Neurotoxins and Biofilm: Health Crisis

Neurotoxins and Biofilm: Health Crisis ~~ update 2025: Since first publishing this post I have learned a lot more about how neurotoxins in our environment are used by biofilms in our bodies. They create armor against and from living pathogens. Micro-organisms, including our own probiotics use the toxins to create and move biofilm away from organs thus protecting us while also creating pockets of deep infection that is often hard to target and can defy laboratory detection. Our bodies are always working for us, and if they’re overburdened the internal screams become confusing. For more on that please read: Biofilm and such. Chronic illness 101

We are actively poisoning ourselves and the environment. Insult after insult, from the time we’re in the womb. Those of us struck gravely ill from psychiatric drugs are part of this continuum of toxic exposures leading to all manner of illnesses and disability.

From The Atlantic:

Forty-one million IQ points. That’s what Dr. David Bellinger determined Americans have collectively forfeited as a result of exposure to lead, mercury, and organophosphate pesticides. In a 2012 paper published by the National Institutes of Health, Bellinger, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, compared intelligence quotients among children whose mothers had been exposed to these neurotoxins while pregnant to those who had not. Bellinger calculates a total loss of 16.9 million IQ points due to exposure to organophosphates, the most common pesticides used in agriculture.

Last month, more research brought concerns about chemical exposure and brain health to a heightened pitch. Philippe Grandjean, Bellinger’s Harvard colleague, and Philip Landrigan, dean for global health at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan, announced to some controversy in the pages of a prestigious medical journal that a “silent pandemic” of toxins has been damaging the brains of unborn children. The experts named 12 chemicals—substances found in both the environment and everyday items like furniture and clothing—that they believed to be causing not just lower IQs but ADHD and autism spectrum disorder. Pesticides were among the toxins they identified. READ THE REST

Some of the culprits are in the below graphic. Dont forget pharmaceuticals!!  This graphic doesnt include them. Besides the active ingredients in pharma, many of the fillers are also toxic to the body and end up getting stored in the tissues.

I’m sharing a small excerpt from an article on ecopsychology here. Because we need to come to deeply realize what we’re doing to ourselves, the planet and all  of life.

Ecopsychology is not a discipline, so much as it is a social movement, a world view,” he says. Although practitioners have evolved a number of diverse treatment methods, from conducting therapy sessions out of doors to helping clients grieve toxic spills and species loss, Doherty says one of the unifying ideas in ecopsychology is its attempt to integrate a different set of questions into clinical practice. What, for example, does it mean to live as part of the web of life, but to behave as if we didn’t? (continue reading)

 

The question about what it means to live a connected life is urgently important at this point in our history on this planet. Because if we don’t collectively come to understand that everything matters, we will sadly doom ourselves.

It’s wonderful to see this line of thinking enter into the realm of what mental health professionals are thinking about. It matters. We do not live as individuals but as a population and community of humans.

More on ecopsychology from Beyond Meds:

• Ecopsychology – an intro
• The best natural healer turns out to be nature

More on:

• biofilm (from this site)
• MDs, systemic infections and such (Lyme and Tardive Dyskinesia)
• and a study (Frontiers in Microbiology): Natural Anti-biofilm Agents: Strategies to Control Biofilm-Forming Pathogens
• microbiome
• The gut microbiota and ancestry (depressive symptoms)
• hypersensitivity
• Chronic Illness and NEW: Chronic illness: a kaleidoscopic view – All Signal

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