Flint, Michigan's lead exposure problem is in the news and talking about the cognitive problems of lead poisoning in children.  I predict that the adults are suffering equally but in different manners.  They are expressing their poisoning as autoimmune disorders, generally regarded as the body attacking itself.   This is utterly absurd and violates evolutionary principles.   Allopathic medicine, what is commonly practiced, treats the symptoms instead of the cause.  Darwinian medicine recognizes the symptoms as the body trying to fix the problem and uses these clues to address the cause.  
An explanation of Darwinian Medicine.

Although fibromyalgia and chronic fatique syndrome are not recognized as autoimmune disorders, they may be the first step in developing a "recognized" autoimmune disorder like arthritis. For the sake of this argument, I will classify them as autoimmune becsue they are reversible with detoxification, supplementation, and some simple lifestyle changes.

Related links on this site:

Autoimmune disorders: An ATP  (ENERGY)   Deficiency

The Role of Energy in Autoimmune Disorders

The Flow of Fuel-the body's fuel is glucose

Jurassic Energy and the ATP Pathway
US Patent 5, 989,594  Ratite Extracts as Therapeutic Agents
The completely unlikely and serendipitious story behind the discovery
The ATP Pathway (that changes everything in medicine)
    The pathway of ATP Utilization and Degradation
    The pathway of how toxins affect ATP

Glucose is like fuel in your car:  It is converted to movement!

 The Car

           

 Fuel flows from the gas tank to your engine where it creates energy with the help fo electricity and a spark plug.  Without more parts down the line all you have is a series of small spark plug explosions.  From the spark plug to the wheels moving is the FLOW OF WORK. 

The Body 

 In the body food is converted to glucose.  Special pathways move the glucose sugar fuel the energy power plant where it is converted into ATP energy.  It is the ATP that provides the power for WORK.

In the body, ATP is the magical moleule that is essential to:       

·         moves substances in and out of cells

·         moves muscles 

·         opens and closes channels

·         produces signals that stimulate hormones

·         detoxifies the body


Darwinian Medicine-How the body is designed to heal itself
    Examples of Darwinian Medicine applied
        Reversing Fibromyalgia-The protocol I used to go from bed-ridden to health      
      Applying Darwinian Medicine- A real time Darwinian Analysis of Diabetes Type 2

Open label Clinical Trials Rhea extract, Heart Extract- Evaluation Data
Jurassic Energy (Rhea Extract)
Evaluation Page 1
Evaluation Page2
Evaluation Page 3
Comments only


Rhea Oil
How this started: Replacing body fat in a wasting disorder in Rhea chicks US Patent 5,834,027  
    (This was done in a 72 hour window to stop intellectual theft so it is pretty awful)
The formal rebuttal to the patent application-In my opinion physiology needs to add a chapter on the adipose system.


And this treasure from 1949:
Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis with ATP

Why is it that science can't fix fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome or other autoimmune diseases?

Simple, they are trying to fix the wrong part. It is something akin to your car mechanic standing over your car with an IV bag of gasoline additives running into the carburetor when the transmission is broken. Yes, the engine will run differently (and not necessarily better) but your car is still not going anywhere! Forget about adding more additives to the carburetor; just pay attention to the transmission. Your body is the same way. Medicine has been trying to treat autoimmune symptoms through the flow of fuel path when the problem is in the flow of work pathway.

Any first year engineering student knows this!

So, increase your energy and detoxify and you'll run better with less pain.

Be aware that people suffering from autoimmune disorders may have intestinal tract problems; so increasing absorption is a critical piece. 

All the supplements in the world can't help if they are not properly absorbed.

Think of the body as an engine that uses gasoline to fuel the explosions started by the spark plugs.  Glucose is the gas that fuels the explosions that push the pistons up and down.  Glucose is often used as a measure of bodily function, especially in diabetes.

Just because the gas is getting to the engine does not mean the car will move.

 The pistons have to send the energy through a flywheel to the transmission and finally to the wheels.  It is this flow of energy that actually moves the car.  In the body this flow of energy is called ATP and if anything interferes with this flow of ATP you will physically slow down.  Just like when your car A/C is on, your car has less pick-up, and you will too, if something is draining your ATP.

 
The Body needs ATP to constantly repair and renew just about everything:

cartilage, bone, skin, cornea, blood vessels, heart, lungs, basement membranes in the intestines and kidneys, the immune system, and vertebral disks.

 

Toxins and Autoimmune Disorders 

(none of these articless existed when I discovered the connection in 1996)

Heavy Metal Toxicity (Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine)

Rheumatoid Arthritis Causes - Is It Being Caused by These Common But Toxic Metals?    

Metal-induced inflammation triggers fibromyalgia in metal-allergic patients

Glyphosate*, pathways to modern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance   *Roundup herbicide

Mitochondrial hyperpolarization and ATP* depletion in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.   *Energy



Low levels of ATP in RA muscles (it's ATP depletion!) :
Muscle ATP Content in Rheumatoid Arthritis - a Biopsy Study

Low levels of ATP in muscles of people with fibromyalgia:
Decreased muscle concentrations of ATP and PCR in the quadriceps muscle of fibromyalgia patients