Alderman Syndrome

A note from the founding medical detective and founding philosopher, Beth Alderman, MD, MPH, doctor, researcher, patient, self-healer and curer, author, and former academic.

In the interests of public service, I am here sharing my personal self-diagnoses and preventative cures in the hopes that they may benefit physicians committed to responding to new health hazards in an effective way; to clinical researchers dedicated to continuously improving the efficacy of the medical profession; to patients who have chronic illness and who have the gumption to seek cure when failed by the system; and to counselors, bodyworkers, habitat restorers, and other carers who have stepped up to help people failed by conventional care. For a more in-depth explanation of the problem, see the books and educational modules available through the website.

Alderman syndrome includes at least three forms of chronic ambient poisoning: chemical poisoning through conventional foods (complicated by consequent gut allergies); through inhalation of air pollutants (complicated by consequent lung allergies); and through non-ionizing radiation poisoning featuring disabling but potentially reversible neurotoxicity. Each requires a specific approach. The three together are but the tip of the health consequences iceberg and will comprise this system only in susceptible individuals. These may have been diagnosed as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME; called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, in the United States), fibromyalgia, Parkinson’s, MS, or other reversible or irreversible consequences of chronic ambient poisoning. Other potential outcomes such as cancer lie beyond the scope of this case study and are left to medical detectives whose patient panels possess differing susceptibilities. The three components of Alderman syndrome are discussed in short form below.

Chronic Ambient Food Poisoning

Neurotoxins

After World War II, great anxiety regarding the well-being of returning veterans and the need to employ them converged with the wishful thinking of survivors of the Great Depression who wanted to feed the world so that no one would be hungry again. The resulting Green Revolution policy repurposed the neurotoxic agents of biological warfare to the industrial production of longer-lasting, higher-weight food products. The hazards to industrial and agricultural workers were high, but taken for granted with escalation of the use and patenting of ever more destructive pesticides and herbicides. The mainstream American food supply has become increasingly poisonous.

Adjuvants

Irritants that provoke an immune response to proteins—such as those in allergenic whole grain foods—catalyze the adverse biomedical effects of ingested neurotoxins by inducing systemic symptoms of immune overload. Thus, late modern non-organic, refined foods lead to increasing dysfunction of the digestive tract.

Both

The neurotoxicity is pervasive—inducing damage in peripheral, central, and autonomic nervous tissue and yet is also milder than the clinical picture of Sarin toxicity or occupational exposure and is thus is not recognized by doctors. Because the digestive tract is generally intractable to late modern science and technology—only now are biomedical researchers taking advantage of methods pioneered by soil experts to study the microbiome—food allergies are often missed or poorly treated. The consequences may be reversible for many years, and hence merit close attention and prompt response as that may allow for a return to health.

Chemically-induced asthma

When inhaled, sulfur dioxide and other pollutants can act as adjuvants that multiply the otherwise potentially innocuous effects of pollen and other products of the habitats on which our species and all others rely for life. Fortunately, treatment is well-developed. Unfortunately, prevention is not. While masks are available, they are generally unpopular with sufferers who like to avoid notice. With fires and desertification and general destruction of biomass, this is likely to worsen.

Non-ionizing radiation poisoning

With the proliferation of microwave emissions, the generation of dirty electricity by poorly-designed infrastructures, and the general poppy-field in Oz effect of the electronic devices that comedian Rick Mercer calls digital crack, your nervous systems is bombarded constantly by toxic radiation all across the electromagnetic spectrum. While tolerance has evolved in your system, and you may be able to compensate for a long time, when those tolerance mechanisms fail, you will find that our species is engaged in an inadvertent suicide-homicide plan that could—along with our many other foolish acts—cripple and destroy evolved life.

The effects of this radiation poisoning are vague, non-specific, elusive, altered by observation, and generally insidious and therefore highly dangerous as well as unavoidable. Recovery from loss of tolerance is possible, but should not be taken for granted. Hence, the intention of Evolve Medicine is to establish habitat restoration clinics and communities in which humans can recover with their habitats.

Determinants of Poison Cocktail in Time

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Consequences of Chronic Ambient Poisoning

Consequesnces of Chronic Ambient Poisoning

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Sources of Alderman Syndrome (Chronic Ambient Poisoning) Poisons in the Body Recipe for Cure Sources of Alderman Syndrome (Chronic Ambient Poisoning)

Alderman Syndrome is like arsenic poisoning; cure depends on quitting the poisoning, hopefully in time to prevent lasting damage to the body.

At present, most people eat, breathe, and absorb through their skin poisons and adjuvants (chemicals that cause allergies). We also suffer non-ionizing radiation from electrical and electronic sources, especially cellphones, cell towers, and other devices. This poisoning includes chemicals and radiation from all sources, and eventually will overwhelm the metabolism of the liver and the tolerance of organ systems like the brain. When the dose of a person's “cocktail” of poisons is long and high, or there are “multiple hits,” they become sick. Their symptoms depend on inborn and acquired susceptibilities: the new epidemics of neurotoxicity are the most obvious, but mood and weight problems may be more widespread. Modern research methods are powerless to help. You are on your own to define and cure the problem, with the help of your doctor.

