Is Mold Making You Sick? Hidden Signs, Detox Steps & Home Testing Explained

Overview

This is a special crossover episode where Rachel Smith, founder of Natural Health Rising, is the guest rather than the host. Interviewed by Dinara on the Feel Better Be Better podcast, Rachel shares her full health journey from childhood illness and undiagnosed Hashimoto’s to a $100,000 emergency heart surgery that found nothing, and what finally turned everything around. The conversation covers autoimmune disease, mold illness, copper toxicity, nervous system regulation, and why healing requires more than just a protocol. This is one of the most personal and wide-ranging conversations Rachel has had about her own story and clinical philosophy.

You’ll Learn

• How Rachel’s autoimmune disease went undiagnosed for years despite multiple specialists, an emergency room visit, and an exploratory heart surgery that found nothing
• Why 75 percent of autoimmune disease diagnoses are in women and the hormonal and lifestyle reasons behind that staggering statistic
• Why cycle syncing matters for women with autoimmune conditions and how grinding on a 24-hour schedule like men do accelerates immune dysregulation in women
• The most common misconception about autoimmune disease, why remission is absolutely possible, and what actually has to change to get there
• What the AIP diet is, why it works as a tool rather than a life sentence, and how Rachel uses it strategically alongside lab testing and lifestyle work
• How mold illness shows up symptomatically, what percentage of buildings are affected, why newer construction is not immune, and the step-by-step process for testing, remediating, and detoxing from mold
• Why copper toxicity is an underdiagnosed condition often triggered by copper IUDs, copper pipes, or even swimming pools, and why you must never try to detox it too quickly on your own
• How the polyvagal nervous system framework explains why chronic illness and chronic stress are inseparable, and the daily tools Rachel uses to help people get back into parasympathetic regulation

Healing is not just a protocol. It is permission to enjoy your life again.

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