What Causes of Fibromyalgia? 1. Metabolic oxidants
2. Microbial oxidants
3. Man-made oxidants (Oxidants are substances that damage tissues.)
Three Molecular Mechanisms of Fibromyalgia
1. Oxidosis (too much oxidation) 2. Dysoxygenosis (too little oxygen) 3. Acidosis (too much acidity) (Oxidosis is rapid breakdown. Dysoxygenosis [dys-oxy-gen-osis] is abnormal oxygen metabolism.)
Three Levels of Injured Cellular and Organ Ecosystems
and an Ecologic Road Map to Recovery
1. The base trio of the bowel, blood, and liver ecosystems 2. The middle trio of the thyroid, adrenals, and pancreas ecosystems 3. The top trio of the limbic system, sex hormones, and neurotransmitters.
TOXINS: Metabolic, Microbial, and Man-Made
Of the three main types of toxins identified above that lead to fibromyalgia, the metabolic toxins are the least important in the initial stages, but the most dangerous in advanced stages of fibromyalgia. The reason for that is that all kinds of metabolic havoc are wreaked on the human tissues once oxygen metabolism becomes dysfunctional. Metabolism (the sum total of all life processes) produces many oxidants as waste products. In health, the detox mechanisms of the body neutralize and clear such oxidants. In illness, such oxidants are produced in such large quantities that the detox systems fail. Excess oxidants accumulate and cause oxidosis which, in turn, leads to dysoxygenosis and acidosis. The states of illness that lead to oxidosis and dysoxygenosis include fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, chemical sensitivity syndrome, and others. Microbial oxidants are produced in large quantities by microbes which live in the body in health. Those microbes multiply rapidly in the bowel and blood ecosystems with sugar overload, antibiotic abuse, pesticides, pollutants, and other toxins. All microbial oxidants cause oxidosis which, in turn, leads to dysoxygenosis and acidosis. Microbial oxidants include those produced by:
1. Yeasts (mycotoxins); 2. Bacteria (endotoxins and exotoxins); 3. Viruses (oxidants produced by damaged cells); and 4. Parasites (oxidants produced by parasites as well as by cells and tissues damaged by parasites).
Man-made oxidants include designer killer molecules (such as pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides), industrial pollutants, toxic metal compounds (such as dental mercury amalgams), and synthetic hormones. The toxic burden of chemicals has increased markedly during this century. For example, in the U.S. more than nineteen million pounds of antibiotics are fed to cattle and chicken every year.