What Happens if You Eat Mold

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Is it safe to eat foods with mold? You probably wouldn’t want to eat moldy bread, but moldy cheese will not negatively affect your health. The mold on cheese does not produce a harmful byproduct like some other molds.

Avoid moldy foods such as peanuts, rice, grains, corn, dried fruit, and coffee. Eating mold on these foods can be harmful to your liver and can even cause cancer.

If you have mold or fungus in or on your body, it’s probably not related to eating mold, but an issue with your microbiome. In a healthy microbiome, you have abundant good bacteria and are typically unaffected by fungus, mold, and yeast.

When your gut bacteria are destroyed, fungus and mold can overgrow. Antibiotics, steroids, high levels of iron, and alcohol are detrimental to your gut microbes. Increased pH in the body can also contribute to the overgrowth of fungi and molds.

Mold and fungus can downgrade your vitamin D receptors. Without sufficient vitamin D, your immune system can not function properly. Increase vitamin D to penetrate this resistance. Whenever you increase your vitamin D intake, you must also increase magnesium, vitamin K2, and zinc.

If you’re deficient in zinc, your thymus will not function properly, inhibiting your immune function. Selenium is also vital to prevent infections.

If you think you may be experiencing fungus or mold toxicity, try the following remedies: •Activated charcoal •Bentonite clay •Chlorophyllin •Cruciferous vegetables•NAC •Propolis•MCT oil•Probiotic foods

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

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0:00.0	So what really happens when you consume mold and fungus?
0:03.5	Of course, most people are not going to eat moldy bread, but on cheese, a lot of times it'll start growing this mold or fungus and people will be concerned.
0:11.0	Is that going to affect my health?
0:13.0	I'm going to tell you right now, no, it won't affect your health in a negative way because it doesn't produce a byproduct like other mold or fungus will do.
0:20.0	You're not going to get that from cheese,
0:21.5	but you can get it from things like moldy peanuts, rice, grain, especially corn, dried fruit, and even
0:27.4	coffee. The toxins in these foods can really mess up your liver, even cause cancer. When you're
0:32.8	exposed to a deadly fungus, you need to be aware of what it is, how to prevent it, and how to get rid of it
0:38.1	if you get it. There are a lot of health conditions that involve fungus in mold, chronic sinus
0:43.5	infection, toenail fungus, white film on your tongue, skin rashes, and definitely cravings for sweet
0:50.6	because the fungus in the mold or the candida love sugar and also hidden sugar like the refined
0:56.7	starches sugar and especially high fructose corn syrup can also lower your immune system to prevent this
1:01.6	problem if you've been following my channel you know about grains and just not to consume corn grains
1:07.9	rice starches things like that now let's get into the real reason why you might have
1:13.4	mold or fungus growing on your body or inside your body. It's not that you ate something. It's
1:19.7	going to be mainly because of something that happened to your microbiome. In the microbiome,
1:24.4	you have mostly bacteria. And the fungus mold or yeast doesn't normally bother
1:30.0	you at all. It's kept in check by the bacteria, by just not allowing them to spread.
1:36.2	That bacteria is like the police officers. And because they're just small amounts, they're not
1:40.5	very, very unfriendly. They become unfriendly when they overgrow when you destroy the bacteria.
1:48.1	How? Antibiotics kill bacteria, but they don't kill fungus. The second one, steroids. That also
1:57.2	just shuts down your immune system and allows this bacteria and fungus to take over and grow.
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