Today’s guest is Lauren Keller, a nurse practitioner, certified midwife, and mold survivor. Like many suffering from mold toxicity, Lauren had no idea how much this indoor contaminant could impact her body until she moved into a rental house while getting her graduate degree. It took some time after the chronic symptoms initially developed before she realized that something wasn’t quite right in her body.

What followed were years of misdiagnosis, even though she was a professional in the medical realm. From depression, multiple sclerosis, and Lyme disease, Lauren heard it all and underwent a million and one tests to try to prove it. It took a random encounter for her to start going down the rabbit hole of environmental factors like mold as possible culprits. Luckily, she stuck to her instincts that something wasn’t quite right and eventually realized it was mold toxicity that was causing her ongoing issues.

From there, she began the long journey of healing, and she continued going down the rabbit hole of the effect environmental factors have on health. Her passion for the subject led her to not only a career change but also a move halfway across the world.

Today’s Talk:

In this episode, Michael Rubino sits down with Lauren Keller to discuss her life-changing experience with mold. Her journey shows that even though someone’s in the medical world, that doesn’t mean that they can’t suffer from mold illness because of the general lack of understanding and awareness of this indoor contaminant.

Lauren’s brush with mold began in graduate school after she moved into a house with visible mold. As she said, though, no one talked about mold. Even while in school to become a certified nurse, she never once learned about mold illness and the health implications of exposure. So, while she thought everything was fine, the toxicity slowly began chipping away at her health until her symptoms became so pronounced that she couldn’t live her normal life. At one point, her chronic fatigue was so bad that she was sleeping almost 20 hours a day.

Determined to find the cause, she started going down the rabbit hole of trying to find a diagnosis, but like many, it was an incredibly difficult struggle. No doctor could tell her what was wrong and instead suggested she might have mental health issues instead of something physically wrong. It took years of her continually going down the rabbit hole of research and trial and error before she finally considered mold as the root cause of her problem.

Her entire experience with mold showed her just how little is known about this indoor contaminant and how little people think it can affect health-even medical professionals. Her own symptoms proved to her just how powerful the effects of exposure can be, and now much more attention is needed to how factors in our indoor environment impact health. From struggling to find someone to help build a safe home to hearing those around her say that mold is no big deal, she’s witnessed countless issues regarding mold awareness.

Using this understanding, she decided to change careers and is now helping people around the world heal who are going down the rabbit hole of environmental-related exposures and chronic illness.

"When you're that ill and then you start recovering, you just see the world differently and you see the way you want to live your life differently. Mainstream doesn't really make as much sense anymore."

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