Transcript excerpt from a discussion (Robert Whitfield MD and another speaker) about individual differences in sensitivity to mycotoxins. The speakers emphasize that women in this clinical population may be more sensitive due to impaired detox pathways (methylation, vitamin D metabolism, glutathione/antioxidant pathways) and hormonal factors (estrogen toxicity) compared with men.
Everyone else is fine. But you all have different detox pathways and you might not be clearing the mycotoxins and they may be able to handle that level. So we're always looking at what is the burden on your body, and.
That'S super important. So for couples especially, I find this to be a problem. Right. The. We'll just say in my patient population, the, the. The woman is particularly sensitive. And so my setup is they don't methylate well, they don't have a good vitamin D pathway, they don't have a good glutathione pathway, they have limited antioxidant pathways, they have estrogen toxicity. Well, if you just add all that up, of course, they're super sensitive to a mycotoxin load that may not affect someone else, especially a male who's got a higher testosterone level to buffer out cortisol. Obviously, any estrogen toxicity would be better buffered out by a male. And if they have just a good glutathione pathway, they probably won't be symptomatic. But you're breathing in all these spores all the time.
