Part 4: Doctors’ Blind Spots Regarding Environmental Illness

While modern medicine is primarily practiced by traditional medical doctors, I have learned over the past decade that many illnesses are often caused by unknown environmental elements that fall into ‘blind spots’ to most medical doctors (MDs). This by no means suggests that modern medicine is not extraordinary in diagnosing and treating chronic diseases, or performing lifesaving procedures. Physicians do regularly address allergies and bacterial pathogens. However, the impact of mold as a pathogen, an immune response trigger, or investigation of toxic poisoning is not standard with today’s western medicine. It does suggest the obvious.

“For any physician to diagnose environmental illness, they have to learn about it, probe for relevant environmental information, and understand how detoxification can be influenced in order to treat it. This type of training is not standard in medical schools today.”

This article will discuss why environmental illness is often overlooked or misdiagnosed.  This leads to extraordinary human and financial costs for patients.  Unfortunately, it is the patients that carry the burden of identifying the potential environmental toxic elements as well as finding the right Doctors or face a lengthy and debilitating period until diagnosed properly.

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Part 3: When Toxins Reach the Brain

By Cesar Collado

A Separate System Called The Glymphatic System Clears Your Brain Works While You Sleep

 

Headaches, brain fog, memory problems, and tremors appear to be the most debilitating symptoms of mold sensitivity.  These symptoms, in particular,  scare patients. Cognitive symptoms and neurological motor function issues impact our ability to function as a family member, friend, or coworker. Fortunately, the brain has its own cleaning system that only works while you sleep.  The Glymphatic System…READ MORE…

The Toxic Mold Series- Part 2

Our Body’s Toxic Load

Part 2 discusses the total toxic load our body can handle before being permanently impacted.  The Toxic Load, sometimes called the “Body Burden” is the accumulated amount of toxins that are stored and negatively affecting your bodily systems over time. Toxins cause stress to many body systems including the endocrine system, the immune system, as well as your mental state. There are no medicines that can simply eliminate toxins in a body. Our bodies must metabolize and excrete the toxins over time. READ MORE…

 

Back to the Basics: The Toxic Mold Series

5 Part Series of Articles About Mold and Mycotoxins

 

This is the first article in series of articles where I was a guest writer for CitriSafe Healthy Living Blog. The series will follow the toxic mold journey as they enter the body and are metabolized.

1. The journey mold and mycotoxins take into and through the human body;
2. How the mold and toxins are removed from our bodies;
3. How mold impacts the brain and how the brain detoxes;
4. How environmental illness falls into physician blind spots;
5. Why the air in our homes is so important.

Read Part 1 of 5  Here.

 

 

Mold and Insomnia

 

By Cesar Collado

The most common symptom complaints I hear from patients is insomnia.  Insomnia is a significant symptom as it impacts your entire life.  Sleepless nights are frustrating.  It often results in depression and anxiety.  It also impacts your productivity and mood.  Irritability and anxiety due to  Brain fog, Memory loss, and fatigue impact your family and colleagues at work.  It is common that some people will make mistakes during the day that they normally would not.  This contributes to financial insecurity  if your income is necessary to maintain a household.

I wrote this article late last year.  You can learn more about insomnia, mold, and detoxification HERE.