Could Your Symptoms Point To Mold?

So it really is an important aspect for us to consider as a root cause when we’re looking into almost every illness. And I think you’ll get a really good feeling about that. The importance of it through the summit with many of the experts that we are including. So treatment can be really complex. We are all so uniquely different but there are ongoing themes of puzzle pieces that you can put together by listening to the speakers. Ideally, you’ll get to the place where, like some of the speakers are focusing on prevention from getting into mold again, with one actually was just dealing with the tropical storm hurricane that came through her area. So I hope this information helps you to understand how to improve your health and become resilient. And then I will be having a mold course so if you want to dig deeper and have more of my insights on how to put together a plan to recover that will be available to you. So if you’re still wondering, hey, could mold be part of what’s causing my symptoms? I’m going to delve into that for a few minutes. 

All right. So mold can affect almost every system in the body. Some general symptoms are fatigue, weight loss or weight gain, and hair loss. That really got to me when I was originally dealing with mold, severe body aches, and joint pain. Feeling thirsty and drinking a lot and yet being dehydrated, sensitivity. So many things, including sound and light sensitivity to touch. I think it was also one of the things that really affected me. Dizziness, night sweats, not being able to regulate your body temperature either, like running from too hot to too cold quickly or insistently. Often respiratory symptoms are involved but really not always. I got an appreciation of this and a totally separate mold exposure that I experienced with adult-onset asthma, but it can range from asthma to shortness of breath, cough allergies, sinus infections, and nasal polyps. My mother actually just was desaturating her oxygen was going down any time she started walking. We fixed the mold in her house and her oxygen saturation got better and she got off oxygen. And then you’ll notice that this page is the longest, the neurological symptoms mold mycotoxins are very, very challenging for the nervous system so it ranges from headaches to circulations where there are a little tiny muscle jumps. All kinds of neuropathies range from just feeling weak to having pain in the nerves with numbness and tingling as well as dizziness and vertigo. Many, many people complain of brain fog, so just really feeling like they’re not thinking clearly, but also to the extent of cognitive decline and memory loss, not being able to do simple math. So computational skills, lower executive function, including decision making. 

It’s also been linked with ADHD and ADHD and autism in some patients. It can also in some patients cause a tremor. It could be the cause of a tic. I’m going to share a case with you in a few days. I had a patient who recovered from having pretty severe tics. Then often I see some like levels of depression, anxiety, and OCD. Irritability, just having such a short fuse that you get frustrated or angry very quickly. Poor depth perception is real. I’ve had a couple of patients have car accidents because they just couldn’t determine where their car was in relation to other cars. Insomnia and even waking up not feeling rested, generalized weakness. Autonomic dysfunction is the system that helps your blood pressure to adjust to the environment, whether you’re sitting, lying down, or standing. And then some people even have some seizure-like events. 

Gastrointestinal symptoms are very common, ranging from heartburn, nausea even vomiting, diarrhea, and constipation. And then some people will actually just have the dominant pain along with bloating and then not absorbing their nutrients very well, malabsorption. Many people get sensitivities to food, and it’s even involved in inflammatory bowel disease for some people so that would be Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis. Immune dysfunction is very important. Almost everybody has some upregulation of inflammation in their body and that upregulation can even lead to autoimmune disorders. But then it also can be suppressed and show up with low white blood cell count called leukopenia and low platelet counts thrombocytopenia. And then recurrent infections just not being able to have that microbiome and immune system keep the organisms in check.

And then there are other symptoms that have been related to mold and mycotoxins. Miscarriages, birth defects, and hormone imbalance. And we’re going to probably talk a lot into hormone imbalances. Then some people will have problems with their Mitochondrial pathways that lead to nosebleeds and easy bruising. So I hope this gives you some idea of the breadth of the ways that mold and mycotoxins can impact the human body and be able to start to see that this is such a worthy area to delve into to help, you know, if this is what’s causing your illness and help you to get better. Thank you so much for joining me.