An Autism Mom with Cancer Needs Our Help

An Autism Mom with Cancer Needs Our HelpBeing an autism mom is extremely stressful.  It’s like having PTSD:  Perpetual Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Unfortunately, all that stress can really do a number on mom’s health.

One of our own, Melanie Baldwin, aka “Booty Kicker” from The Thinking Moms’ Revolution, now suffers liver, spine, and bone cancer in her other hip after already surviving breast and bone cancer.

She and her profoundly autistic son need our help.  As she struggles to overcome her current issues, her severely affected son, Luke, still requires 24/7 care and attention.  He is self-injurious and quite ill, suffering the lingering effects of severe autism.

Click here to donate: http://tinyurl.com/njeq66s

All funds raised will go directly to assist Melanie and her family.

METHYLATION: THE HIDDEN LINK AMONG ALCOHOLISM, AUTISM, CANCER AND MORE

diseaseMethylation is a subject that keeps coming up again and again for my sons and myself.  It’s one of those all-encompassing issues like toxicity or gut dysbiosis because so many diseases and conditions are linked, directly or indirectly, to it or rather, a lack of it.

What is methylation?  It’s the chemical process of donating a methyl group (CH3) to a molecule or compound.  This doesn’t sound like much, but this little group is very important to how our bodies function, as I’m finding out.

It not only helps with energy production and builds immune cells and neurotransmitters, but it also processes hormones, detoxifies our bodies, puts protective myelin sheath on our nerves, and can be responsible for epigenetic gene regulation.

Because of its association with all of these essential processes, an inability to methylate is linked to a whole host of diseases and conditions.  Methylation defects are linked to: [Read more…]

PLASTICS AND BREAST CANCER

A new study strengthens the tie between breast cancer and toxic exposures to plastics and carcinogens in the workplace.

Specific industrial sectors with elevated risk included: agriculture, bars-gambling, automotive plastics manufacturing, food canning, and metalworking.

Premenopausal breast cancer risk was highest for automotive plastics and food canning.  Read more…

SOURCE:  Environmental Health Journal