Matt Kelly explains how mold toxicity drains electrolytes and causes dehydration and weight loss. Sodium and potassium commonly drop, and low ADH triggers frequent urination that worsens fluid loss. Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis is the most accurate test to check your mineral status.
All right, let's help dawn out here. She's got a couple questions. First thing is electrolytes and dehydration tests. So you're going to check electrolytes. I mean, they can check that via blood. But the most accurate is going to be the htma. And the HTMA stands for hair tissue Mineral analysis. That's where you cut some of your hair close to the scalp. You keep the first inch and a half. It goes to the lab and they measure the minerals in that. And the electrolytes, particularly in relation to dehydration, you're looking at are the sodium and potassium. And guess which two we see crashing out when mold is involved. The mold toxicity, sodium and potassium. Also, what's affected, your antideretic hormone is affected with mold and can create frequent urination, which can lead to dehydration. So mold can cause low electrolytes and dehydration in a multitude of ways. So the best test, again, is HTMA for electrolytes. For dehydration, there isn't, I'm trying to think, a dehydration test. Lot of times they're going to tell you just look at your urine. The darker your urine, the more dehydrated you are. But the problem with mold is that you keep. You have frequent urination due to the low adh, and it just, every time you drink, it just keeps going through. So it's not really getting dark. You're just dumping your fluids all the time. Now, if you're dry fasting or something, like when I was healing my gut, I was dry fasting and my urine would get extremely dark. But I knew it would. And that has its own benefits, which I won't get into this one, dry fasting. But if you see your urine going very dark, then, yes, you're likely dehydrated. But that's not extremely common in mold. Usually people keep drinking, but it just keeps flushing out and taking those electrolytes with it. So I would do the HTMA and see what your sodium, potassium and your calcium, magnesium. Those are the other ones that really get moving the wrong direction when you're very inflamed from the mold. And mycotoxins, also for dehydration, they do what's called a skin test. No, it's not very scientific. You're literally pinching your skin and then seeing how long it takes to go back down. So if you pinch your skin and it stays up high, that's a sign that you're dehydrated. Dehydrated because that. It's not very elastic anymore. Okay. My doctor says I'm dehydrated when I drink a lot of water and one large mineral water a day. Yeah. So that's common with mold. I would get the HTMA done. You may need to be supplementing with jigsaw adrenal cocktail, which is sodium, potassium, and whole food C. That can be very helpful. I see. Another question. How do I set up a consultation with you? All right, I will post a link to my website. Can you explain why I said to not treat mold with bleach? Oh, sorry, Don. That was Terry's question. All right, Don, I hope that helps you out. Oh, there's another question. I'm losing weight again. Does that mean. And what does that mean? And why am I losing weight again? Is there any tests I should be doing with mold toxicity? You can. It's all over the board. You see people that get thin and can't put weight on. You see people that balloon up at no fault of their own because of all the toxicity and their water, storing water and fat for putting toxins in. And things can go either way or people just keep their weight and are extremely sick. So unfortunately, mold just throws a monkey wrench into everything and it can absolutely affect your weight, including. Including weight loss. So you're going to have to be careful. Watch what you eat, especially when you're sensitive to food. You got mast cell issues happening in sensitive gut. You may be looking at adding in different protein powders into smoothies and shakes just to try to bump up that nutrition. But again, as you get out of mold, as you get healing in a proper protocol, all these things are going to start falling away as you start restoring your health. All right. I hope that helps.
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