 Hi everyone. It's so good to see you here. I am actually a few minutes early for the Q&A live that we promoted online. So if you are just now joining, please pop in, let me know who it is where you're from. I'm here live for the next 20 to 30 minutes to answer your questions that you have about chronic illness, Lyme or mold, or any of the things you might want to talk to me about. And if you will bear with me, I'm going to go ahead and get us. Let's see the questions here in the chat box. So, hang in there. I see a few you're on already. Awesome. Hello. Welcome. Great to see you here. We're going to be here for live Q&A for the next 20, 30 minutes. So pop in, tell me where you're from, where you're listening from any questions that you might have. I'm just getting up the feed so I can actually see your questions in real time as we are talking. So thanks for joining me today for the live Q&A as I just get set up so that I can see all of you guys and what you're doing and what your questions are today. Okay, good. Hi Dana from Wisconsin. Awesome. Hello everybody. Again, this is Dr. Jill live here to answer your questions about mold or Lyme or chronic illness or anything you might have. And I've got a few already that had been pre submitted so I will take a look at those and start there but if you're just joining me now. Okay, hello and put your questions in your high Trisha to Wisconsinites. You guys probably know what I grew up in Illinois not too far from you. So I was in a pure Illinois for most of my life growing up just a little bit. Let's see it would be a little bit east of pure a farm community called Roanoke Illinois probably most of you have heard of Roanoke Virginia but not Roanoke Illinois. I'm in the town of about 2000 graduating high school class of just under 50 so really small town rural area. That's my hometown so hi guys from Wisconsin. Hello from Missouri Hi Brenda, great to see you here. And here I am live answering your questions so just submit any questions that you might have. And I have a few people who submitted questions beforehand so I will go to those to get started but I'm just going to let everybody kind of filter on. Say hello tell me where you're from and submit your questions I'm here live to answer your questions and always look forward to these afternoons when I can interact with you virtually. I found a lot of names that I recognize so that is awesome. Thank you guys for joining me. I'm going to go back to the page here to see if there were a few submitted. We did have one scheduled. I don't know two three weeks ago, and I had to cancel that so if you guys are waiting on that one and then notice I didn't show up I apologize, but I am here now and ready to answer your questions. So Claire had submitted a question beforehand, and said she is feeling so much better from mold toxicity but still waking up feeling kind of toxic. So far colostyramine has been the best difference but how long to take it for. She said, I have sears I would love to speak to a mold expert and there isn't any in my area. I'm stuck do I need brain training Claire I'm so sorry, mold is just nasty and it lasts for quite a while I always say when patients are first starting to get treatment to expect anywhere from six to 18 months. I remember with my experience. It was about 18 months till I started to really feel like myself and unfortunately, I felt worse before I felt better. You might have heard me say this before but when I first started treating my mold toxicity years ago and started on binders I was like, I want to get better and I just took a handful like I don't know six to eight binders of charcoal. I was so sick, I got hives head to toe I got rash as I'm sure it was mass cell activation, and I learned kind of the hard way not to go too quickly. You know with mold toxicity and really any toxic issue there's two things there's two toxins out of your tissues so often after the mold exposure, we will get this stuckness of toxicity in our tissues in our fat cells in our body, and we have to mobilize that toxin first before we can excrete it. Things that include things that either precursor of glutathione like NAC, lipoic acid, milk thistle, selenium, all of those kinds of things might help to mobilize so would infrared sauna or epsom salt baths or sweating of any type. And then there's so many other things we can do to mobilize toxins. I feel like mobilizing toxins is the easy part. It's the excretion. That's the harder part and if we're mobilizing too quickly for our bodies to excrete often we get stuck and we get more sick and that would be the case, like when I took too much charcoal and got hives head to toe I was mobilizing a lot of toxins into my bloodstream, and becoming actually more toxic because I couldn't excrete. So what is excretion and how do we enhance excretion because that is going to be the key to you getting well, and you feeling well during the detox. So excretion is going to be sweating, urinating your stool, the breath that we breathe out, and