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Mold and Cancer

Im sharing my Facebook post because it’s gaining some traction and I want you guys to see it and share what you think @lemon I share a protocol I’m using

AqqI posted this yesterday, but I let fear of judgment get the best of me and deleted it. Today, after many of you asked me to share it again, I built up the courage to repost — because at the end of the day, I have two little reasons to live for, and no one will ever care more about my health than I do. To those who commented yesterday before I took it down, thank you. I read every word, and your support meant more to me than you know. ❤️

I want to share something with you that I believe is not just important—it’s urgent. It could save your life. It saved mine.

This is a story about what happens when you refuse to accept "bad luck" as an answer. When you dig deeper. When you follow your God-given instinct until you find the truth. Even if no one believes you. Even if it means turning your world upside down.

In November 2023, I began experiencing a strange, dull pain in my flank. It was constant—24/7. It never stopped. I saw 8 or 9 different doctors. All of them dismissed me. Gas. Muscle pain. Stress. They told me I was too young for cancer. They didn’t take me seriously. I told them something felt wrong—I even said the word “cancer”—and they brushed me off.

Eventually, one doctor referred me to a GI specialist. I told her everything—about my persistent heartburn, my esophagitis (Grade C), and that nagging flank pain. She ordered a CT scan. I didn’t even get a call. I saw the result on MyChart: "Kidney mass."

I went numb. Then I went to Google. And I cried for weeks.

Then I went to church. I begged God for answers, for guidance, for truth. I saw five urologists. Two said monitor it. Three said surgery. I chose to try healing naturally for six months. Looking back, I now believe I could have healed—if I hadn’t still been actively exposed to the very thing that was making me sick.

In October 2024, I was diagnosed with a renal mass. On April 14, 2025, I had surgery. With kidney cancer, they usually don’t biopsy—it’s too risky. You don’t know if it’s cancer until it’s removed. Chemo and radiation don’t work well on kidney cancer. Surgery is the treatment.

My pathology report: Stage 1, Grade 2 clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

I was 36. No family history. I don’t smoke. I don’t drink. I did full genetic testing for kidney cancer—it came back completely negative.

When I asked my surgeon what caused it, he said, “Just bad luck.”

But something about that phrase struck me like lightning. It felt wrong. I don’t believe in bad luck—I believe in divine guidance. In protection. In purpose. There’s a saying in Portuguese: "Quem me cuida não dorme"—he who watches over me never sleeps.

So I went home and decided: I was going to find the cause. I owed it to my children. I owed it to myself. If I could find the root cause, I could stop it from coming back.

I joined kidney cancer support groups. And what I found shocked me. So many people with Stage 1 kidney cancer had recurrence—3, 5, 10, 15 years later. How could we be "cured" and still be dying?

I have two boys—ages 4 and 2. I couldn’t accept that fate. That wasn’t going to be my story.

So I started pulling every test, every lab, every scan I’d ever done. I uploaded them into ChatGPT. I built a timeline. I connected dots that no doctor was connecting.

And I learned something critical: I have MTHFR and slow COMT. My genes impair my body’s ability to detox. I hold on to toxins. My system gets overwhelmed easily. That matters in this story.

Then I remembered something my friend Erin told me while doing hyperbaric oxygen therapy. She said mold caused her breast cancer.

At first, when I met Erin back in Otober I tested my house. because of what she said but it came back clean. After surgery, Erin kept sharing some posts about mold with me and this voice inside of me said “Test your body,”. So I did.

And everything changed.

My Vibrant Wellness mycotoxin test came back with Ochratoxin A—6x the safe limit—and DHC, both known carcinogens.

Ochratoxin A is produced by Aspergillus and Penicillium molds—the same ones that thrive in cold, damp, enclosed places.

This wasn’t from food, coffee, nor grains. This was environmental. Chronic exposure the levels were to high I was being exposed daily to this thing.

So I asked myself: where was I being exposed?

