Full Transcript Introduction to Strep and Autoimmunity 0:01 Hi, everybody. 0:02 It's Dr. 0:02 Laura with Connect My Brain, and today is our podcast. 0:09 And I have actually promised this for a really long time that I was going to do a deep dive into strep, autoimmune, how this kind of plays on the development 0:23 of our children. 0:24 So I am going a deep dive into this, but I'm going to really try to make it to where it's understandable. 0:35 I think what really finally got me motivated to take this on, because it is a tough topic, was recently I was looking at some labs with a parent. 0:49 And one of the things, they've been working with things for quite some time. 0:57 what was found on the GI effects, which would be that we're looking at the stool. 1:03 And what we found was out of all six categories, there was only one that revealed itself and it was dysbiosis, Which means that I don't have the right 1:18 balance of bacteria and you're supposed to have many different species in our bellies, in are colon, and everywhere in your body. 1:31 And when we see dysbiosis, it means that there is an imbalance and there's different scales, different severity. 1:41 But let's just say about midpoint in the scale was this individual was registering for dysbiosis and the reaction was, wow, 1:53 look how much we've actually changed. 1:57 And I totally agree. 1:58 I mean, from the beginning of working on this particular case, which has been quite some time, we're probably in about a year and a half, 2:09 maybe a And not all cases go that way. 2:13 You know, one of the things that I really pride myself on at Connect My Brain is I would like for there to be a start and a finish, 2:24 because if we have a One, children can get on with their lives, families can on their with lives and you have a restored child. 2:37 And now their development can thrive and they can become everything that they are meant to be. 2:45 That's always where my passion lies. 2:48 But not every case will go in that direction. 2:53 And one of the biggest culprits is strep.
Dysbiosis, Inflammation, and Stress Chemistry 2:59 Unfortunately, what a lot of people feel is that streps is just, oh, yeah, of course my kid had strept. 3:07 Everybody has stret. 3:08 Well, I can tell you I've never had And that is not something we should just kind of have an attitude of everybody gets it, 3:20 therefore there's no big deal. 3:22 Because what I'm going to try to outline today is that you could start with something as dysbiosis, an imbalance in the gut flora, 3:36 the which could then lead to inflammation, which can lead chronic inflammation causing stress chemistry in the body and ultimately leading to autoimmunity. 3:56 So I'm going to break down those words. 3:59 Dysbiosis is that balance of gut bacteria with lots of different species. 4:07 That'll be a deeper dive one day as well, because making sure that we have an abundance of good bacteria, a balance, of the species has actually been connected 4:26 even to cancer. 4:28 That when that imbalance occurs, it is our initial defense system and over time can lead to a problem. 4:41 And cancer is considered an autoimmunity. 4:44 Having high strep antibodies is an Autoimmunity. 4:50 having high levels of pneumonia, coxsacky or hand foot mouth, yeast, parasites, fungi, can all lead to the same issue. 5:06 Probably by the end of this, you're going to go, wow, this is a really big topic. 5:12 And so it's important that we understand one of these very fundamental principles of gut health, but actually leads to brain health. 5:26 Okay? 5:28 even if we look at something like the word dysbiosis, which can then lead to inflammation, okay? 5:37 So I'm going to kind of hover here at inflammation for a minute because there's a lot to unpack. 5:44 First of all, Not all inflammation is bad. 5:49 So if I sprained my ankle, I'm going to get inflammation. 5:54 Inflammation is going into the injured tissue and helping to clean it out. 6:02 Inflammation is part of even a pathway when we talk about the MTHFR genetic mutation, the methylation pathway. 6:15 So our body will take inflammation and do something with it. 6:22 And what it does is it makes glutathione. 6:27 Glutathion is your master antioxidant. 6:30 Now, let's just stay right there for a minute. 6:33 What is an antioxidan? 6:37 An antioxidant is making sure that you maintain cellular health when we get into too much stress chemistry. 6:50 So meaning that our chemistry is just completely out of balance, which will lead to a stress response. 6:59 just like worrying and anxiety leads to a stress response. 