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Today I wanna talk to you about mold toxicity. Now this is a very much popular subject and we see tons of patients in our clinic who have been diagnosed with mold toxicity or they have multi-system complaints, brain mood joints, fatigue. And it ends up that they’re actually mold toxic.

Now what does this mean? What is mold? So molds are a type of fungus. These organisms predate humans, okay?

These guys have been around since the very, you know, millions and millions of years. And they are quite sophisticated.

They’re able to assemble, uh, nutrients, reproduce themselves and they have a mechanism where they can protect themselves. In the early 1920s and thirties, a researcher left his window open. He had some plates with nutrients on it, and he found that when he was growing certain bacteria on the plates, that some of these molds blew from the outside through the window landed on the plate.

And he found where the mold colonies were growing on the plate with the strep and staph and e coli, that where the mold was, the bacteria stayed away. Like there were clear zones away.

And he thought maybe these molds are making something that are killing the bacteria and they can’t grow up to the edge. And this was the first discovery of the first antibiotics. So penicillin comes from penicillium, which is a mold.

And then as that further developed, more sophisticated, antibiotics were grown, but these were basically sourced from mold. So molds can make protective substances to defend themselves. Now, if molds have been around forever, why are we finding that molds are such a problem now? ’cause humans and mold have been living together for millions of years. In the last probably 25 years, we find people are now sensitive to molds or they get toxic from molds. And the way it goes is this, if you’re in an environment where the humidity is high

or there has been a building with a water leak, so a dishwasher, a toilet, a leaky roof, a leaky window, you get water in and these molds are all over the place and they like water and they will grow if there is a water source.

Now this has probably been going on forever too. Why is it a problem now and why are so many people sensitive to it?

Well, a scientist did a very interesting study on this. He took aspergillus black mold, had a big colony of it, divided it in half, put it on a table in a room where there was wifi in the room.

So 5G wifi in a room on one colony. He put a cage around it. A cage is called a Faraday cage. Verday cage blocks EMF electromagnetic frequencies.

So this mold bla, this aspergillus didn’t feel, couldn’t detect, | wasn’t impinged upon by the electromagnetic frequency. The other one was open. He let him sit for a month and the mold was sitting on a, they were both growing in a media which would give food to the mold.

At the end of it, he took the mold, he did a measurement of how much of the biotoxins that the mold made was there a difference between the wifi exposed and the wifi protected mold. And what he found was that the wifi exposed mold produced 600 times the amount of biotoxin

as the one that was protected. I think this is a clue to what’s going on now. There’s hardly any buildings around that aren’t, don’t have wifi, don’t have 5G exposure. And so while these molds, we lived with them, you know, 50 years ago, there was definitely leaky buildings

and definitely mold. But we didn’t see people affected the way they are now. And I think a big contributor is that these guys are angry. They’re, they feel like they’re being attacked. And when they’re attacked they produce biotoxins. This is their protective thing.

This is what penicillin comes from. And now when we see people, we can measure about a dozen of these different mold biotoxins.

And we find that if in your house, this is rarely a problem, if you lived outside in a tent, the chances that you, you get mold toxic are very low. This isn’t walking by someplace and some mold blows by you that you get sick.

This also isn’t a mold infection in your body. Now people can get infected with mold, they can get yeast infections, candida infections in their intestine or in their vagina or on their fingernails or toenails. This does not generally produce a mold toxic patient.

These are there, you can put a topical antifungal, you can take good bacteria, you can paint tea tree oil on your nails and it will go away. You aren’t infected with mold.

When you have mold illness, you are toxic with the products that the mold makes.

There’s a really good distinction here. ’cause if you start treating people with antifungal herbals or drugs thinking that you’re gonna cure their mold toxicity, it just doesn’t work. ’cause that isn’t really what’s wrong with them. What’s wrong with them is that this mold, it’s, it just happened to my house. Okay? So my wife and I live in a house that we built 30 years ago and we went on vacation and we came back and we walked in the house and I could smell mold.

