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Inhalational Alzheimer’s  References: Bredesen Aging,  Inhalational means caused by breathing. How awful and how insidious! But that's exactly what this article is about. The primary cause is mold biotoxins, though other toxins will carry out the same effect. Indoor pollution is worse than outdoor pollution and our homes are so airtight now, we often have levels of toxin in the air that far exceeds the level of mold toxins outdoors. The whole biotoxin pathway gets acti...

Leptin Resistance and Inflammation  References: Am Jr Coll Card, Vitamin Hormones, Curr Immunol Review, Cell,  Leptin is the hormone that has several important functions. One is that it is secreted when your fat cells say they are full. It is a feedback loop that tells you that you have had enough to eat, so stop. Fine and dandy. But like everything else in your body, there are layers and layers of delicate complexity far exceeding the first layer of funct...

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 be on VIP for a long time, but nevertheless, Shoemaker has found that his program returns (almost) everyone back to much highe...

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 of superfamily of cytokines in that it has myriad functions. It plays a key roll in cellular differentiation, proliferation, and finally apoptosis. Many cells secrete it and respond...

  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 of superfamily of cytokines in that it has myriad functions. It plays a key roll in cellular differentiation, proliferation, and finally apoptosis. Many cells secrete it and respond ...

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 an activation-anaphylatoxin that can rapidly ramp up trouble. It's one step up from C3a. . There are three pathways of compleme...

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 off when your body sees and recognizes an outside invader. We have made the analogy of biotoxin setting off the 911 alarm system in your community with sirens blaring everywhere. C3a is th...

  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 and all the resultant cytokines streaming all over your body, wreaking havoc and causing weird symptoms. Layer two...

 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, CIRS is really a firestorm being set off in your innate immune system - your lizard level built-in, ...

 References: Surviving Mold, Biotoxin Journey,   How often do you take a leak? Four to five times a day? Once at night? Or have you gotten used to urinating every hour? Twenty times a day? Do you get up more than twice at night? Do you feel thirsty all the time? Even more mysterious, do you have a lot of static shocks? If so, these are all they symptoms of biotoxin illness affecting the pituitary gland. Once you understand it and you learn how to fix it, you b...