Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Mold Toxicity: Childhood Exposure to Man Boobs Transformation

27 May 2025 · 1 min

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This is a YouTube interview (uploaded May 27, 2025, by Robert Whitfield MD) that presents a personal account linking childhood exposure to toxic mold with long-term health problems. The speaker describes growing up in a flooded, moldy basement and lists multiple medical and behavioral issues (childhood asthma; arthritis diagnosed at 14; oppositional defiant disorder; OCD; Asperger's; chronic rashes; chronic strep throat treated with 15 years of antibiotics), severe weight gain (reaching 300 pounds by age 23), and a later diagnosis of low testosterone at age 26; the speaker attributes many of these problems to mold toxicity.

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In a flooded basement that had toxic mold.

15 years

By age 23

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What happened and what kind of got you on the trail of mold toxicity? I grew up in a basement that had been flooded, that had toxic mold. And I didn't know it, and no one knew about that in the 70s and 80s. And I had childhood asthma, arthritis, diagnosed when I was 14, odd, oppositional defiant disorder and OCD, Asperger's syndrome, rashes, 15 years of antibiotics because of chronic strep throat, which is a symptom of toxic mold. Weird nightmares and dreams, all kinds of behavioral things, brain things, immune things, autoimmune stuff. By the time I was 23, I hit 300 pounds. I was 26. I was diagnosed as having lower testosterone than my mother, and mold is a major part of that reason. I was so fat and had those giant man boobs, you know, it was very biologically disruptive, and it took me a long, long time to figure out what's going on.