Dr. Robert Whitfield (MD) discusses clinical challenges of mycotoxin (mold) exposure and detoxification. He emphasizes that mycotoxins can impair liver detoxification, that treating exposure is complex (not solvable by a single pill or injection), and that dismissing mold as irrelevant is a harmful misunderstanding among clinicians and patients. He notes that while many patients show exposure, some patients do not.
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You know, the sharp process is set up to actually identify opportunities for you. You know, your talks test is forever going to be something that you go back to and repeat. Because unlike a laboratory value on a blood panel, which is typically going to be normal, that, you know, for sure highlights everything that you know from an exposure standpoint was hampering your liver and making it hard for you to detoxify. Because mycotoxins. Whether it's hard for your body to detoxify and eliminate mycotoxins, I don't think most people feel like, you know, why is. Why is Dr. Whitfield, you know, going through this detox process? Why does he have this team doing this? Because it's not an easy process. It's not something I can just pill, shot or drug and make it go away. I would do it if I could, but it's not a. A straightforward problem that it's. Most often my patients come back and say, you know, people say mold is not a thing. I don't need to be worried about it. And that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. It's a disservice to the patients. And I don't know if it's a lack of. Pure lack of understanding of the problem. And that's a training education issue. That's one part of it. Then it's be, you know, kind of the next level. Like, why are we not at least looking at it and trying to put some, you know, not just, you know, basic science behind it, but even just clinical, you know, scenarios where in a practice like ours, it looks at it all the time. I mean, I see, I see it routinely. And then I had a very prominent physician in this country say, have you ever seen a patient not have it? And the answer is, yes, of course I've seen patients not have mycotoxin exposures.