 Hey everybody thanks for joining me for our live this Friday afternoon. As always I'm going to get on so I can see your questions so just bear with me for a second while I get on so I can see the live feed and answer your questions today. So nice to see you all virtually. Please say hello tell me where you're from as I'm getting this all up and going and I would love to see all of your questions all of the things that you want to know today you just jump in the feed tell me where you're at where you're from just got done recording a live interview from for Dr Engels master class which is coming up on mold so we have to stay tuned for that you'll get to see my interview with him and if you haven't heard yet we are in the process of filming a documentary on environmental toxicity in mold so all of your questions from that would be welcome any sort of things on environmental toxicity mold related illness anything along those lines is fair game okay and I see that we're here it looks like I've got hi Blake from Iowa awesome great to see you and so yeah come say hello let me know where you're from let me know what questions you have mold gosh how many of you are struggling with mold related illness jump in tell me who you are where you're from what kind of struggles you've had what kind of questions hi Dixie from Florida can I take glutathione if I have mercury in my mouth so that's a great question because often we won't do a lot of challenge testing if someone has mercury because we don't want to disturb that usually I don't give dmsa or edta if someone has a lot of mercury in their mouth glutathione however I feel fairly different as unless you have a reaction to glutathione you should be able to still take that however as you probably know from asking ideal thing would be to find a biological dentist and get the mercury out of your mouth again I'm sure you know that sometimes it's expense or time or other things that make it difficult and I actually would not recommend doing it if you don't have a good biological dentist because if you start to disturb the mercury without the proper containment you could make a bad situation worse I know because I had lots of mercury in my mouth 20 years ago and I went to a dentist and I don't know that he did all the best job so far I'm doing okay because I've done a lot of mercury detox but you really want to have someone who does the bridge and kind of containment with that dental issues are a whole another issue Dixie I wonder if you are in the process of trying to find someone to do that or if any of you listening have dental issues you have questions about I am not a dentist but I realize how critical this is to our immune systems so you have any dental questions ask away and I'll do my best to answer or refer you to someone who might have a better answer hi Eric from Arizona awesome thanks for joining us so I will just talk a little about mold one of my favorite topics and then I will just be watching the comments here so please jump in add your questions I will be sure and answer as many as I can and the next half hour or so Dixie what glutathione do you recommend with filling still in place I will also go in and try to put some links into recommendations there is a couple options there is a versions of estacetal glutathione there are liposomal versions of glutathione and we have our own glutathione essentials it's a really great it's a capsule that works very well highly absorbable I really like that one because it's a capsule versus a liquid or gel some of the other gels that are good the quick silver brand is great research nutritionals has a good brand that's watermelon flavored so I just put that link in there if you guys want to see more about that hey Mark from Canada awesome hi Susan great to see you and Blake are there resources or supplements you recommend for someone who has had issues with mold and having COVID long haul okay well let's just do this Blake it's a great question to get us started let's kind of talk about like what do you do when you get mold exposure and how do you really start addressing these things so it's funny because I just got done doing a recorded lecture like I said so I was talking about this last hour and let's start with exposure so first of all if you have mold in your home or your workplace your environment no amount of glutathione or treatment or IVs is going to really take care of that if you're continually getting this massive exposure now what you can do is lower your toxic load of our time so that you become more and more resilient and less sensitive to mold which is the ideal but you really have to get rid of the um environmental exposure and thank you Sue for adding that mercury from the so the IA sorry IAOMT that's an organization that certifies biological dentists so thank you Sue for sharing that it's in the chat box because that's a great organization if you want to find a biological dentist and thank you Dixie for your thank you hi Donald so back to Blake's question on mold so environmental exposure you got to get out of the exposure and then you've got to help this detox pathways with mold we always have um basically mobilization of the toxins and excretion and if you mobilize too quickly but you're not excreting you get into trouble some of you probably if you were out there in an audience you could raise your hand and say yeah I know what that feels like I do too I remember after my mold exposure I took activated charcoal and I was just like oh I'm going to get rid of this mold and take a lot of charcoal and I had hives head to toe for probably four to six weeks or longer because I was pushing the toxins out of my body at too quick of a rate and I was actually getting um basically I was getting um what do you call re uh actually you know a reaction to those mycotoxins as they tried to go out of my body so that was definitely not a good idea I do not recommend going too quickly um and pushing yourself so that you're mobilizing quicker than you can excrete that's really really important so sometimes we think more is better not true because you can do collateral