Hey its Theresa here again. If this is your first time here, I am an RN wellness coach who specializes in the holistic reversal of chronic Lyme disease, autoimmune disease and troubling symptoms in general that may have no real diagnosis or known cause. This is my third blog and today we are going to talk more about WHY we keep seeing more and more bizarre, troubling and disabling health issues in adults and children.

In my last article I mentioned the microbiome. This is a new field of science that is not fully embraced by mainstream medicine and yet is revolutionary in the way pioneering doctors and practitioners see illness. The Human Microbiome Project was conducted by the NIH in 2007 and continues being researched today. The study showed us that we are made up of 10 microbial cells to every 1 human cell! When I say microbial I mean bacterial, viral, parasitic, and fungal organisms. We have lived peacefully with this diverse group of bugs for all of human history. This community of various kinds of bugs lives and interact with each other in such a way as to be the first line of defense for our immune system, manufacture our feel-good chemicals and hormones for us and much more. It turns out we are not the sterile beings we always thought we were. In fact, we are mostly made up of these microbes with their own DNA at a ratio of 10 of them to one of us! We keep learning more and more about how these microbes and their DNA interact with our DNA and the DNA of disease-causing bugs.

So many of us including myself became germaphobes for decades- believing that the best way to stay healthy was to kill all germs on contact. We took many antibiotics, used antibacterial hand soaps and cleaning products and sterilized everything in our homes. NOW we are understanding that there is a difference between good beneficial bacteria and bad illness-causing bacteria in the body. We spent so much time identifying and killing the bad guys, not understanding that our good guys were designed to keep these bad guys in check, sometimes even living alongside them peacefully. And that those good guys are central to healthy immune systems.

Going back to WHY we are experiencing so many more autoimmune illnesses, bizarre undiagnosed illnesses, and ever-increasing intestinal, neurological and psychological illnesses than ever before, we have to look at what is happening to the human microbiome. In my last article, I talked about all of the modern influences that have affected our health. So to be more specific I will talk today about how these things have thrown our microbiomes out of whack and allowed the bad guys to start multiplying out of control and winning and creating these troubling and disabling symptoms so many of us live with. To make this more understandable, think about a forest or a jungle. When it is in the right balance of predators and prey, all goes as it should be. When we as humans start altering the terrain of forests and jungles, we start killing off certain animals and plants, and that always starts a vicious cycle of death and loss. When one thing that fed the other thing died off, then another thing grows out of control and then other things that were fine before start dying in mass numbers. We already have many examples of this happening. We end up with unintended consequences when we start messing with a natural system that functioned well for 1000’s of years until human beings began altering things.

This same thing is happening in our bodies! It’s taken decades to start showing up in all sorts of ways, you see our bodies are so great at adapting and we’ve been able to adapt to microbiome meddling for decades. But now that we are seeing more and more unexplainable illnesses pioneering doctors scientists and researchers are implicating “dysbiosis” or the state of our microbiomes being out of balance. Antibiotics, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and even electromagnetic radiation are all fairly recent “meddlers” to which I refer, on human health. These things over the last 4 decades or so eventually have combined to create a perfect storm in the microbiome. You see all of these meddlers either reduce the good guys that have historically kept the bad guys in check, or promote the growth of the bad guys, making it much harder for the good guys to do their jobs. To complicate matters, these altered and unhealthy microbiomes have been passed from mother to baby, making each generation a bit more compromised right from their birth. This could explain the fast-rising autism spectrum and learning disabilities rates.

So what is the big deal? Why care about the balance of microbes in our bodies? We are learning that autoimmune illness and chronic Lyme disease, as well as many unexplainable symptoms, are highly influenced by our microbiomes. Let’s look deeper at what has affected our microbiomes. First, let’s look at antibiotics. When they were introduced in the 20th century they were viewed as a savior – and they have saved many lives, but they came with unintended consequences. Killing off all the good guys along with the bad guys in the body led to the development of what we have now- resistant, more deadly, more infectious bugs than ever before. This is one of the biggest influences on the sickly microbiomes we have today.

Next, let’s look at all the chemicals we put into our bodies every single day. Our air, food and water and products we use every day all have tiny and not so tiny doses of chemicals that we are now learning prevent the good bacteria we need from growing in our bodies. They also prevent our immune systems from keeping the bad guys in check and promoting the growth of new and worse guys! We have also learned from studies that babies are coming into the world with over 287 known chemical toxins in their bodies including mercury, aluminum, and many chemicals that were banned in the 1970s. These chemicals keep persisting inside of us and are very hard to detoxify from. They are causing all sorts of autoimmune illnesses, immune system dysfunction, and strange unexplainable syndromes.

