Mold Toxins Hurt Children

For some reason, so many, especially in our supposedly advanced nation, can ignore what much of the world already realizes. The world’s most advanced medical system focuses so much attention on heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and others but cannot grasp the mold toxins’ impact on our health. In this study, a study with more information and implications than can be packed into this short summary, researchers from Turkey report on their review of the medical literature examining how much hold toxins harms our children.

(Yes, this is an oldie but goodie from 2022, but do you think conventional medicine has learned anything about mold in the past four years? Probably not!)

This often leave conventional medicine confused

So many patients leave mainstream medicine with more questions than they had when they first consulted their PCP or specialists. Their friends with simple conditions walked away from the same offices with improvements and recoveries. The patients with mold toxicity walk away with few to no answers. Sometimes he was even accused of making it all up. The doctors don’t know what is causing the various and random symptoms, so they refer to other specialists or just suggest that it is all in your head.

For parents searching for relief for their child’s suffering and for a way to avoid a lifetime more of that same suffering from the same illness, this response by mainstream medicine is disheartening. Parents know something is not right. Something is amiss both in their child’s health and in the response of mainstream medicine to their child’s unexplained symptoms.

Parents look for other answers that they are not getting

Without a clear answer, parents begin searching for something outside of the mainstream box of medicine. They scan the internet for insights or investigate online groups for similar stories. They bring ideas back to the regular medical system hoping to get some help, but instead are told that things like mold toxicity are just myths and scams. Again, their hearts sink further.

Just maybe, they decide to read the medical literature directly. Just maybe, they run across articles like the focus of today’s summary.  This article and others like it seem very straightforward. Dozens of studies, even hundreds (when we follow the trail of citations), suggest a causative link between mold toxins and health, including childhood health. Parents wonder how so much medical support for the negative impact of mold toxins on health could be wrong, regardless of what the mainstream claims.

A Literature review tells us that science knows more about mold

Reading through this analysis of the literature on mold toxins like aflatoxin, ochratoxin, trichothecenes, zeranol, patulin, and fumonisin, we find that much interest has been poured into determining what effects such toxins can have on children, from their beginning as a fetus up through adolescence. Third world countries know that such toxins can affect the nervous system, the GI system, the hormonal system, the immune system and more. They have seen and studied such effects, to the point of recognizing how mold toxins contributes to death rates.

A poor attempt could be made to alleviate the need to read this for yourself, but instead my hope is that this gives you enough to get you started on the article itself. While it is not automatically available for free, most authors will share a copy by email if you contact them directly. Take the time; do the research for yourself.

BIG Takeaways

Some important bullet-points:

• Reviewing 50 selected articles from a list of 4689, researchers found a strong correlation of childhood exposure to mycotoxins in the mother’s womb with mortality, growth, and the child’s immune status.
• Mycotoxins can pass through the breastmilk of mothers and negatively impact children.
• Mycotoxins in a child’s home environment may strongly impact the development of respiratory disease in children.
• Prenatal exposure to mycotoxins appears to negatively affect cognitive development in children.
• Growth during childhood may be slowed by the presence of some mycotoxins.
• Social development impairment correlates with the presence of mold toxins in children’s home environments.
• Several studies link mold toxins to autism as a potentially causative or secondarily impacting factor in severity.
• One mold toxin, zearalenone, appears to negatively impact the hormonal development of teenagers.

We care for the outcasts from conventional medicine

All in all, the paper goes into further details on these and other findings. It also offers 101 further citations to consider in the huge body of evidence implicating mold toxins in child health. Helping our patients live healthier, more abundant lives requires us to acknowledge the facts of science and apply them to the recovery of patients outcast from mainstream medicine. It also means sharing this research and understanding with you and those open to such evidence in mainstream medicine.

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Focus Article:

Kadan, Gül, and Neriman Aral. “Effects of Mycotoxins on Child Development.” Current molecular pharmacology vol. 14,5 (2021): 770-781. doi:10.2174/1874467213999201214225531

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