damage as you push too hard so things that increase glutathione are helpful that can be anything from anacetyl cysteine lipoic acid selenium ascorbic acid which is vitamin c glycine glutamine these are all precursors of of anacetyl cysteine basically glycine glutamine and anacetyl cysteine or cysteine are the backbones of glutathione so you need all of those amino acids in order to make glutathione and if you're someone like me who doesn't tolerate glutathione very well it's often good to do precursors instead so in the beginning I couldn't take glutathione now I can in fact this afternoon I was with a friend and getting an IV and I got IV Myers cocktail which is a B vitamins calcium magnesium I added a little extra zinc and I also got a push of two grams of glutathione afterwards so I literally just today got a boost IV of glutathione now I'm not in any particular problem today it was just it happened to be in a location where I could get the IV and that's a great option if you have access to to that where you can get some B vitamins and glutathione IV so you can also take glutathione and like I said I put one in the chat box here of a brand I like but there's many others out there and that will help your body to mobilize toxins now other things that can mobilize toxins are infrared sauna coffee enemas epsom salt baths one of my favorite things but many many ways that you can use to mobilize toxins in addition you're going to want to support the liver so things like dim and alphalipoic acid and milk thistle and n-acetyl cysteine are all supportive for the for the liver and then making sure that gallbladder is excreting so things like tadka and bitters and just digestive enzymes with your meals are really important and all of those things will allow the body to take the liver detoxify the chemicals and mycotoxins excrete them in the bile and then the binders come in in the gut because they will bind those toxins in the bile and escort them out through the stool so binders that we use are clay and charcoal and zeolite and glycol manans and there's many many binders my favorite is just plain old activated charcoal I will send you a link to that as well because gosh there's all kinds of wonderful brands but I'll put one of my favorites down here because it's simple to use it works well and I will also share you might not hear a lot of MDs talk about coffee enemas but it's such a wonderful thing I learned in Switzerland and I learned the power of that to enhance the production of your own glutathione so basically when you do a coffee enema that enterohepatic circulation from your colon to your liver enhances your own body's production of glutathione and many many patients tend to feel a lot better when they're doing coffee enemas once a week twice a week you should feel better not worse but that's another way to enhance glutathione production through the liver and actually support your liver and gallbladder a lot of us don't have good bile acid production or we have sluggish bile and that can also be a problem because the bile is the upholding substance for your toxic load so getting that bile acid secretion is really critical in detoxification so that's just in a nutshell there's so much more but I'll go back to questions hi Ivy how do you treat hormone irregularities in women as a result of mold and toxin exposure great question because you've probably heard me talk about before aromatase is an enzyme that's up-regulated in mold exposure and in both men and women what this does is it steals from your testosterone which makes muscles helps you keep strong and healthy and motivated and it steals from that and creates more estrogens and while we need a balance of all of these things if you have excess estrogen production you can often have endometriosis you can have fibroids you can have tender cystic breast you can have heavy painful periods men can have man boobs and weight gain around the middle and lack of libido so the sounding familiar to anybody super common and super common with mold exposure so I think it's Ivy's question is what do you do well you have to treat that imbalance and down-regulate aromatase because if you just give testosterone it will go down that same pathway and make more problems with estrogen so you can actually make a bad problem worse by just treating hormonally with excess testosterone because you're going to just go down that pathway so I like to use dim I like to use i3c calcium deglucorate sulfure fanes like broccoli brocco booze brock broccoli sprouts I'll put a couple of those on here too or a fane because that is just such a powerful thing one of my new favorites is our brocco boost love this it has anti-cancer benefits it's a it's basically a sulfur fane super powerful one cap is equivalent to about two pounds of broccoli sprouts so granted I love food if you can eat broccoli sprouts it's a great way to get it but it's kind of nice to have a cap that has such a powerful ability to help your detox and then like I said calcium deglucorate super powerful for a pathway called glucuronidation and I'm going to put that in here too so you know what I'm talking about uh glucuronidation is phase three of the I'm sorry phase two of the liver so it helps us process out those toxins through the liver and then of course anacetyl cysteine glutathione which I already mentioned um milk thistle another big one I'm just going to pop these all in here so if you guys wonder what I'm talking about you can go right and look at the ingredients on that and the last one silamarine which is another name from milk thistle um also an absolutely wonderful liver support I've probably been on the silamarine 20 years because I had breast cancer 20 years ago and I started taking it that long ago hi Eric what can my wife and I do to maintain our immune system until we get out of our out of it that means mold I'm sure on a tight budget oh first of all Eric I thank you for sharing that this is so common um I had a friend who just is dealing with mold and he got the estimate for the remediation and as you can well imagine eight to ten thousand dollars is not uncommon