Deep Dive Into Mold Testing

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 774 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

As mold expert Dr. Jill Crista says on today’s podcast, there isn’t yet much objective data about which mold tests are the best for identifying and tracking mold illness. In today’s episode, Dr. Crista and Dr. Joe Mather discuss what we know about mold testing, it’s strengths and limitations.
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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
0:17.4	To make sure you're up to day on this and other important topics, visit Dr. Russo.com and sign up to receive weekly updates. That's d r-R-R-U-S-C-I-O.com.
0:29.2	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with
0:38.5	your doctor. Now let's head to the show. Hi everyone. Today I speak with Dr. Jill Krista, author of
0:47.2	Breaking the Mole. She's been on the podcast in the past and Dr. Joe Mather, who has also been on the
0:53.5	podcast in the past. And we went deep into the tests that are available for mold.
1:00.6	One of my concerns is that this is an area of lab assessment that is so early and it is so much so in its infancy, it can be challenging to ascertain what tests to use,
1:14.4	what tests not to use, which ones are accurate. And so one of the chief objectives today
1:21.1	was to get a better handle on that and also highlight some of the recent split test study results that Dr. Jill will be
1:32.3	publishing. So this is forewarning a fairly detailed, nuanced exploration of the different
1:41.3	tests available to quantify one's mold exposure, one's body burden of mold,
1:48.1	and or their immune system reactivity to mold. So that is what we go into detail today
1:54.7	regarding the good news is outside of all of the nuance. It doesn't seem to make a huge difference, at least
2:03.7	ostensibly, on patient outcome. As long as the clinician is keeping the bigger picture in mind,
2:11.0	and as I've said before, testing can be viewed as perhaps one-fourth of the data needed to make
2:16.1	a clinical decision, then, irrespective of
2:19.5	if it's the best test, the right test, the right time, you should still be able to achieve
2:24.9	the end point of seeing improvements in your or your patient's health over time.
2:31.1	I also want to point out that Dr. Joe is one of the doctors now in the expanded clinic,
2:38.9	Austin Functional Medicine. So I'm happy to announce that. And as you'll hear in this episode,
2:48.2	Dr. Joe is very sharp and very well tuned in, and he's one of the great minds
2:53.4	that we have on board, all working collaboratively in the model that I've been working so,
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