Next, Pharmaceutical drugs affect our microbiome. They can save lives or make our lives better by reducing symptoms we suffer with, but they too have the unintended consequence of altering the terrain of microbes in our bodies. They do this by altering the environment of our body which affects the growth of the good guys or promotes the growth of the bad guys. Here’s one you may not of thought of, EMR- electromagnetic radiation. That’s all the artificial waves in the air that make our society all that it is now. We love the devices they power and all the ways they serve us. They Seem harmless right? If you can’t see them they must be doing no harm. This is our assumption. Surely if they were affecting our cells and our microbiome SOMEONE in a place of authority and influence would do something about it we reason. Just a small amount of research will tell you that we are a grand social experiment of huge proportions. There is simply not enough time or accurate measureable data to tell us if all the artificial waves we are bombarded with every day through cell phone towers, wi-fi routers, apple watches, smart phones and tablets, computers, cordless phones, baby monitors, blue tooth devices, and dirty electricity in the walls are affecting our microbiomes or not. Industry would tell us there is absolutely no health risk. But many pioneering doctors and researchers are telling us that EMR is influencing human beings, especially the youngest among us in very
detrimental ways.

I recently sent all of my sons a scientific study done looking at the influence of cell phone radiation on sperm motility and the DNA of sperm. The study found that the normal daily exposure of the sperm to cell phone radiation reduced motility by 80%! It also showed that the actual DNA of the sperm was altered by the exposure. A good friend of mine has worked in neonatal intensive care units for over 30 years so she has seen a lot. She’s been telling me for the last 2 years that they’ve never seen so many babies being born with rare genetic defects. She told me recently that the nurses who work these units now regularly have these babies in their case loads. One night this past January the charge nurse told her that more than half of the babies that were in the nursery with the rare genetic defects (around 30 that week) required surgical correction. These babies were born with a missing trachea, intestines outside their bellies, and the like. Serious birth defects. WHY are we seeing so many more of these rare genetic birth defects? My friend told me the assumption was that these babies were exposed to illegal drugs in utero. However, when she looked into it, she realized there was no evidence of this for many of the babies. Could it possibly be the influence of powerful smartphones being carried in pants pockets or on pregnant women’s’ bodies? Of course, this is not PROOF of anything but it just causes me to question. WE still don’t know for certain the answer to that question, but I feel we are much better off erring on the side of caution in the face of the growing number of these birth defects. We also have to ask ourselves why infertility is on the rise in the millennial generation. Could their excessive exposure to EMR be playing in? We need to look at this. So if it’s at all possible that cell phone and electromagnetic radiation can influence sperm, why couldn’t they influence all those 10:1 microbes in the body?

Once again leading pioneering doctors are telling us to limit our exposures to EMR. There is no hard evidence to prove they are not affecting us and we just can’t afford to encourage the growth of the bad guys anymore. These same researchers and doctors are telling us that once 5 G comes out, these bizarre illnesses, birth defects and genetic illnesses will quadruple in number. And yet we will be able to download a movie in a few seconds. Something to think about. Do your own research here.

Look at both sides and ask yourself if it would be worthwhile to try and limit your exposures by keeping devices out of your bedroom, keeping cell phone out of pockets and turning wifi off at night to give your body a break from those waves. And hold off on ordering 5 G, installing more and more smart devices in your home, and keeping smart devices right on your body.

There is so much we can do to promote a healthy microbiome in our body! We need to be motivated to really press in on this. Once we realize that the healthy bacteria in our intestines are responsible for making much of the feel good chemicals that our brains need (serotonin etc), the hormones that keep things running smoothly, and most importantly they keep bad bacteria, viruses and parasites in check, we understand how important the microbiome is. You will continue to hear more and more about it ihere and n the media in the years to come. One of the main things I do as a wellness coach is to help people put strategies together to best bring their immune systems back to a healthy place. So much of this involves lowering the burden of those bad guys who have gotten out of balance in the body and raise the amount of the good guys. It also involves removing the toxins that contributed to the unhealthy microbiome in the first place. This is a slow process. But when my clients are willing to walk through that long difficult process they start seeing symptoms disappearing and energy increasing! It takes time money and commitment, but I am passionate about letting people know that there is this alternative out there. That drugs, procedures and surgeries are not their only options. Getting their microbiomes back into balance and detoxing their bodies allows their body to heal itself in marvelous ways. I see this in my office every day.

I have so many cool stories to tell ! We will keep talking about these stories and about this whole option that is out there to promote healing in your body. You can improve and recover from the most horrific cases of chronic Lyme and autoimmune illness and from troubling symptoms in general. You have hope! Keep coming back here for more information! I will go into more detail about the toxins that meddle with our microbiomes and what you can do to get them out of your body.