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Porphyria Triggers, Symptoms and Treatments urine darker when you feel ill? These are possible clues. Official symptoms of a classical acute porphyria attack Intolerance for an anti-Candida diet or an Atkins-type can include abdominal pain or other pain, anxiety/panic, | diet may indicate underlying porphyria, as the hidden nausea, constipation, rapid heart rate, hypertension, | porphyric must eat a lot of carbohydrates to avoid or confusion and breathing difficulty. Unfortunately, some ameliorate attacks. Sometimes this results in severe physicians use the alleged frequency of abdominal pain _ obesity, as the hidden porphyric learns to treat his/her as a deciding factor. This is both very wrong and complaints with massive amounts of carbs. immensely dangerous. | will explain why. Stress is often one of the great triggers of (hidden) The most common form of the neurological porphyria attacks. The reason may be the following. porphyrias is called Acute Intermittent Porphyria (AIP). | Stress leads to elevated levels of adrenal hormones. A well-known medical expert on this more common _ These are processed by the cytochrome P450 enzymes; orm of porphyria noted that "when the previously — in other words, the adrenal hormones up-regulate the misdiagnosed hysteric is found dead of respiratory enzymes. In the porphyric, excess porphyrins are then collapse, the correct diagnosis of Acute Intermittent produced and the sufferer feels very sick and very Porphyria is confirmed".’ Translation: there are many anxious. He or she may be desperate to do anything to with seeming "high anxiety" or other "mental" illnesses avoid any stress whatsoever. hat are not being properly If stress also appears to trigger diagnosed—perhaps because, in part, severe hunger, this may be another many of them are not suffering from sign of underlying porphyria, or o sbaominal pal when they hove | Do youhave poor | i. eed sere 9 connect attack often seems like an anxiety tolerance for production. Recently it was found ttack t Il t ical Q that th ti ti personnel, ‘ oo many medica caffeine, alcohol, protein, PCC Lalpha, to be produced It is said that the best treatment for certain foods by the stomach. It triggers haem porphyria is prevention. A high- . . . production, which leads to excess carbohydrate diet—up to 70 per (including citrus, porphyrins in the (hidden) porphyric. cent is recommended wit freavent tomato, spices), The ulcer drug cimetidine was found meals. Complex carbs shou e to stop acute porphyria attacks in eaten, with glucose tablets or powder MSG, stress, some porphyrics, who tolerated it by countering the PGC-lalpha protein."® So some, or many, chronic on hand in case of an attack— Medications something that hypoglycaemics Q Q a vitamin or mineral do. Having a five- or six-hour glucose tolerance test is a good supplements. and/or environmental illnesses idea. So-called reactive . 7 may have porphyria on "the other ypoglycaemia may be hidden sunlight, heat, side of the coin". There will porphyria, at least in some environmental continue to be much suffering until each side of the coin recognises the existence of the other side. Some people with difficult-to- treat adrenal or thyroid disorders people. Having your blood sugar go down rapidly, often to a level below the fasting level at the two- o-four-hour point, is a possible sign of porphyria and not (just) reactive hypoglycaemia. may have underlying porphyria, Prevention entails avoiding again due to the processing of triggering factors. Each person has different triggers. these glands’ hormones by the cytochrome P450 These can include stress, environmental chemicals enzymes. Similarly, women who report getting (smoke, fragrance, paint, gasoline, diesel, cleaning permanently sick or "allergic" after taking birth control chemicals or other chemicals), EMF, food factors (as __ pills, or who otherwise suffer from severe PMS, may chemicals or EMF? noted above), infections, medications and anaesthetics. have underlying porphyria. Use all the clues here to decide if you should be Holistic treatments that may help with porphyria tested for porphyria. Do you have poor tolerance for include: ascertaining and eliminating triggering factors caffeine, alcohol, certain foods (including citrus, | including hidden heavy metal exposure as well as tomato, spices), MSG, stress, medications, vitamin or overgrowths of intestinal micro-organisms; safe mineral supplements, sunlight, heat, environmental supplements; stress reduction; and energy balancing. chemicals or EMF? Is there so-called mental illness in Helpful supplements can include the calming amino your family? Do you need to eat every two to three —_acid/neurotransmitter GABA, liposomal glutathione and hours or so to avoid a "hypoglycaemia" attack? Is your magnesium. Correcting other deficiencies, if present, Do you have poor tolerance for caffeine, alcohol, certain foods (including citrus, tomato, spices), MSG, stress, medications, vitamin or mineral supplements, sunlight, heat, _environmental_ 34 * NEXUS chemicals or EMF? DECEMBER 2010 - JANUARY 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com