We moved into this house in May 2022. The ice machine came with it.

From day one, I had a weird feeling about it. I asked my husband to clean it constantly. Every two months, we wiped what we could. But there’s a section that you’re “not supposed” to open or clean.

I asked him to open it anyway. What we found inside? MOLD

We tested the ice machine 4 times. Everytime it came back positive for Aspergillus, Penicillium, and Ochratoxin A. This ice machine that should be sterile and no mold should ever be present.

I also tested my house 3 separate times. All results cameback negative.

The ice machine was the only source. My only exposure.

I stopped using the ice on May 7, 2025. And within 24 hours, my symptoms began to disappear:

* The crippling heartburn was gone

* The salivation so extreme it made me vomit—gone

* The anxiety, heart palpitations, brain fog—gone

* The flank pain I had felt for a year and a half—gone

My body had been screaming at me. And now it was healing.

iI'm still not out of the woods as my body still has high levels of ochratoxin. I’m still detoxing—aggressively.

I also reached out to my surgeon—remeber the 4th top kidney cancer doctor in the country super busy guy. I emailed him my theory. I expected him to think I was crazy not give me the time of the day and tell me to kick rocks. But he didn’t.

He believed me enough to ask his pathology department to help. But pathology labs in hospitals only test for live fungi. My tumor had been frozen and stored for a month. Ochratoxin is not a mold—it’s the toxin mold leaves behind. It won’t show up in fungal cultures. They called me and told me this was as far as they could go, they were not allowed to go any further if fungi was not present. I needed a mycotoxin test not a fungi test.

That was the moment I knew I was onto something big. I’ve tried to test my tumor since, but it’s nearly impossible. There are almost no labs in the U.S. that test tumors for mycotoxins. I contacted Stanford. They can’t do it. I contacted the head of kidney oncology at one of Oklahoma’s top medical schools. His reply? “We’re not intelligent enough to answer your question.” At first I thought it was a political answer. Now I believe he was being honest.

I’ve also contacted Dr. Tim Guilford, one of the leading experts in mycotoxins. He reviewed my case and said my theory is well thought out.

But the best part and why I think my case is very important for research is because I have proof: I had a clear MRI in February 2022 I moved into this house May 2022 I had symptoms immediately: panic attacks, brain fog, GI issues, heartburn, esophagitis, memory loss. I had a miscarriage (Ochratoxin is associated with placental dysfunction) I had a 1.8cm tumor by October 2024—way too fast for normal kidney cancer growth (typically 0.3 cm per year).

This was not bad luck. This was exposure. And I believe there are many more people like me. I believe mold is a massive hidden contributor to cancer. Only 5% of cancers are genetic. The rest is very much so enviromental. But no one is testing for it. Doctors aren’t trained in mold. Mycology isn’t part of med school. Labs aren’t offering tumor mycotoxin testing. And yet—when they want to give mice cancer—they use the very thing I found in my body ochratoxin to give lab rats kidney cancer. Where’s the disconnects

What I want from my experience:

Health insurance to cover mold illness

House insurance should pay for mold remediation

All kidney cancer patients (and others with glioblastoma, sarcoma, basal cell, melanoma, and breast cancer) should be tested for mycotoxins before any treatment plan

Appliances like ice machines, Keurigs, humidifiers, and fridges need stricter regulation

Who’s testing the inner lines we can’t see? Go on Reddit. Search “ice machine mold.” You’ll be shocked. Hospitals, restaurants, schools… mold is everywhere. And people say, “It’s just a little mold.” No. It’s a little cancer waiting to happen.

And maybe, just maybe, our obsession with cold is killing us. Cold drinks. Cold homes. Cold air-conditioned cars. Sealed houses. This past summer I went to Italy and they dont really believe in ice and they get mad when americans ask for ice, I wonder if this is why they’re healthier than us, yes food too but what about our cold obsession. Nobody is talking about this.

