Welcome to day two. We’re going to talk about mold and the various diagnoses that you might get that do not give you the cause. Then we will talk about a whole bunch of symptoms that can be related to mold. Your body’s so overwhelmed with the toxicity of mold that the immune system doesn’t work very well and your organs don’t work very well and you start to fall apart.

Here are some diagnoses that may be related:

• The first one is called multiple chemical sensitivity, MCS, so people react to a whole bunch of different chemicals, such as perfumes etc…
• The next one’s called chronic immune response syndrome. So your immune system is chronically hyper responsive, CIRS.
• The next one’s called occupational asthma. Your lungs are affected by your occupation, maybe you’re working in a moldy warehouse or building.
• The next diagnosis is called environmental illness. What’s could the most predominant organism in your environment? It could be mold and it’s making you sick.
• The next diagnosis is called sick building syndrome. What’s wrong with the building? It’s sick because there’s water that’s intruded and now you have mold growing in it. It could be mold in the ventilation system. Then it could be some other toxicity factors like chemical storage in a closet. 
• The next one’s called toxicant induced loss of tolerance, TILT. So you’ve lost your tolerance to toxicants so you can’t be around cleaning supplies.
• And then another one’s called multiple system exposure related illness. So, multiple systems in your body, organs, nervous system, hormonal system, they’ve been exposed and you get illness to other exposures. It’s like your whole body’s breaking down.

I remember one time I met a woman and she was diagnosed with multiple organ failure and I just started asking her a whole bunch of questions and this was back in the ’90s. I was still in school, I wasn’t even practicing yet, and it turns out she had mold in her basement, I said, “Well, maybe that’s a factor that you need to look at.” Her husband would go down in the basement and paint the wall because the moisture would turn the paint of the drywall to a different color and about once a month or every other month he had to paint that wall.

Most people know about allergies such as sinus problems, itchy eyes, blurry vision, coughing, lung-respiratory problems, sinus infections, chronic sinusitis, asthma, skin irritations, and rashes. These can all be caused by mold.

And then there are a couple of species of mold that are very dangerous to the whole body, not just the lungs and sinuses and eyes but also getting into your heart, affecting your bloodstream, affecting your nervous system, and affecting your brain.

So here are other symptoms that you can get from those more deadly molds:

• Circulatory Problems
• High blood pressure
• Low blood pressure
• Irregular heartbeat
• Heart inflammation
• Searing pain
• Hemorrhaging like easily bleeding
• Bruising too easily
• Digestive problems
• Bloating
• Inability to digest food very well