Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS), is a disabling condition affecting approximately 500,000 Americans. Research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that fewer than 20% of CFS patients in the United States have even been diagnosed. Patients are usually women in their 40s and 50s, but anyone can develop CFS. Patients with CFS typically have a compromised immune system, elevated blood antibodies, intermittent sore throats, and tender lymph nodes. CFS can affect any part of the body, including the central nervous system, the brain, the blood, muscles, joints, the gastrointestinal tract, and the immune, digestive, and lymph systems.
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Chronic fatigue syndrome is characterized by extreme tiredness and a feeling of being worn out all the time, even after waking up. Its cause isn't understood.
Teresa Forcades i Vila is a Benedictine nun at Sant Benet of Montserrat’s monastery, near Barcelona, Spain. Before joining the monastery Teresa practiced medicine for several years as a physician specialized in internal medicine and she has a PhD in Public Health from Barcelona's University. She also carried out her specialization at NY State University, USA.
In these series of videos, Teresa discusses the swine flu's origins and how WHO's definition of pandemia was morphed to fit this swine flu as a pandemic. She also discusses the vaccination program, its details and risks, using facts from mainstream science and also including political and economical aspects.
Our bodies are simply not made to process the high quantities of the types of sugar that we consume nowadays.
Sugar is in no way nutritional and it actually depletes the body of its vitamin and mineral resources. High sugar consumption is tied to mental disorders, lower IQ, anxiety, aggressive behavior, hyperactivity, depression, eating disorders, fatigue, learning difficulties, and premenstrual syndrome among others.
One of the most important factors in brain aging and inflammation is sugar. Insulin triggered by sugar triggers oxidative stress which leads to mitochondrial damage, which in turn contributes to insulin resistance. Insulin also triggers the inflammatory cascade, including cytokines like TNF alfa and interleukins which spreads the damage into the brain and body in general.
Sugar produces high levels of insulin which is the main cause of our chronic disease epidemic and an important factor in mood disorders and dementia. Our insulin response is designed to handle vastly lower levels of sugar than what we consume today. For example, the body can process fruit sugar, but not high fructose corn syrup, which is a potent form of sugar that is sweeter than regular sugar, increases appetite, promotes obesity more than regular sugar, is more addictive than cocaine, and leads to diabetes and an inflammation of the brain.
Multiple factors like lack of sleep, electromagnetic fields, aluminum (found in anti-acids, water, foil wrap, deodorants, cookware) interact with our genes to produce diseases like Alzheimer's. In addition, inflammation is always present in most diseases and Alzheimer's is not an exception. Inflammatory-promoting factors include trans fats, saturated fat, stress, infections, lack of exercise, autoimmune diseases, vitamin deficiencies, celiac disease, colitis, sugar, and diabetes, all of which increase the risk of dementia and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.
Scientists had linked sugar and its ability to create insulin resistance, prediabetes, and diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease. This news item highlights exactly this:
New research confirms that diabetics have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the Stockholm Gerontology Research Center reported that people with diabetes are 70 percent more likely to develop Alzheimer's compared to those with normal blood sugar levels.
Type II diabetes is characterized by insulin resistance, a condition where chronic high blood sugar levels have caused an overproduction of insulin. Along with many other side effects, high insulin levels produce inflammation in the body. This inflammation can cause damage in the brain.
Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that lives in the intestines of cats, shedding eggs that can be picked up by rats and other animals. Humans and other animals can be hosts to Toxoplasma as well. People get infected by its eggs by handling soil or kitty litter. It is thought that for most people the parasite lives "quietly" in their bodies including the brain, and about half of the world's population is infected. Toxoplasmosis is only an immediate threat for people with low defenses (i.e. AIDS, pregnancy).
In general, healthy rats get anxious with the odor of cat urine and they shy away from it, making them more cautious. But scientists at Oxford discovered that Toxoplasma changes this self-preserving mechanism in rats, making them more likely to get themselves killed. The scent of a cat didn't make them anxious or cautious. Instead, they even took a special interest in the odor and came back to it repeatedly.