through the skin like I said with sweat there are so many different ways that we excrete, and even our lymphatic system is key for excretion. So if your lymphatics are slower sluggish you might find you have ankle swelling or puffiness or weight gain. You might just feel more toxic like Claire mentioned in her question. And so that excretion is so critical and things that help excretion are dry brushing coffee enemas infrared sauna can help but that can also be pretty strong at mobilizing your scalp as can also be able to pull with excretion and any way that you can increase your sweating will help lymphatics are huge here so rebounding dry brushing, hot and cold therapy like hydrotherapy where you take a warm shower and then end with cool water or vice versa, usually want to end with the cool but you can do cycles of that. Those are always to enhance excretion massage therapy can help lymphatic massage can help. There's a lot of bio flow so calligogs which would be like ginseng, Genshin violet and dandelion root and astragalus and Artemisinin which is a really potent bitter. All of those are bitters that increase the bio flow, but those things can be really really helpful if you're getting stuck as you're mobilizing. So back to Claire's question colostrum means been helpful colostrum means a particularly good binder for ochre toxin, and it's a very powerful binder so I do use it to have ochre toxin that can be really really helpful, but it's a powerful binder and I feel like with colostrum mean if you take it too long. You can have more depletion of minerals and things like that. So I'm less apt to use colostrum mean as I am to use clay and charcoal and other binders. Okay, I see lots of questions and hello's coming in hi Taylor, great to see you hi and amna from Chicago not far from where I grew up. I mentioned curcumin. If you have a question about that Taylor type it in there and I will answer. Hello Nancy strange spasms under your rib after having gallbladder taken out, mostly after food sometimes even upon awakening any ideas. So, when our gallbladder is removed our gallbladder is the storage facility the bag or you know if you will, for our bile and our liver will take phase one and phase two and take toxic metabolites, transform them into intermediates which are actually more toxic than the first thing that came into the liver. And then that intermediate through phase two will be transformed into a water soluble toxin or toxin residue that is excreted into the bile and stored for excretion into the small bow. So what happens in our body then is that small bowel, get the bile gets excreted usually with meals to help emulsify fats but bile also stores cholesterol and toxins, but our body is really smart and really efficient so about 95% of the bile acid is recirculated. And so we use binders with a charge like clay or charcoal or glycomandans or chlorella or any of these things to actually grab on to this toxins and pull them out through the stool. So, back to your question, Nancy about the gallbladder if you don't have a gallbladder you still produce bile, but that bile just drips steadily into the small bowel without being excreted specifically at meal time. And what can happen there is either you have more trouble with emulsifying fats you have more intolerance to fatty foods, and you might need an enzyme. You can actually take oxfile with your meals if you have trouble with those fatty meals, or you can take a broad spectrum digestive enzyme one of my favorites is our digest time, which has the TNHCL for proteins it has pancreatine for fats and carbohydrates, and it has oxfile so all of those things in one. I'll make sure and leave a link there for you guys if you're interested in checking that out. But that may be helpful around meal time, because that will help to emulsify the fats and the proteins and the things that little twins you're probably actually feeling a little bit of pain, either where the common bile duct is or it's hard to know exactly what you're feeling there, but I will say that's not uncommon after the cholecystectomy, especially if it's just several months after usually over time that will go away. But you can support with digestive enzymes like the digest time that I'm putting a link to right now. And then also bitters would be great. So the gentian any sort of art of missing in or bitter combination because that will help your bile be secreted. And if it's really bothersome, you can take a bile acid binder, which is also what we use for mold like colostyramine or well call those are bile acid binders and those can help if you're excreting too much bile and it's causing pain after you've had your gallbladder removed. Okay, lots of questions coming in anyway, thank you Nancy. Shen Kilo. I hope I said that right. You recommend immunolytics plates for testing after army dock things problem from army but mold inspector says hurts me was okay and house okay. Okay, so this language for some of you who don't know about moles like what is she talking