Matt Kelly answers a viewer (Sara Lynn) about whether a cheap online visual contrast test (bcstest.com) can substitute for expensive mycotoxin testing. He explains the test screens for visual contrast deficits caused by biotoxin illnesses (commonly used for mold; can also flag Lyme). He says you can treat based on the failed test if you cannot afford lab testing — provided you first remove ongoing exposure (clean home/air) — but recommends ruling out Lyme in many cases. Practical treatment advice includes liver support, gut/support for elimination and binding toxins; he notes testing/supplements are costly but helpful for targeted care. The clip ends with an offer to book a consultation.
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Sara Lynn is asking about testing and if you can't afford the mycotoxins lab, can you go buy the visual contrast test? So if anybody doesn't know about, I think it's bcstest.com I'll put the link with this video. You can go here. It's 10 or 15 bucks. And as biotoxins from mold affect your brain and your vision, we seem to lose the ability to see contrast properly. So this is a test you do on the screen. It shows you images with lines and you got to pick. Are they going left, are they going right, are they up and down? And the contrast changes to make it harder and harder to see which lines those are going. And at the end, if you fail it, it says you're likely affected by a biotoxin illness or. Which doesn't mean just mold toxicity could also be Lyme disease, but tells you something's up. It's commonly used in mold. So Sarah's asking, Sarah Lynn was asking, can we just, can we just treat and avoid all the expensive tests because they have failed the visual contrast test. So yes, you absolutely can. My only concern is ruling out Lyme because especially with kids and people that have been chronic with mold for a long time, I always like to check and rule out Lyme because if it is there and you don't know about Lyme and co infections and you're just treating mold, you could just spin your wheels and get nowhere because this is a giant beast on your shoulder, as is this. And if you only know about one, not the other, it makes your road to recovery almost impossible. Sometimes it can work if you, if you're in the right position. But I always like to know everything you're dealing with. Right. So the biggest thing here, Saralyn, is to make sure you're out of the moldy house. You can't, you know, if you're feeling, if your whole family's sick and you're failing visual contrast test, your ability to get progress, make progress, and keep it while living a mold is almost zero for most people. Some kids, you can bounce them, but then they're just going to come back down again when you stop. Right? So the biggest thing is to make sure you're, if you're in a clean house now that you've done an ermion and you know there's no hidden problems and you're not breathing in a lot of toxic mycotoxins and spores, then yeah, by all means, treat, since that's your only financially viable option. Treat them. You're going to do liver support, poop support, gut support. You know, cover all those basics just so that you're healing their gut, you're increasing drainage, and you're binding toxins. Okay. And if you're in a clean space, you know it's clean and they're getting better, you're good. All right. But if that's not the case, I would say it may require a little more. A little more money. Unfortunately, this stuff costs a fortune. Every part of it. Does the testing, does the supplements do. But that's. Honestly, that's how we can move the fastest and know what we're doing is right. Because if we know the problem, we can then come up with a proper protocol, and then we're able to retest and measure that progress. But by all means, the biggest thing, clean air, you're in a clean space, then you just go by symptoms, and that saves you the cost of the expensive test. I hope that helps.
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