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.

 

TOXIC FLAME RETARDANTS INCREASING

Flame retardants are endocrine disruptors found in almost all new furniture.  They are linked to autism, ADHD, developmental delays, hypothyroidism and more.   Dust tainted by the couches and other household items is “a major route of exposure to people.”  Read more…

SOURCE:  Environmental Health News

 

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

 

LOW LEVELS OF PESTICIDES DAMAGE THE BRAIN

Here’s another reason to eat organic food and stop spraying your lawn:  even low levels of organophosphate pesticides cause brain damage.  Exposure is linked to a decline in memory and slower processing speed.  Read more…

SOURCE:  Science Daily

 

ANTIBIOTICS AND INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE

Children who take antibiotics have an 84% increased risk for developing Inflammatory Bowel Disease.  In addition, the younger a child is when treated with antibiotics, the greater the risk.  Read more…

SOURCE:  Celiac.com

 

ALLERGIES LINKED TO CHLORINE

Chlorine in tap and pool water has been linked to a rising number of people with food allergies.  Chlorine is an endocrine disruptor that also kills good gut flora.  Read more…

SOURCE:  Daily Mail

 

ARE PEDIATRICIANS NECESSARY?

My friend, Patty Lemer, Executive Director of Developmental Delay Resources, asks the question:  “Do YOU need a pediatrician?”  Over the past 40 years, Patty has witnessed the unfolding of the epidemic of autism as well as other childhood diseases, which are now the “new normal”.

She recommends, and I agree, that parents should trust the body’s wisdom to heal itself.

She says, “Think hard before caving in to fear-mongering about disease and childhood illnesses.  Do you really need a pediatrician for a “well-baby” check-up consisting of a weigh-in and vaccination lecture, or can you trust your intuition that your child is thriving?”  Read more…

SOURCE:  Developmental Delay Resources blog

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