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Red, autoimmune, women, DNA, and photons
Women have 2-5 times the risk of getting an autoimmune disease as men do. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2527069/
Why? No one officially knows. But if we did know why, then wouldn’t we be one step closer to figuring out the cause of autoimmune disease in both men and women? And if we know the cause, then wouldn’t it be a lot easier to find the cure for autoimmune diseases?
Interesting things:
1) Women have lower vitamin D levels than men do.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25791862
2) Low vitamin D levels increase risk for autoimmune disease.
http://ard.bmj.com/content/annrheumdis/72/4/473.full.pdf
3) Women have 2-3 times higher risk of gall stone disease than men do.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17103289
4) Gall stones can affect the drainage of bile from the liver to the bowels.
5) The liver dumps toxins into the bile to eliminate them.
6) The liver breaks down excess estrogen and dumps it into bile.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16112414
7) If the bile is backed up, the liver can’t get rid of estrogen very well.
8) Bile helps with the absorption of vitamin D from foods and supplements.
9) Too much estrogen over-stimulates the immune system.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17261796
10) Women naturally have a higher percent body fat than men do.
https://healthandwellness.vanderbilt.edu/news/2011/09/body-fat-percentage/
11) Fat cells (adipose tissue) have a strong inflammatory effect on the immune system.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21837268?dopt=Abstract
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11681809
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4839620/
12) Fat cells are like a vacuum for vitamin D, making it unavailable to the body.
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001383
So it looks like there are three things that women have a harder time with than men do. These might be connected to causing the autoimmune diseases that they are 2-5 times more likely to get:
1) Low vitamin D levels
2) Poor biliary function (leading to poor estrogen elimination [over-stimulated immune system], intestinal dysbiosis, intestinal inflammation, and low D levels)
3) more adipose tissue ([amount of fat], leading to higher inflammation, higher immune reactions, and lower D levels)
Vitamin D levels are largely a reflection of summertime sun exposure (photons).
Biliary dysfunction is largely a dietary problem, especially from eating rancid or oxidized oils like from deep fried foods, margarine, and peanut butter.
Excess adipose tissue is largely a dietary problem, especially from eating junk food like refined sugars and carbs, and bad oils.
(None of these lifestyle causes are specific to women, it’s just that generally higher levels of estrogen and fat tissue make women more susceptible to the bad effects of these things)
The organ most effected by poor biliary function (besides the liver and gall bladder themselves) is the small intestine. The small intestine is the organ with the highest level of immune function and therefore has the highest likelihood of having an immune mediated inflammatory problem causing tissue damage. In this case, the damage could be called a “leaky gut.” Please see my article on leaky gut.
There is a theory that most, if not all, autoimmune diseases are set off, or at least aggravated by, a leaky gut caused by out of control immune cells in the small intestine.
But not everyone with a leaky gut gets an autoimmune disease…
And, a leaky gut doesn’t dictate which type of tissue the autoimmune disease attacks.
These two things seem to be dictated by genetics:
1) whether you get an autoimmune disease in the first place, and 2) if you do, which type you get.
In other words, it’s inherited.
Or is it?
If it was truly genetic, wouldn’t you be born with an active autoimmune disease (AD)?
But most AD’s don’t get expressed until later after birth, maybe as a young adult. So this means that there are genes that code for the autoimmune disease that don’t express themselves until later on. And there must be some sort of environmental trigger that turns on these dormant autoimmune genes.
It is well known that many autoimmune diseases are triggered for the first time by a very large stress: a car accident, going away to college, a divorce, a death of a loved one, getting fired, and so on. And it is common that stress will cause flare-ups during the medical management of the symptoms.
But if an environmental stimulus can turn on the autoimmune disease genes, might it be possible to turn them back off with an equally large yet stress-relieving environmental stimulus, if one could be found?
Hmm. Yeah, makes sense…
Gene expression and dormancy
1) We know that food, toxins, and allergens, have a strong influence on gene expression. This is why good diet and liver/gut health is essential for managing autoimmune diseases.
2) We know that stress has a strong effect on gene expression, mostly in a negative way, thus the necessity for keeping lifestyle stress levels low when managing autoimmune disease.
3) We know that sex hormones all affect genes expression, therefore the need to keep them in balance when managing autoimmune disease. (this is largely done by managing adipose (fat tissue) levels and good liver function)
4) We know that vitamin D affects gene expression in almost every way. Optimal D levels are extremely important in managing autoimmune diseases.
5) We know that viruses like epstein bar and mycoplasm and spirochetes can affect gene expression of disease. High microbial or viral loads are mostly a consequence of low vitamin D and calcium.
6) We know that photons, or light, affects gene expression. Our serotonin and melatonin levels are directly affected by light exposure, modulating our day night cycle. UVB photons stimulate genetic expression of melanin to create a tan.
And more recently we’ve discovered the effects of red light on the genetic expression of a multitude of functions:
Red light stimulates collagen production in the skin, reducing wrinkles
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cg8000703
Red light increases production of glutathione (antioxidants) in the liver
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3668802/
Red light reduces aging of retinal disease and macular degeneration
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28129566
Red light speeds up healing of burns by modifying genetic expression of the skin.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24729046
Red light improves immune function in the retina.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24729046
Red light stimulates the proliferation of stem cells
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18003339
How does red light affect these biologic activities in the body? Think about it, how could light effect your biology? It’s not a nutrient like food, it’s not a chemical reagent like oxygen or water, it’s not a physical stimulant like gravity.
It turns out that both cellular and mitochondrial DNA are light sensitive and their expression can be affected by photon energy, or light rays.
The most therapeutic types of light are ultraviolet B, blue, and red light.
If red light can make wrinkles go away by increasing collagen production in the skin, then in a way, it is reversing the aging process. What is the aging process? Why do we get wrinkles, or why do we make less collagen as we age? It has to do with gene expression.
As we age, some genes turn off, others turn on for the first time. Sounds a bit like the mechanism of autoimmune disease doesn’t it? Certain genes turning on later in life that code for the disease, triggered by some set of stressors (low D, junk food, fat cells, gall stones, excess estrogen, overactive immune system, inflammation, leaky gut).
If we can turn off the wrinkle genes with red light, if we can modulate the immune cells with red light, if we can reverse aging of the retina with red light, and if we can stimulate stem cell production with red light, then why couldn’t we reverse the genetic expression of autoimmune disease with red light?
Well, I think we can.
But the problem is what’s to keep the genes from bringing the disease expression back on the next day after the red light treatment? Good question. Well, what turned the disease on in the first place? Stress, leaky gut, low vitamin D, excess body fat, junk food, biliary congestion, and excess estrogen turned it on. Right?
So the two fold treatment for autoimmune disease (and all aging issues leading to disease) then should be:
1) get rid of all the things that turn the bad genes on, and
2) use red light to turn the bad genes off
Okay, but how much red light is needed?
A lot. Full body exposure front and back with very intense red light for several hours over several days or weeks is needed. Then if a perfect stress free diet and lifestyle is available, the genes should never turn back on. To the extent that stressors still exist, full body red light exposure would be needed periodically to maintain a symptom free state.
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Looking Forward!
Yours in health,
Dr. Campise
Fresno Chiropractor
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