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...
Mold and Skin: What Your Body is Trying to Tell You
As we heal from toxic mold exposure, the body – in its wisdom – will clear out the deeper, more critical areas of our bodies and push the clutter to the surface where it can be more easily excreted.It will prioritize moving toxins out of important systems...
Avoid Detox Insanity: How Constipation Interferes with Detox
It’s said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.This can happen with detox too!📖 The definition of detox insanity is pushing the body to detox while constipated.If you’re constipated, excreted...
What Causes a Spike in Gliotoxin from Mold? Key Insights and Solutions
Gliotoxin on the rise?You’re not alone. Once you start mold treatment, all the fungi take notice and put up their guards. They put up their guards by making more mycotoxins to defend themselves.Candida is one of these fungi. Candida is a normal resident of a healthy...
Is Sourdough Good For People With Mold Illness?
For mold? Maybe not, sadly. As a naturopathic doctor (aka hippy-dippy doctor), I have had the benefit of working with lots of cool hippy-dippy people! People who strive to live healthy lives, take charge of their health, exercise regularly, and grow and make their own...
Understanding the Connection Between Mold and Insomnia
Humans are awake in the day. 🌞Owls are awake aaaaaaaaallllll night. 🦉Is mold making you feel like an owl?Mold disrupts our circadian rhythm. Circadian rhythm is the system, or “drum beat”, that dictates all of our inner workings – energy, digestion, attention,...
Mold’s Effect on Vitamin D Labs: What to Look For
🤔 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...
Can Mold Cause Constipation or Diarrhea? How Often You Should Go Number 2
Have you ever wondered how Goldilocks and poop are similar?No?…. Just me? 😉🙃It’s the “just right” principle from the Goldilocks story. Not enough daily BMs and you could be reabsorbing mold toxin. Too much and you could be losing necessary nutrients to feed you and...
Emulsified Vitamin D: Mold Illness & Absorption Benefits
☀️ 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...
Bitter Leafy Greens to Heal from Mold
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...
When Is It Time for Biofilm Busters for Mold Illness?
Are you feeling it? The warm 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...
Don’t Let Dust Deliver Mycotoxins: Keep Your Home Clean for Better Health
Want freaky fast mycotoxin delivery? Easy, don’t dust. That’s right. Dust is like the Jimmy Johns for mycotoxin delivery. One deep breath in a moldy environment and you’ve just been delivered mycotoxins from the air, pronto. Once considered an innocent nuisance, we...
Understanding Mold Detox: Accumulation vs. Detoxification
Which mode is your body in? Which direction is your needle pointing?Accumulation OR Detoxification.It can only be to one direction or the other – accumulation of toxins OR getting rid of toxins. Mold pushes the needle to accumulation, which is a...
Itching Can Be a Sign 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...
Coffee Craving Might be a Sign that You Have A Mycotoxin Problem
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...
How to Do Mycotoxin Detox Using Clean Fats?
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,...
Can Mold Cause Heart Problems, Like Myocarditis?
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...
The Correlation Between 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...
Mold’s Effect on Vitamin D
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...
Glutathione Benefits and Boosters To Heal Better
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...
Living in a Moldy Place? Protective Nutrients
Even though I preach that you MUST remove yourself from the mold exposure in order to get better (avoidance, avoidance, avoidance), right now that just may not be possible. There are things you can try, based on animal research, to protect your cells. This study...
Lycopene Foods: The Benefits of “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 Can Grow in Fridge Water Dispensers
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....
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