Strategies for Treating Extremely Sensitive Mold Patients
By Lisa Petrison Although a number of ME/CFS and chronic Lyme doctors are now beginning to consider the role that toxic mold may be playing 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…
New Book: “Erik on Avoidance: Writings About Mold Avoidance, 2000-2015”
Many years before any articles about the dangers of mold toxins in buildings appeared in the medical journal literature, Erik Johnson already had developed a concerted strategy…
Environmental Mold Testing
Is My Home Okay? Most people who are living or working in buildings with even extremely bad toxic mold issues are totally unaware that there is any sort…
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.…
New Book: “The Avoiding Mold Archives”
From 2013-2014, a group of individuals who were experienced in mold avoidance and had improved their health substantially as a result answered questions on the topic…
Background on the Mold Experts and Patients in Dave Asprey’s “Moldy”
By Lisa Petrison The backgrounds of the mold experts and patients interviewed in “Moldy” – Dave Asprey’s new movie about the health hazards of environmental toxic mold…
Information on the “Hi Tech Air Solutions” Machine
This page provides information from patients and others in the mold community about the Hi Tech Air Solutions machine, so that those considering purchasing the product can learn…
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…
A Mold Avoidance Sabbatical in the Moab Desert
Text and Photos by Lisa Petrison Occasionally at the end of a yoga class, the instructor will suggest that I imagine being back in a place where…
Toxic Mold Illness Diagnosis
A Diagnostic Challenge A challenge for conventional medical practitioners in diagnosing toxic mold illness has been that symptoms as well as laboratory tests tend to present somewhat differently across…