Is Your Hormone Health Affected by Mold Toxicity?

We used to think of mold, lyme, viruses, bacteria as separate categories, but now we are thinking about what our body has to keep up with overall.  The total load and how this affects our hormone health.  

In today’s episode, Megan and Dr. Alex are both in our today’s and will be discussing the effect of mold toxicity to hormone health. 

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S2E18 Interview with Tessa Duquette, Molded for Greatness

In this episode Megan sits down for a candid conversation with Tessa Duquette, a local friend also being molded for greatness, about their stories and struggles with finding mold in their Virginia Beach homes.  It can help to know that you are not alone in your struggles and maybe you can find some clues in your own home detective work from their stories.

S2E19 Interview with Reed Davis on Mold Illness

Today’s interview with Reed Davis is about mold related illness, how to detect it in the body how to support your body if you have been affected.

Reed is a Nutritional Therapist and Founder of the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® (FDN) Certification Course. He developed the D. R. E. S. S. for Health Success® program to consolidate the potent, proven, professional protocols that he developed over a 12 year period in collaboration with other leaders in the field. Reed is known as one of the most successful and experienced clinicians in the world today, having provided functional lab assessments to over 11,000 people for hormone levels as well as adrenal, digestion, detoxification, mucosal barrier, pathogenic, bone density and diet related health problems. He served as the Health Director and Case Manager at The Better Health & Wellness Center in Poway, California for over eight years before launching the FDN Certification Course. Reed lives in Southern California teaching the FDN Certification Course and helping his trainees to build robust, private-pay practices by integrating functional lab work. He is also on the Clinical Advisor staff at BioHealth Laboratory, Inc. where he helps lab clients interpret lab test results and develop natural protocols to restore function instead of just treating the symptoms..

Topics that we cover:

1) How Reed got into this field and why he created the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition program

2) What is the D.R.E.S.S. for Health Success and why it is important to start with this?

3) What kind of testing is available for mold detection in the body?

5) Is it necessary to test?

6) What can we do for kids as far as testing & support?

S2E21 Interview with Martine Davis on Indoor Air Quality and Mold

In today’s interview with Martine Davis we cover how to find mold in your home and the best practices for finding a great mold or air inspector.  Martine explains how to take preventative measures to avoid mold growth, as well as what to do to clean up and remediate mold.

Martine Davis is Certified Building Biologist (BBEC), a graduate of ISU and the International Institute for Building Biology where she was a Senior Instructor for 17 years.  She is Director of Instruction for the Mold & IAQ Board of Professional Ethics and is the author of the textbook “Advanced Indoor Air Quality Testing: A Manual for Professionals”.

She has held ACAC certifications as a Certified Indoor Environmental Consultant (CIE), Certified Microbial Investigator (CMI), Certified Residential Mold Inspector (CRMI), is IAC2 Mold Certified by InterNACHI, and was a licensed Lead Inspector and Risk Assessor in the State of Illinois.

She has inspected/tested more than 3,000 homes & commercial buildings. Her expertise includes indoor air quality inspections, mold and moisture investigations, sick building issues and odor investigations.

S4E2 It Might Be Mold

In today’s episode, Megan interviews Dr. Ann Shippy.

Can you imagine, after experiencing your own health challenges and figuring out that there is a better way, that you decide to go to medical school yourself and pioneer a whole new way to practice medicine? After a decade of working as an IBM engineer, Dr. Ann Shippy became discouraged that traditional medicine couldn’t find answers to her own health ailments, so she did her own research that led her to leave engineering to attend the University of Texas Medical School. Dr. Shippy is a dynamic leader in the area of Functional Medicine, meaning she uses science and personalized attention to treat the whole person, looking for root causes and not just bandaging symptoms. Her interests and areas of expertise are autoimmunities, neurology, gastrointestinal disorders, infertility and pregnancy, and environmental factors such as mold toxicity. Dr. Shippy is the author of two books and has been serving patients for over 15 years in her thriving practice based in Austin, Texas.

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