Matt Kelly explains why men often show mold sickness symptoms later than women in the same household. Testosterone appears to offer protection against mycotoxins, letting men detox faster or avoid obvious symptoms longer. But no symptoms doesn't mean no exposure, so he recommends mycotoxin urine testing for partners to catch problems early.
Great question by Sarah Lynn again. She says, can you explain why men can be the last to see symptoms when the rest of the family has all the symptoms? Does this truly mean your husband isn't toxic or just not seeing symptoms yet? And yes, you're right. Men are always the last to get hit. Almost always the last to get hit in any house. And it's usually because of our testosterone. So that is mycotoxin protective. It gives us an extra layer of protection. And this is why men can tell their wives it's all in their head and that the kids aren't really sick and they'll just grow out of it. That's worst case. This is what. That's what I hear so many times, and it drives me nuts. Just because men aren't sick, it doesn't mean their wives aren't sick. It doesn't mean their kids aren't sick. Men have an internal cheat happening, and that's what protects us and makes us the last usually to feel anything. Like, even with myself, I never. I had, like, I would get sinus infections and had some gut, major gut stuff going on, but it wasn't really. I never considered being myself, being sick. Right. But then we had kids that were greatly affected. And then when I ran mycotoxin myself, yes, I had ochratoxin A up there. I can't remember what else was there, but there wasn't a lot to see. Okay, but the kids had the overt symptoms. So does this truly mean your husband isn't toxic? No, he could be or he may not be. So I had a couple where the wife was extremely sick and her mycotoxin lab was loaded. It was one of the worst I had seen. And then we ran her husband's and it was almost clear. Now that just means that he's his detox system. His body is getting them out much more efficiently than hers. And maybe as hers is slowing down, her mycotoxins keep accumulating, but his is just keeps humming along like it should be, is keeping them mostly pushed out. But at the same time, you can have men where they do start accumulating, but they're not feeling those symptoms yet. So the best thing is always to test. Do a mycotoxins urine test, see if they're there, and see if he will listen and actually do something about it before it gets bad enough that he has symptoms. If you can do that, you've got yourself a smart man. Usually they'll say, if I don't feel it, I'm not doing anything about it, but a smart man will say, hey, I see on paper there's mycotoxins accumulating here, which are extremely toxic to almost every system and organ in the body. I'm gonna do something, you know, before it gets bad. A stitch in time saves nine, right? So, yeah, he could be. He could be okay, or he could be accumulating. One way to know. Run the lab, see what's happening, and hope he'll deal with it if there is a problem. All right. I hope that helps.
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