Alison Danby: Diving into Autoimmune Fatigue
Inspired Living with Autoimmunity
English - August 01, 2022 13:00 - 40 minutes - 32.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAlternative Health Health & Fitness autoimmunity inflammation functional medicine rheumatoid arthritis ifm health coach health coaching julie michelson fibromyalgia lupus Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In today's episode, Dr. Alison Danby explores autoimmune fatigue. We discuss this symptom that 90% of people with autoimmunity experience, and find a challenge.
After working to heal her own autoimmune symptoms, Alison noticed many of her clients were showing up after being told that there was nothing they could do about their autoimmune symptoms, and that's not true! That led Alison to specialize in autoimmunity, and make her contribution to folks in this community.
Fatigue is often one of the first symptoms we experience with autoimmunity.
It is NOT tired mommy syndrome or depression!
There is overlap with depression such as smaller social life, withdrawal, and change in mood.
And what Alison refers to as "mall eyes" a burning tiredness.
HEAVINESS!
Bone tired!
Rule outs:
iron deficiency
thyroid condition
dehydration!!!
B12
RX interactions
hormones
Cell Danger Response
Mitochondria - plays a role in essentially every chronic illness
When our body senses danger...mitochondria spends energy signaling danger instead of producing energy..toxins, inflammation, etc. can trigger cell danger response.
Leads to big changes in nutrient absorption, etc.
Stress Response - Blunted HPA Axis Function
Hypothalmus-Pituitary-Adrenal
Blunted Cortisol
Hyper Responsive Nervous System
running without hitting the brakes
Inflammation
Inflammation creates oxidative stress, which increases inflammation!
Both are tied to fatigue.
Aging us quicker.
ACES - Advanced Childhood Events TRAUMA changes immunity and increases chance of autoimmunity.
What we can do:
Why is the the body in cell danger response...Identify cause
Dental is very common! It can be smoldering infection without symptoms.
Infection
Toxins
Identify and remove trigger...clean it up!
Stress.
Lack of sleep
Diet
Measuring heart rate variability HRV...measure it to help identify stressors you are. not aware of.
You don't have to FEEL stressed out to be experiencing chronic stress.
Learned behavior to take on whatever we can handle.
Track, track, track!!
Alison likes to look back 10 years at labs and look at trends of changes in white blood cells that are indicative of changes leading to autoimmunity.
Living a full live is my goal.
What is your why...is the goal of being medication free is often unrealistic, stressful, and dangerous.
Live your BEST, BIGGEST, FULLEST life!!
Research is starting to slowly catch up with what we know.
Check your HRV, HRV, HRV to see how your environment is affecting you.
Full Episode Notes → inspiredliving.show/46
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