Breaking the Cycle of Chronic Illness: How to Reset Your Body’s Healing Response

Written By Tucson Biofeedback on November 27, 2024

Understanding the Cell Danger Response in Chronic Illness and MCAS

How our Unique and Multi-Dimensional Approach Support Cellular Healing and Recovery

Chronic illnesses like autoimmune conditions, POTS, histamine intolerance, and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) are deeply tied to the Cell Danger Response (CDR)—a protective mechanism the body uses when faced with threats. While the CDR is meant to be temporary, in chronic conditions, this process can get stuck, leading to a cascade of symptoms that seem impossible to resolve.

At our clinic, we use SET Biofeedback and brain-nervous system rebooting through Frequency-Specific Microcurrent (FSM), LENS Neurofeedback, Limbic System Rebooting, and more to address this maladaptive process holistically and simultaneously.

If you do not break the current feedback loops your cells and systems are in you will not get well. To do that requires precision, cellular communication and targeted applications that allow the nervous system to reboot itself.

Here’s how it works:

A Quick Recap of the 3 Phases of the Cell Danger Response

1. CDR1: Alarm Phase (Immediate Defense)

Cells shift into defense mode to fight off threats like infections, toxins, or injuries.
Energy production is disrupted, and inflammation spikes to neutralize the danger.
This phase is meant to be short-lived.

2. CDR2: Containment Phase (Controlled Defense)

Once the immediate threat is managed, cells clean up damage and begin repair.
Inflammation persists at a lower level, and the body still operates in partial defense mode.

3. CDR3: Recovery Phase (Resolution)

Cells return to normal function, inflammation resolves, and the body restores balance.

How Chronic Illness like POTS, MCAS and Autoimmune Issues Disrupt These Phases

In chronic illness, the body perceives threats (like infections, allergens, or stressors) as ongoing, even when they are no longer present. This keeps the CDR "stuck," particularly in CDR1 or CDR2, causing the following disruptions:

1. CDR1 Dysfunction: Persistent Alarm

The body stays in an overreactive state, mistaking normal stimuli (e.g., food or environmental triggers) as threats.
In MCAS, mast cells continuously release histamine and other inflammatory mediators, worsening symptoms like swelling, rashes, or brain fog.
Energy production remains inefficient, leading to chronic fatigue.
This process worsens over time. Only a targeted and effective approach can disrupt this. Diet and nutrition alone will not resolve the issue once you are in this state.

2. CDR2 Dysfunction: Incomplete Repair

The body can’t fully repair damaged tissues or calm inflammation.
Histamine intolerance persists as the immune system struggles to balance itself.
Chronic inflammation and immune dysregulation maintain the cycle of symptoms.
Diet and nutrition often fail to help at this stage, as individuals become reactive to nutrients, their own hormones, neurotransmitters, and inflammatory responses. Elimination diets typically do not work here.

3. CDR3 Dysfunction: Blocked Recovery

The nervous system and cellular signaling fail to move the body into a state of resolution and repair.
Symptoms like sensitivity to foods, pain, and fatigue linger indefinitely.
Cellular responses and sensory sensitization are on constant high alert, triggered multiple times a day. Without rebooting the cellular mechanisms and clearing the crisis pathways, conditions and symptoms will only worsen over time. While not life-threatening, this state is profoundly life-debilitating.

Our Approach: Supporting the CDR for Cellular Healing and Recovery

At our clinic, we take a multi-dimensional approach to address these disruptions and help your body progress through the stuck phases of the CDR. Here’s how:

1. Downregulating the Threat Response (CDR1) with SET Biofeedback

What We Do:
Using SET Biofeedback, we identify and calm the nervous system’s overactive response to perceived threats rebooting your systems reactivity to food, chemicals, etc while simultaneously communicating with your mid brain to calm down the sensory sensitization loop its become stuck in. By targeting inflammation and retraining the body to recognize safety, we help reduce the chronic alarm state. Creating the space for your brain, nervous system, and body to heal is a key part of this process.
Results You’ll See:

Decreased histamine reactions and mast cell overactivation.
A calmer, more balanced immune system.
Less fatigue and inflammation.

2. Rebooting the Brain and Nervous System for Recovery

What We Do:
Chronic illness often traps the nervous system in a fight-or-flight loop. Our unique modalities work to reboot the hypothalamus, brain, and nervous system, shifting your body from a defensive state into one of repair and healing. We deploy a mix of neuromodulation and neurological reorganization modalities, such as:

Frequency-Specific Microcurrent (FSM)
LENS Neurofeedback
Brainwave Therapy
Trauma loop liberation
Nervous system regulation

Each person will have a unique pathway forward, but this reboot process is essential for all.

Results You’ll See:

Enhanced energy production at the cellular level.
Improved tissue repair and reduced chronic inflammation.
A pathway toward full recovery and resolution.

3. Simultaneously Addressing the Whole Process

What We Do:
Unlike approaches that treat only symptoms, we target the entire maladaptive CDR process simultaneously, which is key to healing. By calming the alarm (CDR1), improving containment (CDR2), and facilitating recovery (CDR3), we guide your body toward healing at the root cause. Most people feel a profound difference within the 1st month of working with us. While healing these patterns and pathways at the cell level takes time, you will feel a shift within the 1st month giving you a glimmer of what’s possible as you continue your pathway to healing.
Results You’ll See:

A gentle unwinding of past stress and trauma.
Restoration of normal cellular function.
Relief from chronic symptoms like fatigue, pain, and histamine sensitivity.
A renewed brain, nervous system, and state of well-being as your body is liberated from years of stress and dysregulation.

The Key to Long-Term Healing

The body is designed to heal—but when the CDR gets stuck, it needs guidance to reset. Our integrative approach combines cutting-edge technology with a deep understanding of the nervous system and cellular healing, helping you move past the barriers of chronic illness.

If you’re ready to break free from the cycle of inflammation, fatigue, and reactivity, we invite you to explore how our unique applications can help you reclaim your life.

We are the only clinic deploying this novel approach to chronic illness—and we’ve been doing so for the past 12 years. Every current and past technician has made their miraculous recovery from their own conditions, and since then, we’ve helped hundreds more overcome what they thought was impossible.

Take the First Step to Cellular Recovery Today.

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