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References:  Surviving Mold,  Jr Sex Medicine, How many men do you know who say they are low on energy? And how many ads do you see touting the claim that they are “low T” and suggesting they get on more testosterone? Are you a bit skeptical that that may be the case? You should be, because many of those men, if not most, are Biotoxin Refugees, not “Gonadal Insufficiency” as modern medicine defines them.   They can get fixed by going upstream, in the majority of situations, to the ...

References: Nature, Immunity, Clinical and Devel Immun, Surviving Mold, How many folks do you know who are gluten sensitive? You hear some people scoff at the idea but you also know quite a few folks that say they just feel better when they are off gluten. They don't have celiac disease, at last most don't. So, what's up? Would you be surprised if you heard that biotoxins set off your innate immune response, and that sets up for the production of TH-17 immune cells, that tip you in the bala...

References: Surviving Mold, Biotoxin Journey, Weston Price Foundation, Truly Heal, What Doctors Don't Tell You, MARCoNs stands for MULTIPLE ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPH. It grows in your nose, if and only if your immune system allows it. Coag Negative Staph is meant to be a simple commensal skin organism that everyone has. No big deal, right? I can culture it off your forehead, your arm, your leg. It's a normal skin organism. That changes with Biotoxin illness. Biotoxins, ...

 References: Biotoxin Journey  You now know that biotoxins circulate endlessly in folks whose immune system can't "see" the toxin and label it. You know that merry-go-round involves the toxin entering through your nose lungs most of the time, or ingested, or stung, or absorbed. From there the toxin sets off all sorts of cytokines in toll-receptor proteins all over your body. These cytokines descend on your primitive lizard brain, your hypothalamus, and essentially damage the lepti...

  References: Nature, Biotoxin Pathway  You've been exposed to a biotoxin. You didn't know it because you didn't even know the building was damaged by water, or the brown discoloration in the bay your were fishing didn't look all that weird, or the fish you ate tasted a little odd but not that awful. We now know that many organisms can set it off: Dinoflagellates: Pfiesteria and ciguatera, fungi like Stachybotrys and Chaetomium, Blue-green algae like Microcystis and Lyng...

  References: Toxins (2014), SciWorldJr,  So, you know about your immune system having two layers, the innate or lizard system, and the adaptive or precise mammalian system. A good analogy is like a bomb going off by a terrorist. Your city reacts with a curfew, 911 is activated, the police clear the streets, sirens are wailing. This is your innate immune system - "all hands on deck, but who is it that we are fighting?". Nonspecific, system-wide, reactive. Then, surv...

Biotoxin Illness II: The Weird Symptoms and How They Come About  References: Surviving Mold, Dr Thomas,  To understand the "weird" and protean symptoms of Biotoxin Illness, you need to first understand how it comes about. The toxins enter the body in many ways, probably mostly through breathing in via lungs or nose, but also through tick bites or insect stings, or even skin surface contact. In the case of molds, it's not the spores growing but the proteins and ...

  References: Surviving Mold,  We are all familiar with bacterial illness. We have experienced sore throats, or skin infections, or sinusitis and have been diagnosed and treated with antibiotics. We have also seen traumatic illness, and have had X-rays and casts or stitches for cuts. We understand metabolic illness with thyroid and sugar and other metabolic parameters. But biotoxin illness? Even the spell checker tries to correct me and call it biotin illness. I mean, BI...

VIP: Very Important Peptide  References:  Wikipedia, Biotoxin Journey,  Actually it's VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE. That's where it was discovered, in the gut. Though it was found in the gut and pancreas, it is also made, in abundance, in the hypothalamus. It has a huge library of effects from extra heart contractility to relaxation of capillaries to gut motility, gallbladder and trachea muscle relaxation, increasing water and electrolyte secretion into the gu...

Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone  References: Wikipedia, Curr. Alzheimer’s Res Aug, 2016,   Not your common table topic, is it? MSH is such an out-of-the-way hormone, virtually no one talks about it much. Until I read an abstract about it's potential use in Alzheimer's, I hadn't heard much about it either. Just what does it do? And how does it have implications for your brain? Wikipedia will tell you that MSH is basically your hormone that stimulates the production of pigment...