about now, I know what you're talking about but basically, army was a test that was developed over some hud houses around 800, I don't know, 600 houses, and they determined some of them to be moldy and some of them not. And so they created this test that does QPCR so test the PCR that's the DNA from mold in the dust and tells you what species they find in the dust of your house. So QPCR which is DNA testing for mold in the dust is a valid test and a great test to look at the history of what might have been in your house as far as mold, I still find them incredibly useful I have patients do them all the time, especially if they're not sure that there's a exposure where they may have some tests that show some issues, and then I want to know if there might be some sticky batteries or ketamine in the dust. So that's called QPCR, but QPCR that technology can be taken and given an army score and a lot of the tests that you order are called army E RMI. However, if you talk to a good inspector you'll find army, the validation of that score on the army has been kind of invalidated because the study was poorly done. I never use the term army I use QPCR because it's the same type of test, but it's just a different looking at the data, the raw data versus giving that army score. So I don't use army scores but I do use the test the QPCR from dust, I think it's very valid. So that's the background there hurts me as another way to score which takes the top five molds that are in water damage or require water source. So you can look at that score and see if it could be likely safe or unsafe for a person to reside in that if the score is less than 11 it's statistically significant that it's likely safe for someone with sears. If it's between 11 and 15 we don't know there's no statistical significance. And if it's above 1599% of patients who have sears or chronic inflammatory immune response from mold will actually not get better in that environment. So you can pretty much guarantee if the score is really high above 15 that it's not a safe environment to get well in. Now, every test has his caveat so I always prefer to have an inspector weigh in on that it sounds like you did Shaquille. So, if the hurts me looked good the hurts me was zero that looks good. It all depends so how you feel in that environment because no one test is going to tell you for sure if it's safe or not. And even if the army or the hurts me looks good, there will still be dead debris from particulate from the mold remediation or mycotoxins that could make you ill. So in the order of remediation once you have remediation done you test retest QPCR or an instruction or air sampling and they look good. Then after that you'd want to make sure that you feel okay. And usually I recommend cleaning the HVAC system dry fogging and then doing a small particulate clean to make sure all that dust and debris is out of the house. That's a very long answer to your question is ethanol and Quicksilver from corn and issue safe if sensitive to gluten. In my experience to killer that ethanol in the Quicksilver products is not a problem and I'm a super sensitive canary. So I'm a good test case because if I can tolerate, and I have no problem with their products. I'm certain that some people might but in general, I have no problem with them and most of my sensitive patients tolerate them just fine. I've got a mold exposure they say I have Lyme thyroid Crohn's and more oh I'm so sorry sounds like my history for six months I'm going to the doctor Western doc and now functional Western so he's kind of open minded it sounds like he keeps throwing prescription and supplements at me. I'm on so many pills and keep getting worse. Don't trust but don't have any other options. Can you suggest prescription. Okay, Dina. First of all, I'm so sorry you've got a lot of diagnoses and I'm sure you're suffering to with the mold and the Crohn's and Lyme and everything. I don't love when docs are even myself. I don't think it's a good idea to take and just substitute Western medicines for supplements, because we need to get to the root cause and try to reverse whatever thing led to your illness. And it sounds like probably from the mold exposure your immune system is weakened on one arm you're having auto immunity which is overactive immune system that's Crohn's disease. You might be having infections like Lyme or Epstein bar which is underactive immune system. That's really really common and just throwing a bunch of supplements or pills at it is not going to cure the problem, even though I'm a huge fan of supplements I take probably 40 or more per day. So, having said that you need to get the root cause and if that's mold you need to get out of the situation. So, if you have any talks from mold in whatever way that you can. I've written a free mold guide so if any of you don't already have that I'll be sure and include a link here or wherever you're watching to that free mold guide. But I agree with you Dana, first of all trust your gut. It feels like too