and I just oh my heart sank because I know how expensive and difficult this can be and not everyone has a choice to move or to get out right away so first of all true compassion for you and for anyone else suffering out there because this is hard stuff and it's your home that should be a place of safety so what I recommend is if you can afford an air filter that will help lower the mycotoxin load in the air the vocs I love austin air and I became a dealer just so we could give discounts so if you ever need that you can call our office um and get an austin air shipped right to you there's great other brands like IQ air um some of the ones like molecule and there's a few other brands out there are fantastic and they can actually help remediate the air however um they can react to the to the toxins in the air and create an ozone like substance and there's some people like myself that whose lungs are a little sensitive to that so I'm also really careful about those types of air filters I know the austin air and the icr do not they're great filtration systems but they don't cause any irritants to the lungs so I'm a little bit more cautious because me personally I did not do well with those types of air filters when I was sick so air filter and then dilution is the solution to pollution so just opening your windows or getting some air circulation from the outside and diluting that effect will also give you some relief until you can get out of the house or remediate or whatever. Hi Stephanie what would you suggest for chronic MCAS if you're salicylate intolerant and can't tolerate corcitin um so there's actually a lot of ways a lot of reasons why people can't tolerate corcitin I'm one of those two if you have a COMT double mutation often that will cause increase in estrogens because that COMT enzyme detoxifies stress hormones and estrogens and corcitin will block that enzyme and I've had this before when I took too much corcitin I might get breast tenderness because the estrogens were too high or I might get like I'm not usually an anxious person but when your norepinephrine epinephrine is not being broken down you can feel a little bit more anxious and if I take too much corcitin I can feel that stress hormones that aren't getting broken down so what would I recommend instead well there's lots of other ways to treat mast cell activation besides corcitin there's stinging nettles there is um Chinese skull cap there is um the um let's see perella seed is a great one and there's things like neuroprotect and there are combinations that don't include corcitin I also like uh the antihistamines H1 and H2 blockers um catatophin um monolucus these are all mast cell stabilizers so there's really lots and lots of pathways you can use without corcitin hi missy which coque you tend do you recommend I believe there's three to choose from I will show you my very favorite and you're right there's so many different variations and they all say they're the best right well I will tell you this I think they're all good so you can't really go wrong we have an activated coque you tend that I really like it's a highly bioavailable coque you tend I'll put that link in here too but on the other hand there is also um mito q which is a pqq type of derivative and I'm going to see if I can find a link to that because I'm a huge fan of the I'm sorry not the mito pqq it's called um mito q let me see if I can find this for you here and or pqq because these are other options that are really good too one of the things so I'm going to put this one that has coque you tend end pqq together in it so you can see that pqq is a little bit more active form I love coque you tend by itself if I had to choose just for cost I would choose coque you tend alone which is the activated coque you tend but the pqq is amazing so it's a little more expensive but you'll still get good benefit just from coque you tend coque you tend is a precursor to help cellular energy and mitochondria so really really important for energy for brain for mitochondria and it's depleted now you didn't mention this in your question but nad nad is a powerhouse and mold depletes nad nad is one of the things that helps you recycle glutathione and helps as a precursor of glutathione i'm sorry not a precursor a precursor of ATP ATP is your cellular energy so really really critical is getting that nad but just like anything like i mentioned with glutathione um one of the things that happens a lot of times is if you start to push things too quickly um you're going to have trouble because you're pushing toxins more quickly than you can excrete them so all these products and things that you might want to do go slowly please i've done this myself where i go way too quickly and i get toxic and i get more sick so please if you're not doing well back up on your protocol go more slowly uh be i always say this this is actually really important be kind to yourself so often we push and we want to get well better we we kind of beat ourselves up and that be kind to yourself includes taking it slow taking it easy taking it at a pace that your body can handle so i always love talking about that okay so let's go back to questions there's so many great questions here and like i said i'm trying to pop in and as i talk about products share those in there too okay so um hi olden from chicago um thank you blake for thanking me for the information let's see we talked about cokey 10 from missy um oh yeah and missy x2 asked if she's on a statin drug absolutely statins will inhibit production of cokey 10 so i'm not opposed to statins there's an perfectly appropriate place to use them but if you're on a statin drug you want to be sure and um take that cokey 10 that activated cokey 10 i mentioned really really important hi joelle um what if you have mth of our gene and have slower detox pathways so this is super common about one third of patients have at least one copy and mth of ours are involved in methylation there's a lot of other genes that involve in that what you want to do is make sure you have a methylated b complex so at least something that has and again i'll