It’s like there’s mold. Let’s get the mold guy out here. So the mold guy goes out here, he goes through the whole house, he’s going through the air conditioner and the air handler. And when he takes it apart, he finds that there’s an inch thick mold in the air handler that we didn’t notice before. I work with this every day and we didn’t notice this before so this can sneak up on you. Okay? So they had to clean out the whole thing, new ducts, all the things.

It’s a huge deal anyway. And then it handled the mold. What these molds were doing, I wasn’t infected with the mold.

The mold puts out these biotoxins and they can come in through the skin and they can come in through the breath and then the toxins produce the reaction in you. It’s not that the mold is growing in you. Now, one of the problems with our human detoxification system is that we don’t get rid of mold very well. ’cause here’s the way it goes.

The mold gets to your liver so you breathe it in, it gets in your system, it goes into your liver.

The liver in order to get it out, complexes it, binds it with bile. Now bile is made in the liver and one of bile main jobs is so that when you eat a meal that’s got water things in it or fat things in it, in order 

to get absorption right, the bile binds to it. And then you absorb the food now so that the body doesn’t have to make new bile all the time.

Once the food’s absorbed off the bile and the bile gets to your lower intestine, the body reabsorbs the bile sends it back to the liver.

So it can be reused. Now if the bile has got mold added to it and it gets to your lower intestine, it’s gonna bring all the stuff back through again and you’re gonna reabsorb the mold toxins that your body tried to get rid of.

And this is one of the problems with it. So if someone’s mold toxic, we can do a urine intestine, we can measure mold biotoxins and there’s probably about a dozen of ’em. We send the lab test off and we see, oh my goodness, there is aflatoxin B and this one and that one and this one. And there are levels which we get from food and which are normal.

But oftentimes we see in people that are living in a moldy house or a moldy office, that their levels are way out the roof and then we have to treat them because they often have symptoms. So mold is a major biotoxin and it can affect the brain anxiety, depression, memory issues, neurological symptoms, hormone imbalances. It can cause allergies, it could cause fatigue, it can cause gastrointestinal symptoms. So this is something that we have to treat.

Now, rarely do we find someone who’s got mold where it’s the single thing that’s wrong with them. They often then from the mold get some degree of immunosuppression and then their latent viruses, the Epstein bar, chronic fatigue virus, herpes type six flares up.

They may have latent Lyme disease in their body where their body was dealing with a prior Lyme infestation or infection. They were gut, they had no symptoms from it.

It wasn’t a problem. But when you add the mold toxin, now the Lyme flares up the rule of biotoxins.

It isn’t one plus one plus one equals three, it’s one plus one is five and one more is 50 and one more is a thousand.

It’s a, it’s an exponential reaction. One of the things which is sort of my, my what I’ve learned over the years is that if you have mold and you eat fine lime on you and you’ve got a root canal tooth, you could be Samson and you’re gonna go down.

In fact, just as a joke, I say to people, Samson didn’t go down ’cause they cut his hair, he went down ’cause somebody did a root canal on him and he had mold toxicity and Lyme and the strongest of the S strong they go down.

And unless you handle each of those things, you handle their teeth infection and you handle their Lyme disease and you detox them from mold, then they can get better.

But if you don’t get ’em all, you’re not gonna win. Now mold also produces in about 22% of people.

So they have a genetic, their genetics in 22% of people when they’re, when the mold comes into their body, it triggers their immune system to produce an overreaction. Now if a person who doesn’t have these genetics gets exposed to mold, the antibodies produced, handles the mold, mold goes away, they’re fine. And they can actually sometimes successfully live in a moldy area and not be too

bad.

It may cause, you know, mold can be an underlying cause of cancer and these other things. So I don’t recommend that you live in mold even if your genetics aren’t flaring up.

But in these people who have this genetic profile, it’s called an HLA type. Every time they see mold, their immune system’s triggered and their immune system doesn’t remember that it ever saw it before. So for example, if you had chickenpox when you were five years old, your immune system will remember that you had chickenpox and you go to a birthday party when you’re 20 years old and someone’s there with chickenpox, well it’s unlikely that you would get chickenpox ’cause your immune system, oh I know what that is, I’m gonna just take care of it.

And you don’t have to get sick. And this 22% of people, their body doesn’t remember that they saw mold.

