9. Dr. Neil Nathan - CIRS, Mold Toxicity, Biotoxins, Binders, Mast Cells, and Rebooting the Nervous System

Welcome to the 9th episode of The Synthesis of Wellness podcast!  Dr. Nathan's bio: "Neil Nathan, MD has been practicing medicine for 50 years, and has been Board Certified in Family Practice and Pain Management and is a Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and a Founding Diplomate of ISEAI.  He has written several books, including Healing is Possible: New Hope for Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Persistent Pain, and Other Chronic Illnesses and On Hope and Healing: For Those Who Have Fallen Through the Medical Cracks. He has hosted an internationally syndicated radio program/podcast on Voice America called The Cutting Edge of Health and Wellness Today. He has been working to bring an awareness that mold toxicity is a major contributing factor for patients with chronic illness and lectures internationally on this subject which led to the publication of his ebook, Mold and Mycotoxins: Current Evaluation and Treatment, 2016, (now updated to 2022), and then to his best-selling book Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and Chronic Environmental Illness. Winter of 2021 saw the publication of Energetic Diagnosis, a discussion of the value of intuition and energetic devices as an aid to both diagnosis and treatment of medical illness. His newest book is planned for release by Spring, 2023, Why Am I So Sensitive? (and what to do about it). He can be contacted most easily through his website www.neilnathanmd.com, through which consultations are available. He is currently providing mentorship in the treatment of chronic inflammatory illness to approximately 150 physicians, with Jill Crista, ND and for those interested in mentorship, please use the website to register. Dr. Nathan has been treating chronic complex medical illnesses for 30 years now, and Lyme disease for the past 20 years. As his practice has evolved, he finds himself increasingly treating the patients who have become so sensitive and toxic that they can no longer tolerate their usual treatments, and his major current interest is in finding unique ways of helping them to recover." Topics: - Why is mold toxicity and CIRS important?  - The Biotoxin Pathway: how does mold toxicity affect cellular chemistry, inflammation, and hormones - Why most all mold patients have SIBO, leaky gut, candida, and mast cell activation - Why you need to treat the mold toxicity before the gut - Mold VS. Candida - Mold colonization? - Binders and toxin-specific binders - Bile and why it is important for detoxification - Reactivity to binders: slow and steady is best - Supporting the liver, gut, kidneys, and lymphatics for detoxification - What are biofilms and why are they important? - Inflammation and mast cell activation - Limbic dysfunction and vagal nerve dysfunction