Matt Kelly explains which foods to avoid with mold toxicity: grains and corn (often contaminated with mycotoxins), dairy, processed sugar, peanuts, and tomatoes. He recommends a low-histamine diet and shares how mold exposure triggered severe reactions in his son Isaac, stressing the need to remove exposure and rebuild before reintroducing foods.
All right, Tina has a good question here that everyone dealing with mold, mold toxicity needs to ask themselves at some point. So if you haven't asked this question, thank Tina. Okay. Tina says what not to consume. Do's and don'ts of food. Okay? So number one, you need to just remove all inflammatory foods and foods that we know are obviously bad for everyone or usually are bad for everyone. Things like gluten. Okay? And mold can cause increased gluten problems. And I see this on everyone's anti gliadin as well. When we do the gut zoomer. Gluten's gotta go. Grains are about the moldiest food. So if you go on PubMed and you're searching for mycotoxins, everything you're gonna read, almost, is about dairy and grains, because that's. You get moldy grains. They mold in the field sometimes before they even get stored. And if they're not stored properly and kept dry, they mold. Okay? And I know this personally. I was out running wagons for my dad on the farm. I grew up farming, and he still farms. And the grain bins were full, and they were peaked up, not in the middle. And he wanted it leveled off so that it would. When you turn the aerator on, it would air aerate more evenly. So me and I took some of our kids up and were shoveling away, and then we got all done, and our son Isaac, who was the one that was hit bad by mold, we were about to leave, and all of a sudden he's like, oh, dad, I'm dizzy. And I'm like, oh, no. Shoot. I never even thought about the mold. And the soybeans. And the soybeans were out in the field extra long in the fall, and they were literally molding there. And then right when we were leaving, my dad came home. He's like, oh, I got the. I got the stats on the soybeans. And the mold was like, I don't know, 1% or 1.3%. I forget what the number was, but it was bad. And I was like, that's literally. As we're shoveling, all the dust is in the air, right? We're breathing in all these mold spores and fragments and mycotoxins and garbage from the field, which triggered a histamine reaction in our sun. So that's a long way of saying grains are a problem, especially corn. Corn is one of the moldiest things. The stalk, the corn cob itself, mold spores, fragments, mycotoxins. So don't be eating the corn chips. Corn on the cob Anything made with corn flour, okay. Because it can make things worse. Dairy obviously gets moldy and has mycotoxins there and it's inflammatory. Processed sugar is an obviously. No, no. Because the more you just raise general inflammation, the more that raises your chance of having histamine issues and mast cell issues and just, you know, inflaming something that's already inflamed. Your body's already inflamed from the mold exposure, so don't add fuel to the fire. Moldy foods, you know, we're talking sometimes potatoes people can't tolerate, especially peanuts. Peanut butter, they grow underground and get so moldy. Tomatoes are known to get really moldy, especially when you see the tomato farms. And then the machinist comes by, picks everything, including the ones that are all, you know, half rotten and moldy in the field. That just gets mix mixed in with everything good. So you'll find that people can't tolerate tomato. And then if you are very sensitive and you're going down the road of having histamine issues, which I hope you're not, because that's what takes something awful. I know. I'm going over my time here. That's what takes something awful of being mold illness and then make it 10 times worse to try to heal from once you have histamine issues. And then that can lead to mast cell activation and multiple chemical sensitivity. You start lighting up with all these different triggers. So even eating a low histamine diet is often going to be beneficial. And then if your oxalates are high, which we measure on the organic acid test, which is Q and A number three, then you may want to consider low oxalate foods as well. So where was I? Tina, I hope that helps on the foods. I know it's true. Things really do shrink down. When Isaac, our son, was at his worst, and he was reacting to everything. He was reacting to high histamine foods. He was reacting to histamine liberating foods. We're keeping them low oxalate. He was down to about half a dozen foods at his worst. Okay. It was. It is awful. I'm not going to sugarcoat this. It can get awful. That's why you need to make sure you're out of exposure. You're working on the foundational parts of your body systems of your body. Like I keep talking about. Now he can eat anything and everything. He couldn't have any citrus. Like, any citrus. And now he gets, like, a bowl full of clementines in the winter, like when they're in season. Around Christmas, and it just kills me. He just sits there, eats one after another right in front of me, knowing that it bothers me. I still have PTSD from those days, so that should be an encouragement to you, though, that you can get out on the other side of this. All right. I do hope that helps.
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