Robert Whitfield MD explains why treating mold and Lyme disease in the right order matters. He recommends stabilizing thyroid function, cortisol, and micronutrients first, then usually treating mold before Lyme, since killing Lyme organisms releases biotoxins that can overwhelm the liver and worsen symptoms.
And there can be so much relief, and there can be this desire, this drive to be like, let's just treat everything at once and just go for it. And it backfires, everybody. It does. People get way more inflamed, they feel worse, treatment slows down. So order is actually quite important. Typically, I do find that before we even start with mold and Lyme, for most people, it's really important to just also make sure some of those foundational things are in line. So making sure that people's thyroids are balanced, that they have have enough cortisol and dhea, our adrenal hormones, that their micronutrient profiles and balance. So some of those things that are going to give the mitochondrial support, that are going to give the cell support, give the liver some support. So I always like to, for most people, start with, like, I know we're excited to get to these root causes now that we found them, but we want to give the body the strength. And then most of the time, for most people, I find that mold actually is better to do before Lyme. Now, of course, you know, not everybody flows that way, and there are nuances, but the reason for that is, like most organisms, there can be a huge amount of biotoxins that get released when we actually go and we start killing the Lyme bacteria. And those toxins, those biotoxins are things that our liver has to deal with.
