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January 29, 2018   References: Int Jr of Plant Chem, Jr Cereal Sci, Nutrients,   Ever had someone tell you that they are allergic to wheat? You scoff and say they don’t have celiac disease. And they don’t. They are sensitive to LECTINS. And lots of people are. If you feel your tummy upset when you eat bread or wheat,… Continue reading Lectin Lesson 1 What Are Lectins?

January 22, 2018 References: Archives Internal Medicine, PNAS,   Imagine a study in which 500,000 people, aged 50-71, were followed for about 10 years with extensive questionnaires about food frequency. There were some 48,000 deaths in the men, 23,000 deaths in the women. This is a big study so should have validity. It was observational, not randomized, placebo… Continue reading Eating Red Meat Raises Your Mortality

January 15, 2018  Birth Control Pills Cause Cancer   References: NEJM Dec 2017, New York Times,   That’s it! They do. Birth control pills increase your risk of breast cancer. The issue should be, how much risk are you willing to take for the benefit of birth control. Pregnancy is not a benign condition either. It has risks. Labor… Continue reading Birth Control Pills Cause Breast Cancer

January 08, 2018 Should I Get a Flu Shot?   References: CDC.gov, Cell Mol Immunol,   This is the most common question I have sent to me by various people. I even have folks coming to ask me if I would sign statements about how they shouldn’t get a flu shot. The world I live in, functional medicine, has… Continue reading Should I get a Flu Shot

January 01, 2018 Biotoxin XV: VIP – The Magic Bullet References: Surviving Mold, Biotoxin Journey, Internal Medicine Review,   100%. Did you catch that? Everyone with mold illness, following the 11 step program Shoemaker has put together, will find relief. Well, almost everyone. Some folks who have been sick for years have deeply imbedded patterns and may need to… Continue reading Biotoxin XV VIP The Magic Bullet

December 26, 2017 Biotoxin XIV: Fixing TGF-Beta1  References: Shoemaker Protocol, Science, Wikipedia, Sci Rep 2017,  We are almost at the end of our Biotoxin Treatment Pathway. Fixing TGF-beta 1 is next to last. If your level is over 2380, you need to fix it. And fix it you can. What is it that TGF-beta 1 does? It’s a member… Continue reading Biotoxin XIV Fixing TGF Beta 1 with Losartan

December 18, 2017 References: Jr Aller Clin Immun, SelfHacked.com, Seminar Immunopath, If you hadn’t heard of C3a last week, you don’t know about C4a either. It’s another member of the complement system, that basic process that kills invading bacteria with nonspecific chemicals. The complement system is a cascade-like multiplying dominoes that rapidly magnify your immune response. C4a is… Continue reading Biotoxin XIII Fixing C4a

December 11, 2017 References: Surviving Mold, Mold Warriors, p 396, Jr of Immunology,  Ever heard of C3a? Bet you hadn’t. Ever heard of statins? Sure. That’s where statins work. And C3a is the heart of biotoxin illness. It is the nexus of the complement system. The complement system is the cascade of inflammation that fires… Continue reading Biotoxin XII Cleaning up C3a

December 03, 2017  References: Mold Warriors, p 93 by Ritchie Shoemaker, Surviving Mold – Berndtson, Jr Physiology,   Fatigue is a cardinal symptom of the Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, CIRS. Biotoxin Illness. Folks just feel tired. And this unpacks the third layer of biotoxin illness. Layer one is the nonspecific inflammation set off by the innate immune system… Continue reading Biotoxin XI: Cleaning up VEGF and Getting Your Energy Back

November 27, 2017  References: www.survivingmold.com, Biochem Biophy Res Comm, Mol Med Rep,    CIRS (Biotoxin Illness) or Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome sets off a host of cytokines. We are a long way from understanding the complexity of all the interactions that occur, but we are beginning to understand preliminary methods of how to manipulate them and fix them. Remember,… Continue reading Biotoxin Part X: Putting Cytokines back in Order – One by One – MMP-9 First