It takes time and intentionality to detox from mold and overcome your mysterious chronic symptoms, but can be done! Before going on a big trip, you plan and prepare to avoid problems while traveling, right? Your journey to wellness requires planning and preparation, too. Though planning a trip to a new destination can feel overwhelming with too many choices, your path to wellness can now be clear and smooth.
How Mold Illness And Mycotoxins Show Up In Your Body
All of my life, I struggled with poor health. I didn’t know what was wrong and when I found out it all stemmed from mold mycotoxin exposure, there wasn’t much information about how to get well. I had no roadmap and felt lost in my own body.
Most of my life, I had constipation or diarrhea and constantly had to pee, with bouts of incontinence. During puberty, I spent a year throwing up once a month. When I was pregnant, my skin and eyes became yellow. I have had really itchy skin and bumps similar to hives as well as acid reflux. I have endured much pain near my kidney and liver. At my worst, I couldn’t even lay still much less sleep.
My symptom list goes on, because mold illness is a multi-system, multi-symptom syndrome. What’s most challenging is that many of the symptoms of mold illness can be mistakenly attributed to other factors, such as allergies, sensitivities, other autoimmune diseases and more.
Your body was made to detox from mold, but when you pile up all the toxic elements – heavy metals, pesticides, plastics and mycotoxins, your system can get clogged up. This is why you hear in holistic wellness that peeling back the layers and healing take time – it’s likely that many toxins are contributing to your poor health.
Add to this the mental fog and exhaustion caused by mold – it’s no wonder you can feel hopeless and lost. But not anymore. I’m here to help – with a roadmap to detoxing and recovering from mold!
Why Mold Illness Can Keep You Stuck At Being Sick
Your body’s detoxification system is like a city with a vast network of drains and underground pipes that can get clogged up with debris – the metals, pesticides, plastics and mold or mycotoxins. When your system is clogged up, nothing drains out and a myriad of symptoms can surface.
Your intestinal system, liver, kidneys, lymphatic system, skin and lungs are all part of your detox system, and all need to be working well. To work well, your system needs adequate energy. When not functioning properly, the clogged toxins can flood your muscles, joints, brain, and other parts of your body, including your mitochondria. Your mitochondria help generate the energy needed to detox from mold and other toxins, which puts you in a vicious cycle of toxin overload, with symptoms often thought to be caused by something else.
This is why your overall health is extremely dependent on your body’s capacity to drain and remove toxins. When your detox pathways are open, your body can properly remove toxins without making you sick! And counter to what you may hear, this means you should be pooping 1-2 times per day.
How To Prepare For Your Trip To Good Health As You Detox From Mold
Your first step to overcoming mold illness is to get out of the mold exposure, which often isn’t visible to the untrained eye, unfortunately. Removing yourself from the source of mold could involve working from home, staying elsewhere until your home is properly remediated or even leaving your belongings behind and starting fresh in a new home. This can feel extreme or unreasonable, but most success stories have involved getting out of the mold first.
Meanwhile in your bodily “house”, your first step is to make sure all of your detox pathways are working properly and that your body has the energy to make it happen. This is the foundation of your healing journey – so you can avoid detoxification side effects and really heal.
So let’s start with the basics – food.
1 Figure out if any foods are directly harmful to you.
People with mold illness experience a wide range of reactivity to foods, from severe anaphylactic reactions to minor symptoms such as occasional constipation, stomach upset or skin issues. For those with mold illness, gluten and dairy sensitivities are extremely common. Once it is clear that a particular food triggers a reaction, avoid that food as much as possible. If it triggers a severe reaction, avoid it altogether. Remember this is a road to healing and later, you might be able to reintroduce that food.
2 Consider eating only organically grown and raised foods, as pesticides can add to your toxin load. Eating organically can be expensive, but it can also be crucial to healing and save you money (and time spent feeling ill) down the road.
3 Chew your food well, don’t overeat and make meal time a relaxed and enjoyable time – all so your body can more easily digest.
4 Drink adequate water. Your body also requires water to detoxify. As a general rule, drink half your body weight in ounces of water throughout the day. Drink more if you sweat a lot or consume caffeine. If you can’t handle that much water at first, start where you can and work up to this. Avoid drinking water from plastic containers, as plastic is another toxin that can clog your system up.
This is the first blog post of your roadmap from mold and mycotoxin illness to getting back your brain and purpose in life. Don’t forget this is a journey. But with some preparation and this plan, you will arrive at your destination of full recovery more quickly and without any hiccups.
Next post, you will learn the most important place in your detox system to assure those unwanted toxins are flowing freely out. It might surprise you!
Have you been dealing with a mysterious illness, possibly after water damage? If you want to regain your strength and energy to once again live a purposeful life, click here to schedule a complimentary consultation with me today!
