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1. Viral Infections and Nerve Damage. What you should know
2. Minimizing Your Mold Exposure at Home and From Your Indoor Air to Preserve Good Health
3. What is Beta-Glucans?
4. What can be done about Dental Problems?

Remember the flu and viruses can return in the fall, you have 5 months to build a strong Immune System.

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Viral Infections and Nerve Damage

There are many ways that nerves can get damaged. Of course, the best known is diabetic neuropathy where the nerves ar damaged due to high blood sugars.

Recenly I Ialked to someone who had gotten over Covid-19 and she talked about all the pain she now had from nerve damage. I did knpw that viral & bacterial infections have been know to be a cause of neuropathy (nerve damage) but dfdn't know about the Covid-19 infection until she mentioned this.

So let me give you some information that I already know. I will be looking into this further and will report what I find in the next Newsletter.

Viral and bacterial infections can cause indirect nerve damage by provoking conditions referred to as autoimmune disorders, in which specialized cells and antibodies of the immune system attack the body's own tissues. These attacks typically cause destruction of the nerve's myelin sheath or axon (the long fiber that extends out from the main nerve cell body).

Lyme disease, diphtheria, and leprosy are bacterial diseases characterized by extensive peripheral nerve damage.

Diphtheria and leprosy are now rare in the United States, but Lyme disease is on the rise. It can cause a wide range of neuropathic disorders, including a rapidly developing, painful polyneuropathy, often within a few weeks after initial infection by a tick bite.

Staph infections that are gotten from hospitalization can also cause nerve damage.

Virus Diseases and Nerve Damage

Viruses that can attack nerve tissues include herpes varicella-zoster (shingles), Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, and herpes simplex-members of the large family of human herpes viruses. These viruses severely damage sensory nerves, causing attacks of sharp, lightning-like pain.

Postherpetic neuralgia often occurs after an attack of shingles and can be particularly painful.

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, also causes extensive damage to the central and peripheral nervous systems. The virus can cause several different forms of neuropathy, each strongly associated with a specific stage of an active immunodeficiency disease. A rapidly progressive, painful polyneuropathy affecting the feet and hands is often the first clinically apparent sign of HIV infection.

What can be done about bacteria or virus caused neuropathy

Nerve Damage is also called Neuropathy. It has been found the cause of the damage doesn't matter, that the damage is the same.

Treatment for Neurpathy from Bacterial & Viral Infections

There are many medications, and other remedies to bring relief, you can read it in this article Neuropathy treatments

What can you do?

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None of the various neuropathy treatments will build healthy nerves. You can cover up the symptoms and you can increase circulation and you can make a person feel less pain, etc., but if you build healthy nerves, there will not be any symptoms (healthy nerves don't hurt, tingle, burn, are not numb, etc.) and the relief will be lasting.

Building Healthy Nerves*

Healthy sensory nerves mean that they are not painful. Healthy nerves mean that they communicate and don't send wrong signals such as burning, hot and cold, tingling when there is no reason for it. Healthy motor nerves mean that they relay messages from the brain to the muscle so that they move correctly. Nerves need to be healthy to function properly.

The body needs specific nutrients (vitamins) to be able to build healthy nerves.

It may not give immediate relief (although many do feel changes in the first week) as the vitamins are working at a cellular level, but it does address the actual problem, builds healthy nerves and brings lasting relief.

(For temporary relief while building healthy nerves, go to Pain Relief Formula)

What can be done for lasting relief?

Find out how to Build Healthy Nerves

*Studies & Research on Nerve Health

Minimizing Your Mold Exposure at Home and From Your Indoor Air to Preserve Good Health by Susan Tanner, MD

While many of us are still spending the majority of our time at home during the shelter in place orders that are still active in many of our communities, the need for an indoor air quality assessment and possibly remediation for mold may become more evident.

As so much time is spent in the home environment, I have heard from many patients noticing new symptoms or an exacerbation of existing symptoms that seem to be tied to where they are living and trying to keep themselves safe from the novel coronavirus in our midst.

Further, if you are someone who has already been made sick from mold and mycotoxins, you know that it is all the more essential to make sure that the air you are breathing in a contained space, i.e. your home, is as clean as possible. Once a person is sensitized to mold or any other toxin for that matter, it takes very little re-exposure, in this case recirculated indoor mold, to set off the chain of inflammation we refer to as “cytokine storm” which can present in myriad ways both physically and mentally.

Investigating Your Home for Mold

As we head into warmer weather, humidity within the home naturally rises and fosters the growth of mold spores, if present. Use of air conditioning increases the temperature difference between outdoor and indoor air and can easily create condensation on walls, windows, vents, and your AC coil providing a great moisture source for mold to grow on. If your home has had water intrusion, such as flooding, leaks, a wet basement, or crawl space, then mold growth should definitely be on your radar. As a matter of fact, any water saturation of building materials that is not thoroughly dried in less than 48 hours will lead to mold growth.

But we also see mold growth in homes in which issues are much less obvious, such as slab foundations not properly lined or sealed before installation of flooring, or insulation within walls becoming wet due to leaks around windows. From a personal standpoint, I can tell you that the mold in my previous home, built in the mid-80s was caused by a foil wrap placed around the insulation in an effort to be more energy efficient. Unfortunately, what no one realized was that this foil wrap created a condensation problem within the walls, and an unseen, but very dangerous mold problem evolved. Read More

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What is the Foundation for a Drug Free World?

The Foundation for a Drug-Free World is a nonprofit public benefit corporation that empowers youth and adults with factual information about drugs so they can make informed decisions and live drug-free.

No one, especially a young person, likes to be lectured about what he or she can or cannot do. Thus, we provide the facts that empower youth to choose not to take drugs in the first place. Additionally our Truth About Drugs campaign consists of activities that they can join which popularize drug-free living. These activities are simple, effective and can involve people of all ages. Learn more

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What is Beta-Glucans?

Beta-glucans is a scientifically proven biological response modifier (BRM) (BRM defined as "Substances that stimulate the body's response to infection and disease"). These naturally help normalize this immune response.

Beta-glucans boosts the immune system in people whose body defenses have been weakened by health conditions.