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What Is The Difference Between Mold Toxicity And Candida?

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Channel: CanXida · 2018 · Education

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Hi there. Eric Bakker, naturopath. Thanks for coming back and checking out my videos. Going to do all kinds of videos this morning. I've got a whole list of questions here from people. 

Let's have a look. Mold questions, flatulence questions, colonic questions. All the same stuff. All the basic stuff that I usually get. 

The first question, "What are the differences between mold illness toxicity and the symptoms of Candida overgrowth? Can a person become seriously sick from mold exposure 10 years after they leave the mold infested home that they lived in for a decade? What are the similarities between differences in treatment between Candida overgrowth and mold illness?"

Okay, this person says they're a subscriber and they have interest in this topic with interest regarding the comparison of mold and Candida symptoms and if mold colonization can be dormant for a decade and resurface. Right. So this guy's called "Kevin". 

So Kevin, there's quite a lot of difference between mold toxicity that person has and a Candida problem. Generally, if I suspect a person to have a mold issue, I'm going to do a lot more detective work and have a look at the place that they're employed, where they live, basically when symptoms developed in relationship to where they were working or living at that point in time.

That's much more relevant to mold obviously than it would be to Candida. It doesn't matter if you live in New York City or Timbuktu regarding Candida, but it can make a big difference, mold in a leaky New York apartment compared to how hot it is in Timbuktu. Could be quite a difference. So first thing comes to my mind is look at the location and the environment of the person. 

The chances of the mold creating a problem 10 years after you left the apartment are pretty well zilch. I wouldn't really expect them to be a problem unless you've carried over mold spores or yeast in your body for that period of time. 

But if it was a proper mold toxicity, you would have been in the hospital by now, and probably unable to work, and be very ill. What I look at, particularly for mold, I look at neurological symptoms. 

Okay? I look at unexplained brain fog. I'm going to have a look at things like anxiety. I'm going to have a look at things like mood disorders, or even feeling like half-crazy, feeling weird, feeling strange, particularly if I see that in relationship to a bowel that's functioning reasonably okay. If the beneficial bacteria are intact, if we can't culture Candida as such from the stool, if we can't find parasites or dysbiotic flora, if the SIBO test comes back clear.

If everything comes back okay, but the person's still a bit loopy, a bit crazy, or they perceive that, or tell me that they feel something's not quite right here, then I'm going to suspect mold. Particularly if we start doing some mold testing. We can do different types of mold tests. But more likely, particularly if we inquire into the person's background, where they lived, where they studied, where they worked, these kinds of things. 

So there is a big difference between mold toxicity symptoms and Candida toxicity symptoms. They can overlap. They can be quite similar. The closest thing to mold toxicity problem that a person's going to have in my opinion, is a lack of beneficial bacteria. 

When you start getting extremely low levels of lactobacillus, and bifidobacteria, and other groups of beneficial bacteria, and they start going down in numbers, and other bacteria started coming up, it can almost give you symptoms like mold toxicity. I've seen this. Mold toxicity however can create really weird symptoms and strange symptoms in people. That's because the molds create biotoxins. They actually create poisons themselves, which they release into the atmosphere, which you can breathe in. 

Hence, symptoms of sinusitis, hay fever, asthma, breathing problems. Can't breathe in certain types of rooms, or coughing a lot when you go in certain types of rooms, or feeling sick when you're in a particular type of house.

So again, detective work is going to uncover if the place of residence or work is a problem or not. Just remember that about 50% of U.S. houses to some degree, particularly the older ones, have some element of leaky building syndrome or some type of leak somewhere. Up to 50% it's estimated. So there could be a chance that you could have mold in your basement. 

You could have mold in your roof, in your loft, your ceiling, your attic. There could be mold in a bedroom. There could be mold all over the place. So I'm looking for neurological symptoms. I'm looking for crazy symptoms. I'm looking for unusual symptoms, unexplained symptoms.

Thanks for the question. I hope that answers your question.

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