If I had accepted “bad luck,” I wouldn’t be here. I would probably had a recurrence in two years as I was being exposed to what gave me cancer daily like alot of the people I saw in the groups. I saved my life. I saved my kids’ lives. I saved my husband's life, I saved my family!

Also I have shared my theory on a few cancer groups and some people replied to "interesting because I had cancer and my husband had cancer within 6 months or I had cancer and my daughter had cancer" this is no coincindence this is proof of enviromental toxins.

Please help me share this. More people need to know. Because cancer isn’t always bad luck. We are being exposed to whats making us sick and the first and most important thing we should do is to stop exposure than we can think of healing.

Sometimes I wonder if this cancer was no accident if God gave it to me because he knew I would be crazy and obsessive enough to not accept bad luck as my fate. If my story helps one person I will be happy with that

Also, If I was diagnosed with cancer today the first thing I would do is a Mycotoxin test

🔬Here’s TESTS I’ve done

🧪Mycotoxin test (pee test) vibrant wellness - ships worldwide - I’ve done this test through my functional doctor

https://farmacy.com/products/mycotoxin-test

🧪Mycotoxin test (pee test) real time labs (cheaper but still very good) doctor Neil Nathan recommend this test - I’ve done it

https://realtimelab.com/shop/mycotoxin-test/

🩸Mymycolab (blood test) I ordered this week and haven’t done yet some people say this is one of the best ways to test it

https://mymycolab.com/patients

🧬MTHFR test COMT TEST - Epigenetics

https://maxgenlabs.com/

📍Always test your body first before testing your house. I tested my house first before my body and I could have found this sooner if I tested my body first - let your body tell you if you have been exposed to mold. Then you search for the exposure!

🏠House test you can do yourself - both are the same just different prices

🔬Envirobiomics - EMRI TEST

https://www.envirobiomics.com/

🔬Farmacy - EMRI TEST the guy that runs this store has a very good educational group about mold worth joining too with lots of educational videos

https://farmacy.com/products/ermi-mold-test-kit

🔬Immunolytics it’s also a cheaper good option for house test

https://immunolytics.com

📚Books I recommend

Dirty Genes - Ben Lynch

Toxic - Neil Nathan

Breaking the Mold - Dr Jill Crista

🙏Also I want to point it out that mold and mildew is on the Bible Leviticus 14:33-57 - God has warned us all along we just didn’t pay much attention

💙I created a Facebook group where we can freely talk about mold, mycotoxins, and cancer without censorship. So many of my posts were blocked in other cancer groups, and I knew we needed a space for open, honest discussion. If you’re curious or on a healing journey join the group - Cancer and Mycotoxins - Fungal/Mold Exposure

🛑 ✋ STOP HERE - you can stop reading here if you don’t need detox protocol.

I didn’t want to share this because I’m not a doctor this is literally made for me. This is WHAT I DO. But people kept asking so I’m sharing what I did for myself! Again please look for a functional doctor Im doing that myself. And please look for an epigenetics doctor I’m seeing dr. Dan Purser June 11th. Epigenetics matter as we all have different gene variations and epigenetics teach us turn on and off these genes! Epigenetics is complicated if you just learned I 100% recommend a doctor if you can afford it.

💥 My Mold Detox Protocol (what I’m doing while waiting for my specialist!)

Before anything else…

YOU MUST OPEN DETOX PATHWAYS FIRST.

You cannot detox mold if you’re constipated, not peeing, or not sweating.

If you’re not pooping, you’re not detoxing. Period. Start there. 🙃

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🩺 Disclaimer

I’m not a doctor — just a passionate mom who did deep research after being diagnosed with kidney cancer that I believe was triggered by mold exposure.

Even with everything I’ve learned, I’m still seeing a mold-literate functional doctor on June 18th, because this is not something you should figure out alone.

But here’s what I’ve been doing while waiting for her…

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🔍 STEP 1: Find the Source

None of this matters if you don’t remove the exposure.

