The Microbiome and Metabolism with Martha Carlin
In 2002 Martha's 44-year-old husband, John, was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. They were told Parkinson's is a disease with no cure, and a guarantee of decline over time. The resources provided were limited, John was sent home with a pill to mask the symptoms and their lives changed forever. Still we were not willing to accept defeat or the status quo approach to the disease.
Martha quit her job and they started funding research at the University of Chicago with Dr. Jack Gilbert. Through that research she learned how many chronic diseases are connected to gut bacteria. She founded The BioCollective to help bring together people and research to get the data needed to connect the dots across diseases through the bacteria and their metabolic functions in the gut. Since founding the company and becoming a recognized opinion leader in Parkinson’s, many people contact her to find out how they can improve their prognosis. She fields calls and emails but ultimately decided it was time to make her knowledge more easily accessible.
Here are the interview highlights
Martha discusses how she found the presence of specific bacterial strains or lack of strains linked to Parkinson's
How studies have confirmed LPS/endotoxin from pathogenic strains of bacteria as causal
That Parkinson's patients also have iron overload in neurons
The substantial nigra, translated as black substance from latin, is the area of the brain responsible for producing dopamine which becomes degenerated in Parkinson's
The substantial nigra gets its pigment from neuro-melanin, which is based on the mineral copper
Glyphosate is perniciously toxic and one of the ways is through chelating minerals from the soil to prevent uptake in plants. It preferentially binds to cobalt, copper, and selenium but tends to spare iron.
Martha’s product Sugar Shift is a probiotic blend of bacteria that can convert glucose and fructose into mannitol, a protective alcohol sugar for Parkinson’s
Ideal Immunity is another product she created that acts as specific antibiotics against pathogenic bacteria that can cause food poisoning
For more info on Martha's product go to https://biotiquest.com/
For her blog on Parkinson's go to https://www.marthasquest.com
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