Mold’s Toxic Effects on Hormones, Brains and Kids – Dr. Margaret Christensen with Dave Asprey : 732

Aug 18, 2020

Dr. Margaret Christensen, a board-certified OB/GYN and functional medicine expert, shares her family's harrowing journey through the aftermath of toxic mold exposure. She highlights its insidious effects on hormonal health and mental well-being, especially in children. The conversation sheds light on how mycotoxins disrupt endocrine functions, leading to chronic illnesses and even impacting family dynamics. Dr. Christensen emphasizes the need for clean air quality and proactive solutions as essential tools for recovery and healing.

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ANECDOTE

Family Mold Exposure

Dr. Margaret Christensen's family experienced fatigue, crankiness, and various illnesses.
The root cause was eventually discovered to be toxic mold exposure in their home.

INSIGHT

Hormone Disruption

Mycotoxins can disrupt hormones in several ways, including mimicking estrogen (like zeranol).
They can also attach to hormone receptors, disrupting normal function.

INSIGHT

Limbic System Disruption

The olfactory nerve connects the nose to the limbic system, including the hypothalamus.
Inflammation from inhaled toxins can travel along this nerve, disrupting hormone regulation.

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In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, my guest shares her compelling story of attempting to solve the riddle of her own and her family’s complex health challenges. She, her husband and her children were all tired, cranky and sick with various illnesses and she didn’t know why. Dr. Margaret Christensen also didn’t know it at the time, but severe toxic mold exposure was the root cause of her family’s physical and mental health issues.

She became all too familiar with chronic fatigue, Fibromyalgia, autoimmune, hormonal, neurological, and psychiatric consequences of unrecognized Biotoxin illness. There have been devastating, long-lasting effects on her family.

The experience also took her in another medical career direction—from an obstetrician-gynecologist to a doctor specializing in Functional Medicine. She now researches and treats hormone disruption and neurodegenerative diseases caused by toxic mold.

Mold exposure is a multifactorial challenge, Dr. Christensen says. “The way I approach it is I'm not just dealing at the physiologic level, the physical level, of course, using binders and to pull things out and upregulating detox mechanisms with things like glutathione. I do a whole lot of work in the limbic system, because oftentimes, people who've had toxic mold exposure, it's not one exposure.”

“It's multiple and accumulated over time,” she continues, “and with a lot of antibiotics, a lot of other stressors, etc. Particularly if you've had ACES or adverse childhood events or major traumas in your life.”

Dr. Christensen has been a board-certified ob/gyn for 23 years. She currently runs The Carpathia Collaborative, a large multi-disciplinary, Functional Medicine Practice based in Dallas. Her clinical focus areas are mold toxicity, nutritional biochemistry and environmental toxicology.

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