Detox and the Brain

Toxicity and the Brain

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Toxins many affect any part of the nervous system, producing a wide variety of symptoms and diagnosed conditions. It is when toxins invade the brain that the symptoms become most noticeable and have the most serious health consequences.

The blood-brain barrier protects the brain from many, but not all, toxins. Toxins, including heavy metals, such as aluminum and mercury, under certain conditions are able to cross this protective barrier, as is alcohol. It may do this by:

	Binding to fats - which the blood-brain barrier selectively allows to cross into the brain
	Squeezing between the cells that form the protective barrier - In the presence of high sugar concentrations in the blood. the cells that make up the barrier shrink in size, making the spaces between the cells larger, permitting the passage of substances into the brain.

Pharmaceutical researchers use these two mechanisms to develop medicines that will pass through the blood brain barrier and into the brain.

Toxicity interferes with optimal brain function - The brain coordinates and controls body function. When toxins enter the brain a wide range of symptoms may result physically. Mental processes and emotional states may also be adversely effected by neurotoxins.

	Primary Neurotoxins - are those that have an affinity for nerve cells, including brain cells.
	Secondary Neurotoxins - are systemic toxins that progress to the brain as the cumulative toxic burden increases and the body becomes increasingly more toxic systemically.

Neurotoxins create disease by:

	Competing with neurotransmitters for binding sites. Neurotransmitters allow nerve impulses to be transmitted from one nerve cell to the next. When the transmission of nerve impulses is disrupted, the central nervous system, including the brain, looses its ability to effectively coordinate and control the state of body, mind, and emotions. Physical and psychological illness may result.
	Causing encephalitis - (inflammation of the brain), which causes swelling of brain tissue and with it an increase in intracranial pressure (ICP). As the ICP increases, it causes a disruption to proper brain function. The greater the swelling and pressure, the more serious the resulting condition. If the swelling is extreme, the condition may be fatal.

Acute encephalitis - is often a life threatening condition - that is believed by medical physicians to resolve in several weeks, with the brain damage that it leaves in its wake being permanent and irreversible.

Chronic encephalitis - In treating patients, using cranial chiropractic methods, Dr. John Blye began to suspect that the medical understanding of encephalitis, as a time limited acute event, may not be correct, and that in some cases acute encephalitis does not resolve itself and becomes chronic, lasting not for weeks, but for years. Cranial chiropractors (and cranial osteopaths) are finding that what is often considered to be irreversible damage is indeed reversible with cranial adjustments.

Encephalitis and movement of the cranial plates - With the development in the 1970's of an x-ray technique called cinema-roentgenography, we were able for the first time to view the movement of cranial bones in living subjects and realize that they make subtle, almost imperceptible movements at the joints, called cranial sutures, were the cranial bones meet. Prior to this it was believed that these plates fuse in early adulthood. The subtle movement of the cranial plates allow the brain to expand and contract as necessary - which helps to maintain intracranial pressure (nerve pressure) at healthy levels.

Cranial subluxation - is a condition were one of the 8 cranial plates becomes locked up with another plate, causing nerve pressure and adversely effecting the functioning of the brain or brainstem. (We use the term cranial fixation to describe a locking of the cranial plates in the absence of nerve pressure). If a cranial subluxation is present the cranium looses some of its ability to accommodate the swelling that is produced by encephalitis - a situation that Dr. Blye calls cranial subluxation resistance.

The Chronic Regional Encephalitis / Cranial Subluxation Resistance Model or simply (the E/R Model) - was developed by Dr. Blye, in order to addresses the relationship between toxicity (that produces encephalitis, which in turn causes swelling) in the brain and cranial subluxations (a locking of the plates that make up the cranium) to many of the conditions that patients with chronic conditions experience. This new understanding of the cranium ultimately led to the development of the

Cranial Chiropractic is that branch of chiropractic that specializes in the detection, reduction and elimination of cranial subluxations. The goal of a cranial chiropractor is to find and correct subluxations of the skull, just as the goal of the spinal chiropractor is to find and correct subluxations of the vertebrae.

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The E/R Model
Blye Cranial Technique
Signs of Neurotoxicity

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