Your cure consists of removing sources of poison. This helps you and your relations, animals, and habitats as well as the human species. If your loved one is one of the canaries in the mine, you are the hope for the future of life on earth. Your loved one may take a year or several to recover from reversible damage; life on earth will take much longer still to recover from the excesses of the modern era.

If you change all aspects of your life to help yourself and others, as may be necessary, you will become a part of the emerging paradigm that is replacing the modern age, hopefully in time to prevent lasting damage to the body of life to which all lives belong.

Poisons in the Body

The Gut

The gut is one of the black boxes of modern medicine; : it’s dark, low in oxygen, inaccessible, complex, and poorly known. When you ingest, inhale, touch, or are penetrated by poisons, they may damage your gut directly and cause symptoms such as indigestion that you may suppress with over the counter or prescription medication. When damage to the gut lining is severe, you may develop ͞leaky bowel syndrome͟ in which the contents of the gut pass through the gut-blood barrier into the bloodstream and cause vague, flu-like symptoms.

Ingested poisons may also attack your microbiome, that is, the good bacteria on the lining of your gut, lungs and skin that protect you from infections. You got your microbiome from your parents when you were a baby and strengthened it by eating dirt and clay as a toddler. If your parents’ microbiome was weak, or you grew up in an obsessively clean home, or you rarely come into contact with healthy soil, or you took antibiotics, the microbiome in your gut may be especially susceptible to poisons.

The effect of ingested poisons on the microbiome is to weaken the microbiome and impair its ability to detoxify poisons, digest food, or to make nutrients that you need to sustain a sanguine mood, clear mind, and healthy body. A weak microbiome is subject to imbalance and overgrowth by yeast and other bothersome organisms as well as to increased risk of infections.

The old word for feces is night soil. This reminds us that what lives in your gut is continuous with the soil of your habitat and can be no healthier. In the long run, the only way to keep your microbiome healthy is to heal your body with your habitat by preserving agricultural lands and wilderness and by restoring and enhancing habitats

Recipe for Cure

If you have AS, give your care and cure time to work—a year or three. Use the Clark Terry method: begin by emulating it, then assimilate it, and finally innovate. Create a cure for yourself and pay it forward so that it can filter through many human bodies and spread through the body of life in proportion to its worth. Let it change you, then help it to become the best that it can be—and finally transform it into something that is better than any of us can now imagine. Become a source of care and cure for the body of life on which all life depends.

Step 1: Begin searching for a doctor and avoiding poisons

Step 1 is the first step of our search for cure and will support you as you learn self-care and collaboration for discovery of cure. Recognize that your bodies—your sevenfold body and the larger bodies in which it nests (see UEM)—all impact your response to care and cure. Your optimal regimen may differ—by a little or by a lot—from this one.

You will need a practitioner who is willing and able to provide standard care, and who is also open-minded enough to support your search for cure. Most patients choose doctors on the basis of likability and popularity. A doctor who has good social skills and who respects your values and goals may be just what you are looking for, but you will need one who also has the courage, humility, and curiosity to partner with you in exploring the unknown. The latter traits are far less common than the former.

Remediate your personal environment by: wearing a mask when exposed to air pollution; drink osmotically-filtered or boiled water at home; avoid any patented chemicals in the home (e.g. clean with soap, diluted vinegar, and elbow grease); turn as many electrical circuits off at the box and convert to gas as you can; and use Austin mini-filters as needed to clean the air (maintaining your distance from this and other electrically-powered devices). Abstain from using all electronic (telecommunication) devices and move away from any step-down transformers, overhead wires, and transmission towers as possible.

To the extent that you are able, restrict your diet to organic food or better, that is, food that you grow chemical-free or purchase from a chef or farmer’s market where you talk with the farmer or chef to find out directly if: livestock were grass-fed and –finished; food is free from added chemicals—including those coming from heavy smoking; and where you can check to see that it is free of pink mold.

Step 2: Develop Gentle Habits of Self-Care

Rest the right amount—not too much or too little.

Avoid debility. Discover the kinds of fitness that are right for your body here and now. Use the body rather than lose it.

Discover how best to enhance personal relief and well-being. Walk in nature, meditate, relax, visualize recovery, savor tea, or practice other arts of living. Experiment with sensory delights such as soft pillows, self-massage, hot or cold water-baths, sunbaths, restorative aromas, peaceful music, pleasing rhythms and sounds, inspiring poetry, enchanting beauty, and so on.

For more, purchase and complete the UEM care sequence of courses, or purchase the Chronic Illness Owner’s Manual.

Step 3: Prepare Your Worldview for Continuing, Responsive Change

Focus on the big picture until it is second nature to see care and cure of the body as indistinguishable from care and cure of the species, the local web of life, and the biosphere. Learn to recognize that poisoning any body will—sooner or later—poison all. Respond by caring for any as all, which is an aspect of transitioning to emerging paradigm medicine, beginning with its view of the body. Form a strong, well-grounded center that can stabilize self-care and cure.

“Be and Become” a creative, responsive carer for life in all its miraculous manifestations—beginning with waking up to a brand new day every day. Become a student of experience. Observe the natural experiments of life. Learn by trial and error. Chance and circumstance will—in time—reveal all that harms and heals.

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