Mold Toxicity Is Slowly Killing Millions of Americans
Dr. Sponaugle has HLA-DRBQ genetics and personally suffered severe mold toxicity in 2006. His hospital office had a massive infestation of Black Mold “Stachy Botrus” hidden behind a water damaged wall.
Because of his personal experience, Dr. Sponaugle has designed an advanced intravenous mold toxicity treatment that more effectively removes mold toxins in just four weeks than six months of treatment with oral medications like Cholestyramine and Charcoal based herbal toxin removers.
Since 2006, Dr. Sponaugle has successfully treated over 2,000 patients who unknowingly were suffering from Mold Toxicity! Dr. Dennis Hooper, the medical director of the Real-Time Mold Toxin lab in Dallas, has informed Dr. Sponaugle that he is now 30-to-1 the top mold doctor in North America utilizing their mold toxin testing.
Before coming to Sponaugle Wellness Institute, many of these mold toxic patients had traveled to multiple states and various medical centers in their failed attempt to discover the underlying causation of their severe depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, and fibromyalgia syndromes. Many developed addiction issues because of their undiagnosed mold toxicity.
What are mold toxins?
Mold toxins are toxic gases produced by indoor molds. Mold Toxicity occurs when patients accumulate excessive levels of mold toxins in their brain and body. Supposedly, only 25 percent, one of four, of Americans have inherited HLA DRBQ genetics and therefore, cannot make antibodies to mold toxins.
Ironically, 90 percent of Dr. Sponaugle’s addicted and wellness patients have HLA-DRBQ genetics. While the highest prevalence of HLA- DRBQ genetics is in fair-skinned people of Northern European descent, Dr. Sponaugle has diagnosed the “mold genetics” in patients from Latin America and Asia.
Hidden mold is always present in water-damaged buildings. Most patients are unaware, as was Dr. Sponaugle, that they are suffering from gases produced by mold infestations hidden behind water damaged walls, shower tile, and above wet ceilings. These harmful toxins go unnoticed when mold is hidden because we cannot see or smell them.
The three-out-of-four Americans who naturally produce antibodies to mold toxins can live and work in water-damaged buildings without suffering significant demise in their health. However, because patients with HLA DRBQ genetics have no antibodies to deactivate and remove mold toxins, they develop an excessive accumulation of these harmful toxins.
Mold toxins are lipophilic meaning their molecular structure consists of fatty acid molecules. For this reason, mold toxins migrate to and deposit in the brain – the brain is the “fattiest” organ, consisting of 60 percent fat.
Dr. Sponaugle has performed sophisticated and unprecedented research in mold toxic patients. He has correlated mold toxin levels in his patients to changes in their brain scans and brain chemistry patterns. As well, Dr. Sponaugle has correlated mold toxin levels with global suppression of hormonal output. This research has proven that mold toxicity is causative for many psychological and neurological disorders including, but not limited to the following:
Addiction – Anxiety – Bipolar II – Chronic Fatigue – Depression – Fibromyalgia – Insomnia – Multiple Sclerosis – Neuropathy – OCD – Panic Disorder – Paranoia & Schizoid Syndrome!
Mold Toxicity Causing Panic Disorder and Bipolar Symptoms
The extra red and white areas were seen on the mold toxic brain scan represent severely overactive regions that were causing panic disorder and bipolar symptoms in Daniel, a 19-year-old college student who developed mold toxicity within 7 months of living in a moldy dormitory. Daniel tested positive for three different mold toxins, Aflatoxin, Ochratoxin, and Trichothecene.
The government set a toxic level for Trichothecenes, the family of mold toxins produced by Stachy Botrus known as black mold is 0.2 parts per billion. Notice that Daniel’s Trichothecene level was 3.2 or 16 times the government set a toxic threshold. According to Daniel’s parents, he was the happiest 18-year-old in Chicago before he went to college where he developed severe anxiety, insomnia, panic disorder, and ultimately, Bipolar symptoms – for which Daniel was placed on anti-psychotic medications.
Daniel was also abusing Xanax and OxyContin in his attempt to quiet the excessive electrical activity in his brain. Chicago psychiatrists failed to properly diagnose mold toxicity as the underlying causation of Daniel’s panic and Bipolar symptoms. Daniel’s parents and his psychiatrists assumed the “stress of college” was too much for Daniel causing him to have a “nervous breakdown.” Dr. Sponaugle has seen hundreds of kids become addicted to OxyContin after moving into a moldy dormitory or their parent’s moldy basement.