7:05 A stress can be mechanical like the sprained ankle. 7:11 Stress response can chemical like chronic inflammation and stress responses can be generated from brain activity, like living in a state of anxiety, 7:29 a lot of worry, triggers that then take you down a pathway. 7:37 So that word stress alone has many different definitions. 7:47 Okay. 7:48 And that's why some of this stuff, I think, over time, it gets very convoluted. 7:55 So I'm going to keep going back and forth. 7:58 I really make sure that we get this because it's a big part of how you heal somebody. 8:06 So we're starting off with this idea, dysbiosis, wonderful that out of maybe six categories, we are down to one issue. 8:17 But it's still important because this is how our microbiome functions. 8:26 And it's so interesting because when you come into this world, the two main species of bacteria are Lactobacillus ambifidobacterium. 8:38 And if you go to the health food store and you decide to buy a probiotic, I want you to notice how many times you'll always see those components in those
Microbiome Development and Environmental Factors 8:55 probiotics because a lot of the species that grow inside of us for many reasons They're not available in a bottle. 9:05 Everything starts from lactobacillus and bifidobacteria. 9:11 This is why I would really urge you not to live on a probiotic. 9:18 How do we grow these species? 9:22 Well, let's go back to being a baby. 9:26 So and then this is still true for you today. 9:30 It's about how that baby gets fed. 9:34 it's About the environment that that Baby lives in. 9:38 So a baby born in Alaska, and a Baby born In Georgia, totally two different environments. 9:46 Okay, so what we're really looking for is a way that the body knows how to adapt to its environment and is given the right foods, 10:00 the high quality of foods in order to manufacture the microbiome in their body. 10:09 This is why I always say, when we chronically talk about people having allergies, allergies mean you are not adapting to the environment that you live in. 10:24 Why is that? 10:25 Okay, there can be many reasons. 10:27 It could be your own microbiome. 10:30 it could, be what was given to you from your mom and your dad as they came together and brought life into the womb and that life then had to experience 10:45 the what mom and dad are coming to the table with. 10:48 And then it's also about how did you come into this world? 10:51 Were you a vaginal delivery? 10:53 Or were you C-section? 10:55 If you're a C section delivery, you don't get exposed to bacteria of the birth canal. 11:03 That's really where it begins for the baby. 11:07 So, there's many things that build this microbiome. 11:11 Now, it's not just about being the baby, but it is also about, okay, what have you done even in your adult life? 11:20 How are you feeding yourself today? 11:23 What water are your drinking? 11:25 how much water you are drinking. 11:27 What is the quality of the food that you're eating? 11:32 One of the things about looking at the quality of food will take us into the direction of what has happened for many children, 11:41 that they're developing secondary sex characteristics way too early. 11:46 Girls are menstruating way to early, they are having bodily changes in their endocrine system way, too, early because a lot of things that go into Some 11:59 of the meats and the poultries, et cetera, are different antibiotics, different growth hormones in order to really plump up the meat. 12:11 So that's why the quality is so important because I think one of easiest ones to think about, have you ever passed, been on the highway and passed a poultry truck? 12:27 and saw how many chickens were living in these little cages stacked on each other. 12:33 Well, guess what? 12:34 Chickens have stress hormones too. 12:37 And so if we are buying chickens that come from a very stressful environment, same thing is true for the meats, But if we are buying this type of a product, 12:50 you're putting that into your body. 12:53 And these are part of how we alter this microbiome, even if it got started off on the right foot. 13:02 So all of that matters when it comes to the microbiome. 13:08 And then, of course, we have to think about the well-being in our brain. 13:13 I'm going to do a truth bomb after this particular podcast. 13:16 Be sure and go listen to it because I want to talk about how our kids are going back to school so early. 13:25 So I'll get into that one on the truth bond. 13:28 But the big idea is I want you to kind of imagine a circle, and you are in that circle. 