What does Inflammation do?
When you are exposed to biotoxins like bad molds your immune system is activated (just like when you are exposed to a virus or bacterial infection.) Most people quickly make antibodies to the biotoxins like bad molds, clean it out of their system and experience no ill effects. Your body cannot clean the mold out of your system because it has no antibodies against it.
Consequently, your immune system stays activated. For some people this feels like having the flu that never goes away. You may feel achy, have a fever or sore throat or you may not feel it at all. When your immune system is activated your body produces inflammatory proteins called "cytokines." These are helpful in the short-term when fighting an illness (just like a fever helps you fight an illness) but do damage in the long-term when your body doesn't stop producing them.
Normally your body creates inflammation via inflammatory cytokines to help heal an infection (think of getting a sliver) but if they are not turned off they can do damage. Your body keeps producing them so your inflammation levels get higher and higher.
If your inflammation remains high it begins to cause problems for the cells in your body as follows:
a.) Inflammatory proteins block fat cells from burning fat.
Not burning fat is a big problem. It makes you feel hungry as soon as you burn the food you just ate because you can't access the fat that is normally burned when your body is low on fuel. See CIRS and Obesity/Diabetes.
b.) Inflammatory proteins attach to leptin receptors in your hypothalamus causing "hypothalamic dysregulation." Hypothalamic Dysregulation is also a big problem that causes low MSH. Low MSH causes a host of other problems. See CIRS and Low MSH.
c.) Inflammatory elements may be delivered to different parts of the body causing joint pain, asthma-like symptoms in the lungs, increased clot formation and arterial blockage in the heart, capillary hypoperfusion in extremities and the brain (meaning you don't have enough capillaries delivering oxygen to your cells) which causes exhaustion and brain fog when your brain gets oxygen starved. See CIRS and the Brain.
Blood tests that show your inflammation levels are as follows:
TGF-Beta 1 (human transforming growth factor - 1) should be between 344-2382 pg/ml
MMP-9 (matrix metalloproteinase-9) should be between 85-322 pg/ml
C4a RIA (not Futhan) should be less then 2830 ng/ml
You could ask your doctor to get these blood tests to check your inflammation levels.
About TGF-Beta 1
"TGF Beta 1 transforms cells. In lungs it transforms columnar epithelial cells to thick fibroblasts. Think TGFB1 with autoimmune, MS and children with disabilities. High TGFB1 is associated with abnormalities in T reg cells, hypermobility and 11-3-52B (multi-susceptible immune haplotype.) High TGFB1 can lead T cells to differentiate into TH17 (along with Il 6). TH17 are pathogenic T cells that are associated with autoimmunity and collagen induced arthritis." (excerpt from "Ackerley_Discuss_the_Shoemaker_Treatement_Protocolv1")
Consequently, your immune system stays activated. For some people this feels like having the flu that never goes away. You may feel achy, have a fever or sore throat or you may not feel it at all. When your immune system is activated your body produces inflammatory proteins called "cytokines." These are helpful in the short-term when fighting an illness (just like a fever helps you fight an illness) but do damage in the long-term when your body doesn't stop producing them.
Normally your body creates inflammation via inflammatory cytokines to help heal an infection (think of getting a sliver) but if they are not turned off they can do damage. Your body keeps producing them so your inflammation levels get higher and higher.
If your inflammation remains high it begins to cause problems for the cells in your body as follows:
a.) Inflammatory proteins block fat cells from burning fat.
Not burning fat is a big problem. It makes you feel hungry as soon as you burn the food you just ate because you can't access the fat that is normally burned when your body is low on fuel. See CIRS and Obesity/Diabetes.
b.) Inflammatory proteins attach to leptin receptors in your hypothalamus causing "hypothalamic dysregulation." Hypothalamic Dysregulation is also a big problem that causes low MSH. Low MSH causes a host of other problems. See CIRS and Low MSH.
c.) Inflammatory elements may be delivered to different parts of the body causing joint pain, asthma-like symptoms in the lungs, increased clot formation and arterial blockage in the heart, capillary hypoperfusion in extremities and the brain (meaning you don't have enough capillaries delivering oxygen to your cells) which causes exhaustion and brain fog when your brain gets oxygen starved. See CIRS and the Brain.
Blood tests that show your inflammation levels are as follows:
TGF-Beta 1 (human transforming growth factor - 1) should be between 344-2382 pg/ml
MMP-9 (matrix metalloproteinase-9) should be between 85-322 pg/ml
C4a RIA (not Futhan) should be less then 2830 ng/ml
You could ask your doctor to get these blood tests to check your inflammation levels.
About TGF-Beta 1
"TGF Beta 1 transforms cells. In lungs it transforms columnar epithelial cells to thick fibroblasts. Think TGFB1 with autoimmune, MS and children with disabilities. High TGFB1 is associated with abnormalities in T reg cells, hypermobility and 11-3-52B (multi-susceptible immune haplotype.) High TGFB1 can lead T cells to differentiate into TH17 (along with Il 6). TH17 are pathogenic T cells that are associated with autoimmunity and collagen induced arthritis." (excerpt from "Ackerley_Discuss_the_Shoemaker_Treatement_Protocolv1")
