Aaron Hartman explains how chronic toxin exposure accumulates in the body until it crosses a threshold that triggers autoimmune disease. He connects mercury in shellfish and mold illness to autoantibodies seen in lupus and celiac disease through a mechanism called toxin-induced loss of tolerance.
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The first general concept is a concept of a toxic load or burden. Our bodies were designed or made to actually kick out toxins as we're exposed to them. So, for example, when you get mercury and shellfish, your body actually you pee it out and you poop it out. When you breathe in toxins from the air, your body actually coughs it out and your kidneys filter it out. So our bodies are actually made to remove these things from our bodies. However, if you're chronically exposed, what happens is these build up over time and you get to a threshold that you spill over, which causes you to have chronic health issues. One of the most common health issues related to this are autoimmune diseases. As these chemicals in the environment attach to our cell walls, they actually change the structure of the cells and cause this thing called toxin induced loss of tolerance or tilt syndrome. T I L T. And this, you get so many toxins, your body actually starts to attack itself with auto antibodies. We see this in mold illness, for example, where the mold exposure causes people to have auto antibodies related with lupus and celiac disease. But it's not from those primarily, it's from the toxins.