13:37 That's you. 13:38 And I you want to see all the arrows coming into the circle of you, And your life and your choices and experiences play a huge part in the health of your microbiome. 13:57 So then it leads us to that concept. 14:00 if we do have not the highest quality of food, not good drinking water, and not a good bathing water. 14:09 And maybe we're on a lot of pharmaceuticals. 14:14 Maybe we've got vaccines that we have had over the years. 14:19 Of course, we are also trinkling down into our children as well. 14:24 then we might have more inflammation, okay? 14:29 And if the body cannot regulate how much inflammation is circulating, pause for a second, go back to the circle of view, 14:40 So what is going in that's keeping your body from taking inflammation and converting it to glutathione, the master antioxidant that literally protects 14:57 the cell. 14:58 This is a very hard product to purchase and ingest because the body makes glutothione. 15:09 So it's very hard for supplementation to come in and reproduce something. 15:15 And one of the things that we're going to lead to in this conversation is if we are going change the terrain, we have to remove the triggers. 15:26 I have found a wonderful transdermal glutathione. 15:31 So if you hear this podcast and you want to know more, I've been using it on myself now for probably three or four months. 15:42 and I am very impressed. 15:46 I have, well, I had shingles. 15:51 So I don't even know if I ever told anybody this during COVID and there was a lot of shedding going on and a parent had come in and she had had singles 16:03 and like three, four days later, had I shingle. 16:06 And I'm gonna tell you something, have never been in so much pain in my entire life. 16:11 and I was six months trying to get the pain level down. 16:20 I must have spent $4,000 on every potion lotion somebody recommended to reduce the paint. 16:28 It wasn't until I went to a continuing ed conference, ran into one of my old friends who has a product called Pulse, and it's PULSE electromagnetic frequency. 16:43 And I laid on this table, he told me too, his wife had shingles as well over her eye.
Glutathione, Oxidative Stress, and Cellular Health 16:50 Mine was around my rib cage. 16:54 And I laid on this table 15 minutes, three days in a row. 16:58 And, I was back to walking that Sunday. 17:03 Now, prior to this time, i was doing Pilates six days a week. 17:08 I couldn't move. 17:09 It was, it was very, very bad. 17:12 So, one of the things that I really have, trying to really heal from this. 17:21 And my table, I actually bought one of those tables, it's a great therapy, and I absolutely use it. 17:28 But I started using this transdermal glutathione that I learned about at a MAPS conference. 17:35 A MAPPs conference is the Medical Academy for Pediatrics and Special Needs. 17:41 I starting using it right on my rib cage. 17:46 and I because I had still had this lingering feeling and i also found that there was more restricted range of motion on my right side where the shingle 18:01 line had erupted and and what shingles is is a virus on a dermatone level and a dermatone is how your body is mapped out neurologically. 18:15 And so this area for me was restricting range of motion. 18:21 I always had this little feeling there. 18:25 Since I've been using this transdermal glutathione, that feeling is so minimal, but my range So I know that my nerve line is truly healing. 18:40 It also helps with sleep and a lot of these little kiddos who, you just can't give kids a mountain of supplements. 18:50 They just don't do well with a Mountain of Supplements. 18:53 So having a transdermal product and product that is really about tackling inflammation and helping your body's own mechanism to begin to use it up, 19:10 then it takes it and it recycles and uses it again. 19:15 So that's what's really important about understanding what inflammation is actually doing inside. 19:24 When we get a marker of oxidative stress on a lab report, What this means is that we are down at a cellular level of trouble. 19:37 And inside of your cell, every single body part is represented. 19:45 So the mitochondria, the respiratory center of the cell your spine is represented in the cell, your organs are represented, 19:57 in this cell. 19:58 And it's not always like you can tell exactly which one of the body parts are going to be impacted because it is a breakdown and your cells are gonna turn over. 20:11 Sometimes cells don't always come back in full gusto that they're beginning to break down. 20:20 And this is what we don't want, because you probably have heard that a lot of children that have been diagnosed autistic, 20:30 they will tell you that it's a mitochondria dysfunction. 