much you need to cut back talk to him or her and see if you can make some adjustments to that number of prescriptions, because when your body's overloaded with toxicity. Again, even good supplements can be too much. So adding more is not always the right answer. Okay, your question is do you suggest prescriptions or can you heal without. Often we do need some support like glutathione or binders. But I always check in with the patients and say is this too much how are you doing because the body can feel overwhelmed and especially if you're incredibly sensitive in that time after a mold exposure. I do often start with limbic system retraining that could be DNRS, it could be guptus program it could be porges safe and sound. It could be by urinal beats cranial sacral therapy neuro linguistic programming. Welcome to the world of trauma and limbic system and somatic therapy so this can be really helpful at letting your body know it's safe because often when you have mold exposure. Part of the issue is feeling unsafe and your body even if you know you're safe on a analytical level, part of your body is like, Oh, there's something toxic in this environment. Okay, hi Brenda increase symptoms falling amalgam removals specific suggestions. Great question Brenda, I have had my share of issues cavitation surgery removal of root canals and implants and so I've been through a lot of that and I used to have loads of mercury feelings, which I got taken out maybe a decade or two ago, but as you're getting them taken out you can even with the best dentist get a little exposure to mercury. So what I recommend. Quicksilver does have a detox cube that's a full detox for mercury it's expensive and there's a lot to go to do, but in the very basic with mercury you want some source of glutathione. Either glutathione itself and a liposomal form, or some precursor like n-acetyl cysteine lipoic acid vitamin C glycine glutamine those can all enhance glutathione production because you're going to need that glutathione to get the mercury or heavy metals out of your body after amalgam removal. The other thing that I would do is support with lipoic acid which is pretty critical with minerals. And with, you know, in conjunction with your doctor you may be able to do DMS a or EDTA which are both key leaders of mercury and lead. Those are a bigger heavier hitters so I'm always much more careful about how I prescribe them and talking to patients. Often we'll do like two or three days on and 11 days off or a cycling. So you do a couple days on a couple days off. When you're off of those you want to replete the minerals because those things will bind your minerals as well. So part of the protocol includes like an essential mineral supplement or something like that. So glutathione, lipoic acid, minerals, sometimes key leaders, zeolite is a great key leader. So I'm going to give you guys our new link to our new zeobind. I am so excited about this. And this zeobind is amazing for detoxing mold and heavy metals because it has the zeolite in it. So it has a very nice amount. I'm going to put this in the chat. It's called zeobind plus. You can find it at drjilhealth.com zeobind plus. And this will be a great way if you're suspecting metals or concerned about metals that zeolite is a really great binder for heavy metals. So hopefully that answered your question Brenda. Hi Donald. Thank you for the kind remarks. Not able to listen long but just encouragement I love that thank you thank you that means so much to me. And thank you Nancy. Shaquille you said can old like mold exposures compound each other. Well, yes and no so when we, I always think of it as toxic load. So toxic load is the amount that's in our buckets. And when that bucket starts to fill up with toxins of any sorts air quality, water quality food quality, it fills up to the top and then spills over into our buckets like chronic infections or fatigue or brain fog or pots or mass selectivation. So that bucket what we need to do to start to get well as to decrease the load in the bucket. So if you at you know when you were a child and then when you were in college and then when you were after college, you had multiple homes or places with massive mold exposure, your bucket has been filling up over time and you may get this last mold exposure. And it's the thing that tips you over the edge but it's actually a history of that toxicity exposure that creates the real issue. So yes that's a really great question because yes it can compound. If you had other toxic exposures or you have a history of mercury amalgams or breast implants for some women can be an issue because of the silicone and the things that can spill into the body. It can be a whole other topic, but it can be an issue for some people. So yes, the answer is yes that can compound over time, and party healing is decreasing the water level in the bucket and that's your toxic load. So whatever you can do to detox is often really helpful, because you bring that water level down and give yourself margin, and