Chronic Lyme and Shoemaker Mold Toxicity & CIRS
In this video article, Marty Ross MD explains why the Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker’s approach to mold toxicity and his Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) is wrong when someone also has chronic Lyme disease.
The key issue is Dr. Shoemaker and his trained physicians rely on inflammatory marker labs like C4a, TGF beta-1, VEGF, C3a, VIP and others along with a genetic profile test called an HLA-DR test to diagnose chronic mold toxicity. However, these inflammatory tests may be abnormal due to chronic Lyme or co-infections. And having a genetic predisposition for mold toxicity, does not mean a person manifests the problem.
Because of this, the better way to see if a person has mold toxicity illness is to measure mold toxin levels directly. This is done using a urine mycotoxin test.
To read more about diagnosing mold toxicity in chronic Lyme disease and regimens see Mold and Lyme Toxin Ilness on this site. To see more about the Shoemaker approach see his website.
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