put the the note in here as as we go of what that might be because i like the activated b complex for that because it has methylated forms and most good brands are going to have that nice methylated form there these are great questions i always have so much fun with y'all we talked about hormone irregularities we talked about detox we talked about methylated hi jennifer great to see you again um i already started dn or s a while ago but what program is your favorite oh this is great limbic system activation now i'm going to pop on the website and share with you guys an article on limbic system that i wrote that has lots of great tips in there um so i'm looking that up as we go if you see me looking off the camera um because this is so critical great great question jennifer so so important um so there's two big programs out there and there's a lot of other things you can do um there's the gupta program and then there's annie hopper's dnrs program um and i will find i don't see that link right immediately for the limbic system but i will be sure and add that in i think i actually have a handout that i can put in the chat box or put a link to that so i will follow up with that um but i it really depends on the person they're both great programs and i've had success with both of them um some people don't resonate this stuff that you have to try to reprogram your thinking and thought around trauma and around limbic activation and it's really helpful but what you need to find is a program that resonates with you and like i said there's gupta g upta program on limbic system and then there's annie hopper's dnrs those are two common ones that a lot of us doctors recommend um steven porges p o r g e s has a safe and sound protocol that can be helpful as well and i'm a big fan of things like cranial sacral therapy by urinal beats which is a type of music that has different hurts in each years um even types of breathing um anything you can do to down regulate limbic activation emdr somatic based therapies um there's some books that are really good retraining your brain so all of these things can be helpful and all of them are part of healing from mold toxicity uh okay so let's keep going here dixie what can i take to sleep besides benadryl um so i do not want to develop the top so any sort of antihistamine can be really helpful for sleep um but i also like things like five htp um tryptophan gaba ga ba um things like valerian um even cvd can be helpful and i often just start with magnesium glycinate which is a precursor of glycine of course and that will help um to create more gaba so magnesium we're almost all deficient so a good magnesium glycinate is a great way to start as well so those are all some tips um we have something called sleep essentials that has a lot of those all in one so that's probably our best seller for sleep is it's called sleep essentials i'll try to find the link for that too but that's a great one that you can use for your sleep um so we talked about that links hi laura do you see high androgens in general with mold exposure or even high testosterone in women is that typical same treatment dim broccoli boost etc so great question laura because it's a little less common to see high testosterone versus low testosterone i would say it's um uh it's possible but especially if someone has underlying pc os or issues with testosterone um but it can happen and the high testosterone can cause acne breakouts irritability excessive hair growth in women um with that i would actually use something more like saw pometo or nettles or pumpkin there's some products one is called a prostate supreme this is a great product that combines a lot of these things together and helps to lower that testosterone in women the funny thing is it's called prostate supreme and you're probably giggling now because why would i recommend that in women well the product is made for men with high testosterone or dh t and hair loss or prostate issues but the same pathways apply in women so i actually use a product called prostate supreme laugh at me if you want in women because the the stuff that's in there is really great um we also have one that's called dim plus really really good combination of dim and calcium deglugrate and all of the things that will lower naturally lower both extra excessive estrogen and also excessive testosterone so just great great questions here oh my gosh okay just a few more minutes let's see what else we have here um and thank you guys for thanking me that's so kind um i really do enjoy this uh hi alice what causes burning tongue oh great great question anyone else have burning tongue burning mouth even a vulva dinia which is burning vaginal area for women any mucosal membrane can have this often this is related to histamine or oxalates so oxalates are something that are produced by mold or by yeast and if you have excessive oxalates they're like little shards of glass in your tissues so they can cause a lot of pain in inflammation they can cause joint pain they can cause burning in different tissues even bladder pain but they can definitely cause burning mouth pain and some menopausal women are hormone deficient and they'll have the burning mouth just from that as well so um complex you have to deal with the oxalates which is usually dealing with the mold and fungal issues um sometimes lowering your oxalate load in food can also help with that at least that's a great question okay eric thank you for your comments dixie where am i located i'm in boulder colorado actually lewisville which is right next door to boulder um and so it is a beautiful um dry climate although we have a lot of mold from the um floods in boulder hi dawn great to see you here what higher dose mat do you prefer um versus the biomet so um interestingly i had tried the biomet years ago and i have a friend who has a mat that's p emf that was extremely expensive i don't know in the 10 or 20 000 range crazy and so i always was like oh this is out of the range of most people to afford it and i never really looked into it and then you guys have heard me talk about higher dose you know i