Broken Brain - Episode 2 (May view for free 24 hours)

[Heloise]

brokenbrain.com/02b-gut-brain/

[Baobabs]

Brilliant programme. Frightening but relevant information for everyone who cares about their health, not just those of us with autoimmune diseases. I would like to see all in the series. Thank you Heloise.

[Heloise in reply to Baobabs]

Thank you, Baobabs, we had better learn these things before our brains stop being able to Dr. Michael Gershon started this movement when he wrote a book called The Second Brain in 1998.

[Milady]

this is really good. just watching it now

[Baobabs]

I have always had a good diet but wish I had known more a long time ago about leaky gut issues, the perils of gluten and for me lactose. Issues of crossing the brain barrier are mesmerizing and new to me. Whatever, with programmes like this, longevity is no longer a credible argument as a reason for many of our most deadly and insidious diseases.

[Heloise in reply to Baobabs]

Because the people who could have let us know have been vilified. Dr. Walt Stoll had a bulletin board online around 2000 and every day preached leaky gut. The Kentucky Board took away his license after practicing 35 years because of this type of information. I'm sure that is why the doctors you may see have the same concerns. In fact some of these series have been removed from the internet for this same reason. Someone does not want us to be healthy.

[Baobabs]

Shocking Heloise but so believable when other instances of medical injustices are pieced together. Just look at the apparent conspiracy over the treatment of autoimmune thyroid disease. Repetitive stories that appear daily with monotonous regularity on this very forum. I ask myself ‘why’ but answers seem to allude me. There is always a greater force but there is always a day of reckoning also!

[Heloise in reply to Baobabs]

Hear Hear! We need to take more responsibility for our own health but it is an intimidating alternative. We have to shore each other up and do what we can for each other. I'm glad you see the light. Dr. Hyman is head of autoimmune disease at the Cleveland Clinic so maybe there will be options for those in the U.S.

[Baobabs in reply to Heloise]

Regarding your self help statement, I couldn't agree more but yes to do this without medical support, often of any kind is a daunting and an isolating prospect. Many of us are spurred on by desperation to feel well. We full well know it is an achievable state but the 'how' is never easy. It would be an infinitely more fascinating journey were it not so acutely personal.

I venture off today to the middle of the desert where I live and work to see a recommended Endo at a specialist hospital who just may be able to help me. The tip off came from someone on this forum. A year ago I was diagnosed with Hashi's and feel no improvement. My comfort and leveller are those folk who have been in a similar position for many years. You are so right, shoring each other up is so important.

Heloise, I have often wondered what immunologists are doing to help us? I asked my doctor. Would I really expect him to have a plausible or even any answer?

[Heloise in reply to Baobabs]

I have been around a very long time and believe conventional medicine is too wrapped up in how pharmaceuticals act in the body and how the body reacts to it. As John Bergman says, "they no longer respect that there is NO disease, it is your body reacting as it should to an environmental factor." So I don't know what immunologists can do.

These doctors determine a cause and now the technology is there because they can see so much more and measure all these markers to discover them. The last thing you should do to treat autoimmune is to use an immune suppressor.

[Heloise in reply to Baobabs]

Are you watching episode 3 yet? Be sure to see it. Very fabulous.

[Baobabs in reply to Heloise]

Not sure how I access it? Living in Saudi. Heloise is it the same link as episode 2?

[Heloise in reply to Baobabs]

Baobabs, yes, I went to bed as I am in the U.S. I found a trick that if you leave the episode on the computer without shutting down it stays longer than 24 hours. But I'm fairly certain you need a new link for each episode. I get a notification each day and post the link I receive.

[Baobabs in reply to Heloise]

Thank you for your trouble H, Wellness1 has already intercepted and sent it to me.

[Baobabs in reply to Heloise]

OMG just watched the 3rd episode Heloise and feel so privileged to have this knowledge. Who would have thought? Compulsive viewing for all health conscious folk.

[Heloise in reply to Baobabs]

I wish I could post Terry Wahls whole segment every day. She's a living example of what can work....and what didn't work (conventional medicine) to overcome the worst brain disease. I'm listening again and so happy you feel you were rewarded by watching it.

[Baobabs in reply to Heloise]

My husband's daughter has MS, so sad but frustrating as she just wouldn't buy into any of this Heloise. I just keep thinking of her all the time I'm watching the series.

[Heloise in reply to Baobabs]

That has always been in my mind...it's not easy to make these changes which can impact your social life as well. First hand, I have two diabetic friends who insist on dessert. Their brains have slowed down terribly, they are both on cholesterol lowering drugs. The young man on this series can't even get his mother to comply. Yep, it's sad but it's a choice so what can you do?

