FRENCH FRIES ARE NEUROTOXIC

What?  Yep, french fries and any other browned, starchy foods like potato chips and cereal contain acrylamides, which are both neurotoxic and carcinogenic.  Read more…

SOURCE:  Environmental Health Perspectives

 

Why Is Gut Dysbiosis So Bad for You?

Why Is Gut Dysbiosis So Bad for You?Gut dysbiosis is an imbalance of good vs. bad bacteria, yeast and other pathogens in your intestines. This is important because most of our immune system is located in our gastrointestinal tract, as most pathogens enter our bodies through our mouths.

Gut dysbiosis can cause lowered dopamine and lowered serotonin, as well as an inability to remember something in the short term, because most neurotransmitters are made in the intestines.

It can also cause leaky gut (intestinal permeability) which means that waste products that should be pooped out are not and are instead leaking out and causing an immune response.

Gut dysbiosis also causes nutritional deficiencies and can lower thyroid function, as well as cause lowered excretion of waste through the kidneys.

In addition, it causes increased ghrelin and lowered leptin, making you feel hungrier than you should, thereby contributing to weight gain.

Toxins produced by gut pathogens impairs your liver’s ability to detoxify, and because they are stressors, your adrenal glands will produce more cortisol, leading to fatigue and an inability to handle stress.

Gut dysbiosis causes inflammation and oxidative stress, as well as damage mitochondria, thereby increasing fatigue and lowering glutathione, the body’s powerful antioxidant.

 

MERCURY IN FISH

Mercury in seafood is more harmful than believed.  Levels of the toxin previously deemed safe are probably not.  Read more…

SOURCE:  Portland Press Herald

 

INTERVIEW ON JESSE ANN NICHOLS GEORGE’S SHOW

I was a guest on Jesse Ann Nichols George’s show, “Activating Compassion in the Midnight Hour”.  We talked about how to work with dietary challenges during the holiday season as well as the autism epidemic, food choices, GMO foods, vegetable oils, the Weston A. Price Foundation and more.  We had a good time!  Listen here…

NO LINK BETWEEN SALT AND HEART DISEASE

Recent research has found no link between salt consumption and an increased risk of death or cardiovascular disease.  I recommend using a non-white sea salt or a land salt, like Himalayan pink salt, because these salts contain trace minerals vital to our health and often missing from our diets.  Read more…

SOURCE:  GreenMedInfo

KOMBUCHA MAY NOT BE FOR EVERYONE

Kombucha may not be well tolerated by those with weak immune function, gut dysbiosis or hormonal imbalances, such as people with SIBO, IBS or Candida overgrowth.  Donna Gates of the Body Ecology Diet recommends doing controlled ferments with specific bacteria or yeast instead.  Read more…

SOURCE:  Body Ecology

WHAT HELPS MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION FOR CHRONIC FATIGUE?

A Paleo diet, restful sleep, a supplement regime and a low-stress life can improve mitochondrial function in patients with chronic fatigue.  Read more…

SOURCE:  Questioning Answers


MERCURY CAUSES NEUROTOXICITY

This video was shown in late 2012 at the Congressional hearing about the autism epidemic: “How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Damage”.  Also, “we should be focusing on the dietary aspects” in relation to autism.  Parents have to do their own research, and researchers don’t listen to them.

SOURCE:  University of Calgary

 

SULFATION: COMMON LINKS AMONG AUTISM, ECZEMA, ALLERGIES AND ASTHMA

The etiology of autism may be similar to that for eczema, asthma and allergic responses.  One of the reasons is sulfation, which affects the function of proteins and peptides, among other things.  Sulfate is produced by oxidation of methionine or cysteine, which are both sulfur-containing amino acids.  Read more…

SOURCE:  Autism File


MOST GULF OF MEXICO SHRIMP CONTAIN CARCINOGENS

Shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico is widely contaminated with carcinogens.  53% of sampled shrimp contain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as xylene, toluene and benzene, which are carcinogenic.  Read more…

SOURCE:  GreenMedInfo