20:35 So that is the powerhouse down inside of the cell. 20:41 And we will actually, in our lab reports, we'll actually get a marker for that as well. 20:46 But we don't want that. 20:48 We know now that if it's down at a cellular level, man, this has been going on for a long time. 20:57 When things go on, for along time, and you're a child, You are actually programming your body to only know illnesses, especially when these patterns are 21:17 activated and going strong while those are open windows of development. 21:24 So remember, age two is the maturation of the gut. 21:31 Age three is maturing of immune system. 21:35 This is why I'm a huge advocate for planning your pregnancy. 21:42 Okay? 21:43 Because we know so many things today. 21:46 We know that if we look at mom and dad, if do lab work on mom-and-dad prior to conceiving, and we find out who's still lingering in there, 22:00 did you have pneumonia? 22:02 Did you strep? 22:04 Did you have hand, foot, mouth? 22:07 Do you had dysbiosis? 22:10 Et cetera, et cetera. 22:13 We clean you up prior to conception because those maturation windows They're very early on, age two, your gut, aged three, 22:25 you're immune system. 22:27 Okay, so dysbiosis and imbalance in that bacteria of the gut really damaging the microbiome. 22:36 And the micro biome, You make neurotransmitters in your got, Your immune is in you gut. 22:42 You're trying to absorb all the vitamins and minerals that need to cross over the got lining And if it doesn't, it can lead to what they've always called 22:54 leaky gut. 22:55 Well, now we know there's leaki gut, there is leeki liver, and there are leiki brain. 23:01 And I just read an article this year on leki throat, people having to constantly clear their throats. 23:11 So this is telling us that these chronic problems, not everybody is going to have the same issue. 23:19 But there's enough going on that the body is breaking down. 23:24 And if we really want to change it, we have to go back. 23:29 We have go to the beginning and see how do we rebuild ourselves. 23:36 Everything has got to start in the gut. 23:39 So then, if we've got this dysbiosis or any issues going on in our gut, we got a co-activation of inflammation. 23:49 And from there we can have a coordination of altered stress chemistry. 23:55 not enough glutathione. 23:57 When glutothione goes down, the rest of the antioxidants go down. 24:01 We can have leaky gut, leky liver, licky brain, and lekey throat. 24:06 All of those are stress chemistries. 24:10 This can then begin to change how the immune system is going to respond.
Early Development, Immune Windows, and Gut-Brain Links 24:18 So this might be the individual who does have a lower immune system. 24:25 And maybe it's chronic infections. 24:28 Maybe it is just chronic colds, chronic ear infections, and chronic asthma. 24:35 Chronic allergies, or chronic upper respiratory. 24:40 Any of these things can happen and it has a red flag. 24:45 I read this all the time in the intake forms of children coming into this office. 24:52 When I have the opportunity to start really young, we can get that ship going in another direction. 24:59 We can go in and interrupt that pattern. 25:04 And allow that immune system to heal. 25:08 But the longer that this goes on, it's going to begin to change how your cells are going function and replicate. 25:18 And then over time, whatever is going on in that immune system, if this becomes chronic, this is what we refer to with autoimmunity. 25:29 Autoimmunity means that the body is actually attacking itself. 25:33 We have done so many infections, we have had this reoccurring fill in the blank, and now you've actually created a pattern inside of you that your body 25:48 doesn't know how to react anymore. 25:51 So what we find, too, is we will look at MTHFR and COMT. 26:00 Mthfr is what's going on in the body with folate. 26:06 And when we have mutations on this, I absolutely see, depending upon the pattern of the mutation, different behaviors and personalities in children. 26:22 So, for example, if a child has a single mutation on both, I'll still call it a double, but it's coming on one of the different genetic markers that they test. 26:39 Or if they have a double mutation, both parents, on the, I'll call it the C component. 26:48 There's a C-component and an A- component, there's definite personalities. 26:55 These are the kids that really have trouble regulating their emotions. 27:03 Now, also, folate is a B-vitamin. 