And so they come in, they got mold, it triggers it, they got all these symptoms, okay, they get detox from it, but then they get a mold exposure, boom again. Now the way we have to get mold out of your system is that we have to alter the environment of where you live.

So there’s low humidity usually below 54% humidity.

Mold doesn’t grow very well inside. The other thing we have to do with your body is we have to give you things that will bind the bile so that the bile doesn’t get reabsorbed the way it normally does. And There’s various substances that will bind the bile SO that when your body naturally detoxifies it, the bile doesn’t get reabsorbed, the mold comes out and this usually takes probably three, four months to do.

And then we have to repair your underlying immune system, handle the Lyme, handle, the nutritional deficiencies. So this all has to be done at the same time.

Handle your dental stuff and then someone can get better. So the tools that we have with hyperbaric oxygen and ozone and nutritional Is and NAD and supplementation and binders, we can rebuild the person’s system so that then they can actually get better.

And when they do, they feel better and then they have to watch it. If they walk into a moldy building and they’re one of these two 22%, they gotta turn around and walk out because that mold will hit them again and it probably takes several years before their overall system is really desensitized. Otherwise it’s gonna kick ’em into a new one.

Now I have had patients who just protested this and they wouldn’t go with me on it. I had a guy who was a professional tennis pro and he came in here, he had not been able to work for two years. Late thirties picture of health couldn’t work, fatigue, anxiety, poor sleep, couldn’t work. And I diagnosed him with mold toxicity. Did the urine test there it was did the blood test, which showed that his  immune system was way overreacting, likely due to mold. I said he had to get his house fixed, okay, we could detox his mold, we had to get his house fixed. The other thing that goes along with this is often it causes hormonal imbalance.

So his testosterone level is very low. His DHEA level is very low. And um, so I can fix all that stuff but I can’t keep him in the moldy house. So he came in here for nine months, he was getting therapies in the clinic three times a week for nine months. And every three months I would see him and he would come in and he would tell me, I’m no better.

I’m no better. You’re not helping me. So I said, on our first visit I wanted you to get your house checked for mold and I needed your house to get fixed. Have you done that?

Well I just don’t believe that. I don’t see any mold in my house. I don’t see it. Okay?

I said, well you and I are gonna part ways because I hate taking care of people who don’t do what I say.

’cause every time you leave here I feel like I’m not doing my job and you’re wasting your money. So you either decide to get my, uh, give him the name of a mold guy to go out and handle his house or um, or or you find somebody else to help you.

So that was enough where he did it. Okay, now these guys find where the source of the leak is, fix it, get rid of all the drywall and where all the mold is and they fix it. And then they do a treatment where they’ve got an an aerosol spray. It’s kind of a vis vinegar derivative and it cleans the whole thing out.

And usually once they do that one treatment, they guarantee it for a year. He had a tile roof house and the mold was so prevalent and the tile, it was black, the tile was black and underneath the tile going into the attic, it was black with mold and they had to treat the house three times to get it clean. And so he came back three months later, this is a year I’m working with this guy, how are you doing?

I’m doing good now. I went back to work.

You know he was at a pro tennis club and he was, he was teaching again. So this is like a, like if you have mold toxicity and you are sensitive, you will not get over this unless the

mold is cleaned out in your environment. That might be your house, it might be your bedroom, it might be your office. But it has to be handled. I had a couple that both of them had mold and they lived south of here about 200 miles. He was a builder and he had added on a room. He had done a room addition in his house and they came both up here. I diagnosed them with mold toxicity, both of them. So I said, you gotta go fix your house.

So he went home, he leveled the add-on that he’d done and they’d gone through the whole house to find, was there any mold left out And he couldn’t find it. But when they came back here and I did the, we did the program with him to get rid of the mold, I still found mold on him and they weren’t any better. And we went after this for a couple of months ’cause we couldn’t find it. And then one day by accident she pulled off the top uh, mattress cover. She had a Tempur-Pedic mattress, which is artificial foam, real rubber doesn’t grow mold hardly at all. But the artificial rubber, the synthetic rubber does, in which he pulled it off their bed, the whole bed had black mold on it. Disaster. They’re sleeping on it. No wonder they didn’t get better. So they throw the mattress away, they get a new mattress and in three months they’re all good, they’re all better. So this is sort of a no you can’t compromise with this, it just can’t get better. I’m gonna tell you one more story because this might help you. We have a room in our office here where after hours I would go in there and review charts. And what I noticed is I would go in there and after about 15 or 20 minutes I would feel like my throat was scratchy and my eyes would burn a little bit and I’d leave there thinking, oh I’m getting sick. And I’d go home and the symptoms would totally go away.

