Mold Illness v. Mold + Lyme and coinfections

What is the difference between simple mold exposure and mold exposure plus chronic infections?

In this talk for the CIRS Healing Collective (CHC), Dr. Varga, DAOM discusses the presentation and treatment of Mold Illness alone versus mold exposure + Lyme and coinfections. She discusses: the common infectious species found in ticks, the prevelance of Lyme disease and coinfections, how the relationship between our immune system and the pathogens affect the course of illness; how eastern medicine views Mold+Lyme; the relationship between CIRS and chronic infections; and the different presentations of Mold and Mold+Lyme and their required treatment.

She also discusses: when to consider testing for Lyme and coinfections; and if you are on the Shoemaker protocol, when would you be suspicious of Lyme in addition to mold exposure? We briefly lay out the difficulty in testing for Lyme and coinfections and the existence of false negatives.

Dr. Varga, DAOM also discuss preferred testing methods and when the GENIE, a trasncriptomic - gene expression test, and C3a - a marker of immune response may or may not indicate the presence of Lyme. She discusses treatment methods and the difference in the approaches of western and eastern medicine and lastly how the Jupiter Approach combines the two in a unique way. Here is an excerpt of her talk. CHC