Hello, this is episode three hundred and fifty four of the keto diet podcast. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.

Okay, so if you guys hear like a humming and like a breezy sound in today's episode,

it's because I have to have a fan on me. Our AC is being serviced by my amazing husband, Kevin, who is redoing all of the pipes in our AC today.

And so there's just no way around having it be loud. And so here we are. You're here for it. I'm here for it.

And today we are chatting about mold, which is one of the reasons why my husband is redoing our AC because of mold.

So perfectly timed episode. And today is super special. I have my friend Ann's cabal on to chat about her experience with mold and just her overall experience with health.

This is an experience episode. We're just talking with a regular person about their issues and just their experience with life.

As the title says, we're going to be covering mold toxicity and just being chronically ill due to mold exposure.

And I wanted to touch on a couple of items before we get into today's episode so that you fully understood kind of what mold is, what micotoxins are,

how it affects the body, why it does. And so let's kind of go through that first. And then we will introduce Ann and we'll get started.

So all molds, if they are toxic, we'll have something called a micotoxin and micotoxins compete for food and attack other molds to win out.

So if you have non like no bad mold, but you have like one bad mold, the micotoxins from that will like attack the other molds to like win out with them.

And the strongest will survive. And each mold creates one or more micotoxins. So each of these molds and their micotoxins can produce different types of symptoms.

In today's episode, we talk about some of those symptoms. I think like the biggest one that's kind of spoken to me quite deeply and kind of shifted a lot of the work that I used to do in this space is mold effect on hormones.

So you guys may know me as like the hormone lady, the keto hormone lady, I get a lot of messages about hormones. I've done a lot of videos and stuff about hormones.

I have no doubt that I naturally came to the ketogenic diet due to my hormones because of mold. I share in the episode today that in 2007, my husband and I had a pretty significant leak in our roof when we were living in a condo and it like went through basically the whole place and it was really bad.

And instead of fixing everything, the drywall was taken out and then just redone. And so we had a lot of water damage in the traces of the roof and down through the anyway, like so much water damage so much mold.

And that's really when a lot of my symptoms started popping up and at the time I wasn't working with practitioners who fully understood mold.

And that was around the time that my hormones went sideways. I had gone off birth control and so everyone thought it was the birth control and through understanding my story now and kind of my experience.

I'm definitely feeling like mold was a huge factor in that. So mycotoxins, mycotoxins rather can affect your hormones by lowering melatonin. It can cause inflammation like food sensitivities, IBS, immune dysregulation, low vitamin D because of increased viral

activity. So if somebody comes to me with like a vitamin D below about 25, there's a red flag in my mind that either says, is this an autoimmune pattern? Is this viral activity happening? Is this potential mold situation?

It can compromise the HP access, causing severe fatigue. It can disrupt vitamin D metabolism because of that increased viral activity.

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