So after a couple of weeks of this I thought well maybe it’s something in the room that’s bothering me that I’m sensitive to or I’m allergic to. So I called, I thought maybe it’s mold. And I called the guy in town who was supposedly the good mold guy and he came over and we walked room by room and they have special devices where they check humidity and they do all this stuff. And he said, I just don’t see anything. Okay fine. So I resumed my normal pattern.

Patients went home, I’m reviewing charge for the next day. I| go in the room by throat scratchy, I get the symptoms back

again.

I thought maybe I’ll try a new mold guy ’cause maybe the guy missed it. So I call another guy, he comes over, we walk the building like inch by inch. I don’t see anything he said before I go, let me just, let’s take a stroll around the building.

And we start walking around the building and on the outer wall of this room where all the charts are, he notices that the sprinkler system heads were directed at the wall and not at the bushes. And three nights a week the walls getting sprayed with water. He says, I’m gonna go to my truck, get a crowbar, comes back to the wall, peels off one of the sidings.

And for 20 feet from the floor to about four feet high is black mold growing all on the outside of that wall. ’cause mold likes water and when it gets wet it grows and it likes darkness and water and the mold particles were going through the wall into that room. And that’s what was making my throat scratchy. So we get somebody here, they tear all that stuff out, redirect to sprinklers, spray the whole building for mold. And then I could go in that room and there was just no problem.

I just had a patient came from Malibu, California. Okay? She’d been for five years trying to get better. And she came in here and she had all the symptoms of mold.

She also had Lyme and she also had some parasites and some other active viruses. She’d also gotten a covid vaccine and that was active in her and she was really sick. After about six weeks she was starting to feel better and we were treating her mold and we, I knew that she was in an environment living here where she was away from the mold and she decided she has a couple of children, uh, in California, that she was gonna go home for a long weekend so that she could see her kids. And she went back into her house.

She said the minute she walked into her house, she knew that her body started to go down again. And she came back here and she was just distraught.

She felt terrible. She felt like we hadn’t been doing anything with her. And when I redid the testing on her, the mold levels had just skyrocketed. Okay? And then we sort of had to start over. So I said, you better get your house checked for mold.

So she had the test done and in these sensitive people, in a normal person, if the mold level is say below six, they can live with it. And a real sensitive person has to be under two in her house. It was 27, just massive mold growing in the bedroom. So at night in the bedroom, okay, so we just finished her treatment and she’s going home and I said, you’re gonna sleep in a tent outside unless you are for sure, for sure have this house dem molded.

Now there are specialists that do this and they’re very variable. So some specialists are really good at it and they clean out your house, they find the mold, they remediate it and it gets better and they’re fine and subspecialists aren’t that good and they, they miss it.

And then, then you won’t get better. This can be subtle, sometimes it’s not so subtle, but it can be subtle.

And if you have high levels of mold and your urine on a test, um, it’s in your environment. And with our experience, unless you find it and fix it, you won’t get better. So at LifeWorks we see a lot of patients with severe mold toxicity.

I was trained by Richie Schumacher who is the king of mold. He has discovered this, he has written large books on it, he has trained doctors on it and I have done graduate level courses with him on this. So we know how to do this and we are very good at it.

We’ve had great success in getting our patients well by focusing on detoxifying their body from these mold toxins and supporting their immune systems.

And we aim to get to the root of the issue by cleaning out these toxins, having the patient handle their environment, giving the body what it needs so that it can actually recover. This can be a complex problem and it often is, but the right  approach you can get well again.

And what you need to do is get with professionals who really know how to do that. We’re really good at this and if that’s a problem for you, you should contact us ’cause we can really help you and you can get better from this.

Okay, good.