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#2 Cleaning and Food Chemicals
There are specific chemicals which have been proven by research to have a strong link to developing autoimmune diseases. Unpacking the details behind this topic also helps explain the mystery of why women get autoimmune diseases more than men.
So which chemicals are they?
Organic Solvents
Studies have found a strong relationship with autoimmune diseases and a class of chemicals called organic solvents.
Look at the research from this 2012 study called, “Organic Solvents as Risk Factor for Autoimmune Diseases.”
“We found a significant association between OSs (Organic solvents) exposure and the increased risk of developing an autoimmune trait” 1
“Our results indicate that OS (Organic solvents) exposure is a risk factor for developing ADs (autoimmune diseases).” 2
"Concerning MS, when an independent analysis was done for each disease, MS show a significant association with OSs exposure." 3
Where Are They Found?
Organic solvents are typically used to dissolve substances or for cleaning things.
Commonly found in:
- polishes
- waxes
- spot removers
- rug cleaners
- glues
- degreasers
- personal care products, nail polish remover
- all purpose household cleaners
Regularly breathing or having skin contact with cleaning products that contain chemicals in the organic solvents category is linked to developing an autoimmune disease. There are 40 something chemicals in this category and most of us couldn't pronounce 90% of them. One of them is 29 letters long! So instead of attempting the daunting task of trying to memorize all these chemicals to the point where you could identify them on labels I found you can accomplish the same goal by just applying a good rule of thumb.
Just stick with natural cleaning products.
Bottom line: The fewer the crazy looking words on the label the better.
If you can’t pronounce it, you probably shouldn't clean with it or put it on your body because it could be an organic solvent leading to an autoimmune disease. There are many excellent natural cleaning agents like vinegar, lemon, and baking soda, and there are even whole companies that are committed to only putting out natural cleaning products.
What About Food Chemicals?
In an 2014 study entitled “A Potential Link between Environmental Triggers and Autoimmunity,” it cites a number of changes in our food that has caused potential risk factor for autoimmune diseases.
What food changes? It says:
“new breeds of food plants and food animals, genetic modifications, chemical ingredients, flavors, and preservatives.” 4
What this study is saying is that many of these new chemicals in our food is a potential risk factor for autoimmune diseases.
What food chemicals are these?
What Out for This One!
There is one chemical in particular we need to especially be aware of. It’s called TMPD, also commonly known as pristane. It is associated with causing abnormal immune functions in humans. Hello, autoimmunity!
TMPD also causes lupus-like autoimmunity in mice, caused them to develop arthritis, and produced chronic inflammatory response in their liver, spleen and lymph nodes.
Scientist believe that TMPD may be involved in the development of: 5,6
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sjögren's syndrome
- Autoimmune induced hepatitis C
Where Is This Chemical Commonly Found?
Thankfully the researches tell us.
“(TMPD) is a common constituent of mineral oil… and is found in a number of processed foods made for human consumption.” 7
Yikes! We could be eating this stuff! Be a label reader and keep your eyes peeled for this stuff otherwise you could be paying money to contribute to your autoimmune disease. And this is just one of many chemicals out there causing problems for autoimmune patients.
Again, we can be safe by just applying the same simple rule of thumb. Only get the food that is actually real food and has the least amount of chemical ingredients. For my wife and I, when we see long complicated words and ingredients like Red#40 we just put it back on the store shelf.
Why Are Women Getting Autoimmunity More Than Men?
More than 75% of all autoimmune patients are women.8 Women have 90% of all thyroid diseases, and they make up 90% of all lupus sufferers.9
Why? These figures are too high to just be chance. Most professionals agree that there is something going on that causes women to be so disproportionally afflicted with autoimmune diseases.
It’s estimated by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) that the average women applies 168 chemicals to her body every day via the use of personal care products. In contrast, men only apply half that number.10
And many of these chemicals are known to contribute to autoimmunity.
Here are few examples ...
The autoimmune disease primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), has been associated with exposure to nail polish. 11
Who’s using this product the most?
Also over 400 different types of lipsticks contain lead.
That represents about 60-80% of all on the market.
Your lipstick very well may have lead!
Another study found that hair dyes are linked with causing autoimmune diseases. 12
Again, who’s using these products the most? Women.
Are you getting the picture as to why women are so effected by autoimmunity?
The Environmental Defense, a Canada-based group, issued an alarming report. They tested 49 popular beauty products for eight different heavy metals, and here’s what they found:
% OF BEAUTY PRODUCTS WITH HEAVY METALS
Arsenic - 20%
Cadmium - 51%
Lead - 96%
Mercury - 0%
Nickel - 100%
Beryllium - 90%
Thallium - 61%
Selenium - 14%
Did you notice that lead, nickel, and beryllium were found in 90-100% of the 49 tested beauty products. Don’t be fooled, heavy metal poisoning directly contributes to autoimmunity and can absolutely ruin your life.
The problems these metals lead to are numerous and terrible.
