Sentences with phrase «often system dysfunction»

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Furthermore, while these stressors can have a direct impact on the brain, just as often they affect the brain through a more circuitous, systems - based mechanism that involves suboptimal metabolism of factors such as glutamate, norepinephrine, and cortisol plus cardiovascular dysfunction and, because it is so under - appreciated it may be the most notable, gastrointestinal dysfunction.

We show signs of weak immune systems (variations of primary immunodeficiency, CVID), and «extra» allergies and sensitivities (now known to be mostly from a newly and thus still poorly recognized widespread mast cell activation disease called MCAS, ICD - 10 code coming October 2016, read «Never Bet Against Occam» by L. Afrin, MD), as well as all manner of endocrine imbalances (esp low thyroid, and often adrenal fatigue), some mitochondrial disease and / or dysfunction and all manner and forms of dysautonomia, but especially POTS in the more severe cases.

I've written quite a bit about other root causes of Hashimoto's, including toxins like fluoride (which may damage the thyroid), nutrient deficiencies like selenium (Selenium helps to neutralize oxidative stress in the thyroid gland, which occurs whenever we make thyroid hormones), an impaired ability to handle stress that often manifests as adrenal dysfunction (this weakens our natural defenses and suppresses our thyroid production) and chronic infections like Blastocystis hominis (infections can be inside the thyroid, inside the gut, or in another part of the body leading to immune system confusion).

Often, these infections can cause immune system dysfunction, and treatment can result in reversal of hashimoto's disease.

Where I get hung up, though, is with the idea that great leaders can make schools — and especially school districts — work well, given the dysfunction of the larger system within which they must work, and the Gordian knot that's been tied by decades of contradictory, often compromising, laws and regulations, not to mention the impossible politics often created by unruly elected school boards.

In the legal conferences I have attended this Fall there is an upbeat and often self - congratulatory tone, despite the chaos and dysfunction that is threatening to engulf our courts and justice system.

This systems view has gradually replaced the traditional linear view of causality and it is particularly appropriate and useful in understanding the divorce process and the dynamics in child custody disputes, when escalation of the family system's dysfunction by the legal system's procedures is all too often the case the disputing families.

The term pathogenic parenting is most often used with regard to attachment - related pathologies, since the attachment system never spontaneously dysfunctions, but ONLY dysfunctions in response to pathogenic parenting.