Social Anxiety, Depression, Poor Stress Tolerance, ADHD, Allergies, Eczema, Digestive Upset - COULD IT BE EXCESS PYROLLES?

Acne	Mood swings	Hair Loss	Anaemia
Elevated Pyrroles	Eating Disorder	Arthritis	Autism
Depression	Anxiety Disorder/ Social Anxiety	Kids that ‘feel funny/ not right’	Repeated Candida Infections
PMS	Painful Periods	Prostatitis	Male Infertility
Sensitivity to Sounds/ Light/ Smells	Migraines	Chronic Infections	Hayfever/ Allergies
Racing Thoughts – can’t turn mind off	Nerve Pain (Neuralgia)	Hypothyroidism	Bipolar (manic depression)
Schizophrenia	Detoxification Issues	Hormonal Imbalances	CFS/ Adrenal Fatigue

Take a moment to read through the table above, do several of these sound like you, your child or someone you know? These are all possible signs of excess pyrroles, or in other words, oxidative stress. Of course not every case of hormonal imbalance, depression or migraines involves excess pyrroles, but it is a possibility.

What are excess Pyrolles? 

Essentially this refers to a build-up of hydroxyhemopyrrolin-2-one (HPL) due to either an overproduction during haemoglobin synthesis, or through increased oxidative degradation of haemoglobin (oxidative stress). Pyrroles (HPL) are a normal by-product of haemoglobin metabolism, however, excess pyrroles occur when levels go beyond the normal range.

IS STRESS MAKING YOU OVERWEIGHT?

I often ask, “Are you stressed?”, and people look at me and say, “What’s stress?” They can’t really answer me because living in a chronically stressed way has become their norm; they don’t know any different.

Living in a chronically stressed state shouldn’t be the norm. You see, your body has one main goal – to return as quickly as possible back to a state of balance (homeostasis or allostasis), because when your body is working from a place of balance you are healthy, and when you are healthy you have a greater chance of survival.

Anything which takes you out of a state of balance mentally and/or physically is a stressor. This could be cold or hot weather, wind, a virus, a negative thought, an injury, being stuck in traffic, trying to get the kids off to school in the morning; the list is endless. It seems we have evolved as a society to react to almost everything as a stressor, subconsciously viewing the world as a threatening, dangerous and hostile place.