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...
Is Your Detox Plan Missing This?
Don’t forget to Nourish!I’m encouraged that more and more people are understanding that detoxification of mycotoxins is an important part of mold recovery. But I’m a little concerned by the trend I’m seeing where all the focus is going toward removal, but the...
2 “Number 2’s” 💩💩
Have you ever wondered how Goldilocks and poop are similar?No?…. Just me? 😉🙃It’s the “just right” principle. Not enough daily BMs and you could be reabsorbing mold toxin. Too much and you could be losing necessary nutrients to feed you and your gut immunity.It all has...
Mold’s Effect on Vitamin D Labs
🤔 So if mold reduces our ability to absorb Vitamin D, what does that do to lab test results?Does Vitamin D look high or low?Answer?👎🏻 LOW! If receptors are blocked, that means there’s less available. Mold and chronic infections are 2 common reasons for...
Why Your Mold Protocol May Not Be Working
A theme I’ve been hearing lately is that people are questioning their mold diagnosis because they aren’t feeling better with treatment.Have you wondered if maybe mold really isn’t the problem, even though you know you got sick in a moldy place?🧐 Do you find yourself...
Reacting To Vitamin D?
☀️ Do you have weird symptoms after taking Vitamin D? There may be a few reasons why.First, if you’re allergic to 🐑, most Vitamin D is sourced from sheep lanolin. People with 🐑 allergy MUST get sun exposure to keep their D up.Second, Vitamin D has an effect on...
How To Break Up Biofilm?
If you’ve gotten to the biofilm busting part of your treatment, congrats! And if you’ve gotten here relatively smoothly, super congrats! 🎉 This phase can feel like uncharted territory if you don’t have guidance – guidance from your mold-literate...
Can’t take bitters? Eat them!
You often hear me sing praise to bitters to help recover from toxic mold. But what if your system doesn’t tolerate my favorite bitter tinctures?Then eat your bitters!Many foods, especially leafy greens, make fabulous bitter additions to the diet and often add...
Who’s Ready To Bust Biofilm?
Are you feeling it? The season is supporting biofilm busting.🔎 Clues for when it’s time to add biofilm busters? When you stall or start to feel so good, you want to get off everything.Before removing antifungal support, I first add biofilm busters as a test.No...
How Low Is Your C?
How low is your vitamin C?I wish there was a standardized blood test to answer to this question. Despite their importance, nutrients don’t seem to be monitored as much as things like cholesterol.While there are some functional labs that offer levels, most doctors just...
Don’t Forget Vitamin C
❔What’s one of the most commonly forgotten vitamins in mold treatment? Especially if you have histamine issues? And that humans can’t make so they must eat it?(Little hint – 🍊+ 🍋 were brought on long sea voyages to make sure people didn’t develop...
Detox Starts With Spit
The smell and taste of food start the engines of digestion and detoxification.By salivating, chewing our food, and being present to the flavor, texture, and pleasure of eating, we then turn on bile.Bile is the magical mycotoxin clearing fluid in our bodies, and it...
ITCHY? A Keynote Symptom of Mold Exposure
One of the keynote symptoms of mold expressed on the skin is 👉🏻itchiness👈🏻. It doesn’t have to be a fungal rash. General itchiness and/or itchy spots where there’s clear skin is commonly seen with mold exposure. My patients have found help with...
Why Do Mold-Sick People Crave Coffee?
Why the coffee cravings? Bile movement!Coffee is one of the most powerful bitters on the planet. Bitters such as coffee induce bile flow, which is what carries mycotoxins out of the body through the 💩.It’s no mystery that global coffee consumption has risen with...
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...
The Solution to Pollution is Dilution
The solution to pollution is dilution! And in the case of mold, the pollutants we’re talking about are mycotoxins.Mold toxins are fat-soluble – which means they easily absorb into body systems that have more lipids (aka fat) such as brain and nerves, GI lining,...
Myocarditis and Mold – Missed It Again!
Old mold symptoms back again? Pay attention. It’s your wise body sending a warning. Former mold symptoms show up pretty quickly if you’ve ever been affected by mold and are being exposed again…because you’re sensitized. And you’re...
Mold and Dementia
With neurodegenerative conditions, like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Multiple Sclerosis, doctors are still missing mold. Exposure to a water-damaged building can expose you to mold toxins, called mycotoxins, which can affect your brain. The amyloid...
Solstice Message About Vitamin D & Mold
This message goes out to Moldies. Every day, and especially on the shortest day of the year, you must get outside to boost Vitamin D. Mold mycotoxins block absorption of Vitamin D into the body, so mold exposed people get deficient, which affects: -mood -immunity...
Drink Ice Water, Get Dementia
That’s Dr. Jill Crista’s take-away after testing the water filter on her and others’ refrigerators. One of the most brain-toxic molds grows there: Chaetomium! The toxin from this mold passes through the blood-brain barrier and is linked to dementia....
Glutathione Boosters
Mold mycotoxins deplete the body of its master antioxidant – glutathione.In true Tolkien homage, I refer to glutathione as ‘the one antioxidant to rule them all.”It’s a critical detoxifier of mycotoxins – which is why we get low on it when we’ve been exposed to mold...
“Vitamin Red” Against Mold
Lycopene – the red pigment in veggies & fruits. It’s great for moldies because is protects the kidneys and heart from mold toxins. AND it was shown to help retain trace minerals which get depleted when the body tries to deal with mold and mold toxins....
How Mold Causes Shallow Breath
Are you an under-breather?One of the most common things I see with my mold sick patients is that their body has brilliantly taught them how to do bare minimum breathing. Your wise body protects you from inhaling poisonous mycotoxins by adapting to “bare minimum...
Sheltering in a moldy place?
Even though I preach that you MUST remove the mold exposure in order to get better (avoidance, avoidance, avoidance), right now that just may not be possible.It turns out that this isn’t a new problem for those raising animals, so some studies were funded to learn...
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