Here are just a few of the known results: 13
- Brain lesions similar to those of Alzheimer patients
- Are neurotoxic and disturb neurotransmitters
- Neurological degenerations that copy diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and muscular dystrophy
- Damage to blood vessels
- Impairing of any organ
- Malfunctioning of nerves, kidneys, and muscles
- Formation of skin lesions
- Internal cancers
- Pulmonary disease
- Hypertension and cardiovascular disease
- Diabetes mellitus
- Irreversible changes in the vital organs
- Microtubule destruction
- Mitochondrial damage
- Accumulation of neurotoxic molecules such as serotonin, aspartate, and glutamate
The point is, if you’re using popular cleaning and beauty products, you’re also getting slowly poisoned with substances proven to be a contributing factor to autoimmune diseases.
Don’t worry, there are natural-minded companies putting out clean beauty products.
The more of the safe, natural beauty products you buy, the more of them there will be on the market.
Having healed from an autoimmune disease myself, I know from experience how important it is to keep yourself from toxic contamination and to cleanse. If you don’t cut off the toxin supply, you can do all the healthy things you want, but you’ll just be spinning your tires. This is because the toxins will continue to provoke an autoimmune response in your body. You have to turn off the faucet of toxic exposure.
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On to toxin # 1. In my opinion the most dangerous one of all.
This next one is so sneaky and so common that chances are you already ate this food item today.
The 5-Step Plan I Used to Heal My Autoimmune Disease
STEP 1
Remove foods and toxins that are damaging the gut
STEP 2
Heal the leaky gut
STEP 3
Nutrify
STEP 4
Cleanse/detox
STEP 5
Remove chronic stress
Through this 5-Step Plan, I was able to overcome:
STEP 1
Remove toxic foods and environmental toxins
The cause of autoimmune disease can be summed up in one word. Toxins! It's just a matter of finding out what toxins are in each persons particular situation.
Where Are They Found?
These toxins come from a variety of sources. Here are 14 common sources of toxins that trigger and autoimmune response in the body.
- Pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides,
- Heavy metals
- Bad gut bacteria overgrowth
- Molds
- Viral Infections
- Bacterial Infections
- GMOs
- Gluten (Modern Hybridized)
- Chronic stress
- Vaccinations
- Genetic Mutations
- Poor Diet
- Medications
- Chemicals: Organic Solvents
Not everyone reacts to the same toxins. The key is in understanding which toxins are in YOUR situation and completely avoiding them.
STEP 2
Heal the leaky gut
When the body identifies something we ingest as a toxin, it attacks. Therefore, if we're continually ingesting foods the body is identifying as toxins, our immune system is continually attacking them. This constant attacking occurs primarily in the small intestine because this is where the body's first line of defense against invaders is. The results of this continual attacking is damage and inflammation in the small intestine which results in leaky gut. Leaky gut is one of the main factors in all autoimmune diseases, so if you have an autoimmune disease you probably also have a leaky gut.
What is leaky gut?
Leaky gut is when the wall of your small intestine becomes damaged and permeable (meaning it gets holes in it). These holes in the small intestine allow large particles of undigested food, bad bacteria and toxic waste to leak out into your bloodstream. Your immune system recognizes these foreign invaders in your body and attacks them. Unfortunately, your own tissues can get caught in the friendly cross-fire and this is one of the main causes of autoimmune conditions.
To heal my leaky gut we used 7 easy natural remedies. On our recipes page I share the onion and potato broth soup recipe which is one of the specific remedies I used to heal my damaged gut. I drank it almost every night before going to bed which was incredibly powerful in healing my digestive tract. It's an amazing recipe because it's simple, delicious and powerful in healing leaky guts.
STEP 3
Nutrify
Our small intestine is where most of the nutrients from the food we eat get absorbed into our bodies. Since damaged vilii in the small intestine comes along with all autoimmune diseases, we are not going to be absorbing nutrients like we need to which results in being malnourished in key nutrients, vitamins and minerals. A whole host of side effects can stem from this problem.
It takes a high-nutrient diet to heal from the years of damage done to your organs and tissues from an autoimmune disease. The high-nutrient diet that stopped my autoimmune in its tracks consists of specific, organic, anti-inflammatory foods that assist the body in repairing itself.
What foods did I use to help repair my body from many years of damage? Plants! Lot's of em. That's where most of the nutrients are. There's even one vitamin that works better than all the drug steroids! It increases your immune system’s ability to differentiate between your own tissues and foreign invaders. I'll share more about where you can find the information about this below.
STEP 4
Cleanse/detox
We are exposed to poisonous toxins regularly and many of these toxins get stored in our body. As these toxins build up they can become very problematic causing many physical issues. In Step 1, I discussed about the need to prevent toxins from coming in, but there is still the need to cleanse out of the body the toxins that have been accumulating for years. Until these are removed from the body, they will continue to create fatigue, headaches, rashes and other symptoms.
It's when people cleanse that we see the most drastic changes in their health. Tumors shrink, blood sugar levels drop, chronic headaches go away, energy returns, depression is reversed, stomach pain subsides, inflammation calms down, eczema begins to subside and the list goes on. When administered properly a good cleanse is like hitting the reset button on your body.
