11/25/2025
🧠 Is Mold Toxicity an Overlooked Trigger in Multiple Sclerosis?
A fascinating review published by Rutgers researchers — Purzycki & Shain (2010), Brain Research Bulletin — proposes a compelling connection between fungal toxins (mycotoxins) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
While traditional medicine has long focused on viral, genetic, and autoimmune contributors, these researchers highlight a different possibility:
➡️ Certain fungi may colonize non-neuronal tissues and release toxins that damage the glial cells responsible for maintaining myelin.
➡️ This glial damage may initiate or accelerate MS-related demyelination.
➡️ Geographic patterns of MS prevalence also correlate with regions prone to fungal contamination of grains — suggesting an environmental component we’ve largely ignored.
In their own words, the authors suggest fungal toxins may be an “underlying cause of MS” that has been missed in conventional evaluation.
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✔️ Why This Matters for Patients Today
Traditional medicine rarely screens for mold toxicity in patients with:
• Unexplained neurological symptoms
• Migrating pain
• Chronic fatigue
• Cognitive decline
• Autoimmune activation
• MS or MS-like symptoms
Yet clinical experience — and now emerging research — continues to highlight mold as a powerful neuroimmune disruptor.
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🔬 At Clinical Edge, We Use the Only Validated Mycotoxin Blood Test
To bridge this gap, we offer MyMycoLab testing, the only clinically validated mycotoxin blood test available.
This test allows us to:
✔ Detect blood-borne mycotoxins with accuracy
✔ Identify ongoing mold exposure vs. past exposure
✔ Understand the impact on immune and neurological pathways
✔ Build targeted detox, mitochondrial, and neuroinflammatory protocols
This is the level of precision medicine people deserve — especially those with chronic conditions that remain unexplained despite years of conventional evaluation.
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🌱 We are missing this in traditional medicine.
Too many patients are told “everything is normal” even when their symptoms clearly are not. Environmental toxins — especially mycotoxins — remain a massively under-recognized driver of neurological and autoimmune disease.
It’s time we expand the lens of what we consider in chronic illness.
If you or someone you care for is struggling with neurological symptoms, autoimmune activation, or unexplained chronic illness, my team and I can help.
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