Matt Kelly responds to a viewer (Pam) asking why new or higher mycotoxin levels can appear during detox. He says this is common: as one mycotoxin (e.g., ochratoxin A) falls, another (e.g., citrinin) can surface or spike because the body may focus on eliminating certain toxins at different times. He compares the pattern to viral activations, emphasizes detox is non-linear, and advises continued monitoring, use of binders, and not to panic. A personal example about his son is used to illustrate transient spikes.
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Where am I here? Pam? After taking binders for two periods each two months with a small break in between, another mold showed up. In my mycotoxin test, ochratoxin a was down 50%. But the new one, Citrinen, is 125. Can detoxing bring out. Bring more mold out at a deeper cellular level? I love this question because this is something weird that happens that throws people off. You can you get your original mycotoxin lab? You see maybe your OTAs at 50, and maybe that's all you have, is ochratoxin A at 50. And then all of a sudden, like Pam said, you get ochratoxin down to 25. But maybe citrine or another mycotoxin shows up, and it's like, where did that come from? I'm in a clean place. I'm actively working to get these down, but it is extremely common. Okay, so Pam know that it's common and mycotoxins kind of work like viruses do the exact same thing too. So say you've got a big Epstein Barr infection or activation, and you get that down. Then all of a sudden, cytomegalovirus is showing up, and. And mycotoxins are the same way. You get, you know, a big one down. Then also another one pops up to kind of like mob bosses. Okay, you take the big one down, and then another one's like, hey, I'm here now. And it happens. How does it happen? It's maybe because the body is just focusing on certain ones. It can't do everything at once. Sometimes when it's so overwhelmed and so stressed, these ones are being eliminated. But once the stress on the body comes down from lowering that other ones can show up. And viruses and bacteria do the exact same thing. But it does freak people out. But it is common. And, you know, healing isn't just a straight line from, you know, problems are here, now they're gone, and you're literally, you know, it's a chart that goes like that right up and down. So don't freak out over it. Just keep monitoring, keep binding, keep working on that. And you'll see all those other ones that pop up. They'll keep coming down too. And we had that with our son Isaac, and it freaked me out the first time, especially when we. We started his detox and his okra toxin. They went from 20 or 30 something. And then as I was working on them, it peaked to over 100. I was like, what is going on? But that was just the body releasing finally so there's a lot of things. This is why I tell people detox seems like an art. It's not a science. One thing doesn't work for everyone and weird things happen. But I'm glad you saw that, Pam and asked that question, because a lot of people are going to ask that exact same. I hope that helps.
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