It takes time

One of the crazy things about mold avoidance is that it takes a LONG time to get better. Well, let me rephrase. You often start getting better RIGHT AWAY, which is miraculous and leads to the motivation needed to continue.

But surprising and unbelievable breakthroughs CONTINUE to occur, even years into pursuing mold avoidance.

I continue to be absolutely mesmerized by this. Why? Here’s a post I made on our Facebook group, which explains more.

IT TAKES YEARS TO GET WELL? OH MY!

MY ALMOST 2-YEAR UPDATE

When I first started learning about avoidance, the thing which turned many other people off to it, turned me on.

Lisa Petrison once told me her reactivity to mycotoxins peaked at around 18 months, and she would regularly tell me that I’m “not that far along” when I was 6-12 months in.

See, this was exciting to me. Why?

Well, I spent decades looking for easy fixes, but it was clear that my body was really jacked up at a core level. These time frames many not apply to people who are less sick.

In 2002, I flew to Italy for a $20,000 “quick fix” therapy where they inject you with dinitrophenol for 3 weeks, which is actually a pesticide. How do you like that? It was an experimental Lyme treatment, the guy who ran it eventually went to jail, and while I was there I watched them wheel out a dead guy who died from the therapy complications – a young doctor also from the USA.

That therapy didn’t work for me at all.

Then later, in Reno, I spent $20k on a 3 week stay at a clinic that also offered “quick fix” cures, they would give me a shot called “shake and bake” and I would go home and have a 105 fever all night. That therapy actually did seem to help a little, but it didn’t make a dent in the long term trajectory.

Then, in 2003, I started my publishing company. And since then, I’ve written and published over 20 books which have sold almost 100,000 copies. I’ve been to conferences, tested gadgets, talked to the best and brightest in the field. Because of my position in medicine, I had access to everything. But I never quite was able to get over the hump.

So when mold avoidance came on my radar, I was intrigued by the idea that something could have LONG TERM upward trajectory potential, as in, noticable yet subtle improvements month after month. Instinctively, I knew my body had layers and layers of crap that if I was going to recover, I had to remove. I knew there was no way on the planet that this was going to happen quickly. So I was really excited about mold avoidance and about the long-term time frame. I just knew that nothing less would work for me.

Here I am, almost 2 years in. And every minute, every second of the way, it has been obvious that “this is my core answer.” It hasn’t always been easy, and things like ten pass ozone and bee venom and parasite treatment have greatly augmented my progress. But I’ve spent hours, even dozens of hours, contemplating what the CORE thing has been, of all this stuff. And it is easily clear to me that the core thing has been mold avoidance.

So there you go. That is why I think that the long recovery window is so exciting. And don’t worry, during those years of recovery (or less for less sick people, maybe), it isn’t like you are sitting in bed waiting. No, every step of the way, you are noticing unreal and unfathomable changes in your body. Each moment is exciting and promising and hopeful, every second of the day. I mean, would you expect anything less? If you are ACTUALLY solving the deep-seated problems in your body, wouldn’t you expect things to feel amazing?

Of course, we don’t expect that. We have been so disappointed by wasted years, wasted money, wasted time, that we are brainwashed to expect that even the actual answer will be miserable and loathsome. So when something actually works, at a core level, it is like we are shocked and blown out of the water and in disbelief. That is how I was. And still am, many of the days.

This is an exciting time. We are witnesses to some real truth, some real answers. The truth is, my story isn’t special at all. Nothing about it is special. Hundreds of people have gone through this before me, and hundreds will follow. But it is special to me.

I’m thankful for my mold avoidance family and for those who have gone before me and stuck around to teach me the often strange, unexpected, mysterious ways of mold avoidance.

I wish everyone else a productive and unlikely recovery. Stick with it, follow the clues.

To commemorate our 2 years, I’ve put together this photo album. It has like 300 photos, so I don’t expect you to look through it. It is mostly the special moments for my own memory and journaling. Bonus points: We got to meet up with my son’s favorite video game celebrity who has 14M followers on Instagram, can you spot him? LOL

https://photos.app.goo.gl/QBC6etzW21HXTSAK7

The photos are organized from present (first photo) going back to the garage sale from our mold house! I’m not sure this photo album allows for a slide show format… but maybe it will be usable anyway.

An Epic Adenture. 33,000 miles. 85+ locations. And a TON of healing.

-Bryan