Today on the root cause medicine podcast.

And in one of those patients' homes, they found toxic black mold during a remodel, and they

had estimated it was about 12-year exposure.

It was in his basement.

He slept on the second floor, but still, air exchange happens, which I know you're going

to be talking with some building experts, which is great.

It explained all of the things.

It explained all his problems, like anxiety through the roof, but when he would take anxiety

medication, it would get worse.

So counterintuitive reactions and medications, pelvic pain, urinary frequency, his gut was a

mess, ear ringing, chronic sinusitis, you name it.

It was just all of the classic picture or confluence of symptoms

that we would see with mold-related illness. And I didn't know all that. Even though we're

trained in environmental medicine in school, I kind of knew mold is like, it's really bad for the immune

system and allergies, and it might affect your nervous system and cause like an MS-looking thing.

That's pretty much it.

So when I had this patient and we had this discovery, I hit the books and there's a ton of

animal research out there. And I started to make all of these connections with the other patients

that weren't progressing. Went and did some investigation with the amazing mold inspectors in my area.

And we found mold in almost all of the cases,

and either a current or a past profound exposure. And that's when I thought, oh, my goodness,

every practitioner in the world is seeing mold patients, but they don't know it.

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