How is mold related to Lyme?

Today is a big day, folks. And it's because this is Q and a number 50. That's right. I can't believe I've already done 50 Q&As on mold. And today's number 50 is a special one. And it's not one that people ask enough. But. But when people figure this out, it really helps speed up their healing journey. And the question is, how is mold related to Lyme? Okay, now you hopefully already know that mold is extremely immunosuppressive. So not only does it affect the immune cells themselves, but one of the big ways it also affects the immune system is by wrecking the gut. And, and you see this in not just adults, but kids especially, that the gut gets wrecked with mold exposure. You get fungal colonization in the gut. You have the mycotoxins that are extremely irritating and inflammatory to the GI tract. And the more you wreck the gut, the more you weaken your immune system, the more dysbiotic the gut, the more your pathogenic and opportunistic bacteria go up. And your good guys, your commensals, your lactobacillus, your bifida, your akermansia, all these things that are responsible for helping make short chain fatty acids and protect and create that mucosal layer that adds all that protection there for you, start going away. Okay, so you end up with inflammation in the gut, and then you end up with more blood in the stool, and you end up with leaky gut when your tight junctions start pulling apart. And then proteins get through there into your circulation, which increases food sensitivities and food allergies and autoimmunity, and it's just complete chaos. And this is why I like the Gut Zoomer. And because molds effect on the gut affects so many aspects of your body, affects your immune system, it affects your, your food tolerance. Like we talked about autoimmunity, but we want to have a good reading of how bad is the gut. What are digestive deficiencies looking like and what's inflammation looking like? So many different markers. But because mold affects the gut and mycotoxins this way, it affects your immune system so much. And the gut Zoomer also shows your secretory iga, which is your immune system in the gut too. So we get a good reading of that. But because it's so immunosuppressive and depressive, when you are now get exposed to other bacteria and parasites and viruses, or because we're a Rolodex of infections anyway, I shouldn't say infections, bacteria and viruses and parasites, that when Our immune system gets depressed or suppressed. Even these latent viruses and bugs, critters that are in us, are no longer kept in check and they come up. So not only are we talking about outside infections like Lyme becoming, having the ability now to have more strength inside of us because of the immunosuppression, but things like Epstein Barr, cytomegalovirus, different herpes strains, different parasites that are already in us now come out to play because there's nothing suppressing them anymore. But with Lyme disease, because when you get bit by a tick or another vector, mosquito, mite, flea, spider, any of these blood suckers, you can be exposed to all these things, especially deer ticks, right? Because they're fully loaded grenades when they, when they embed and regurgitate. So you could have mold toxicity, Mold exposure in your home, it lowers your immune system by affecting your immune cells directly, by ruining your gut, which affects your immune system because you lost that robust bacter. And now when you get, say, a tick bite, for example, and in comes Borrelia, babesia, Bartonella, or lichy anaplasma, rickettsia, and all these horrible CO infections, your immune system is now not up for the task. So you can have two people side by side, bit by the same tick. Okay? This person doesn't have mold exposure, doesn't have mold toxicity, so they don't have that immunosuppression or depression. This person doesn't have that stress on their body from mold. And mycotoxins get bit by the same infected tick. The person with a proper functioning immune system, their immune system deals with these infections properly and suppresses them and gets them down the mold. Sick person now can't fend them off because of their immunosuppression from mold, and now they end up with Lyme and CO infections too. And the bonus is, the bad bonus is that there's so much overlap, like 95% overlap, and in the symptoms between Lyme disease, co infections and mold. And this is why this is such a big deal and why many people don't, don't get this. But the people that do are the ones that are able to heal. Because if you have one or the other and you don't know about the other, it makes it really hard to get traction to heal the one you know about. So when people have Lyme disease and they're working, working, working year after year trying to get traction and healing their Lyme, they're trying to detox, they're trying to kill these infections, they're getting nowhere. It's because they very likely have mold exposure and mold toxicity suppressing their immune system. And when your immune system's on its knees, it can't come up and go after these big guys because these infections and parasites are hard to get, even if you're doing well. I mean, even if you don't have mold exposure and you're doing well before this, they can be hard. But if you have already have that mold exposure and that immunosuppression and depression from mold and mycotoxins, it is a very hard battle to win. So that I see about 75% of the time there's overlap between both these guys that if someone has Lyme, it's 75% of the time they're going to have mold exposure, mold toxicity. So that's why I like to test Both tick borne 1.0 and mycotoxins lab. Now, same is true too. So if you've got mold, you've got that immunosuppression, then you get exposed to this, then it's really hard to get rid of either because they both really work against the immune system and really stop your body from getting traction. So this is the relation between mold and Lyme. Mold doesn't cause Lyme, Lyme doesn't cause mold, but the immunosuppression of each makes you more susceptible to the other. And that's why you see this more often than not, that someone that starts with one can very often end up with the other. It's the evil hybrid, I call it. And because these people are just so hard to help. But you need to know what you're dealing with. And this is why we run those labs together. So even if you're say you just have mold and you're not getting traction, you're in a clean space. Think about the possibilities. Is it possible I have Lyme? And no, not everyone gets a bullseye rash. And no, not everyone gets it from a tick. This is what makes it awful. Both of these awful. They're, they're hard to know for sure what happened, when it happened. And that's why I like having labs, because we can just run those. Now, I know they're not cheap, but the information we get is priceless. Because if it tells us and shows us what a root cause is and gives us numbers, that says, yes, this is what's going on in your body right now. We have something to work towards and a bar to measure progress by. So I hope that helps. I hope that helps. You understand how mold and lime are related. And yeah, if you have any questions, post below and I'll talk to you again. Guys.

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