then that margin allows you to get well. So great question. So can the absence of my gallbladder also be the reason for constipation. Yes, yes, yes. So again, bile is a sterilizer the small bow it prevents fault bacterial overgrowth fungal overgrowth. So I guess the first place I would start Nancy is getting a stool test. Kind of a functional stool analysis to see the microbiome and then organic acids is a urine test and that will tell you metabolites of things in the gut because the first thing would be to treat the dysbiosis if there's fungal or bacterial overgrowth or parasites or any inflammation. I would also recommend a gluten free dairy free sugar free diet because most people who have gut issues are sensitive to one or more of those things and taking them out can really clear the plate and allow you to feel better. Third thing would be simple things for constipation will be magnesium citrate vitamin C or buffered C powder those you can kind of dose to bowel tolerance meaning to regularity. So if you're going to work you can use a Senate extract. We have a colon X product that's really fantastic. I will put a link here to that as well for constipation, and that can be incredibly helpful. And then there's an essential fiber, that's my favorite because it adds some really key fiber that is good for your microbiome as well and you could take anywhere from one to four caps of that at bedtime. My favorite probiotics for tough guts are spores. So, we have a spore with IG, and this one has immunoglobulins. And as I talk I'm putting the links here and anywhere you watch this you'll be able to see the links down below, just in case you're interested. The spore with IG has spores are just really good at helping increase diversity and helping with either constipation or diarrhea it helps to regulate, and this particular spore with IG has immunoglobulins which is helpful for passively binding viruses bacteria H pylori in the gut so it's one of my favorites because it's kind of a simple thing, all in one you're welcome Nancy. I'm Keela, I hope I'm saying your name right dear. What do you recommend for pots. Oh yes pots pots, I have pots to so I know this well. So, sodium is the big thing so you salt in your water can be really helpful, adding that to your water a couple times a day or some electrolytes with plenty of sodium potassium is good and we all need it. I just read recently that because of soil depletion 100% of Americans are deficient in potassium. So if you have pots potassium can actually lower your blood pressure. So too much potassium or magnesium can be an issue you want more sodium a little less. You still want potassium and magnesium but just not so much that you get dizzy and lightheaded. After meals and people will experience symptoms with the pots so you can modulate smaller meals. You can take pressures things that raise blood pressure which is ironic because most of us are trying to lower blood pressure but with pots you can actually often the issue is a very low blood pressure and it creates attack a cardiac problem when you stand up and don't feel well and you feel like you're going to pass out. So, things like coffee can help coffee can go either way so some people feel better some people feel worse stimulants, which are used for ADD, the medications can be helpful, and even natural stimulants like tyrosine or adrenal support, that's a big one to, and you really want to work with your doctor to find the root cause it could be infection could be adrenal issues. If you can ignore up an effort and adrenaline, it could be inflammation mass activation. So if you can find the root cause often then you can treat that root cause and improve symptoms, but with pots is often lifestyle. So for example with me, if I'm going to go on a hike or a walk always make sure I have some electrolytes with sodium in my jug of water. I don't eat a big meal before I'm going to do exercise. And typically if I get tired I lay down and rest and I feel better. So some of those are. Okay, let's see here you have just going to answer another couple questions in the last couple minutes here. Marie, a bad lactic burn in my legs and arms just walking up stairs. Any ideas. Oh yes yes yes I love that you asked this. So there is a product you can find. I actually don't have it in my store, but you can find it anywhere online it's called sport legs, sport legs. This will bind up lactic acid and help you with that pain that's post exertional. It is wonderful I discovered it. I don't know maybe a decade or two ago when I was skiing and skiing of course you're going down the mountain using your muscles. And often that leg burning is common and then the next day or two you have that buildup of lactic acid. It's the reason why if you work out and get sore a day or two later. That's lactic acid buildup in your muscles. You can find sport legs you can also get calcium or magnesium lactate. You can find those pretty very cheap and easy. And those will take away that burn. Hi Don great to see you