love my mat and um if you haven't seen it um it's right here actually my puppies have messed up the blanket there's one of the puppies sitting there if you can see that on the floor i have a nice blanket and pillow there um but robbing my little puppies sometimes they'll lay in the mat and i love that mat i use it every single day um i'm a huge fan and so i hope you don't get me tired of get tired of hearing me talk about it but i love it because it really really works and it's helped me a lot the things that i noticed where i have a horror ring to track my sleep and the amount of deep sleep i would get um from that uh when using level one at 20 minutes before bed was really like i could see statistically the different on my ring my horror ring and what i would get is i would get less total hours of sleep sometimes but i would still get the same or more deep sleep so what happened was i could feel wake up feeling refreshed after i say six six and a half hours instead of seven seven and a half hours it was pretty profound the other thing that helped was energy and focus and concentration so there's different levels and the level three is more of a brainwave like alpha wave equivalent and that was super helpful and then level four is really good for healing and energy and i use it every day i love it in fact i have a travel version that sits on my chair at work so if i'm in the office i can use it um there as well so i will put a link um this link to products we love has all the kinds of stuff that i like there and there's a link there to the hired us mat and i do have a discount coupon if you're interested um for 75 dollars off any purchase so thanks for asking that mat the materials so these are actually very low um toxicity they have crystals amethyst and charcoal in the mat so it accentuates it not only has the pmf which is pulsed electromagnetic frequency but it also has um negative ions it'd be like after a rainstorm or walking barefoot on the beach so there's the kind of things when you feel really good and energized and it has infrared heat so love it love it can't say enough about it um hi mark what do you recommend for dealing with extreme anxiety oh first of all mark i'm sorry i don't know if it's you or someone you know um but that's a tough thing because i often say to patients you know sometimes these infections or toxins create more anxiety or depression or mood and you kind of know this isn't me right like you you know what's to you and what your natural tendency is and sometimes we all have anxiety or depression but sometimes these infections or toxins can create a lot more than we're used to and we know intuitively it's really not us it's you know this infection so what do you do so i love theanine l theanine is a great amino acid that will kind of calm alert state bring more of those alpha waves the mat would help with this the pmf mat other things would be gabba super helpful cbd would be very helpful um benzodiazepines are prescription they can be habit forming but sometimes temporarily they can be effective as well if needed um thank you dixie appreciate that um let's see i'm going to do just a couple more questions but these are so great um el says according to your experience what deficiencies snips prevent patients from overcoming bartonell and borrelia oh gosh um i wish i had an easy answer to that there's thousands and thousands and i look at the individual so i'm not trying to evade your question but that's a really hard one to answer because i would look at one person and i would point out the ones in their profile but out of thousands and thousands of options it's hard to list which ones because there's not like one size fits all and there's not like one gene that really definitely causes worsening but i would say anything with the glutathione or detoxification or ability to handle toxic load um anything where there's up regulation of il 6 il 2 tnf alpha those kinds of genetic snips would be problems with mold okay hi dixie uh frequency in urination mold related yes 100 percent mold will affect antidiuretic hormone and cause increased thirst and frequency of urination so definitely and any silver ones to treat well i usually start with just plain old electrolytes um and you want to have something with it um either one to one ratio of sodium to do to potassium um but just electrolytes can help and there are some medications like vasopressin that can help as well um thank you dawn for your beautiful thank you to me i appreciate you so much and your beautiful words um hi sue dying recent friend diagnosed with Lyme disease on doxy needs gut and immune support um do you have a link to your functional medicine protocol for a Lyme um oh sue i wish i did um you know what i don't i don't have a protocol and i don't generally have protocols because i talk to the patients and in very individualized protocols so i literally talk to them get their history do the labs and then create a unique protocol for every single person so um not that there isn't great protocols out there but i'm not one who writes protocols because every single patient i treat i treat differently according to what they need hi mark thank you oh thank you for your kind words um oh jennifer i love it i heard us matt rocks i know right like we keep talking about because all my staff have my a lot of my patients it really is it's tremendous and i know your like i said you probably get so sick of me talking about it i literally come from a place of its changed my life i i've done all kinds i have red light therapy i have saunas i have um the v light um but the hired us matt has been for me the biggest change for my immune system in my sleep um awesome everyone this has been so fun again today thank you for joining with me um i plan to be back every month and i'm also going to go to instagram live as well so if you are not following me on instagram please go over and just hit the follow because i will be doing these probably even more frequently i just did one with dave asprey the biohack hacking expert so if you haven't seen 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