotional basis that drives our weight out of balance.
Sometimes a negative emotion can become associated with a food and cause symptoms. An example Immune Matrix describes is a child who had strife with his father on Sundays while his dad cooked eggs. He was seen as an adult at the clinic for food allergies and when all the allergies were cleared, his symptoms to eggs persisted despite no positive allergy or food sensitivity findings. An NET session revealed the original NEC of anger and frustration at this father while eating eggs on Sunday as a child. Once this NEC was cleared and the neuropeptides detoxified, he was able to begin to enjoy eggs symptom free!
One can form a linked association to food, substances, chemicals etc. which can easily be checked by a certified NET practitioner. It could be one piece of the puzzle missing in your continued progress.
Emotions Can Block Digestive Efficiency
The accumulation of negative neuropeptides, especially after an acute event such as a trauma, relationship stress, job layoff, can stimulate the body into being more sympathetic (the fight or flight response). If we are running from a train, this comes in handy and the body’s last concern is digestion, marshalling all its forces to help you get your nervous system in top gear to escape that train! However, if there is no train to run from and you need to digest your food, you cannot be in a sympathetic state. Digestive juices, enzymes etc. cannot function in such a state. Intestinal cramping, bloating, abdominal gas, acid reflux will result.
We are unaware consciously that our body is in a sympathetic state because the limbic system, that part of our brain that controls emotions and the processing of these neuropeptides is separate from our cognitive or conscious part of our brains. When issues press through our consciousness into our conscious awareness, the accumulation of negative neuropeptides is great. Certified NET practitioners are trained to know how to test the body for localized areas of accumulation and to find the root emotion to stop your body from running from the freight train long after it is gone.
Our bodies continue to react long after conscious stressors are gone. This is why it could be pivotal to check for negative stored emotions that underlie life stressors and have them extinguished. It will relieve the body of stress, improve your chemistry and make you much happier.Â
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2010/04/13
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The Chemistry of Emotion
There are positive and negative emotions in life. Both course through our bodies as chemical peptides. Emotions can aggravate, sustain, and/or block the healing of any health condition. Conditions involving pain, such as fibromyalWgia, migraine, arthritis, trauma, digestive disorders, food allergies, environmental sensitivities, chronic nausea, chronic infections, especially fungal infections as seen with candidiasis, eczema, Â chronic viral infections in chronic fatigue, lyme disease, and as well as autoimmune conditions all seem to be particularly impacted by the effect of un-extinguished negative emotions. Weight loss is one of the most sensitive to emotional processing.
Positive emotional neuropeptides stimulate endorphins, hormonal triggers for the body and brain that make us feel energetic, happy, content, peaceful and alert. Positive neuropeptides also positively influence the immune system and stimulate it into action. Negative emotional neuropeptides act like the cross walk guards at intersections, they block function. They suppress one’s immune system and inhibit the synthesis of positive neuropeptides.
All emotions, positive and negative have associated neuropeptides that are degraded and eliminated from the body. This is called the “extinction” of an emotion. If the body is unable to extinguish all the neuropeptides of that emotion, it is stored! Dr. Candice Pert, in her groundbreaking book the Molecules of Emotion, Why You Feel the Way You Feel,  was the first scientist to discover that our body can be interrupted in the processing of our emotions, especially the negative ones. As a result, we can store these neuropeptides of negative emotions such as anger, resentment, frustration, etc. in our body, not just our heads! The consequences of this discovery are profound.
Through the science and study of the chemistry of emotion, Neuro Emotional Technique (NET), the brainchild of Dr. Scott Walker, discovered that non-extinguished negative emotions would compel a person to re-experience a similar event that would create new yet similar negative emotions in the body’s faulty attempt to heal and extinguish these neuropeptides. He named the phenomenon NEC’s (neuroemotional charges).
In lay terms, an NEC acts as a button that is pushed in a person to create a negative emotional reaction. Have you ever reacted to a comment or attitude and found yourself asking “why does that bother me so much?”, when it may not seem to ruffle the feathers of others? This is a sign that it is an NEC, and behind it are the stored neuropeptides of negative emotion. Talking about why something bothers you does not necessary change how you feel. This is because the biochemistry of emotion has not been eliminated. Eliminating these negative neuropeptides eliminates the negative reaction and emotion! You can then change how you feel!