here. You asked about the IG the sport with IG. That is very similar to Megasport. It's my own branded product, but it has the same spores in it, and it also has immunoglobulin so yeah your question about it being like it's really, really similar. It's just got the immunoglobulins with it. So great question. Hi Kayla, what about adrenal fatigue. Oh yes, this is a big one. So adrenal fatigue, that term has kind of gone out of style so I like to be careful because if I'm talking to conventional docs are like we don't that doesn't exist right so you want to have the terminology just so that you can have the respect if you're talking to conventional docs. So now we call it HPA axis dysfunction. But the truth is the adrenals can be depleted after stressors or after infections or in certain situations where the cortisol is very flat line and how you would know is you would take a four point cortisol test, either urine or saliva. I like both ZRT and Dutch. Those are two labs that your doctor could order that test from. And you can check your cortisol and see where it's at it should kind of go, you know up in the morning when you wake up and then down in the evening. Often people are flat line during the day and they're up at night and they can't fall asleep and they're exhausted during the day, or some people are just like this flat line and they're not responding at all. So what to do. Adrenal glandulars are probably the strongest over the counter. We have adrenal essentials which is really great. It's one of my favorites because it combines some nutritional support and also a glandular. The other kinds are herbal and you can take an herbal support like anything with ashwagandha, rhodiola, Siberian ginsengs, those are all common in vitamin B5 which is panthethine is also really critical. So we have an activated B complex that is fantastic. I'm going to pull that up here too if you see me looking around and just getting links for y'all as I'm talking about because that B complex can be really important and helpful as well for the adrenals. And then you want to have magnesium and zinc. You want to rest and sleep well because that's the way you restore those adrenals. And you want to have plenty of salt kind of like the pots you want to have more sodium and electrolytes will help if you're increasing thirst and urination and those adrenals are not keeping you hydrated. So adrenals control blood sugar when you're fasting. They help with sleep and awake and those sleep wake cycles. They help with your ability to stand up and have normal blood pressure. So you want to make sure you have plenty of sodium electrolytes. You want to make sure you have small frequent meals and don't fast or wait too long between meals. You want to make sure your sleep is good. And those are all kind of the core things for adrenals. And then stress of course you want to decrease the stress, not too much stress, which is hard, right. Kayla Ashwagandha. Ashwagandha can be great. There are a few people who react to Ashwagandha. I think it's a relative to nightshades. I don't quote me on that because it's just off the top of my head. But for some people Ashwagandha can be a trigger, but many people do well on it and it's both an adrenal adoption and a thyroid adoption. So it's good for both thyroid and adrenal. So that was Kayla Marie. You're welcome Marie. Thank you for your kind of feedback. Last question, Shakila, B vitamins make me super bad and anxious. Oh yeah. So, so don't take B vitamins, especially methylated forms, you may need a non methylated like hydroxy B12 or folenic acid, because a lot of times the people are sensitive to B vitamins are sensitive to the methylated bees which are the active forms they're they're really the best forms but it's okay. You can just be overstimulated by those methylated forms. And that means you don't want to take high doses of those you can do instead like I said hydroxy B12 or folenic acid or a form other than the methyl B12 or the methyl folate or those methylated forms and you might feel better. Alright everyone I will be back. Thank you so much for your time today I always enjoy, even though we're not in person I kind of feel like I'm, I'm interacting with you and just bottom line here at the end is, I know a lot of you expressed suffering and illness and sometimes it's hard to talk to your doctor and the right answers hang in there keep searching. You can do a lot and trust your body trust your intuition if they're giving if your docs giving you 40 pills and you don't feel well. Talk to him or her and see if you can do some alternatives or take away some of those things because you know often you know the best thing for your body and even a doctor like me who knows a lot about different things I always check in with a patient you know your body better than anyone and trust yourself trust your intuition and it is very possible to heal from anything you're suffering from. So I wish you all well have a wonderful afternoon, and I hope to see you here again very soon.