Could Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder Have Been Toxic Mold Victims?
By Lisa Petrison, Ph.D. During their first four years of marriage, Almanzo Wilder and Laura Ingalls Wilder had far more than their fair share of difficulties.…
Which Practitioners Do Mold Group Participants Believe Helped Them?
By Lisa Petrison, Ph.D. Three years ago when I first set up the Paradigm Change website, I put together a list of practitioners with experience in…
What Therapies Do Improved Mold Avoiders Believe Helped Them?
By Lisa Petrison, Ph.D. Very frequently, when people who have been sick with a chronic disease report having made substantial improvements in their condition, others who also…
Paradigm Change Sponsors Chronic Illness Survey
The Chronic Illness Survey is a research project designed to gather information about those who suffer from chronic multisymptom illness, such as ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, toxic mold illness, chronic…
Looking at the Literature About Mycotoxin Urine Tests
By Lisa Petrison, Ph.D. Recently in the Facebook group that I run, Mold Avoiders, I mentioned that I didn’t think sufficient science exists to justify the RealTime…
The Mold Avoider’s Dilemma: What Should I Do About My Stuff?
By Lisa Petrison and Erik Johnson Of the many difficulties that mold illness sufferers routinely have to face, perhaps none is as fraught with confusion and…
What I’ve Learned (So Far) About Getting Set Up for Home Ozone Therapy
By Lisa Petrison With almost no exceptions, I have found mold avoidance and detoxification to be the most helpful treatments I have used in moving toward wellness.…
Dr. Oz Tackles the Topic of “Mold Poisoning”: How’d He Do with It?
By Lisa Petrison and Erik Johnson One of the most high-profile mainstream television programs in recent history on the topic of toxic mold illness was the Dr. Oz show…
Survey Results (Pt. 2): Moving Forward with Choosing the Right Name
By Lisa Petrison, Ph.D. Part 1 of this blog series provided some basic information on the findings of a recent community survey looking at opinions related…
Survey Results (Pt. 1): Evaluating a Proposed Name to Replace “ME/CFS”
By Lisa Petrison, Ph.D. A recent survey presented to the community by Paradigm Change and ME Advocacy asked a total of 1,147 people about their opinions…
Background on Names Recently Proposed to Replace “ME/CFS”
By Lisa Petrison Following is some background information about some of the names that recently have been proposed as possible replacements for the name ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue…
An Analysis of the IOM Committee’s Report on “ME/CFS”
By Lisa Petrison, Ph.D. The preliminary version of the IOM report focusing on the disease that the government is now calling “ME/CFS” was released yesterday (February…
Problems with the P2P Draft Report
By Lisa Petrison, Ph.D. Like many in the ME community, I continue to believe that the NIH P2P initiative is likely to result in an entirely…
The Problem with “ME/CFS”
By Lisa Petrison Following is a comment on the topic of the government’s new use of the term “ME/CFS,” which I delivered to the CFS Advisory Committee…
Outdoor Toxins of Particular Relevance to Mold Illness Patients
By Lisa Petrison and Erik Johnson Note: For more than six years now, the two of us have been part of ongoing discussions involving a total…
Taking a Closer Look at “The Yellow Wallpaper”
This short story was written in 1899 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman suffered from neurasthenia, a condition similar to “ME/CFS.” Many people — including the author…
The Depression Response
By Erik Johnson and Lisa Petrison From Lisa: It’s long been observed that the illness that the U.S. government historically has chosen to call Chronic Fatigue…
A Time of Crisis
By Erik Johnson and Lisa Petrison From Lisa: About 150 years ago, the theory and the practice of medicine went through a dramatic change. Although scattered…