Break the Mold: 5 Tools to Conquer Mold and Take Back Your Health

I'm a practitioner wanting to learn more about mold and mycotoxins for my clients. This was a great book to start with. It's easy to read and she breaks down her protocol into practical tips. I also liked that she included client stories. They were interesting to read and helped illustrate what she was saying.

I couldn't put this book down. I felt like for the first time in over 9 years I finally had an answer to all of my "mysterious" symptoms of pain, numbness and allergies to everything! I finished the book in 3 hours and I am eager to go back and re-read it to take notes. So much valuable information in here. If you have been struggling with your health and you aren't feeling "heard" or believed that your symptoms are real, then it could be mold. Please read this book because it could save your life and help you get onto a new healing path. I have purchased "The Dust Test" recommended by my practitioner so I can get started on assessing my home. We are also doing a food IGg and comprehensive stool test to see where I am at baseline, then I will start implementing many of these steps. Eager to get started, but I also know it will be a process and potentially expensive, but worth it to finally be healed after 9 years of suffering. I will come back and update if I remember!

I've recommended this book to many in my mold and chronic illness groups. It's easy to follow (even with brain fog) as it's written in simple, laymen's terms. She gives some anecdotes that are helpful, too because she puts it into context about how it presents in everyday life -- instead of just covering symptoms and medical terms. She also gives clear action items on how to recover. One of the supplements that she recommended helped me tremendously and was a game-changer -- the Xlear RESCUE (not the regular) nasal spray. I hadn't realized that the mold colonized in my nose, too, and that's why I'd get a stuffy nose sometimes or full ears, etc.

I have been very chronically ill for almost 8 years with every symptom that makes you miserable but the doctors cannot prove with a test. I now believe my downhill slide into chronic illness hell is from being a sluggish bile producer as Dr. Crista explains… strong bile producers are able to clear toxins and mold from their bowels and this allows the immune system to keep working properly. And as you know if your immune system cannot work properly you can start to accumulate different opportunistic nasties. I have been to many doctors and been on many extreme diets. I’m extremely sensitive to most supplements, foods, chemicals, fragrances, etc. There’s a running joke that I belong in a bubble because I can’t tolerate the normal world like most people. I was diagnosed with both Lyme disease and MCAS and I’m pretty sick most ever day…. I’ve only been implementing Dr. Crista’s mold protocol for a week now and I’m tolerating foods and supplements that there’s absolutely no way I could stand before. I can already see a difference in my skin ( I’m normally covered in eczema and it’s starting to fade). I have a lot of hope for this new piece of my health puzzle. Whenever I’m reading reviews of books I am trying to assess if my foggy mind will be able to wade through the author’s wordy complicated descriptions of their health protocols. This book gets to the point and if you want to, you can skip right to the protocol section. Thank goodness. I’m so tired of reading chronic illness books that explain the science behind the protocol in excruciating detail.

‘Break The Mold’ is packed with so much information! I’ve been struggling with health issues for over 3 years, and was diagnosed with celiac disease and a genetic SNP in the fall of 2017. In spite of making positive (gluten-free) changes to my already healthy eating habits, making lifestyle changes to address the SNP, and following various protocols prescribed by my naturopath and dietician, my progress has been 2 steps forward, 1 step back. I’ve wondered in the past, and now suspect my unrelenting issues are due to mold. I will be testing this week for confirmation. I appreciate having Dr. Jill’s knowledge in book format, and the ability to refer to it and share information with others I suspect may be affected by mold. My ONLY complaint is in the construction of the book itself. The book LITERALLY started falling apart the second day I picked it up to start reading chapter 2. As I was reading, the ‘Contents’ page fell on my lap, with the Questionnaire and Part 1 sections coming loose, and eventually falling out. So far I’ve managed to keep all the pages together, but it is a bit frustrating. I’ve never had a book fall apart like this, so I assume I just received a ‘lemon’ of a book. Also, I realize the book wasn’t terribly expensive ,so I may have to break down and purchase another copy of it...after remediation, if that ends up being the case.

Excellent book on recognizing and recovering from mold exposure and toxicity. The author draws from her real life experience treating patients, and it's very helpful. Very thorough and informative, no filler. Obviously not AI written (I can't believe that's even a thing, but tragically, most books on Amazon are written by AI now).

If you even think you may have a mold-related anything going on with your house or bod, I can't say enough good things about this book. I feel 180 times better than I was feeling by the time we discovered black mold peaking through the drywall in our basement in August. It's now November. Apparently, it had been around and hiding out since a leak we had in our basement 7 years earlier. And I owe an awful lot of my getting my health back on track to this book. The recommendations are working quite nicely since our remediation in September, which was around when I discovered an interview with her on Youtube. It's a short read packed with loads of info talking a lot about foods, herbs, essential oils, and other natural ways to help your body heal from mold exposure.

Thanks to this comprehensive book, I know way more about mold than I’ve ever wanted to, than anyone should ever have to, in the most empowering of ways 🥵. Thanks to Dr Crista, her truth telling, canary-ness, willingness to experiment, and sense of humor, I felt comforted and equipped to slowly and surely, nano step by nano step, recover from mold toxicity. Thank you FOREVER MORE for Dr Crista and this precious distilled resource! Warning to mold ill patients: it can be overwhelming to read the book in one go, so pace yourself. Regulating your nervous system and finding calm in the storm will be key to allowing these 5 tools of Break the Mold to work 💜.

I have found this super helpful since being diagnosed with several mycotoxins in my body with the Great Plains urine test via Regenerus Labs UK I have all the classic symptoms of mould/mycotoxin - sinus, lung and skin issues. Listening to this book again and again on Audible to remind me how important it is to clear mold from your home (I have booked puremaintenanceuk in) and clear mould feeding foods from your diet. And even mould lifestyle habits like avoiding second hand clothes and home bits. And ensuring lots of home ventilation to stop it growing in first place, plus squeegy shower after each use, open windows etc (watch Charlie DIYte on YouTube for great info on this) Will re test in a while if I feel better. Cutting out sugar for me is so key but really hard! Having moderate success. Another book called Glucose Revolution is helping with that. Also taking an enzyme 15 mins before meals so I'm not tired and craving sugar after every meal, seems to work! Using Enzymedica Lipo Gold Good luck fellow mouldies!

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i can't say anything about the book itself , however from the technical side this is just horrible. The book can't be read over web kindle , and the actual app you can download makes the book look so horrible , it is unreadable.

As a mould illness sufferer, I learnt so much ‘how to’ information. Both basic and detailed instructions. I highly recommend.

No one in the UK - Doctors / Mould remediators / laymen - seem to either know about or believe that you can get extremely ill from the TOXINS that some types of mould give off - NOT the SPORES but the toxic gas - and that this gas will permeate anything it can and off gas for years afterwards - i had to have my daughter tested to get anyone to believe me and even then nothing was done! Excellent book and very helpful in my journey with this horror