Tuesday’s ‘Research’:
Mitochondria summit day #7
- Frontiero: 7 ‘Positive’ Stressors
- Balcavage: Thyroid Cold therapy and amino acids may be tools, but amino acids are in protein, so we only have to optimize that stuff. You still may not absorb them if you have low stomach acid and gut issues, but “we make it look good”. “Cellular” hypothyroidism - adaptive response to environment and lifestyle. 3 biggest needle movers - 1) Wholefood, the one that fits best. 2) Taking people off supplements. Supplement addiction. Too many are over-supplemented. Don’t realize that they are creating problems for them. 3) Sleep: Behaviour - rather than melatonin & GABA. WiFi off at night - makes you eat more carbs (not me!) 4) Diet. “The Thyroid Debacle” rejuvagencentre
- Watts: Parasites - in lungs - moon changes body - after our serotonin? Use our serotonin to communicate. Protocol in the right order. It’s never one thing that’s the problem, it’s a multitude, combinations of mould, Lyme, parasites, toxicons, trauma - emotional & physical… Reduces allergies, food sensitivities, joint pain, skin,
- Ewers: Toxic Relationships With Stress - “Post Traumatic Growth”. Yoga - Autoimmunity is undigested anger. Attacking myself. When did I ever want to die? She when she was being sexually abused as a kid. Define Trauma (connected to definitions of Narcissism & Forgivenness too, all 3 difficult). You go thru an event in life which you don’t have the skill set to manage it, to navigate it - Trauma (e.g. disasters, war) vs. trauma. Some can, some can’t. Bad relationship with stress and adversity, things to fear. Ari in answer: Of course… and it’s also true that adversity shapes us into stronger and wiser people. We shouldn’t wish for a life without adversity. No one grows into their fullest potentials and capacities by sitting on a beach by sitting on a beach… Ewers: And the attachment and wish for that is actually a big cause of suffering. Post traumatic growth (HURT model - Healing UnResolved Trauma): Nervous system upregulation, as child you normally freeze (because no prefrontal cortex). That gets frozen in your system, creates a belief and an adaptive behaviour you create in that moment. Later on as an adult willingness vs. unwillingness to confront. Confrontation helps get new skill sets and expertise. With the knowledge that life will give you another one. Stream of Truth - everything will die. Willingness to confront and to integrate. Whitten cites a cycle: “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times. And so on.” Ewers: As a parent she learnt from talks by successful people who all came from some hardship / adversity decided to say to her kids: “There’s a new sheriff in town. My job is no longer to make you happy. My job is to give you the tools to be able to manage life when it is inevitably unhappy and challenging for you. And that is the new mandate for this parent.” Whitten: Hormetic stress for mitochondria, you have to challenge them. Living dynamic systems, always changing, not stagnant. Ewers: Fear about loss is going to carve microglia away in the brain. Heal your perceptions. Ancient Eastern philosophy: 17 steps for 1 perception. Create a gap using contemplative work. Aversion - microglia start up, mast cells, immune system. Talk of trauma and feeling triggered nowadays is making kids think that someone else saying words has control over my nervous system. If someone else has the wrong word, they need to be censored, prevented from expressing that thought, because that thought controls my nervous system, because I am a victim, and need to be protected from this. Ewers; I’m highly sensitive, I’m intuitive, those toxic people, those narcissists out there, I have to be kept away from them. Whitten: Opposite of resilience, teaching & re-inforcing that what is desirable is as fragile as possible, and to be victimized by everything and that you don’t have control over your actions and perceptions - is someone else words or actions controlling your physiology - what could be more disempowering. Jonathan Haidt calls that the opposite of CBT. Ewers: Called maladaptive covert narcissim - over-occupied with story, health, setting boundaries - absolutely if you’re in a toxic relationship get out, but it’s a problem if you make it the ground you stand on. Being resource, vulnerable and perservering instead of drama triangle.
[Reminds me of the German word and attitude “Abhärtung” - for things like sauna, cold swimming.] Ewers: “confronting with compassionate curiosity”, being willing to engage in that. Whitten: Some are not at all willing to consider that your ways are causing the problems. Others seem endlessly stuck in a loop of trying to fix themself, healing their trauma etc. Deep form of self-centredness, self-obsession (Ewers: malabsorption?) Do this, but not for yourself, like a mouse, but for everyone as part of the big whole, like an eagle. In stress: Calm your mind. The biggest needle mover is willingness. Don’t feel responsible to wake anyone up. But if someone wants to, there are different traits, but first step across the board - track your thoughts for 24 hours, then a week, content, repeat, how you feel, wake awareness, bag of dark and light pebbles, for every ruminating life-destructive thought a dark pebble. When you see the amount of pebbles you start to take control over your thoughts and master them. See your pattern. Then individual work starting with that pattern. drkeesha. - Galbraith: Genetics: Top 3 genes: SOD Superoxide dismutase, catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPX). SOD 6’34’': Break down free radicals, well rounded. For ATP they release a superoxidase free radical, kills off infections, but not kept in check, accumulates. It neutralizes that radical into hydrogen peroxidase. Can combine with NO, which can combine to O NO. Tissue breakdown: Joint pain, brain fog, stiff mornings. Not clearing free radicals, so detox necessary. Possible to take as supps, but if very sick it can “throw you under a bus”. GPX. Jet lag might be much more than time zone change, but exposure to many toxins.
- Lieurance: High Dose Methylene Blue & Melatonin
Methylene Blue is very old, used initially as stain to understand malaria. Antimicrobial and enhancer of mitochondria function, upregulates them by 30%. Absorbs well orally, not so good sublingually. Higher dose, but people were scared by serotonin surgery with high dose with SSRIs at the same time brought on serotonin storm, but. 40-180-280mg/d. Standard is 0.5-4mg/kg body weight. Urine blue, but helps urinary infection, without antibiotics. Don’t wear sunglasses normally. Combine with light therapy. Sun without sun screen or sun glasses, cos it triggers melatonin to be produced, we have to slowly get used to it. Eyes get sensitive if you don’t. Sun glasses only between 11 and 2. Sungazing - cells dense with mitochondria in the eyes, high rate of photon absorption. Besides the signalling that’s happening inside the body that’s positive - this whole circadian rhythm also plays into having a strong mitochondria. The cells can regenerate themselves, recover at night. Melatonin has been shown to detox heavy metals out of the brain. Recommend binders with higher dosages, cos you’ll release toxins. Sometimes side effects when they start. Feel too groggy or headache. But they level off after a few days. For sleep or for mitochondrial support (for adaptation). Glutathione wraps around toxics like fly paper and chaperones them out of the body, detox. Unlike methylene blue and melatonin - better rectal - suppositories. Bypasses gut, absorbed direct. Glutathione helps improve sleep, viral immunity & detoxify, anti-inflammatory - allergies, autoimmune conditions. “Sandman” for sleep. High melatonin 200mg + glutathione. See Jason Prall. Liposomal anal suppository. Also recommends breath-holds like Wim Hof, which makes him winsome to me, however I can’t see myself . - Shah: Ayurveda
- Mattson: Intermittent Fasting as Hormesis = “good” stress.