Ep. 1178: Restoring Your Health for Adventure with Lydia Leskanic
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Adventure roadblocks. Anxiety? Allergies? Mold reactions? Restoring health for adventure. Today Curt interviews Lydia Leskanic about her health journey and how it has impacted her ability to engage in adventure sports. They discuss various health challenges, including gluten intolerance, allergies, and the effects of seed oils. Lydia shares her experiences with panic attacks and anxiety, and how somatic therapy and diet has helped her manage these issues. The conversation also delves into the often-overlooked topic of mold toxicity and its effects on health. Throughout the discussion, they emphasize the importance of understanding personal health and finding hope in overcoming challenges to lead a fulfilling life filled with adventure.
This episode is not medical advice. Talk to your doctor if you suspect you may have a mold allergy and/or mold toxicity. All of the symptoms listed in this episode aren't a comprehensive list of mold symptoms. Do your own research to see if your symptoms could be related to mold.
Helpful short, crash course book: The Toxic Mold Solution: A comprehensive guide to healing your home and body from mold: from physical symptoms to tests and everything in between by Laura Linn Knight.
Some resources from the book:
Testing your home for mold:
Use a DIY mold test kit that you can send to a lab for analysis, or have a professional do an ERMI test (Environmental Relative Moldiness Index).
Testing yourself for mold:
Find a functional medicine doctor with the ISEAI (International Society for Environmentally Acquired Illnesses) database (www.iseai.org/find-a-professional).
Mosaic Diagnostics: Offers urine mycotoxin test as well as an Organic Acids Test, which also tests for mold in the body (www.mosaicdx.com).
RealTime Laboratories, Inc. Offers mycotoxin urine testing and a helpful blog (www.reatimelabs.com)
For more insight or to get answers to questions you have, email Lydia at lydiashealthideas@gmail.com.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:17.0 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, all you adventure sports podcast friends. |
| 0:23.9 | I have one of my very favorite people on the entire planet to interview today, and I am super excited about it. |
| 0:30.4 | This gal, I've known her for several years, and it turns out she told me just today that she had never been on the Adventure Sports podcast, which is almost true. And we decided that it was time because she has something very, very special to share. If you are the type of person who loves adventure but has a hard time finding the energy for adventure. Or maybe you would love adventure, but anxiety |
| 0:58.0 | kind of scares you away from it. You just feel like it would be too overwhelming. Or maybe you're |
| 1:04.3 | someone that suffered from allergies or asthma or other things that have kind of held you back. |
| 1:10.7 | Well, this is an episode that's designed for you, |
| 1:14.7 | and it's one that you're going to want to share with people who might be in a similar situation. |
| 1:19.2 | So that is today's topic, health ideas that can help you in adventure. |
| 1:25.2 | And this wonderful person that I am interviewing is actually my daughter, |
| 1:29.9 | Lydia Laskanek. Welcome to the program. |
| 1:32.6 | Ooh-hoo. Thanks for having me, Dad. I'm glad to be here. My sons, maybe all of them, I'm not |
| 1:38.0 | sure if Luke's been on or not, but my sons have been on over the years here and there when we |
| 1:42.7 | did a big adventure. And it's pretty rare, but Lydia has not been on over the years here and there when we did a big adventure and it's pretty rare but |
| 1:46.1 | Lydia has not been on and there's there's a good reason for it she didn't go on the big adventure |
| 1:51.8 | now she did go on adventures and but I want to tell you one story that will kind of set the context. Lydia always chose to |
| 2:04.8 | do adventurous things with friends. She loves to be with people, and it was more about the people |
| 2:09.8 | that were going than it was about the adventure itself. And so we planned a trip. I guess we're going |
| 2:15.1 | into Mammoth Basin in front of James Peak in Colorado backpacking. |
| 2:20.0 | And some of her friends came along. |
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