Dr. Walker’s NET technique is designed to eliminate the biochemistry of negative emotions. It tracks back to the original forming event and assists the body in discharging these negative emotional neuropeptides. This technique is being taught in medical schools and certified doctor referrals around the world are available at www.netmindbody.com. More will be written about NET in future articles.
Emotions and Weight
When dealing with emotions from the biochemical side, they can impact any aspect of one’s health in complicated ways. Negative unextinguished neuropeptides of emotion do contribute to weight gain and form an emotional basis that drives our weight out of balance. The following is a brief list of how emotions affect our weight:
1)Â Â Â Â Â emotions can create food sensitivities
2)Â Â Â Â Â emotions can block our digestive efficiency
3)Â Â Â Â Â emotions can increase inflammation
4)Â Â Â Â Â emotions can increase our cortisol levels
5)Â Â Â Â Â emotions can stress and suppress our immune system
6)Â Â Â Â Â emotions can drive us to eat the wrong foods
7)Â Â Â Â Â emotional aspects of weight loss and gain or plateaus make it difficult for us to rise above our circumstances
Part 2 will discuss how.
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2010/04/11
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In Part A we discussed what things your body perceives as stress and how your body responds to produce more cortisol and insulin. Prolonged stress or glandular mal-adaptation to stress result in prolonged elevation of cortisol and eventual exhaustion of the adrenal glands. Knowing the levels of cortisol throughout the day will help you make adjustments to help your body reset its hormonal balance.
Excessive Cortisol
We discussed in Part A the fact that elevated cortisol stimulates the excretion of insulin. If insulin levels stay elevated beyond levels your cells need, then you go into a fat storage mode. Prolonged elevations in insulin result in insulin resistance and impaired sugar metabolism and sugar absorption by cells. This causes episodes of low blood sugar crashes called hypoglycemia and reactive hypoglycemia, fatigue, exhaustion and sugar and carbohydrate cravings.
Anyone with elevated cortisol must pay attention to what time of day their cortisol values are elevated. You need to avoid taking stimulants during that time of day as they will push your cortisol values higher, such as coffee, sodas, alcohol. Your latte habit alone can make you fat because it could be driving your cortisol levels up! You also need to watch the amount of carbohydrates you eat during high cortisol times. Excess carbohydrates and sugars, such as sodas, chips, cookies, pastry, mocha’s and such load the body with too much sugar. Between the sugar and the insulin spike from elevated cortisol you are more likely to gain weight during times of high cortisol!
During periods of elevated cortisol, eat more protein and do not let yourself go without eating three meals a day and two protein snacks in the day. Eating enough protein is essential to keeping your blood sugar from dropping and feeling exhausted after a cortisol surge. Eating enough protein will also prevent the insatiable hunger some people feel when their cortisol levels are high. This results from elevated levels of insulin. Therefore, knowing your cortisol values is essential to help you modify your lifestyle and diet.
During times of cortisol peaks in the day you should avoid taking B vitamins, and herbs such as ginseng. The stimulating effects of supplements and some herbs will elevate cortisol and can be the cause for excessive cortisol peaks.
Avoid strenuous exercise during cortisol peaks as this will exhaust the adrenals over time and also be the cause of elevated cortisol levels. Avoid stressful situations during cortisol peaks if possible. Just knowing that at certain times of the day you are more prone to have elevated cortisol will allow you to look at your lifestyle and determine what stressors are pushing your body into that stress mode. With some it’s a stressful work situation; with others it’s a stressful home environment and how it is structured. Plan and make adjustments to defer some of what your body perceives as stressful to other times of the days and you will be more productive and energetic.
Lecithin granules are a good food to be taken at the time of cortisol peaks. The phosphotidylserine is essential for the body to detoxify cortisol. One tablespoon taken during peak cortisol times will help the body detoxify the excessive cortisol.
Deficiency in Cortisol
If at some point in the day your saliva cortisol values are below normal, then it’s highly likely that your adrenals have entered a phase of mal-adaptation, fatigue or exhaustion. A person can have high cortisol values when they wake up and then by noon they can crash below normal and stay that way until bedtime. Low cortisol values mean that you will have problems with your sugar metabolism. You will feel tired, dragging, where rest never gives you the energy recharge you so crave. Eating sugary snacks for quick energy makes you feel tired in about an hour, and you seek stimulants like soda and coffee for the pick up.