27:08 folate B vitamins run your nervous system. 27:14 So that's your brain, your spinal cord, and all of your nerves, okay? 27:20 So we have to support that pathway. 27:25 And when you look in combination with other labs, for example, when I do a food sensitivity lab or a test, When that lab report comes back and almost every 27:40 single food on there has a color code to it. 27:44 Now, a lot of people have different feelings about food sensitivity tests, but I will tell you, It gives me a big picture of your gut health. 27:57 And sometimes parents need to see that. 28:00 So it's not like, I just don't want your kid to eat gluten or dairy. 28:06 I want to the global reaction to food in general. 28:12 So if I've got a marker on everything, then that means, whoa, I got dysbiosis, inflammation, leaky gut, and I have a child that is nutritionally in deficit. 28:28 Because of that, what did we call it? 28:30 Stress chemistry. 28:33 if you don't have enough to run your system, you will be in stress chemistry. 28:39 If you're having a reaction to all the different foods of the world, YOU are having stresschemistry. 28:47 And when you start to lay one layer over the other, it's very easy to understand why this kid gets irritated. 28:56 The other big thing that I find is there's just chronic fatigue. 29:01 And when there is chronic fatig, a child cannot thrive. 29:05 No one can. 29:06 But a CHILD. 29:07 We should think of children with endless energy. 29:12 When they don't have that, that is a red flag. 29:15 Now, you can have other things contributing to fatigue, like sitting around too much, playing video games. 29:24 Be sure and look at my truth bomb that I did on, what's it called, chat, GBT, or whatever that thing is called. 29:33 I don't want to get involved in that. 29:35 They literally looked at what was going on in the brain when people were relying on AI to do the paper. 29:47 And when we start to shut our own brain down, okay, just like everything else, the frequency that we do that, well, yes, 29:56 you're going to tell your own bring. 29:59 You really don't need to be working on this. 30:03 Just let somebody else do it. 30:05 What do you think that is going do to the quality of matter in your brain? 30:11 Okay. 30:12 So I know that there's a lot of influences even from the outside, but today I'm just focused on chemistry.
Strep, Antibodies, and Immune System Overload 30:19 Okay? 30:20 If we try to go everywhere, then I just don't think I can get quality information to you so that you can say to yourself, 30:31 wow, Maybe I ought to look into this because everybody can struggle with these types of issues. 30:41 But when it comes down to a child, and let's say, remember the component of the infection, we're going to focus on strep today. 30:53 Strep is a very intelligent bacteria, and most people are going to treat it with an antibiotic. 31:02 So, an antibiotics going cycle in and it's going wipe out the normal gut bacteria. 31:11 And when that happens, we go back to our trail of events. 31:16 dysbiosis, inflammation, stress chemistry, and then even brain inflammation infection and ultimately into autoimmunity. 31:28 Now, when I see strep in the history, we're also going to get a strepe antibody test. 31:36 One of the things about strep is if that marker and my number that I really believe is a safer number is no more than 130. So if it's above 130, I'm going 31:52 to address it. 31:53 Right now, we've got kids in the practice that some are hovering around 250. Some are hoverin' around 600. only imagine. 32:07 So there's that infection, and it doesn't have to reveal itself in the red throat or the hurting throat, but it's enough that it literally is beginning 32:22 to change what's going on inside of the body. 32:27 And that immune system is being attacked and your immune is also up in your brain. 32:33 That's why our tear can go from dysbiosis to inflammation to even brain inflammation and autoimmunity. 32:42 So we're going to look at these things. 32:45 We're gonna look and we are gonna go back So we don't charge in and begin to try to tackle the immune system at first. 32:57 This is where I think a lot of people, they approach it out of sequence. 33:02 And that is my opinion. 33:04 When you look at a child, you have to look, okay, why are you not clearing this for yourself? 33:13 Why are not able to use your own detoxification pathways and get this stuff out. 33:22 So if I go in and I try to push it out too soon, I'm only raising the body burden Again, and a lot of these kids will actually regress. 33:38 And when you have a child that's already demonstrating, maybe it is irritability or emotional dysregulation. 