Daniel’s parents brought him to Florida Detox & Wellness for his OxyContin and Xanax addiction not realizing they would also discover the true cause of his panic disorder and Bipolar Syndrome. After just two weeks of Dr. Sponaugle’s intravenous mold toxicity treatment, Daniel came off his anti-psychotic medications and underwent a successful detox for his Xanax and OxyContin addiction. He no longer craved the Xanax and OxyContin to calm his anxious brain.
Dr. Sponaugle has successfully treated hundreds of mold toxic patients who were simply diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, or misdiagnosed with Bipolar Disorder by psychiatrists who remain naïve regarding the effect of mold toxicity on the brain. The majority of these mold toxic patients were abusing opiate pain medications and drugs like Klonopin or Xanax, to calm their anxious brains.
Medical Disorders Caused by Mold Toxicity Addiction
Mold toxic patients abuse drugs that calm their anxious brain. They often become addicted to opiate pain medications like OxyContin, benzodiazepines like Xanax and Klonopin or become alcoholics. Alcohol activates the brain’s Xanax receptor. All three classes of drugs “turn down” the excessive electrical voltage in the mold toxic brain, thus making the patient feel more normal.
Most American physicians remain naïve regarding mold toxicity and unknowingly, are the primary cause of addiction in many mold toxic patients – they prescribe benzodiazepines like Xanax and Klonopin to anxious mold toxic patients. These addicting medications treat the symptoms of mold toxicity, however, they fail to address the underlying cause of the mold toxic patient’s anxiety and panic disorders.
Unfortunately, mold toxic patients often find their way to Dr. Sponaugle after they have already spent hundreds of thousands of $$$$$ on multiple rehab centers where they were simply diagnosed as a drug addict, treated for Xanax, Klonopin, and OxyContin addiction, but, continued to relapse because they needed those drugs to self-medicate what doctors misdiagnosed.
Anxiety – Insomnia – Panic Disorder – Bipolar Disorder – Fibromyalgia
Excito-neurotoxicity is the medical term used to describe an over electrified brain, the phenomenon in which brain neurons are actually electrified on an hourly basis because of the excessive electrical voltage flowing through the brain. Mold toxic brains produce excessive levels of two powerful electrifying brain chemicals, Glutamate and PEA.
It is the increased activation of Glutamate and PEA nerve receptors throughout the body that produces an over electrified nervous system, thus producing symptoms of anxiety, insomnia, panic disorder, bipolar syndrome, and fibromyalgia.
Mold toxic patients experience a gradual progression as they slowly accumulate more mold toxins, their symptoms usually begin with insomnia, then as they spend more time living and working in mold toxic buildings, their symptoms progress from insomnia to insomnia and day time anxiety. As they accumulate more toxins, their anxiety can progress into full-blown panic disorder, and ultimately, in the most severe cases of mold toxicity, patients can develop bipolar symptoms of rage and paranoia.
Insomnia
Initially, mold toxic patients may only notice insomnia at night. As they continue to accumulate more mold toxins in their brain, they begin to notice anxiety during the day, in addition to their nighttime insomnia.
Anxiety & Panic Disorder
With continued exposure to hidden mold at work or home, mold toxic patients accumulate higher levels of mold toxins and eventually progress from a generalized anxiety disorder to a full-blown panic disorder.
Bipolar Disorder
Dr. Sponaugle has successfully treated over 400 hundred mold toxic patients who were misdiagnosed as having bipolar disorder, when in fact, they were suffering from undiagnosed Mold Toxicity. These patients were previously treated with Anti-Psychotic medications by ill-knowledgeable psychiatrists who had no knowledge regarding the effect of mold toxins on the brain. Every one of these mold toxic patients was successfully taken off their antipsychotic medications after they underwent Dr. Sponaugle’s intravenous treatment protocol for removal of mold toxins.
Many of these misdiagnosed patients eventually found their way to Florida Detox and Dr. Sponaugle because they were seeking addiction treatment for OxyContin addiction, Xanax addiction, or Alcoholism. They were using drugs to self-medicate their anxious brains. America’s rehab centers are full of mold toxic patients who will continue to relapse until they are properly diagnosed.
Psychiatrists and Rehab Doctors at America’s Addiction Treatment Centers blame drug addiction as the underlying causation of Bipolar Disorder in many patients, when in fact, in many addicted patients, undiagnosed mold toxicity is the cause of their bipolar symptoms and their need to self- medicate with drugs and alcohol.