[Baobabs in reply to Heloise]

You make me feel a little better. Thing is my husband's 1st wife had MS also and our granddaughter worries me as she just wants to eat rubbish and empty calories when she comes to stay with us. A third generation and how but how can folk be so desensitised? There is a pattern here !!!!!!! I just don't get it. I am like a dog with a bone and will do anything to feel well and prevent developing another autoimmune disease.

[Heloise in reply to Baobabs]

And that bone would probably be very healthy for you.

One patient in this series lived in a city with high toxic metals due to the manufacturing. Do you think there is anything in your environment that may relate. I try not to use canned food, cadmium seems to be a problem. And what isn't wrapped in plastic anymore???

At the 49 min. mark they talk about something sold that powers the brain but didn't tell us what it was. It's from the 80's but still sold. I wonder what it is.

[Baobabs in reply to Heloise]

Heloise, yes I heard it too but can't for the life of me thing what it could be? Why didn't he say I wonder. I taught in Baku, Azerbaijan for 3 yrs prior to the middle east, a place known to have high levels of air mercury. I am certain this triggered my Hashi's. My thinking is plastics, the pill hormone by products that seep into every orifice of our environment as excreted from women taking it and weedkiller Round Up or similar. The combined effect of such substances doesn't bear thinking about.

[Heloise in reply to Baobabs]

Dr. Wahls who had MS mentioned creatine which I know body builders use so I looked that up and look at what else it does:

May Help With Parkinson's Disease. ...

May Fight Other Neurological Diseases. ...

May Lower Blood Sugar Levels And Fight Diabetes.

[Baobabs in reply to Heloise]

Interesting, why the hell are we not all taking it?

[Heloise in reply to Baobabs]

Are you a body builder, lol? I'm still working with proteolytic enzymes and just added nattokinase but I would like to build more leg muscles so maybe I'll try it later. It's hard to fit everything into a day but I think I will use certain days for certain supplements. Vitamins, probably every day but oily ones don't flush out as fast so maybe not needed every day. We need information on how and when.

[Baobabs in reply to Heloise]

Wish I could just body move never mind build! Anyway helvella is keeping us focused, apparently creatine is off the hit parade. See below.

[Heloise in reply to Baobabs]

Oh, no it isn't. Well if you are on pharmaceutical or have BP problems or kidney but now I think I should get right on it because the Wiki article Rod posted.

Creatine supplementation appears to increase the number of myonuclei that satellite cells will 'donate' to damaged muscle fibers, which increases the potential for growth of those fibers. This increase in myonuclei probably stems from creatine's ability to increase levels of the myogenic transcription factor MRF4.[15]

I was told the nerve fibers in my legs were in excellent condition (so why are my legs weak?) but of course the therapist said "we cannot measure small twitch fiber" which is where the actual problem may lie.

No, not off the table and the fact my son took it for years and is still very buff and no illness of any kind.

[Baobabs in reply to Heloise]

Well, where to go from here? I'm still pursuing T3

[Heloise in reply to Baobabs]

Body builders use that, too! You may look like Arnold if you don't watch out.

Find a source and get T3 yourself. Do you want cynomel?

[Baobabs in reply to Heloise]

I think I may now have a source thanks.

[helvella Administrator in reply to Baobabs]

Baobabs,

Even the Wiki article gives several possible reasons not to take creatine:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine

Also:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creat...

[ Edited as wrong linked originally pasted inadvertently. ]

[Heloise in reply to helvella]

What, no PubMed article? ha I will look at those but WebMd gives warning and then lists some remarkable reasons to use it.

Oh, I see a PubMed in your first link but where is the creatine? You talk about neuromyelitis

[helvella Administrator in reply to Heloise]

Mistake!

Had posted that link on my immediate previous response elsewhere! Now corrected.

[Heloise in reply to helvella]

In 2004 the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published a record that stated that oral long-term intake of 3 g pure creatine per day is "unlikely to pose any risk".[5] The reports of damage to the kidneys or liver by creatine supplementation have been scientifically refuted.[6]

I will take no more than 3 g., but it's a powder which I have never tasted but I have capsules if it tastes like dirt.

Thanks, Rod.

[wellness1]

Try this, Baobabs. brokenbrain.com/03b-dementia/

Sorry, jumping in because IIRC Heloise is in the US and may not see your question for a while due to the time difference.

[Baobabs]

Oh how kind, thank you 🙂