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After I looked at more houses I cleaned up my own house, heated it up, aired it,

for five days and it really cleared out. It now smells less moldy than some

newish houses which have not had HVAC systems operating regularly.

Xolair is working for me. I have an upper respiratory infection but my

flowmeter remains higher than it has been in a year and a half. I hope to get

ivig soon.

And a newer house. I could have built a clean house and may have to.

" Carl E. Grimes " <grimes@...> wrote:

Jane,

I'll second and third eveything KC said. I don't know if it is

cellular (as in permanant?) but it certainly affects my functioning

(less often but still there).

My personal experience is that even though I've " recovered "

significantly from 24 years ago and lead a very active and demanding

life, I am still sensitive to the same chemicals as before. And I

have other limits as well. What's the difference between then and

now?

I'm not positive about all of it (hormonal changes with aging is

part) but what I do know is I needed years and years (10-12 at least)

to learn what to avoid and attempting total avoidance but being

satisfied with a reasonable reduction. But at the same time allowing

small, manageable challenges. It took 10+ years before I could work

full-time again. But it had to be according to my erratic schedule as

dictated by my body. I couldn't work on demand as is required when

working for someone else. It had to be my own time. I'm still

challanged by that and usually schedule my day so I don't have

demands during the more problematic times and have blocks scheduled

for rest and recovery.

That's one of the keys for me. When the problematic times were all

but half a day a month - if I was lucky - I couldn't function. Now

the problematic times are a few hours a couple times a month.

I'd compare my experience to the past this way: It now takes a higher

exposure over a longer period of time but it doesn't affect me as

severely and my body recovers faster. That's an improvement, a major

one, but is definitely not a cure. If I went back to allowing all the

old exposures all the time I'm certain I'd be right back to where I

was 20+ years ago.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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> To Carl and KC--If there is actual cellular damage involved with toxic

exposures, just getting away from the toxin and detoxing won't cure the

condition, will it? What do you guys think? Jane Ann

>

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I have read that in each person's brain during your life at a very

early age the creation of new neurons stops giving each person going

into adulthood a finite number of neuron cells that are used to build

your adult brain. This amount is finite but there is a certain number

of extra cells that lie unused from when you are young thet get used

to repair injuries. But they can and do get used up.

See this paper in the Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences

of the United States of America:

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Neocortical neurogenesis in humans is restricted to development

Ratan D. Bhardwaj, Maurice A. Curtis,, Kirsty L. Spalding, Bruce

A. Buchholz, Fink, Björk-sson, Claes Nordborg,

Fred H. Gage, Henrik Druid, S. sson,, and Jonas Frisén,

Communicated by Pasko Rakic, Yale University School of Medicine,

New Haven, CT, June 20, 2006 (received for review April 2, 2006)

Abstract:

Stem cells generate neurons in discrete regions in the postnatal

mammalian brain. However, the extent of neurogenesis in the adult

human brain has been difficult to establish. We have taken advantage

of the integration of 14C, (Carbon 14) generated by nuclear bomb tests

during the Cold War, in DNA to establish the age of neurons in the

major areas of the human cerebral neocortex. Together with the

analysis of the neocortex from patients who received BrdU, which

integrates in the DNA of dividing cells, our results demonstrate that,

whereas nonneuronal cells turn over, neurons in the human cerebral

neocortex are not generated in adulthood at detectable levels but are

generated perinatally.