The Easy Train for Mold Detox
Seasonality matters with detox.If you live in the northern hemisphere, around the end of August is the last call to get on the detox-with-ease train.Our metabolic fuel sources change with the seasons. The warmer seasons are the perfect time to focus on detoxing...
The 80/20 Rule Doesn’t Apply to Mold Recovery
With #MoldTake it easy on yourself!Did you know that even when conditions are perfect we docs don’t expect 100%? We expect “80/20”.80% of the time you get it right, you’re on task, you’re winning.20% of the time, you’re allowed to be off your game. No guilt. No...
Your Vacation Might be Helping With Mold Recovery
Are you sick and tired and need a mini-vacay? Yes, that may be exactly what you need. But maybe not for the reasons you think.It might be mold!Patients tell me that they thought they felt better on vacation because they were away from work or the routine of family...
Are Veggies Causing Mast Cell Issues?
Do you cringe when you get to the section in my book that recommends 5-7 servings of vegetables EVERY DAY?For some people, this many veggies causes more mast cell or histamine reactions. When that’s the case, I think of 2 things: 1 – fungal overgrowth, 2 –...
More Mycotoxins On Your Retest?
Did you retest your urine mycotoxins and found more mycotoxins on your retest than your first test? Maybe even new mycotoxins are showing up?Are you freaked out and making panic calls??Put the phone down for a sec. Knowing what a test is telling us is part of the art...
Why Natural Medicine for Mold Recovery Works
Natural medicine is perfectly suited for mold recovery. Pharmaceuticals are not required in most cases.Mold-related illness is not only a spore-based illness, meaning symptoms caused from exposure to mold spores and spore fragments. Mold-related illness also includes...
Amazing Cleavers Vulnerary Benefits That Help You Heal
Cleavers How ToDownloadTRANSCRIPTHey! I want to talk with you about cleavers.I’m out on a walk, kind of a sweaty walk, and just noticed a whole patch here. I’m going to just show you how it looks growing in the wild. It just sort of grabs onto stuff and hangs on as...
What You Need to Know About Vulnerary Herbs
Let me explain a bit about vulneraries. These are herbs that assist with cell turnover of epithelial cells. Epithelial cells line our respiratory passages, our skin, bladder, gut, and – important for this time – our blood vessels.Many viruses infect...
What Are Vulneraries And Cell Turnover?
Vulneraries are herbs that assist with cell turnover.When a virus infects a cell, the only way to stop the virus from replicating or spreading to neighboring cells is for the body to kill off that sick cell, and let a new healthy cell replace it. This means that we...
Mold Exposure Can Lead To Myocarditis
There’s a lot of talk about myocarditis these days, even in young people. This can also happen from mold. Mold exposure can lead to myocarditis.Myocarditis means inflammation of the heart muscle, and the symptoms can be quite unsettling.❥ chest pain❥ shortness of...
Vulneraries: Why You Need To Know Them
Vulneraries are herbs that specialize in cell turnover, especially of epithelial tissue – meaning the linings of our respiratory passages, blood vessels, gut, bladder, and skin.Why is this aspect important?Because delayed epithelial cell turnover contributes to...
Can You Combine Herbs And Antifungal Drugs?
Not only can you, studies are suggesting we probably should.📖 In the Fight phase in my book, I recommend intranasal and whole-body antifungals to fight back the mold colonization. I mostly use herbs, but occasionally need to add a prescription antifungal.One issue...
How Long on Antifungals?
There are a few differences between people who are symptomatic from a moldy building and those who aren’t.One key difference?🗝 The people who develop symptoms have had a fundamental shift in their flora (think microbiome.)In other words, they become the moldy...
Strive To Fatten Your Brain To Recover From Mold
After mold, one of the nicest things anyone can say about you is that you’re a FAT HEAD! 😲 Really, I’m serious! Brains are one of our fattiest tissues – also known as lipid-rich. They do better with a plethora of good healthy fats in the form the...
The Correlation Between Mold and Anemia
There IS a connection between mold exposure and iron-deficiency anemia. (🔎 even in the scientific literature!)*Mold mycotoxins mess with proteins that drive all kinds of metabolic processes. One way they do this is to slow down our ability to make proteins. This...
Is It a Food Reaction Or Allergy From Mold?
Are you reacting to more and more foods? It could be MOLD!Mold mycotoxins cause leaky gut – meaning, normal everyday things that you’ve been able to eat with no problem, suddenly are innocently getting into spaces they never could before. And your immune...
Why Is Mold Bad? It’s Natural!
Why is mold bad? It’s natural! If you’re confused by this, join the club!As a naturopathic doctor, I cherish nature and her many gifts. I had a hard time understanding why indoor mold was any different than outdoor mold…both are gifts of nature.🍂...
Does Mold Exposure Cause Candida or Mold Colonization?
Often both.To be clear, not everyone who gets sick from mold exposure gets Candida overgrowth.And not everyone who has Candida overgrowth has mold at the root.But we see them together a lot!Exposure to mold mycotoxins causes a reaction in the body that can lead to a...
The Intention of Toxins From Damp Buildings Matters For Health
Intention is everything.✨And when it comes to the toxins found in damp buildings, intention becomes even more important.Intention helps us determine the level of threat. The more menacing the intention behind the toxin, the more harmful is the toxin.That’s why I give...
How Cold Weather Gets In The Way Of Mold Detox
The change in season and sunlight changes our body’s preferred fuel type, and changes our inner body fluids to make them “less runny”. It’s not the “cold” but the change in light/season that sets this off.As the weather turns ❄️...
What Is Peristalsis And How Mold Affects It
How does the food you eat move down through your digestive tubes even if you’re upside down?🤸🏽♂️Peristalsis!Peristalsis is the organized, synchronous muscle contractions that squeeze food through the intestines to be digested.When working right, the gut tells the...
Mold Colonization is When You Become the Sick Building
🤔Can you still be sick from a past mold exposure? Even if you haven’t been exposed for years?YES! 😱This is the concept called colonization. It’s when the critters from that moldy building move into your respiratory and digestive passages.Then YOU become the sick...
What Exactly Are We Binding in Mold Illness?
I’ve noticed that the discussion on binders for mold treatment is getting very complicated. As nice as it is to know which binder binds a specific mycotoxin, we need to first be clear what we’re binding. What exactly are we binding in mold illness?Most of...
Mold Fragments In The Lungs Cause More Than Lung Symptoms
Mold exposure can cause a picture similar to that of mesothelioma from asbestos exposure.Symptoms like fatigue, cough, chest wall pain, and shortness of breath can be from mold fragments that are broken up pieces of spores from cleaning up mold.Organ inflammation can...
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