Mold Toxicity - Depression, Anxiety, Fatigue, Brain Fog & Inattention

"Light Showers on Tidy Town" paper, acrylic on 24 x 48" canvas "Inspired by the coastal towns of Ireland."

By Courtney Snyder
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One of the challenges of writing blog posts that explore root causes of brain related symptoms is that what we are learning is constantly evolving.  There's so much we still and will never know.  Another challenge - everything is interconnected. The best I can do is to write about these root causes separately. While some contributing factors can occur in parallel, one condition is often leading to other downstream conditions that themselves contribute to things like depressed mood, anxiety, mood swings, brain fog/inattention and so forth.  

Mold toxicity is a perfect example.  It can contribute to Pyrrole Disorder due the stress it puts on the body.  It can lead to elevated copper by overwhelming one of the antioxidants in the body that regulates copper.  Because it interferes with the immune system, it can lead to a susceptibility to candida/yeast, Lyme and its co-infections.  It also frequently worsens mast cell activation (see last post).  I consider it a root of the roots.  In my daily work, I find mold toxicity to be very common.  Here’s why - ​

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