Are Mold/Mycotoxins the Cause of Your Fatigue, Brain Fog, and Skin Rashes with Dr. Jill Crista

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Kate Kresge

Alternative Health, Medicine, 810564, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The Root Cause Medicine Podcast is created by Rupa Health, the best way to order, track & get results from 30+ lab companies in one place. In today’s episode, Dr. Carrie Jones is joined by Dr. Jill Crista, a Naturopathic Doctor and Author. Leading Expert at the Forefront of Mold-Related Illness Diagnosis and Treatment. They discuss how mold and mycotoxins could be the reasons behind your fatigue, brain fog, hormone issues, and more. Key Takeaways: 1. How Do Mold and Mycotoxins Affect Our Bodies? Mold can cause symptoms like brain fog, runny nose, watery eyes, allergies, and asthma. In an indoor environment, far from the sun and other natural forces, mold starts producing mycotoxins to defend the mold. Mycotoxins are incredibly harmful. They can affect every body system and can cause almost any symptom, which manifests in every person differently. 2. Mold and Mycotoxins Symptoms. Most common symptoms include fatigue, brain fog, cognition, sleep problems, sinusitis, swallowing issues, esophagitis, skin rashes, gut disruption, interstitial cystitis, anxiousness, static shots, and others. 3. Mold Treatment. This can be broken down into five steps, avoidance, fundamentals, protect, repair, and fight. Treating mold-related illnesses can be done by using natural medicine. Dr. Jill Crista is a leading expert at the forefront of mold-related illness diagnosis and treatment. She is also an acclaimed author, specializing in neuroinflammatory conditions such as mold sickness, PANDAS/PANS, and brain injury.

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0:00.0	Today on the Root Cause Medicine podcast.
0:03.7	And in one of those patients' homes, they found toxic black mold during a remodel.
0:07.2	And they had estimated it was about 12-year exposure.
0:10.5	It was in his basement.
0:12.2	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.
0:19.5	It explained all of the things.
0:21.2	It explained all his problems, like anxiety through the roof, but when he would take anxiety
0:25.5	medication, it would get worse.
0:27.1	So counterintuitive reactions to medications, pelvic pain, urinary frequency, his gut was a
0:31.6	mess, ear ringing, chronic sinusitis, you name it.
0:35.7	It was just all of the classic picture or confluence of symptoms
0:40.1	that we would see with mold-related illness. And I didn't know all that. Even though we're
0:44.0	trained in environmental medicine in school, I kind of knew mold is like, it's really bad for the immune
0:48.7	system and allergies, and it might affect your nervous system and cause like an MS-looking thing.
0:53.6	That was pretty much it.
0:54.7	So when I had this patient and we had this discovery, I hit the books and there's a ton of
0:58.7	animal research out there. And I started to make all of these connections with the other
1:03.5	patients that weren't progressing. Went and did some investigation with the amazing mold inspectors
1:08.9	in my area. And we found mold in almost all of the cases,
1:13.7	and either a current or a past profound exposure. And that's when I thought, oh, my goodness,
1:18.6	every practitioner in the world is seeing mold patients, but they don't know it.
1:24.1	Hello, hello. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones, and get ready to be blown away as I talk
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