Understanding Neurotoxicity

One of my biggest challenges is trying to explain an illness to my family and friends that is not like any other illness approved in allopathic medicine.

My goal in this part of my blog is to break down to the best of my ability what happened to me in an easy to understand kind of way so everyone can hopefully understand why I am going through what I'm going through and why my goals are set to where they are set with health. I have both scientific backing and examples to help everyone understand below what is going on in Neurotoxic individuals.

A Neurotoxin is simply something that is "toxic" to our neurological system. ie: heavy metals, biotoxins such as mold, fibromyalgia, lyme, other infections or nerve stress such as physical trauma, emotional trauma, spinal misalignment's.

Your nervous system controls every part of your body. Hence why I am so passionate about ANYTHING that interferes with our nervous system.

Did you know that our bodies do not know the difference between emotional trauma, physical trauma and chemical stress? Isn't that interesting? Trauma is trauma, that's all our bodies know.

So what happens to our bodies when our bodies are faced with "trauma"?

Nitric Oxide + Superoxide = cellular oxidation & INFLAMMATION= drop in ATP (brain fog, poor digestion, etc) and glutathione. When this happens there is an increase in NMDA (NMDA is released through glutamate receptors which are most abundant in the brain and upper spinal cord.) Glutathione is a substance naturally produced by the human body through the synthesis of certain amino acids in the liver. It's also used by virtually every cell of the body to neutralize toxins.

What is NMDA? NMDA is a glutamate receptor, is the predominant molecular device for controlling synaptic plasticity and memory function. Activation of NMDA receptors causes the spinal cord neuron to become more responsive to all of its inputs, resulting in central sensitization. NMDA-receptor antagonists, such as dextromethorphan, can suppress central sensitization. NMDA-receptor activation not only increases the cell's response to pain stimuli, it also decreases neuronal sensitivity to opioid receptor agonists.

If you don't understand the science above, really all you need to understand is "INFLAMMATION" and that it causes disease.

What is inflammation? Inflammation is part of the complex biological response of vascular tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants.
Inflammation can be classified as either acute or chronic. Acute inflammation is the initial response of the body to harmful stimuli and is achieved by the increased movement of plasma and leukocytes (especially granulocytes ) from the blood into the injured tissues. A cascade of biochemical events propagates and matures the inflammatory response, involving the local vascular system, the immune system, and various cells within the injured tissue. Prolonged inflammation, known as chronic inflammation, leads to a progressive shift in the type of cells present at the site of inflammation and is characterized by simultaneous destruction and healing of the tissue from the inflammatory process.

Example 1: A person gets in a auto accident and ends up with fibromyalgia. WHY? The abnormal amounts of NMDA which feeds into an already stressed system causes this to occur which ultimately causes an abundance of INFLAMMATION-chronic inflammation.

Inflammation wrecks havoc in so many ways. Ultimately the main goal is getting to the "CAUSE" as to why a person is chronically inflamed and avoiding things that cause more inflammation in the process.

What causes more inflammation when a person is already chronically inflamed?
Grains, Sugars, more stress (emotional, toxic, nerve).

Examples of trauma:

Emotional Trauma=death in family
Physical Trauma or nerve stress=car accident
Heavy Metals=vaccinations, amalgam fillings, metals from mom, environments, etc.
Biotoxins=Mold, Infections, Lyme


Example 2: So you have someone who has 13 amalgams in their mouth which started being drilled in at age 9 along with emotional trauma, along with nerve stress along with toxins from mom (by the way whatever mom has carries onto baby) along with bad diet, along with more emotional trauma, environmental toxins, and more fillings and you have a sick patient who starts developing, GI issues, gallbladder issues, overweight, sleep issues, anxiety, etc.

So what did the medical community do in this case? They wanted to remove the gallbladder, prescribe prescription medication, vaccinate them because it's been a long time since they've received up-to-date vaccinations and send them on their way instead of getting to the cause.
That was a simple version of what happened to me.