120. Q&A with Gary Brecka: Exposing Truth About Statins, Mold & Lyme Disease

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So remember, there's a pH scale, which stands for potential hydrogen. As you get higher on that scale, you get more alkaline. less acidic. As you get lower on the scale, you get more acidic and less alkaline. The sphincter muscle that's at the top of your stomach that separates your esophagus from your stomach is called the cardiac sphincter. Cardiac because it sits right outside the heart.

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And when that sphincter muscle opens, it's opening in response to more alkalinity. It closes in response to increased acidity. So as the pH drops in the stomach, that muscle constricts. As the pH rises, that muscle relaxes. So the opposite of what you think is happening.

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Generally, acid reflux, although it can be caused from other things, but a lot of gastroesophageal reflux disease or acid reflux is actually caused by too little stomach acid. So there's something called beta-ene hydrochloride. Thorne makes it.

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However, one of the best things that we can do to minimize the effects of a colonoscopy would be to be diligent about repopulating the gut post-procedure. This would include taking a very healthy probiotic or also Dr. Gundry, who is a cardiologist turned functional medicine practitioner. He makes one called BioComplete 3. I'm a big fan of that. No, I'm not an affiliate with that company.

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I have no financial arrangement with him whatsoever. I'm just a big fan of his BioComplete 3. I also believe in the probiotic that I make because it actually protects the bacteria from the stomach acid and opens in an alkaline environment. But repopulating the gut is not just as simple as taking probiotics. You want to also take what's called prebiotics. These are the food that bacteria eat.

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You may have heard of prebiotics and probiotics. Probiotics are the bacteria themselves. Prebiotics are the food that the bacteria feed on. The best source of prebiotics, in my opinion, are fermented vegetables. Things like fermented kimchi or fermented sauerkraut, pickled vegetables, or even kefir. The reason why these are so good is because they not only bring probiotics with them,

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but they also bring prebiotic fiber, insoluble fiber, which actually converts into something called free fatty acids, which is excellent for inflammation. Okay, so let's move to the next question, which was, what are some effective long-term approaches to recover from mold or mycotoxin exposure and detoxify the body safely? This is an excellent question.

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So three big things that you need to do with mold. The number one is the absolute most important. If you're found to have mold or mycotoxicity on a blood test or some other kind of test, the number one thing you have to do is get out of the environment with mold.

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If you've been on proton pump inhibitors or acid blockers like Tums, for prolonged periods of time, you want to titrate off of these things slowly, but make it a goal to get off of PPIs, proton pump inhibitors, or acid blocking agents that you're using to control acid reflux. Can a colonoscopy or related procedures disrupt gut health?

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And what procedures can one take to minimize any adverse effects? Again, I'm not a physician. I'm not licensed to practice medicine. I am not a big fan of colonoscopies because they flush the bowel of a lot of the bacteria that you have.

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Very often people that have been diagnosed with Crohn's go in for colonoscopies and they actually have bowel flushes done and the bowel flushes all of the beneficial bacteria out of the gut. I would follow the advice of your gastrointestinal specialist.

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You will never heal or detoxify from mold or mycotoxin poisoning while you are still in the house that got you the mold toxicity in the first place. The second thing I would do, and I sell a very good one on my site, I'm not just trying to sell you an air filter, but we sell an air filter that goes down to 0.3 microns, right on the ultimate human, and it also has an ozone setting.

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And the reason why I like ozone with mold and mycotoxin poisoning is is that you filter the air down to very, very, very small microns to take the mold spores and the mycotoxins out of the air, as well as some viruses, dust particles, and other contaminants that are in our air, you know, aluminum fragments and what have you.

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But the thing that you can do when you leave the room is you can actually run an ozone setting and ozone gas will actually kill mold on the back of your drywall. It can even disinfect your air supply.

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But number one thing to do is if you are still in the home or the place, the condo that got you the mold exposure, you have to move out of that location and get to a place that's been certified to be mold-free. Number two, you should take a binder. There are several binders that are very good for mold toxicity, certain zeolite binders, charcoal binders.

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A good friend of mine, Dr. Daryl Geoffrey, makes an excellent binder at Kick Your Acid. He makes a binder that is specific for mold toxicity that I am a huge fan of. I actually use his coffee creamers too, but that would be my second recommendation. And the third would be that ozone, either intravenous ozone,