One of the most severe cases of mold toxicity seen at Sponaugle Wellness Institute is Gary, a 20-year-old male, who prior to being properly diagnosed by Dr. Sponaugle, had been arrested via “Baker Act” to the University of Miami psychiatric unit six times in a nine-month period for psychotic behavior. He was charged with Road Rage for ramming cars, something he had never done before. He was ultimately prescribed 6 different psychiatric medications by psychiatric professors.
Prior to age 20, Gary had no psychological issues and according to his parents, he was a very happy and stable young man. At age 20, Gary got married to his high school sweetheart and moved into a mold toxic condo on Miami Beach. His parents and the university psychiatrists had blamed his psychotic behavior on “the stress of getting married.” After just two weeks of Dr. Sponaugle’s intravenous mold toxicity treatment, Gary no longer acted psychotic and his rage issues ameliorated*. Within 4 weeks of Dr. Sponaugle’s treatment, Gary was weaned off all 6 of his anti-psychotic medications*.
Depression and Chronic Fatigue
Nor-epinephrine Deficiency
Dr. Sponaugle’s research has proven that mold toxicity suppresses the production of Nor-epinephrine output from the A 5 Nucleus, the brain factory that produces 90 percent of our nor-epinephrine. This is one of the primary mechanisms by which Mold Toxicity causes severe depression and severe chronic fatigue. Normally, Nor-epinephrine levels as measured on neurotransmitter testing average 40. Many chronic fatigue patients treated at Sponaugle Wellness suffer such severe mold toxicity that their nor-epinephrine levels are suppressed to 10. These patients not only suffer severe chronic fatigue – they feel like they have a 20-pound cement block attached to each leg. Upon asking, they admit they get dizzy when they first stand up.
Mold Toxicity Suppression of Pituitary Hormonal Output
A mold toxic brain, specifically the hypothalamus, is too sick to properly stimulate the brain’s primary hormonal factory, the pituitary gland. Pituitary insufficiency results in global hormonal deficiencies because the pituitary hormones stimulate downstream hormonal factories – the thyroid gland, adrenal glands, and the sex organs.
Hormone Deficiencies – Thyroid Hormone – Cortisol – Testosterone
Epinephrine {Adrenaline} Nor-epinephrine {Nor-adrenaline} and Dopamine are in a sense, first cousins – they belong to the adrenaline family called the catecholamines. They cannot activate their respective nerve receptors in the brain or the body without adequate levels of the specific hormones, Cortisol, Thyroid hormone, and Testosterone. Mold toxin-induced deficiencies of these hormones cause inactivation of the three adrenaline chemicals thus causing symptoms of severe depression, lethargy, and chronic fatigue.
Fibromyalgia
Mold toxic patients suffer from “total body pain” because of the excessive production of the electrifying neurotransmitters Glutamate and PEA, the excessive inflammation derived from toxic load and deficiencies of the calming neurotransmitters, Taurine and Serotonin, caused by mold toxin-induced destruction of the intestinal lining which leads to poor absorption of the essential amino acids, tryptophan, and Taurine.
The resultant up-regulation of electrical voltage in the body’s nervous system can be dramatic and directly correlates with the measured level of mold toxins. Dr. Sponaugle has proven that Mold Toxicity is the primary causation of fibromyalgia in many middle-aged women, women who were previously misdiagnosed at ten or more University Medical Centers. Doctors at these centers typically prescribe addicting pain medication and drugs like Lyrica, these medications simply treat the symptoms of fibromyalgia but fail to address the true cause of fibromyalgia.
Mold Toxicity – Multiple Sclerosis
Mold toxins destroy the myelin sheath on brain neurons causing the classic “white spots” seen in Multiple Sclerosis.
Dr. Sponaugle diagnoses over 20 patients a year with Multiple Sclerosis via MRI of the brain. Many of these patients are middle-aged females who initially assume they are coming to Florida Detox for addiction treatment. Had these women sought addiction treatment at other rehab centers, unknowing rehab doctors would have been blamed for their brain fog on drug addiction or alcoholism. The true cause of their physical and mental demise, Multiple Sclerosis, would have potentially gone undiagnosed for years.
Dr. Sponaugle uses his Brain Wellness Program combined with his Intravenous Mold Toxin Removal Protocol to reverse damage caused by Multiple Sclerosis.
