Hormonal Health, Weight, Fatigue & Biotoxin Illness

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Mold Toxicity Summit Outline of Presentation by Marcelle Pick MSN, OB-GYN, NP

  1. Mold illness can present in so many ways

How did I get here, how do I go from here?

  1. Infertility
  2. Fibromyalgia
  3. PMS
  4. Addictions
  5. Fatigue/mitochondrial dysfunction
  6. How does it NOT present?
  7. Many estrogenic effects from mycotoxinsHeavy bleeding
  8. Fibroids
  9. Cramps
  10. Mycotoxins in animal feed are closely monitored due to their adverse reproductive effects
  11. Xeralone associated with infertility and pregnancy loss (GPL Mycotox)
  12. GALS mnemonic for hormonal challenges
  13. Gut-first place to lookDysbiosis
  14. Adrenals
  15. Lyme
  16. Physical stress
  17. EMF toxicity
  18. Overall stress
  19. Multitasking more than ever
  20. Adrenals also effect the gut
  21. Blood sugars climb,
  22. Insulin resistance
  23. “Estrogen Dominance” is a misnomer
  24. Cortisol is made at the expense of Progesterone
  25. Progesterone drops—adrenal is more involved than the ovary
  26. Happens to men too
  27. Xenoestrogens are often involved
  28. Progesterone levels that are low can be supplemented
  29. Reduces vaginal bleeding days 10-12 of cycle until menses start
  30. Patient feels better overall
  31. May require a bit of estrogen as well.
  32. Perimenopause it’s used very frequently
  33. Difference between progestogens and progestins
  34. DHEA drops “the get up and go hormone”
  35. Estrogens can recycle from the GI tract
  36. We talk about Addison’s & Cushing’s, but there’s also dysregulation/dysfunction of adrenals due to mycotoxins
  37. Immune suppressant effect of mold increases Lyme and other susceptibilities
  38. Nutritional Adrenal Support
  39. To much or to little cortisol?
  40. Licorice can help if low cortisol
  41. Apoptogenic effect
  42. High Cortisol
  43. Phosphatidyl serine has an adaptogenic effect
  44. Ashwagandha
  45. Astralgus
  46. Cutting sugar/carbsSugar increases serotonin quickly then plummets
  47. Get stress under control
  48. Physical
  49. Emotional
  50. Both together?
  51. Exercise as tolerated
  52. Breathing
  53. Emotional freedom
  54. Tapping
  55. Go to bed earlier
  56. Turn off the TV
  57. Liver
  58. NASH
  59. Infertility is a big and growing issue
  60. Cleaning up the gut
  61. Eliminating the toxins
  62. Pregnancy ensues
  63. Dioxins & Endometriosis
    1. Weight
      1. Affects Hypothalamus & Leptin receptors
        1. Mold toxins and other toxins involved
      1. Weight loss resistance
        1. Mold is a big cause due to hypothalamic effect
      1. Genetic profiling to figure out what food plan to use
        1. Address hypothalamic-pituitary axis first
      1. When adrenals are corrected, weight tends to come down
      1. Some women get anxious as they lose weight-may have Hx sexual abuse
        1. Weight is protective/padding
        1. ACES (Adverse Childhood Events)
        1. What happens in childhood often affects us later in life
          1. Score of 4 or more, 65% higher risk of heart disease
          1. 1200% higher risk of suicide
          1. We have to “look in the mirror” to recognize this in ourselves—few folks want to do that.
          1. Are you still trying to be perfect, get your parents to love you, etc…
          1. Need to reactivate the frontal lobe instead of relying on the primitive midbrain
            1. Amygdala & Limbic retraining
            1. Even witnessing violence on TV can cause problems/be traumatic for some folks
            1. 1/3 women, 1/5-6 men have hx of sexual violation
            1. “If you don’t deal with your stress & your story, it will deal with you!”
            1. Filling out lengthy questionnaires about psych hx can be therapeutic
      1. Alcohol/Addiction
        1. Food/Drugs/Alcohol helps deal with stress by raising serotonin, which then plummets, and the stress is back
        1. Addictions will not fix the underlying problem—aggravated by mold
        1. Holocaust survivors have been documented to have 3 generations of adverse effect
        1. Go online to figure your ACE score
        1. Alcohol also feeds the fungal overgrowth I the gut/SIFO
          1. Hormones/estrogens metabolized by the same enzymes as EtOH aggravating estrogen dominance
          1. Online Ace score Adverse Childhood Events
          1. Resiliency Score
          1. PTSD is the freezing of the primitive brain amygdala response
            1. Mold can worsen this too
            1. PTSD can be improved with therapy, understanding people in your life

How did I get here, how do I get out of here?

et out of here?

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