The scientists speculated that Toxoplasma was capable of secreting a substance that was altering the patterns of brain activity in the rats. Given the similarity between the basic anatomy and brain chemical activity between rats and humans, the question then became if toxoplasmosis could alter human behavior as it did with our formerly cautious rats. Furthermore, a link between schizophrenia and toxoplasmosis has been made which was confirmed with recent research where it was proven that toxoplasmosis changes some of the chemical messages in the brain. These chemical changes can have an enormous effect on human behavior. The parasite infects the brain producing an enzyme called tyrosine hydroxylase, which is needed to make dopamine. Dopamine's role in mood, sociability, attention, motivation and sleep patterns are well documented, and it also has an important role in schizophrenia:
Stress and other psychological factors have a major impact on our well being. 95% of all illnesses are either caused and/or worsened by stress. Excessive stress contributes to adrenal fatigue which then further contributes with the deterioration of our health.
Stress also contributes with inflammation which can damage our brain cells, it also causes severe depression and other mood disorders.
Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer found that a significant emotional event that is dramatic, unexpected, and stressful can trigger various diseases:
Such a sudden shock affects not only the psyche, but impacts at the same time (visible on a brain scan) the part of the brain that corresponds biologically to the specific trauma. Whether the body responds to the unexpected event with a tumor growth (cancer), with tissue degeneration, or with functional loss, is determined by the exact type of conflict shock. So far, Dr. Hamer has been able to confirm these discoveries with over 40,000 case studies. [Germanic New Medicine]
Pretty interesting, eh? The truth is that relationships with pathological people are a source of a lot of stress and health problems. As we have seen recently in the news:
We usually get angry when we get frustrated due to misunderstandings. Many people consider anger to be an all-or-nothing feeling and this shouldn't be the case. We don't have to loose control when we're angry. Actually, angry responses very seldom reach uncontrollable levels and when they do, they are usually because of misuse of angry feelings that have little or nothing to do with the immediate actual irritating situation. It is mainly due to unconscious anger rooted somewhere else, i.e. in the past or somebody else. In general, the greater the awareness of how we really feel, the less chance there is to lose control.
So anger is a healthy feeling, although its misuse or corruption can lead to death:
Dissociation is a learned program which "protects" us from a cruel environment; like a trip to the moon which buffers us from an uncomfortable reality. Moments of stress reminds us of bad times during our childhoods and makes us dissociate from our surroundings.
Dissociation may take many forms, some people get tough and repressed, others are shy, others are paranoid and afraid, others are upset and cranky, still others are dreaming awake, etc, etc. A person is absent from him or herself all the while he or she is "unconscious" of their actions. Some people don't have a conscious memory of what they did during the moment of dissociation. Others do have the memory or they remember retrospectively, but they have the sensation that they were out of control and when the stress trigger event is no longer present, or when the old wounds are not poked any longer, they come back to their senses and become more conscious of their acts.
Myth of Sanity by Martha Stout is an excellent book about the subject. The author knows hundreds of survivors of childhood or adulthood trauma as a therapist. She describes with eloquence the "myth of sanity" which everybody can relate to because after all, we all dissociate to one extent or another, so we all are a bit "crazy".
Mercury is one of the most toxic substances in the world for our bodies. It has been associated with gastrointestinal, autoimmune, cardiovascular, kidney and neurological/cognitive problems. Gastrointestinal problems include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and colitis. Neurological problems include symptoms of shyness, emotional lability, nervousness, insomnia, memory problems, and the inability to concentrate. Other nervous symptoms may include encephalopathy, nerve damage, Parkinsonian symptoms, tremor, ataxia, impaired hearing, tunnel vision, dysarthria, headache, fatigue, impaired sexual function, and depression. Kidney problems include proteinura and acute renal failure. Skin problems includes allergic skin rashes, chelitis, gum disease, stomatitis and excessive salivation. Cardiovascular problems include endothelial dysfunction in resistance and conductance arteries, and an increase in oxidative stress responsible for some of the deterioration in vascular responses.
