Chronic Fatigue: The Brain Detox Problem Explained | Webinar

[Music] hey everyone welcome back to another episode of anra of you radio you have Dr Nicole here and I am going to help you understand why you feel like a [ __ ] zombie in the morning so for those of you that are like what do you mean by a zombie let's just kind of break this down so you can see if you want to stick around for this podcast because unfortunately a lot of people have what I am about to describe and more interesting than that most people have just classified it as their normal they have classified it as a lack of caffeine they have classified it as a form of Aging as many things so if you are a person that wakes up in the morning and you feel like a zombie that your brain is not really firing on all cylinders and you need to be up and about or have a cup of coffee before you feel like the the cobwebs you know go away and you can Now function use your brain and go about your day in addition to that you might also have a low-g grade headache when you wake up in the morning that is also improved by the consumption of caffeine or just improved by being up in a vertical position walking around for at least 20 minutes to a half an hour you also might have a I was going to say congestion but this is really not just about the morning you might have congestion in your sinuses when you sleep and you also might find yourself with a little bit congestion when you wake up in the morning and needing to blow your nose in order to remove that congestion or eliminate that inflammation in addition you might also have a little bit of inflammation in your face you might find that you have bags under your eyes and again that starts to get better after being up in a vertical position awake for at least 20 to 30 minutes and it also can improve with coffee and so the coffee thing and the primary compound that's in coffee being caffeine this is going to make a lot of sense as I talk more about it but the reason why you might have those symptoms in the morning again you feel like a zombie your brain doesn't function for a while you have bags under your eyes you have low grade sinus congestion or a low-grade headache specifically in the forehead this is because of lack of brain detoxification so a really interesting fact is that melatonin is the master detoxifier of your brain melatonin as most of us know is something that helps with sleep so the body being extremely extremely intelligent you have your melatonin start to go up at night in order to make you sleepy but as we sleep and our melatonin remains High through the night it is also having a dual function of helping with neurological detoxification so the problem that happens is that many of us have hindered detoxification Pathways and we're going to get into what does that look like that could be causing the symptoms that we talked about originally but I want to just take a quick step back here because you might be thinking like what the heck is stressing my brain or causing toxins in my brain so one you have something called a bloodb brain barrier and that barrier is supposed to block out anything that could be toxic or harmful to the brain but the problem is is that most of us have a Le leaky bloodb brain barrier if you're ever looking for a test to measure this vibrant America vibrant Wellness they have a test it's called the neural Zoomer where you can actually test the permeability AKA is your bloodb brain barrier leaky is it permeable and in the hundreds of times that I've done that test there is a large majority of people that have a leaky bloodb brain barrier and part of the reason why they have a leaky bloodb brain barrier is because there is a direct correlation to the permeability and the barrier of the gut lining so if you have a leaky gut which that is definitely a Hot Topic and it's been for many years then you are going to be more likely to to develop a leaky bloodb brain barrier in addition to that if you've had a lot of head injuries you've had concussions and I always laugh when I ask this question especially to my male clients and they're like no no no no I don't I haven't had any head injuries no I haven't I I haven't had any concussions like what sports did you play hockey oh yeah uhhuh yeah you you have head injuries like you can't you can't swing it any other way if you've played any type of impact sport you have had damage to your blood brain barrier if you have skied or snowboarded and taken some Falls you have damage to your blood brain barrier from injury like listen I have snowboarded and knocked my head and it's I wasn't concussed but the the the most minor hit to the Head the most minor uh car accident can create soft tissue damage and create damage to the bloodb brain barrier so if you've played an impact sport you already have damage from that perspective let alone if you also have gut issues okay so now that you understand that the other aspect is well what the heck is getting into my brain if the blood brain barrier is damaged what's getting into my brain I have many many many many podcasts on this topic but the way that I keep it simple is we are all under assault from a toxicity perspective on a day-to-day basis if you really got into the ingredients that are on your personal care products from your lotions and your shampoos to the um fast fashion and the polyester and the really really poor quality materials that are in clothing to the perfumes that we spray the makeup we put on the food that we eat there is a extremely high exposure to toxins it's in our water if you drink filtered water fantastic if you don't have a filter on your shower you're getting exposed in that way you're getting exposed from swimming in bodies of