Paul Savage MD explains how mold exposure can cause electrostatic shocks, brain fog, and a constant fight-or-flight response. Inhaled mold triggers the limbic system through the olfactory nerve, leading to dehydration, low blood pressure, sudden weight gain, and insomnia even when you feel fine.
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Weird, fun symptoms. Fun? They're not fun weird. So electrostatic shock, like breaking electronics, your computers, your watches, your things that can be with mold, because you can literally create a human battery because you're sweating out so much salt and there's a gradient on your skin. So some people, literally, they'll. They'll drink and they pee and they drink and they pee and they can't concentrate urine. That's a common mold symptom. The electrostatic shock, which is a weird common Breaking watches, electronics, and then dehydration in general, hypotension and then sudden weight gain can be common. Exhaustion, brain fog, of course, really common sleep disturbances, insomnia, anxiety, and depression. There is a limbic response, which means when we inhale mold, our olfactory nerve takes it right to the brain. And even if we're like, hey, I'm going to be fine, there's a little mold in this house. Like, even I've been through it a lot, so I'm pretty calm when I get exposed. Like, I'll be okay. And so, like, what you're mentioning, it's really common when you're in mold and you're kind of in the midst of it and you're not detoxing yet or taking care of it, you can literally get kind of a fight or flight response. And it's a physiological response.