We are exposed to mercury through medications, dental silver fillings, large sea food (tuna, shark, swordfish, tilefish, sea bass, and most river fish), and environmental exposure. For instance, the level of mercury brain tissues directly correlates to the number of dental fillings we have in our mouths. Mercury is also a common disinfectant in most flu vaccines and contact-lens fluid. And people can have toxic blood levels of mercury from eating too much sushi.
Mercury is highly persistent in the environment and can be carried far distances in the atmosphere, getting deposited far from their place of origin. In addition to this, mercury is emitted from coal-burning industrial facilities at the rate of 2,900 tons (or over 6 million pounds) per year! A disaster, if you consider that mercury is toxic at greater than 1 part per million, and organizations consider a “safe” level of mercury exposure to be less than 0.1 micrograms/kilogram body weight/day. Now this is extremely alarming! And mercury still is a major pollutant in our environment:
Soaring autism rates should not come as a surprise in a polluted toxic environment where nutrient rich soils in which to grow our foods are difficult to find.
The root of autism can be found in toxins, gut and immune system abnormalities. These particular abnormalities create symptoms in the brain which are grouped under the name of "autism", for example the inability to talk and connect with other people, or the production of odd repetitive behaviors. In addition, autistic children have frequent colds and ear infections, abnormal bowel movements, bloated abdomens, and dry skin as part of their defense and gut system imbalances.
For example, gluten and low levels of omega-3 fats have been linked to autism, among other dis-eases. Allergic reactions to food may manifest as autism, which will be a form of brain allergy.
In fact, children have been healed with allergy elimination diets, supplementation of nutrients to compensate our nutrient deficient in-take (i.e. zinc, magnesium, and manganese, vitamins A, B12, and D, and omega-3 fats, amino acids, glutathione, etc), antifungal medication to address a leaky/inflammatory gut caused by yeast overgrowth, and heavy metal detoxification (mercury, aluminum, lead, arsenic).
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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS), is a disabling condition affecting approximately 500,000 Americans. Research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that fewer than 20% of CFS patients in the United States have even been diagnosed. Patients are usually women in their 40s and 50s, but anyone can develop CFS. Patients with CFS typically have a compromised immune system, elevated blood antibodies, intermittent sore throats, and tender lymph nodes. CFS can affect any part of the body, including the central nervous system, the brain, the blood, muscles, joints, the gastrointestinal tract, and the immune, digestive, and lymph systems. 
Our bodies are simply not made to process the high quantities of the types of sugar that we consume nowadays.
Multiple factors like lack of sleep, electromagnetic fields, aluminum (found in anti-acids, water, foil wrap, deodorants, cookware) interact with our genes to produce diseases like Alzheimer's. In addition, inflammation is always present in most diseases and Alzheimer's is not an exception. Inflammatory-promoting factors include trans fats, saturated fat, stress, infections, lack of exercise, autoimmune diseases, vitamin deficiencies, celiac disease, colitis, sugar, and diabetes, all of which increase the risk of dementia and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.
Stress and other psychological factors have a major impact on our well being. 95% of all illnesses are either caused and/or worsened by stress. Excessive stress contributes to 
We usually get angry when we get frustrated due to misunderstandings. Many people consider anger to be an all-or-nothing feeling and this shouldn't be the case. We don't have to loose control when we're angry. Actually, angry responses very seldom reach uncontrollable levels and when they do, they are usually because of misuse of angry feelings that have little or nothing to do with the immediate actual irritating situation. It is mainly due to unconscious anger rooted somewhere else, i.e. in the past or somebody else. In general, the greater the awareness of how we really feel, the less chance there is to lose control. 