STEP 5
Remove chronic stress
Studies clearly show that our bodies receive physical damage due to negative emotions. This negative physical impact is very similar to the effects of autoimmunity in the body. Chronic stress results in chronic inflammation and disease. The National Institutes of Health published an article in the journal Autoimmune Diseases in which it says, “chronic stress affects the composition of the gut microbiota” and “chronic stress also makes the gut leaky.”7 When we are stressed, our hypothalamus releases hormones that signal the pituitary and adrenal glands to release stress steroids such as adrenaline and cortisol.
Not knowing how to deal with emotional baggage and negative emotions can prevent this entire 5-step program from working. Even if you have been healing physically, unresolved negative emotions can cause your autoimmune disease to pop up over and over again.
As a motivational speaker, I’ve spent over 10 years traveling the nation helping hundreds of people deal with chronic stress in their lives. The methods I described in our Book are the ones I have been using for years. I have personally seen them bring healing and radically change the outlook of every person who puts them into practice.
(7) Campbell, AW. “Autoimmunity and the Gut.” Autoimmune Diseases. 2014;152428.
The Genetic Factor
There is a very strong genetic link with autoimmune diseases. Often autoimmune disease manifest in “family clusters” where multiple family members have symptoms of autoimmune diseases.
In my family, there are six members including myself that have had an autoimmune disease.
Probably the most common genetic mutation in autoimmune patients is the MTHFR gene mutation. This gene mutation hinders the bodies from completing 250 crucial biochemical reactions.
In short, the results of this gene mutation are that you will have a malnourished and malfunctioning immune system and nervous system. This is not good!
Consequently, it has been found that a very large number of people who have the MTHFR gene mutation suffer from neuro-immune syndromes like depression, anxiety, insomnia, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, and many other autoimmune related disorders.
This means that you can be doing all the right things to heal your autoimmune disease and yet still never fully heal because you have a problem at a genetic level that isn't being addressed. You will be trying and trying but just spinning your tires. Thankfully there are ways to bypass the MTHFR gene mutation!
What are the symptoms of this gene mutation? How do you get tested for this gene mutation? What do you do if you have it? We have lot's of information on this website that addresses these questions, but to get the full scope of all the answers we've found take a look below at our 142-page book, "How I Reversed My Autoimmune Disease."
I was able to completely reverse my autoimmune disease
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What you'll learn in the book:
- How to do the 5 steps that reversed my autoimmune disease
- What are the root causes of autoimmune diseases
- How to cure infections like Lyme, Epstein-Barr, Candida, and parasites
- The specific diet that stopped my autoimmune disease in its tracks
- How to cook and eat out on an autoimmune reversal diet
- What supplements are beneficial and which are a waste of time
- How to safely detox heavy metals, mold, and chemicals
- 7 easy, cheap, natural therapies that heal leaky gut
- How to know which tests to get
- How to remove chronic stress
- How to fix neuro-immmune issues like depression, anxiety, insomnia, and chronic pain
- Which foods to get organic and which are not necessary
- Specialized autoimmune juice recipes
- How I eliminated rashes and skin fungus
- The hour-by-hour daily schedule I did that totally reversed my autoimmune disease
- Exciting new research
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Also comes with The Autoimmune Manual. This 21-page manual includes:
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- Interactive checklists and graphs
- How to understand tests and bloodwork
- Suggested detoxing schedules
- Total program timelines
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References
1. Barragán-Martínez, Carolina et al. “Organic Solvents as Risk Factor for Autoimmune Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.” Ed. Sudha Chaturvedi. PLoS ONE 7.12 (2012): e51506. PMC. Web. 1 Mar. 2018.
2. ibid
3. ibid
4. Aristo Vojdani, “A Potential Link between Environmental Triggers and Autoimmunity,” Autoimmune Diseases, vol. 2014, Article ID 437231, 18 pages, 2014. doi:10.1155/2014/437231
5. Pollard KM, Hultman P, Kono DH. “Toxicology of Autoimmune Diseases.” Chemical research in toxicology. 2010;23(3):455-466.
6. Reeves WH, Lee PY, Weinstein JS, Satoh M, Lu L. "Induction of autoimmunity by pristane and other naturally-occurring hydrocarbons." Trends in immunology. 2009;30(9):455-464
7. ibid
8. https://www.aarda.org/who-we-help/patients/women-and-autoimmunity/
9. http://www.lupusny.org/about-lupus/who-gets-lupus
10. http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/2004/06/15/exposures-add-up-survey-results/#.WXjvQIqQwxg
11. M. E. Gershwin, C. Selmi, H. J. Worman et al., “Risk factors and comorbidities in primary biliary cirrhosis: a controlled interview-based study of 1032 patients,” Hepatology, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 1194–1202, 2005.
12. Hess EV, “Environmental chemicals and autoimmune disease: cause and effect.” Toxicology. 2002 Dec 27;181-182:65-70.
13. Patrick L, “Mercury toxicity and antioxidants: Part 1: role of glutathione and alpha-lipoic acid in the treatment of mercury toxicity.” Alternative Medicine Review. 2002 Dec; 7(6):456-71.