BREAK THE
MOLD
BREAK THE
MOLD
5 Tools To Conquer Mold and
Take Back Your Health
DR. JILL CRISTA
Wellness Ink Publishing
Break The Mold
5 Tools to Conquer Mold and Take Back Your Health
Copyright 2018 by Jill Crista
Wellness Ink Publishing | www.WellnessInk.com
ISBN: 978-1-988645-18-6 (paperback) | ISBN: 978-1-988645-19-3 (e-book)
Cover and interior design | Kristin Hodgkinson
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Dedication
To the remediation crews that healed my home.
Ill be ever indebted for the rescue, your kindness, and patience.
The work you do is life-saving.
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CONTENTS
PART
1.3
1.4
PART
PART 3
3.1
PART I
DIRTY ROTTEN MOLD
Wish I Had Known
I wish I had known about mold when it really counted.
I missed moldin my patients, in my family, in myself, and in my own home. I didnt know how to recognize it, and I underestimated the damage it could do.
I wrote this book to myself, 15 years in the past. I needed this book back then. If I wouldve had it, I may have been able to save patients and loved ones from harmfrom months of lost health, life, money, and joy.
Ive learned a lot. Ive got molds number now. I want to arm you with what Ive learned; with the knowledge and tools you need to conquer the mold in your life. Youll be equipped with proven tools to fight mold and win.
You need mold solutions. This book has them.
WHY YOURE READING THIS BOOK
Why else? You want to get better. You want a list of symptoms and cures. Of course. Hey, Im an impatient learner so I get it. If thats you, flip forward to . Check out the solutions.
But then I suggest you spend some time here in PART 1 Dirty Rotten Mold to gain a full understanding of mold. Learn what makes it tick and how to truly defeat mold so it never comes back. As one of the oldest living creatures on the planet, mold is an adept survivor. It has a tendency to come back again and again and again. You need to learn its weaknesses to conquer mold for good.
WHY TRUST ME?
Ive been there. Ive not only worked with mold-sick patients as their doctor, Ive been a mold-sick patient myself. I became an expert on mold the hard way, grinding through the day-to-day issues of dealing with the toxic effects of mold. I empathize with you if youre finding this book as a victim of mold sickness yourself.
As a doctor, I worked with a fair number of patients with chronic fatigue and illnesses that nobody could figure out. Thats how I came to mold illness. Im a naturopathic doctor, which means Ive been trained to find and treat the cause of dis-ease. Why is that important? Because usually once the cause of dis-ease is removed, people get better. It can be quite elegant and simple. The body has an innate drive to heal. The tricky part is identifying the cause. Sleuthing out the cause is a large part of being a doctor.
Typically, using naturopathic principles to work with the body rather than against it is pretty effective. But I had this small group of stuck patients who didnt respond to the usual things in the usual ways. These patients werent getting better. Not much changed from appointment to appointment, despite their hard work. Honestly, I was surprised they had enough faith in me to keep coming back.
Then one of those patients found toxic mold in his housetoxic black mold. And I wondered if that might be part of the reason he wasnt getting better despite being 110% dedicated to his treatment plan. I wondered if that might be the reason the others were still sick. I didnt know because I frankly wasnt familiar with all the facets of mold sickness.
I hit the books and was shocked to find that mold was definitely the reason he wasnt responding. The same was true for many of my other stuck patients. I was astounded. Even though I found a ton of research on molds, mold toxins, and how they harm living beings, I didnt have a grasp of this in practice. Why? The reason is simplelack of human studies.
The many research studies about molds and mold toxins (called mycotoxins) are related to animals and animal feed. People in charge of feeding livestock know about the risks. Theyve even developed mold mitigation techniques to keep their animals healthy.
But theres been little funding to bring this research forward to humans and human impacts. With no definitive lab tests and no vetted treatment protocols from human research, doctors treating real human patients were destined to miss mold just like I did.
Little has changed in the decades since I became aware of mold and mold toxin illness. We now have better lab testing, but still very few human trials to test treatments. Even so, we can learn from the animals because many of the same rules apply to humans as animals. And we can learn from our elders.
Using my knowledge of science, historical treatments, and teachings from mentors, I developed methods to address mold in my stuck patients... and they improved.
THE ORIGINAL ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS
I refer to mold illness as "the original environmental illness because it has been an issue for as long as humans have been inhabiting indoor spaces, from caves to wood huts to stone houses. Mold is even mentioned in the Bible as both a physical body and a spiritual sickness. Even though there are very few human trials on mold treatments, effective treatments have been around for centuries.
Lack of research is not the same as lack of efficacy. Traditional medicine healers from all indigenous cultures successfully treated people afflicted with mold. Sadly, little of that knowledge got passed down to modern day doctors.
