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Jill Crista

Jill Crista

Naturopathic doctor, bestselling author of Break the Mold, and leading expert in mold-related illness and PANS/PANDAS

Aug 7, 2026

10:13
No kidding.
10:13
You know? So we don't have a lot, and that's why I didn't know, and that turned into my passion project, was just hit the books, find...
10:23
I started with the person so I could, I knew what to look for.
10:27
Tinnitus, and then went to all the molds and all the mycotoxins, and just did this massive research dive for that patient.
10:36
And as I'm reading for this patient, I'm like, "And that's this one, and that's this one, and that's this one." All my non-responders, um, and when we went back to them, you know, then I got excited.
10:46
I'm like, I had my receptionist, I'm like, "Call everybody and find out if they are living in mold or had been living in mold." And in all of my chronic Lyme non-responders but one, it was mold in their history.

46 MINS LATER

57:09
Yeah
57:09
... that's where you can get SIBO gastroparesis because the digestion isn't firing the autonomic thing.
6:49
For parents who are completely new to this, can you start by explaining what mold illness actually is and why it's so much more than just an allergy or a respiratory issue?
6:59
Yes.
7:00
Well, I think that we have normalized, especially in the UK, we have normalized damp, you know, oh, it's just damp.
7:07
And there is nothing, no such thing as just damp and health being equivalent and in the same space.
7:14
So...
7:15
Damp can mean the same thing as a water damage building.
7:17
All it takes is excess humidity.

56 MINS LATER

63:02
So just in headline, what would be the best next steps? To begin detail.

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