Sugars and caffeine deplete weak adrenal glands and you need to take in protein snacks in the form of a piece of chicken, turkey, skim cheese, egg, cottage cheese, or protein smoothie that you make so that you can limit the sugars in the smoothie. Take the protein snack about an hour before your lowest cortisol level. It will help prevent hypoglycemia, and help to strengthen your adrenal glands. The most sugar you should consume during low cortisol values would be an apple and in many cases that can be too much carbohydrate at that time to safely digest.
Low cortisol values need the added assistance of a trained medical professional who will do more than put you on cortisol. If you take cortisol, it hinders your body from making it. You will feel better in the short term but you will not have strengthened your adrenals to normalize cortisol levels on their own. Some herbal formulas are extremely effective in helping the adrenals normalize cortisol function but they need to be prescribed and dosed by a trained medical professional.
There is an added problem with those suffering from chronic inflammation. The immune system can become sensitized to cortisol or its metabolites. This is similar to having an autoimmune reaction to one’s cortisol. It makes taking cortisol ineffective or symptomatic and it prevents your body from using the cortisol that it makes effectively. Immune Matrix tests and de-sensitizes those patients having immune sensitivities to cortisol metabolites or cortisol so that they can optimize the benefit from taking herbs that boost adrenal function without added inflammation or side effects.
If you have a chronic inflammatory condition such as allergies, irritable bowel, rashes, eczema, psoriasis, chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia, asthma, persistent headaches, migraine, arthritis, Hashimotos’s disease, lyme disease, chronic viral infections such as Epstein Bar, cytomeg, coxsackie, HHV, RMSF, MS, recurring colds or strep infections, then other factors that fuel your condition can elevate cortisol in addition to lifestyle. You will need to work with an experienced medical practitioner. There is much that you can do however with these lifestyle suggestions to prevent your lifestyle and diet from pushing your cortisol over the edge and creating a hormonal rhythm that promotes fat storage!
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2010/04/09
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Fat cells and fat storage are not simply about calories burned and excess calories stored as fat. The fat cell is not simply a garbage can for fat storage. The fat cell is a dynamic cell that interacts with our hormonal glands with the sensitivity of a symphony conductor. Imagine each gland, the adrenals, the pituitary in the brain, the thyroid, the thymus as sections of instruments in the orchestra with the fat cells as the percussion section. If one section of the orchestra dominates or is too weak, the sound of the orchestra is off.
Our body works the same way to constantly restore balance. The purpose of this and subsequent articles is to help you understand the amazing dynamics of the fat cell, as it goes way beyond diet and exercise alone! We will look at how the balance of your body’s hormones, digestion of protein, sugar, fat, vitamin, minerals, and challenges in eliminating toxins, and how our level of inflammation directly affects our fat storage!
WHAT’S WRONG WITH FAT?
Fat is essential for our body. It protects our organs from each other and from the impact of daily living. It stores caloric reserves for times of perceived starvation and stress. This evolutionary protective mechanism is why our ancient ancestors were able to survive. However, in this modern age where non-nutritious high glycemic foods are readily available, and stress and toxins play havoc with our hormones, our fat cells lead us into trouble not just for aesthetics but for hormonal and metabolic reasons.
Excess fat does more than simply look bad like cellulite or burden the heart from the excess weight. It becomes a hormonal trigger leading to more fat deposition and inflammation. The fat cell becomes the conductor taking over the symphony! Fat increases our death rate not just from heart attack but from increased risk of cancers and other inflammatory disorders such as chronic fatigue, diabetes, arthritis, irritable bowel, acid reflux, allergies, eczema, arteriosclerosis, and psoriasis to name a few. Excessive fat creates a metabolic downward spiral in our health leading to degenerative diseases and pre-mature death. It also robs us of the quality and vitality in our life.
WHAT’S IN FAT BESIDES FAT?