water that are next to power plants or they are getting runoff from farms and Industrial farming so at the end of the day we're all being exposed no one is excluded from that statement and it's just a matter of understanding that yes our bodies are very intelligent and yes our bodies have all of these inborn mechanisms to get rid of toxins but it's like the pool filter or the vacuum filter that no one has emptied your body is going to get to a certain point in time unfortunately this is happening younger and younger that it can't filter L anymore because the filters like your liver and your um kidneys and your lymphatic system are just so burdened and overloaded that they can't do their job properly and so when we talk about this topic today of the zombie Mourns and the low-grade headaches and the brain fog in the morning we're going to be talking more specifically about the lymphatic system because this is a huge Factor that is playing a role in why you're not detoxifying your brain is not detoxifying properly so let's just do a quick recap here so we're talking about waking up your brain not functioning properly maybe having even a low-grade headache maybe having sinus congestion and now we're talking about the fact that this can be contributed to having a leaky bloodb brain barrier which can be connected to a leaky gut and the fact that certain toxins are getting into the brain or into the cerebral spinal fluid which is now creating issues so as you remember from when I was talking about melatonin is that melatonin is the detoxifier so if you're having decent quality sleep you know logically it would make sense that oh well the Melatonin is doing its job and it's detoxing all the [ __ ] out of my brain yes under normal circumstances that would be true but there's a couple of variables here that can compromise melatonin doing its job and some of that is going to be chronic sinus infections uh chronic inflammation in the sinuses deviated septums or scar tissue from having broken nose having plastic surgery on your face then we also have have different things going on with the ears if it's chronic ear infections from childhood if you've had ruptured ear drums and there scar tissue in the ears from that if you're even prone to having ear pain or tentis now then there's people that have dealt with chronic throat issues uh constantly having that be their weak point so maybe you had a lot of strep as a kid maybe you had your tonsils taken out but maybe that's just your weak point so when you do get sick or you're under the weather you're going to feel it in your throat maybe you also have a lot of neck pain and you press on the sides of your neck like below your uh ear loobe and it's really tender when you press in there that's actually not always muscular usually that's a sign that there is a lot of issues inflammation and toxins living in the lymph nodes if you were to Google lymph nodes of the neck you have a ton of lymph nodes running along the muscle called your SCM which is literally the sides of your neck and maybe you also have a lot of scar tissue in your neck because you've had whiplash you've had car accidents you were an avid athlete or skier or snowboarder or gymnast and all of those things contributed maybe you've had neck surgeries maybe you have plates in your neck and you have scar tissue from that and that's adhering your lymphatic system from draining properly then we also have dental and it's because Dental things will affect all the things I just talked about dental will Cascade into your sinuses it can Cascade into your uh ears and your ustation tube it can Cascade into your glands and your lymph nodes it can Cascade into all of those areas so if you've had a per if you're a person who's had a lot of root canals you've had teeth pulled extractions You' had abcesses your gums bleed you have gingivitis you have receding gum lines all of that is rooted in infection that's rooted in a poor micro biome and even more interesting is your mouth is the first uh the I don't want to say the first part that doesn't make logical sense but it is part of your digestive system it's it's essentially the start of your digestive system and so if you have a shitty gut microbiome you're going to have poor oral health and so dentists aren't talking to you about this because they're not nutritionists and they're not gastroenterologists but at the end of the day your mouth is a reflection of your gastro system because it is part of your gastrointestinal system and there are many people that I've worked with that I have found chronic sinus infections that are directly correlated to a root canal gone bad created an abscess an infection that penetrated into the Jawbone and actually penetrated all the way through into the sinus and so you could see this on x-ray when you see dark bubbles uh things that look like lack that is going to show you that there are is a probability of abscesses that are either in the Jawbone or in um the sinuses these are called cavitations by the way for those of you that are dorks like me so there's the point that I'm making here is there is a lot of opportunity to create stress for your brain and to create toxins to spill into your brain and so if all of these things are going on or one of them is going on you're going to have a lot of issues literally it's it's like barriers that are not allowing your brain to detoxify especially when you're laying down in a horizontal position when you're sleeping so this is kind of an interesting story I used to have horrible bags under my eyes in the morning brain wouldn't function low grade headache chronic sinusitis as a kid um my whole family honestly part of it was because I lived in mold most of my life