Planet Thrive Q & A columnist William J. Rea, M.D. publishes study
source: csn-deutschland.de
William J. Rea, M.D., director of the Environmental Health Center-Dallas (EHC-D), and associates studied twenty-eight disabled individuals (7 males and 21 females, ranging in age from 12 to 70 with the average being 43 years old) exposed to molds and mycotoxins. Patients involved in the study were given a specific decontamination protocol for their living space or a change to a mold-free home environment.
Medical treatment included injections of antigens (at optimum dose), oral and intravenous (i.v.) antioxidants, heat depuration (sauna therapy), physical therapy, massage, exercise, and oxygen therapy (4-8 L/min for 2 hours using a special wood-grade cellophane reservoir and a glass oxygen container). All treatments were given under environmentally controlled conditions. Exposure to plastics (which many patients were reactive to) were kept to a minimum. Autogenous lymphocytic factor (ALF) was given as an immune modulator.
Out of 28 patients studied, all but one improved enough to return to work. One patient improved but did not return to work during the period of study.
Reference: Rea WJ, Pan Y, Griffiths B., The treatment of patients with mycotoxin-induced disease, Environmental Health Center – Dallas, TX, USA, Toxicol Ind Health. 2009 Oct-Nov;25(9-10):711-4.
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Julie's (Earthwalker's) life was derailed over twenty years ago when she had a very large organic mercury exposure after she naively used a mouth thermometer to measure the temperature of just-boiled milk while making her very first pizza at home. The mercury instantly expanded into a gas form and exploded out the back of the thermometer right into her face. Unaware that mercury was the third most neurotoxic element on Earth, Julie had no idea she had just received a very high dose of a poisonous substance.
A series of subsequent toxic exposures over the next few years -- to smoke from two fires (including 9/11), toxic mold, lyme disease, and chemical injuries -- caused catastrophic damage to her health. While figuring out how to survive day-to-day, and often minute-to-minute, she created Planet Thrive to help others avoid some of the misdiagnoses and struggles she had experienced.
She has clawed her way over many health mountains to get to where she is today. She is excited to bring the latest iteration of Planet Thrive to the chronic illness community.
In 2019, Julie published her very first cookbook e-book called Low Lectin Lunches (+ Dinners, Too!) after discovering how a low lectin, gluten free diet was helping manage her chronic fascia/muscle pain.
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