If you’re still breathing, drinking, or living with mold — your body can’t heal. Period. Test your body first then your environment.

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🔥 STEP 2: Open the Drain Before You Fill the Bathtub

Make sure:

✅ You’re pooping daily

✅ You’re peeing clear

✅ You’re sweating regularly

Otherwise, the toxins will recirculate and make you feel worse. You will Herx!

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🌿 My Detox Routine:

☀️ Morning

• Niacin + sauna (infrared better) I have a dry sauna so I do that — helps open up fat cells and mobilize toxins

• GI Detox Biocidin — these are binders I take around sauna or just on their own

⚠️ If you get constipated, stop the binders! I learned that the hard way 😅

Binders must be taken by themselves for an hour do not combine other supplements or food with it

Sometimes I take citrus peptin instead of GI detox.

You don’t have to do that but if you do it’s good!

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💊 Supplements

• Methylated B-complex (or folinic acid + hydroxy B12 if you’re slow COMT)

🧬 B vitamins help methylation, which is critical for detox. Also anti-fungal!

👉 If you get irritable on B-complex, take every other day or lower the dose.

• Zinc + Selenium — helps bind and escort mycotoxins out

• Flaxseed with food — another gentle binder

• Magnesium glycinate + Vitamin D3/K2

• Vitamin C

• CoQ10

• Sulforaphane — broccoli sprout extract, powerful for liver

• Liposomal glutathione + NAC — this made me feel amazing and helped cure my H. pylori caused by the mold!

⚠️ But if you have cancer, be cautious. I take these at my own risk because I believe my cancer is fungal-driven.

• R-Alpha Lipoic Acid — liver and mitochondrial support

Melatonin – 20mg every night

I take a high dose because melatonin does more than help sleep — it also helps repair the brain, protect mitochondria, and supports autophagy (cellular cleanup).

Mold toxins like ochratoxin can cross the blood-brain barrier, and melatonin helps reverse some of that damage.

It’s one of the most underrated brain-healing tools — and it’s also antifungal.

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🛡️ Anti-fungals (natural)

I take JT protocol because I had cancer and these actually have anti fungal properties as well! But if you don’t have cancer you don’t need this.

• Mangosteen + garlic — tested well for my body. My body likes these I tested!

Others I rotate when I remember:

• Oil of oregano

• Cat’s claw

• Pau d’arco

• Black seed oil

👉 Pick one or two, don’t overwhelm yourself. Or none. We already have a lot lol but if you have at home take it every now and again

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🦠 Probiotics & Prebiotics

A very good quality probiotic is non-negotiable. You’re flushing toxins, but you also need to rebuild your gut.

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🧬 Still hoping for:

I really want itraconazole — a prescription antifungal — but haven’t been given it yet. Hoping my mold functional doctor gives me a full protocol when I see her June 18th.

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Other Therapies

• Ozone therapy

• Red light therapy

• Hyperbaric oxygen

• Daily walking

• Castor Oil

• Bentonite clay baths — love these!

• Keto / High-fat/protein diet lifestyle

🧈 I eat a lot of Butter, cream cheese, heavy cream on anything I eat because for one it makes everything taste better and two fat is antifungal — I’m not too strict on keto sometimes I’m on it sometimes I’m off but I eat lots of fat.

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🤪 Reality Check:

Some days I take everything.

Some days I take half.

Some days I forget it all 😆

But honestly? I think that balance is part of the healing, too.

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💧 You’ll Know You’re Detoxing If…

You stink. 🧄

TMI — but underarm smell (like onions or garlic) is your body saying “I’m working on it!”even after you literally just showered.

I celebrate that smell now because I know it means:

I’m healing. I’m fighting. I’m WINNING! My body is DETOXING! But hopefully it will pass soon! 😆

Again this is what I do for myself - but if your case is bad like mine please find a functional doctor they can help and make a detox protocol especially made for your body!

Link to my post so you can look at my photos and labs https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18wgXgoTxf/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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