which I'll get into shortly but this is something that it just kept getting worse and worse as I got older and of course I bought every cream on the market in order to um you know get rid of the bags under my eyes self-conscious about it Etc uh coffee was a musthave because coffee helped and part of that was because coffee helped with the blood flow to my brain so fast forward I am just started my life as an entrepreneur so being tired was uh pretty common but when we were leaving work uh in the early days you know we left work at a reasonable time 6:00 6:30 7 which uh later down the line you know that became 9900 p.m. um life is very different now as we have uh gained much wisdom but at that time the point that I'm making is it wasn't late and uh at that time my husband and I we would we just took one car to work because we were on the same schedule so often he would drive home and I would fall asleep but I would fall asleep to the capacity that he would either have to shake me to get me to wake me up to bring me in the house or sometimes he would have to carry me into the house and I thought I was just a really good sleeper I could sleep anywhere and you know I slept like a rock I didn't hear anything so then we were in our exploratory phase of working with different lab companies um to get you know different types of analysis and one of the companies was offering neurotransmitter testing neurotransmitter serotonin melatonin dopamine so they gave me a free kit and I decided oh let's do it uh I did my ala test I sent it in and when I got the results back my melatonin was through the roof and I was like wow what the heck is this about and I didn't know what I know now so with the Melatonin I was like H I wonder if this is why I fall asleep the way that I do and so fast forward I am you know continuing to learn and grow as a practitioner and I then learn that melatonin is the master detoxifier and in between that time frame I did a heavy metal test and it turned out that I had massive massive amounts of mercury in my system part of that was from I was a pescatarian for 10 years all I ate was fish and I didn't know anything about farmed fish or um canned tuna and I was exposing myself to very very high amounts of mercury over that decade of being a pascatarian and so essenti what was happening is my brain was toxic from a variety of things Mercury being one but Mercury is neurotoxic it is specifically toxic to your neurological system and my melatonin was going up in order to detoxify my brain successfully but as my melatonin went up I was having these episodes of falling asleep and this is something in the cases that I've worked with of narcolepsy I've found very very similar circumstances and so my body was doing what it was supposed to do it was producing excessive amounts of that melatonin to detoxify my brain but the other layer to it was that I had inflammation in my sinuses from chronic custis as a kid that I never knew how to fix I also had a horrible horrible head injury and neck injury from snowboarding where I had severe Whiplash I had 13 Staples put into the back of my head and severe concussion so I had a tremendous amount of instability in my neck but I also had scar tissue from the Staples that were put in and from the Whiplash so I was having major issues so my my body was producing the Melatonin trying to detoxify the Mercury and the way that it works is that the brain is going to dump all of the toxins down into the lymphatic system of the head and neck so it's going to move down into the tonsils if you don't have tonsils it's going to move directly down into your lymphatic chain again on the sides of the neck and if there is issues in the neck because of scar tissue adhesions clogged lymph nodes because of chronic strep when you were young or other infections Dental issues now you're G to have everything get backed up and it's going to get backed up into your Venus system and this is what is called ccsvi chronic cerebral spinal fluid vinous insufficiency and what's kind of wild about this is that they have connected ccsv to the things that we're talking about but it's also been connected to people that have had mold exposure that the mold old has infiltrated the veins of the body but also the head and neck and they have found that mold specifically is connected to Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis and then they also found the connection of uh algae that has embedded itself in the epithelial lining of the vinus system and algae being the correlation to ALS so amyotrophic lateral sclerosis which most of us know is a pretty extreme disease and so these tests were done uh by Dr Zamboni this is not something that um is just you know random made up so the reason why I wanted to bring this podcast to you guys is that one I want you to be aware of how to fix these symptoms that you might have but I also want you to have the ability to be proactive in not developing a serious neurodegenerative disease down the line and I say that because it might seem like no big deal oh I have brain fog in the morning everybody does oh I just need a cup of coffee and I'm good to go but if you are young you're a teen you're in your 20s and you're already experiencing this the compounding effect of years and decades you are going to be more inclined to one have more toxic load in your brain and you're more inclined to start having memory loss you're more inclined to have development of other neurogenerative diseases like Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's and Dementia and ALS so these are things not to be taken lightly and think oh I just need another cup of coffee because this is a feedback mechanism telling you that there is something