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When your intestinal lining breaks down, all the sewage inside your intestines leaks into your blood stream and activates your immune system.
This turns on all sorts of signals that affect your whole body leading to autoimmune disease, allergies, joint pains, headaches, mood problems and cognitive issues.
Having a leaky gut is a huge problem. We're recognizing this more in medicine.
It's called increased intestinal permeability. It's a big word, so I call it a leaky gut. We now know how to identify it and how to fix it.
But how do you know if you have a leaky gut?
I'll explain how to get the answer in a second. But first let me ask you another question.
Do you or someone you know struggle with eczema?
Most doctors, know how to put on potions, lotions and salves, which work on the outside, BUT skin problems like eczema really come from the inside.
So unless you address the underlying cause underneath your skin you won't fix the problem...
You'll just deal with the symptoms.
The things that trigger inflammation in your skin are the same things that trigger inflammation in your brain.
In fact some people, if they have an inflamed gut will get eczema while others will get autism or depression.
But the treatment is the same -- it's treating a leaky gut.
So if you want to fix your skin, you need to fix your gut.
If there is a single marker for lifespan, as they are finding in the centenarian studies, it is insulin, specifically insulin sensitivity.
What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease. If you keep pulling a dandelion out by its leaves, you are not going to get very far. But the problem is that we don‘t know what the root is.
Here we are getting a little bit further down into the roots of disease. It doesn‘t matter what disease you are talking about, whether you are talking about a common cold or cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis or cancer, the root is always going to be at the molecular and cellular level, and I will tell you that insulin is going to have its hand in it, if not totally control it.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/07/14/insulin-part-one.aspxA less known fact is that insulin also stores magnesium. But if your cells become resistant to insulin, you can‘t store magnesium so you lose it through urination.
Intracellular magnesium relaxes muscles. What happens when you can‘t store magnesium because the cell is resistant? You lose magnesium and your blood vessels constrict.
This causes an increase in blood pressure and a reduction in energy since intracellular magnesium is required for all energy producing reactions that take place in the cell.
But most importantly, magnesium is also necessary for the action of insulin and the manufacture of insulin. When you raise your insulin, you lose magnesium, and the cells become even more insulin resistant. Blood vessels constrict and glucose and insulin can‘t get to the tissues, which makes them more insulin resistant, so the insulin levels go up and you lose more magnesium. This is the vicious cycle that begins even before you were born.
Insulin sensitivity starts to be determined the moment the sperm combines with the egg. If a pregnant woman eats a high-carbohydrate diet, which turns into sugar, animal studies have shown that the fetus will become more insulin resistant.
Worse yet, researchers have used sophisticated measurements and found that if that fetus happens to be a female, the eggs of that fetus are more insulin resistant. Does that mean it is genetic? No, you can be born with something and it doesn‘t mean that it is genetic. Diabetes is not a genetic disease as such. You can have a genetic predisposition, but it should be an extremely rare disease.
Now I am really confused. If you have seizures due to hypoglycemia, it is not Epilepsy? It is just a body reaction to the low blood sugar? So for 2.5 yrs they have been treating Rebecca for the wrong thing?
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...e4d2baa3c997fb
I looked up hypoglycemia and amnesia, and sure enough there is a relationship.
There is a relationship also to the insulin / liver / hormone imbalance too.
I am going to discuss this with Sue at EEGInstitute, because if there is no abnormal brain wave patterns, if there is no imbalance, or instability. Perhaps the improvement is largely due to the nutritional changes, and the cognitive improvement is solely due to NFB.
Rebecca had another seizure yesterday, right on schedule. At the end of her sensitive week, and I have found evidence of nutritional cheating. It also occurred around 10:30 am which is within the margin that it usually happens. Some clue here with breakfast, workout, snack... crash. I am determined to figure this out. She made it 42 days. Sure beats 6 seizures a month on meds.
Q: What is reactive hypoglycemia?
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A: This is hypersensitivity of the insulin-secreting cells of the pancreas. When people with this condition sonsume foods or drinks containing sugar or eat high glycemic carbohydrates, they develop a dramatic fall in their blood sugar. After many years of eating such a diet, they reach a condition of crisis, in which they feel so terrible
they think they are dying. This is because the pancreas gets gradually more
sensitive, so that the periods of hypoglycemia occur more frequently and with greater severity. The most-common symptoms are weakness, uncontrollable tremors, anxiety, sweating episodes, heart palpitations and feelings of doom. In some cases, coma can result. The condition is very common and affects at least half of the population. Many doctors overlook this condition and instead order an enormous number of expensive tests that lead nowhere. The diagnosis is usually made with a three-hour glucose tolerance test. Hypoglycemia-triggered adrenal release of epinephrine is the cause of most of the symptoms and is made much worse with using caffeine.
Dr. Russell Blaylock
Neurofeedback doesn't just happen to work. It works; and when it doesn't, there must be a good reason. The failure of Neurofeedback when success is expected serves for us as a significant data point to be pursued further.
The reasons tend to fall into a manageable set of categories:
* Allergic reactions cause the effect of Neurofeedback / EEG Biofeedback training to be highly variable, and to fluctuate with the severity of the allergic challenge
* Food intolerances present a physiological challenge to the trainee that we cannot fully overcome with Neurofeedback
* Dietary insufficiencies don't allow the full benefit of Neurofeedback training to be felt
* Digestive malabsorption impinges negatively on function, including in particular brain function
* Heavy metal toxicities or excesses in certain minerals frustrate our efforts
* Irlen Syndrome, and other disturbances in visual processing, limit our gains
* Primary auditory processing disorder can tax the brain
* Deficits in blood glucose regulation (dysglycemia) impinge directly on brain function
* Poor sleep or poor sleep hygiene is detrimental to learning of the process and the consolidation of gains
* Degenerative conditions prevail, such as among the elderly, leading to fading of the Neurofeedback gains on some time scale after the sessions
* Structural injury in the brain limits what can be accomplished in the training. This is an obvious one that we usually know about in advance: stroke injury; brain tumor; arteriovenous malformations; hydrocephalus; history of meningitis, etc.
* Cerebral under-perfusion. This may result from the use of anti-hypertensive medications in the elderly, leading to compromised brain function
* Environmental factors within the home or school that militate against training success: emotionally unsettled or even a traumatizing home environment; being subjected to bullying behavior at school, etc.
In each case there is usually a small number of hypotheses to pursue, and the most common relates to dietary issues. This is not a topic that can be dealt with briefly. The best we can do is refer to more extensive sources.