GSH and SOD enzymes - Tinfoil hat required

from: Gulf War Illness Explained in the Simplest Terms

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GSH and SOD also care for the brain and pass easily into the brain tissues. The GSH clears the brain of toxic metals, like mercury and lead, and the SOD tries to heal the damage caused by the toxic metals substituting into cell processes that lead to ROS damage. The "brain fog" or "foggy thinking" that associates with Gulf War Illness is a direct result of lowered levels of GSH and SOD in the body and is a first order sign for this type mechanism being of prime importance.

The prime causes of reduced GSH and SOD are toxic materials like HF (hydrogen fluoride), AlFx, DEET, mercury, PCB, chlorine, insecticides, and a lack of vegetables and fruits in diets. Everyone in the US today has some degree of GSH and SOD suppression and the problem worsens with age. Many of these toxic materials highly retain in the body and the leading problems come from mercury, PCBs, and fluorides. The mercury component and the bad diets lead many vets to get many of the Gulf War Illness symptoms just due to the many killed vaccines they received that employed mercury.

The reduction of the clearance of toxic metals due to GSH is easily observed in the population as it plays a direct role in why hair turns gray. Grey hair is caused principally by rising levels of Hg or mercury in the body being incorporated into the hair follicles causing the loss of pigment from the higher cellular ROS problems. Grey hair has higher levels of mercury in it than pigmented hair strands and the effect helps to pull some mercury from tissues. Grey hair for many people begins in areas of the chin and face, where the highest concentrations of mercury tend to accumulate in tissues from mercury dental fillings. With increasing age the gray hair can affect most of the head's hair. This is a common example of the effects of reduced GSH and SOD enzymes that happens with age and rise of internal retention of PCB, pesticides, HF, and Hg that act to damage GSH and SOD production.

The enzyme GSH removes toxic metals from the brain and tissues by combining the toxic metals with sulfur and then an excretion pathway via the bile into the feces and out of the body. As GSH levels in the body fall from chemical poisoning effects it places more of a load on the kidney pathway of excretion. The toxic metals loading on the kidney can become too large easily and damage the renal tubule cells leading to less excretion rate and an acid shift of the blood that enhances the toxic metals retention problems. The failure of the GSH pathway to remove metals from the body and the damage of the kidney pathway to remove metals from the body produces a rise in toxic metal retention in the body, high ROS levels, and very high risk for cancer and all the immune linked illnesses. The failure of the kidney pathway to remove toxic metals generally shows with porphyria in the urine.

Vets that came to the war zone were exposed to HF from nerve gas demolition plumes of hydrogen fluoride enzyme system poisons drifting into their breathing air space that damaged the GSH and SOD levels. Vets were also exposed to DEET, oil hydrocarbons, and insecticide sprays the also damaged GSH and SOD levels. The net result of this long term poisoning effect is a slow rise in the toxic metals (Hg, Pb, Al, Cd, etc.) concentrations in the body and a slow decline of the beneficial trace metals (Zn, Mg, Se, Cu, etc.) in the body that support the formation of GSH and SOD. One can even look at the recovery regimen that GWI researcher named Dr. Garth Nicholson recommends and find he recommends minerals and other factors that boost these beneficial trace elements and GSH and SOD. Nicholson was the first to spot mycoplasma effects in GWI, and the mycoplasma problems are also common to radiation exposures due to high levels of ROS damage to RNase L cellular enzymes in the body generated by high radiation.

This basic mechanism for illness is common to the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and the illnesses of the DOE gas diffusion plant workers. The most damage to the GSH and SOD in these cases is due to the rise of fluoride and HF exposures that lead to the upset of the metals metabolism in the body. The health damage is due to high levels of ROS that lead to health problems that look like they are caused by internal radiation free radical damage. The rise of the toxic metals and the acid pH shifts in the blood lead to kidney cell damage that has the appearance of DU type heavy metals poisoning. When the body's pH goes into the acid domain the metals retention is high and the ROS damage to cells extreme and usually results in cancer virus activation.

In areas like Oak Ridge where high levels of chemicals like HF kill off the GSH and SOD enzyme clearance of mercury from the body one finds higher rates of thyroid damage. High levels of mercury are well associated with hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. Sometimes the thyroid effects in Oak Ridge have the appearance of hyperthyroidism when there is too much cadmium and the high free radical damage due to loss of SOD. It is a very similar effect that damages the kidneys that potentiates toxic metals retention.

The worst effect from GWI comes from the fluoride and aluminum vaccine effects that spontaneously form AlFx compounds that mimic the pituitary hormone TSH. The AlFx compound then determines the levels of thyorid gland and liver T-3 and T-4, which program the energy levels in the mitochondria of every cell in the body. It is this effect that results in the depletion of the GSH levels needed in all the cells of the body. This effect causes the night sweats that are common to both people with Chronic-Fatigue-Syndrome and GWS. It also causes the loss of restful sleep and the inability to sleep because the cells won't power down like they would under the control of the pituitary gland.

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