33:46 Maybe it's academia, they can't focus, They can pay attention. 33:52 maybe It is that their bodies are just not coordinated and they cant do typical things that children do. 34:02 So again, all of these things that show up, they're always down the road. 34:08 You got to go back to where things begin and allow the body to restore itself to homeostasis. 34:20 This is why we can say, you know, some stress is good because it exercises homeo stasis and allows you to build a greater threshold. 34:32 But if I always go in and all I ever do is push, push push you're going to cause more damage. 34:42 And so here at Connect My Brain, we really honor the child, We honor how development really progresses. 34:53 We Honor how the body works. 34:57 we honor The state the Child is in on a daily basis. 35:03 I have some of these kids that have all kinds of different things going on in on their labs. 35:10 And I know that their energy levels are very low. 35:15 Some of them are quite coordinated when it comes to how they move their body. 35:20 But again, looking at our tier, dysbiosis, inflammation, stress chemistry, if that stress, chemistry is so high, the more that I push them physically, 35:36 then I can tip the bucket. 35:38 So what we do at Connect My Brain, remember that pulse table that I was telling you about? 35:44 So we always do something on a mild level to help the child's brain. 35:50 I think it is so important that when your child is going through something, that you work with somebody like me, because I am truly going to respect how 36:01 can I halt the damage that this child is trying to work through. 36:08 So we do a little bit of that brain work. 36:11 And then we're going to do the pulse table. 36:15 That is a fabulous table! 36:17 What it does is we can put the frequency in, it opens the cell, It cleans out the cells, and then it brings good stuff into the self. 36:27 so that's part of their protocol. 36:29 Plus, they're also getting an opportunity to relax. 36:34 And remember what I told you earlier, when I get done doing this recording, I'm going to go do my recording for my truth bomb.
Treatment Approach and Connect My Brain Resources 36:41 I want you to listen to this because we are pushing these kids too far, especially if you don't know what your child's chemistry actually is. 36:51 But if ever think, you know, what, my kid's got some of this stuff in the background, maybe take a step and give us a call. 37:00 You can always go over to the website and you can just type in, I heard your podcast and I'm concerned about my child's state of health. 37:11 My child did have strep and it doesn't matter if it's just one time. 37:16 Did your child have chronic colds, upper respiratory infections, allergies, asthma, any of these things are indicators. 37:26 But I have been setting my immune system up for a crash. 37:31 And those crashes come in many different pictures. 37:36 It comes in the inability to regulate your emotions. 37:39 it comes and the ability to focus at school. 37:43 There's not a lack of stimulant medication in your child's brain that's keeping them from not being able to There's always a reason why. 37:55 Okay, well I'm going to wrap it up for today. 37:57 Thanks for tuning in. 37:59 Be sure and go over and look at the website. 38:01 We have been adding some wonderful new additions. 38:04 I am so excited. 38:06 If you want to know about that transdermal Antioxidant be sure what I'll do is we'll put it in the show notes But I also feel free to do a contact us Form 38:19 and I will make sure you know how to get into the website Their website and you can order it. 38:27 There's also great resources that we are trying to bring your way We have a couple of them that we're very excited about, 38:36 which is our CMB membership. 38:40 It's very inexpensive, but it would allow you to dip your toe in and learn a little bit more about me, Connect My Brain, 38:48 and our approach. 38:50 And then we also have coaching. 38:53 That is a six month commitment. 38:54 And I'll tell you why, because that is the length of our initial intensive program here in Atlanta, Georgia. 39:01 Maybe you've heard enough and you want to come and visit Connect My Brain. 39:05 We'd love to have you. 39:06 we have two families coming in the first week in August, and we're very excited to Have them connect with us. 39:14 and We would love you to connect us too. 39:17 So thanks for tuning in. 39:19 If you ever have a question, feel free to reach out and be blessed.
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