Dr. Diane Mueller explains how cholestyramine binds mold toxins in the gut so your body excretes them instead of reabsorbing them. Standard pharmacy versions may contain aspartame and can discolor teeth or erode enamel. She recommends trying natural binders like charcoal and zeolites first.
Hey, everybody. We're going to talk about cholestyramine and mold. So cholestyramine is a binder that's used quite a bit for mold as well as for binding other toxins. So how cholestyramine works is it is a binder that when we take it, hopefully away from food and supplements and other meds, it will wind up in our gastrointestinal tract. And when the liver winds up breaking down mold, it puts the mold toxins in into the bile, and the bile and the toxins make their way to the small intestine. And what essentially happens is when cholestyronine is there and the mold or the mold toxins and the bile are there, they bind and they that keeps the toxins held in the intestinal tract. So essentially, you poop them out instead of reabsorbing them. So that sounds great until we learn a couple different things. So standard cholestyramine that's found in pharmacies often has aspartame in it, which aspartame has been shown to have a lot of problems, including neurological problems. So we want to stay away from that, because if you're already toxic from mold, we definitely don't want to give you any more toxins. And aspartame is good for basically nobody. But even if you compound it, one of the things that happens with cholestyramine is cholestyramine can actually not only turn the teeth different colors, they can discolor the teeth, but can actually rip off tooth enamel. And we see a huge link with problems in the teeth and dental caries and various various infections and problems and inflammation linked to housing things like Lyme spirochetes, housing other microorganisms, creating widespread infection type of problems in the body. So what I don't like about using this particular medication is it can cause the dental problems, and dental problems can all cause a lot of other health problems. So, you know, one of the oaths we take as naturopathic doctors is the Hippocratic oath. And part of that is first, do no harm. Right? And so I don't want to do harm, and we don't want to do harm when we're trying to fix you and we're trying to help your body repair and give you the stuff it needs to repair. We don't want to be putting something in that's going to be eradicating one problem and causing another. Now, if you really have worked through every possible binder and nothing's working and like, maybe There's a case for this on occasion. But you really want to go into using something like cholestyramine with understanding the side effects of it and some of the long term risks you're taking with that, and work to use natural binders that are safer, that will cause, that will basically create that same effect, but without causing this tooth problem. Now, cholestyramine is a wide spectrum binder, meaning it binds a lot of different mold toxins, binds toxic metals, it binds various environmental toxins. So oftentimes when we're using natural binders, there's not anything that is as broad spectrum of a binder as far as grabbing so many different toxins as cholestyramine is. But we can make up for that by combining other binders, by combining things like charcoals, with zeolites, with silicas, with glucomannans, with fulvic and humic acids. Right. There's a lot of different binders out there that when we combine them, they can work well to basically mimic what the benefits of cholestyramine without such a risk for the harm on the body. So want you to know that and considering binding and toxins and mold and all those sorts of things. If this is helpful, please do subscribe to my channel. I'm Dr. Diane. We'll see you in the next one.
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