going wrong that is not allowing your brain to detoxify properly so this is a key factor in being able to be proactive so the thing is is that we talked about a lot of things on this podcast so in order for you to really know where the hell do I start in order to improve this is one listen to this again and oh I have had chronis sinus infections at this phase of life I did have really bad strep throat and tonsil issues as a kid I did have a lot of you know head injuries and I was an athlete and I've had concussions Etc so you need to break down like what do you think is the Catalyst what do you think is potentially problematic but you also really need to have someone on your team that gets it that is able to help you navigate what is the one Domino that we can we can Cascade in order to have the maximum benefit because if you're like oh my gosh I've had all those things I've had head injuries I've had sinus issues I've had tonsil issues I have neck problems Etc then it doesn't mean that you need to address every single one in the same capacity and the same magnitude it's usually there is one thing that will be the first Domino that will create the ripple effect into the other areas and sometimes that is dental and sometimes that is uh lymphatic drainage work and sometimes that is detoxification protocol but it's really a matter of understanding more about your system and getting highly specific so you're not wasting time you're not wasting money you're not wasting effort because again the bigger part of this picture is yeah wake up and feel good wake up and not need to rely on coffee drink it if you like it wake up and not you know be thinking you need plastic surgery because you have you know puffy face or you have a double chin and you have back under your eyes you know that's another thing is like the inflammation the longer it goes on it will Cascade into your neck as well you know oh I have a fat neck and you don't have a fat neck you have inflammation in your neck because of all of these things that we're talking about so you know plastic surgery is a lot more expensive than going and actually dealing with the root cause which is also going to help you decrease the likelihood of having you know more serious ological issues down the line the the statistics on dementia and Alzheimer's right now they're going up by the day and we have to sit back and say why why is this happening and it's not just one thing it could be a multitude of things hence what we've covered here today so don't forget one if you're like holy [ __ ] I never knew any of this oh my God it's not your fault you have never been taught any of this number one number two is we are living in an era where there is so much mixed information so much information on the internet we don't even know what to do we don't know where to start and also this is something that you usually if you're to this point that you're relating to all of this you need someone to help you you can't just change your diet and think all the toxins are going to flush out of your system you can't just you know do a nasal spray like afron and think oh you know my sinuses are going to heal and my bags under my eyes are going to go away there are there are ways to go about this in an extremely economical and effective way but we always have to ask ourselves you know what is the cost of doing nothing you know people always oh you know I want my insurance to cover everything and this and that and this sounds like a lot of work I'm like yeah but what's the cost of doing nothing like literally living the rest of your life feeling like [ __ ] [ __ ] you know how many people feel like [ __ ] and they're they're not even acknowledging how it affects their kids their family their wealth it affects everything it affects every minute of your life it affects your energy it affects your your economic well-being it affects everything so if you don't have health you don't have anything you know I used to think people were dramatic when they said that but I realized realiz that I've been able to accomplish half the things that I've accomplished in my life because I haven't had those major roadblocks of feeling like [ __ ] not being able to think waking up like a zombie every day not being able to remember things like I've always had the tools for my health and I realize I'm I'm so far ahead of other entrepreneurs in my wisdom and in my goal achievement and it's because my health has allowed me to do that so if you want an Unstoppable Limitless life one you're in the right place and two just understand you're in the driver's seat everything and anything is fixable it's figureoutable totally stole that from Marie forio love her but your body it's complicated but not if that makes any sense your body is so [ __ ] resilient it just needs the right tools and unfortunately a lot of doctors are [ __ ] incompetent so I hate to say it not putting myself on a pedestal by any means I just I figured out a system me and my husband figured out a system and we figured out a system that allows people to get results and that's really all it comes down to it's not that I'm super [ __ ] smart I'm just I'm a junkie for data I'm a junkie for Learning and I'm a junkie for common sense because guess what a lot of the things that I learned through school never made sense and I just challenged it most people thought I was crazy and I just challenged it and I was ostracized voodoo doctor oh my God some of the reviews that still live online are [ __ ] hilarious like but it's just I did it for the sake of innovation and and that's what I'm all about I'm gonna blow [ __ ] up for the rest of my life for the sake of innovation and helping you all right love you guys ah [Music]