For those not aware of our Mold Symptom Therapy Guide website, let the upcoming series serve as a reminder of both what we offer our patients and what we offer the general public in terms of understanding mold toxicity illness. Over the coming weeks, I will be reviewing and reposting sections of our Mold Symptoms Therapy website one or two at a time, since it has been over 3 years since I first wrote this 30 plus page guide and posted it online. A few things have changed since 2020 (yes, an understatement), but the principles I emphasized in 2020 continue to be relevant with minimal change.
As this provides me an opportunity to update any advancements, it also offers the opportunity for you to ask questions and even contribute to edition number 2 of the Mold Guide. By leaving comments and questions, I can identify areas where I can offer even more to patients and the public in terms of education and empowerment over mold. Please take 2-3 minutes to be a part of helping others restore healthier more abundant lives with your questions and feedback. You can leave comments on Facebook or our website not only for each week’s section, but any section off the website which I have not addressed yet.
This week, a “Personal Introduction”
The Sanctuary Mold Guide: A Primer is born out of adversity- both professional and personal. By professional, I mean the sacred duty of helping patients afflicted with the health complications of mold toxicity syndrome. By personal, I mean the sacred duty of walking with my family through our own story of mold toxicity syndrome.
For these reasons, I take mold personally. It is both my professional and personal enemy. It wreaks havoc in the lives of many of the patients for whom I care, and it has wreaked-havoc in the life of the people about whom I care the most– my wife and children. While each person’s struggle with mold works along individual storylines, common threads abound – threads with which I am all too familiar.
The familiar threads confirm that mold toxicity holds a pervasive sway over people’s lives. For those unable to effectively rid their body of mold toxins, years of addressing various health concerns leaves them exhausted in the face of another fight where each body system is a potential target and where environmental factors take on overwhelming significance. My family and I are too familiar with all these struggles. Like others, my family’s battle with mold has taken many forms, but for years we were unaware of the root source of the pain. We searched for relief from symptoms with limited success, years of work until we uncovered the root cause, mold.
Because of my study and because of my family’s story, I now recognize the common threads of this enemy as I discuss symptoms with my patients: chronic fatigue, chronic autoimmune disease, intermittent allergy symptoms, mental brain fog, infertility, hormone dysfunction, hidden chronic infections, unexplained OCD symptoms, battles with intermittent depression, food intolerances and allergies, and others…. We have been touched by all of these and more. Sound familiar? We know that this enemy has been a major contributor to our health and life story.
As one can see from the above, individual health threads can take time to put together. Often a multiplicity of such threads, especially in multiple family members, mean mold toxins may be at work. Mold Toxicity can be a sneaky opponent.
Because mold is my family’s enemy, it is my enemy. Because mold is my patient’s enemy, it is my enemy. Being thankful that God has allowed me to find the underlying cause of years of health issues in my family, at Sanctuary Functional Medicine, we are moving forward with helping others. Alongside our patients, we are fighting mold and trusting God to continue working out restoration for each person and family affected by this illness.
When you read through this guide/website, please be aware this issue touches my life both professionally and personally.
General Disclaimer:
This Sanctuary Mold Guide: A Primer does not constitute medical advice . It is educational. Recommendations are general principles rather than personalized instructions. Each patient with mold toxicity requires individualized treatment. Please to talk to your medical provider before starting any therapies or changing any medications, supplements, or other therapies based upon the advice in this manual.
Again, this handbook is only an informational introduction to the treatment and prevention of mold toxicity. As the name indicates, this is only a primer- an introductory level booklet. Instead of a complete roadmap, it is meant as a reference to encourage thinking about common issues surrounding mold toxicity.
Sanctuary Functional Medicine, under the direction of Dr Eric Potter, IFMCP MD, provides functional medicine services to Nashville, Middle Tennessee and beyond. We frequently treat patients from Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, and more... offering the hope of healthier more abundant lives to those with chronic illness.
