Recovery, Lifestyle & Environment

Recovery from mold illness involves more than treatment. This section focuses on the everyday foundations of healing: choosing the right diet for your stage of recovery, testing and remediating your home, and supporting a sensitized nervous system.

Eating for Recovery

The Mold Recovery Diet: Which Diet Is Right for You?

How to match low-histamine, AIP, low-FODMAP, and other approaches to your symptoms, and why the goal is always a broad, nourishing diet.

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Creating a Healthier Home: Inspection and Remediation

How to Test a Home for Mold: ERMI, Air Testing, and More

What each type of mold test can and can’t tell you, and why a careful moisture inspection should come before lab testing.

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Mold Remediation Basics: What Has to Happen First?

The fundamentals of safe remediation: fix the water, contain the work, remove what can’t be cleaned, clean what remains, and verify the result.

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Nervous System and Limbic Retraining

Limbic Retraining, Stress, and the Mold-Sensitive Nervous System

Why some people stay highly reactive after leaving a moldy building, and how neuroplasticity-based approaches may help calm a sensitized nervous system.

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The information in this Learning Center is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider about your individual situation.