Fat cells store toxins! If we try to shrink our fat cells by restricting our caloric intake and increase our energy consumption, we may not loose much in the way of percentage fat because we have not eliminated the intra and extra-cellular toxins. Fat cells use fat and intracellular fluid to dilute toxins in the fat cell. The body will only allow the excretion of fat and fluid to the extent that it does not concentrate toxins in the cell. This is why many people reach plateaus and cannot shrink fat deposits on their body.
Toxins come from what we eat in the form of preservatives, artificial flavorings, pesticides, herbicides, heavy metal and environmental chemicals. They come from chemical preservatives in our toothpaste and mouthwash too. But what we eat, if it is not metabolized and broken down well by our digestive tract, becomes a toxin. When we eat protein, carbohydrates, and oil, our digestive tract through digestive enzymes and hydrochloric acid in our stomach, breaks protein down into simple amino acids, carbohydrates into simple sugars such as glucose, lactose, and oils into simple fatty acids. If we are low in hydrochloric acid and are deficient in digestive enzymes (and most of us are, especially as we age), we are unable to break down our food into these simple amino acids, sugars and fatty acids. These larger unbroken molecules are unable to enter our cell membranes and have to be eliminated by the body.
Toxins also come from what we put on our skin, the chemical byproducts of petrochemicals in cosmetics, hair care products, soaps, deodorants, colognes and perfumes. We breathe in toxins like lead daily from car exhaust and industrial pollution. If we smoke we take in approximately 3500 chemicals per cigarette! Drugs (over the counter, prescription and recreational) and alcohol add to our liver’s toxic burden.
Normal biochemical processes of living create toxins that come from digestion, hormone synthesis and recycling, vitamin synthesis and degradation, and mineral metabolism. However, many of us are challenged in our digestive and detoxification metabolism. If we have allergies, infections, inflammatory disorders such as asthma, eczema, ulcerative colitis, arthritis, atherosclerosis or arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, acid reflux, chronic fatigue, lyme disease, MS, autoimmune disorders such as lupus, Hashimoto’s, or symptoms of chronic inflammation such as irritable bowel, constipation, seasonal allergies, itchy skin, rashes, yeast infections, bloating, hypoglycemia, fatigue, brain fog, irritability, PMS, then we definitely have challenges in some aspect of our digestive and/or detoxification metabolism. This is a main reason why we develop many of these disorders!
Normal daily living also involves killing invading pathogens in the body such as bacteria that latch onto our food, grow on our toothbrushes, or yeast and mold or virus we come into contact through body secretions and surface contact. When we cannot eliminate these dead pathogens, called microbial metabolites, they act as toxins and accumulate in the body, in our liver, organs, connective tissue and fat cells! We don’t have to be sick to have a back log of pathogens in our system needing to be eliminated.
Our cumulative exposure and cumulative metabolic back up has a direct impact on what we store in our fat cells!
WHY DO WE STORE TOXINS IN FAT?
Think of our metabolic processes like a conveyor belt. Our liver is the main organ that processes toxins for elimination by the colon and kidneys through our stool and urine. We also eliminate toxins through sweat. If this conveyor belt is piled high with toxins from a recent “backlog” then the liver will become challenged to eliminate these toxins.
If this conveyor belt cannot move at a smooth rate, because the liver needs to “burn” certain ingredients to break down and process toxins, then we become challenged to store toxins. Unfortunately our soil is depleted of core nutrients essential for proper detoxification. Therefore, our diet is mostly deficient in these core nutrients: magnesium, selenium, chromium, manganese, molybdenum, zinc, B6, B12, and 5-tetrahydroxy-folate. Deficiencies in these core nutrients directly hinder our ability to bind and excrete toxins. The body goes into storage mode to protect our vital organs from the damaging effects of these toxins.
Genetic defects in our liver detoxification pathway also react with our toxic load and immune system to accelerate genetic impairments that cause key nutritional deficiencies leading to our liver’s inefficiency in detoxification. Add this factor to the fact that our immune system can cause inefficient metabolism of proteins, vitamins and minerals essential for the detoxification process, you begin to see what looks like a Pandora box of complex interrelated factors impairing our ability to detoxify.
In future chapters we will discuss factors to consider in any weight loss or maintenance program that includes your liver and how you detoxify, your brain, your hormones, stress, insomnia, digestive metabolism, blood sugar regulation, Â silent infections and inflammation, emotions, and your genotype!
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