Jessica Peatross

  • Functional Medicine Doctor

Credentials

  • MD
  • GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) Certification

Education

  • Doctor of Medicine (MD) – University of Louisville School of Medicine

Affiliations

  • Self-employed

Research Focus

  • Functional medicine
  • Environmental toxins
  • Infections

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Key Contributions

  • Dr. Jessica Peatross is well-known for her work in functional medicine, focusing on treating the body as a whole.
  • She has dedicated her career to finding the root cause of disease, specialising in the areas of environmental toxins and infections.

Contact

https://drjess.com/contact/

Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 0:09 0
“You can't take somebody who's in toxic environment and then just overload them with every supplement and vitamin and mineral and amino acid.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 4:15 0
“Why do we have Coke and Pepsi contracts and feed factory farm meats and cheese to patients who have cancer?”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 4:20 0
“Why is Jell-O on a clear liquid diet?”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 4:47 0
“That actually red dye 3 was just banned. They must be getting rid of the inventory.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 5:29 0
“the doctors should be really ashamed of the food that the hospital system has had contracts with.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 8:43 0
“I never once saw a client, for example, that suffered from severe anxiety that didn't also have gut issues.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 9:58 0
“The Gerson Institute. There's what they taught me about nutrition a lot.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 10:50 0
“It was very stressful and I didn't make any money.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 12:24 0
“They'll say something in the environment, something in your genes caused it.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 13:42 0
“It led me to things like biotoxin illness like mold and water damaged homes and Lyme disease and parasites because, you know, people say: Oh, we live in a first world country. We don't have parasites. Well, parasites don't get borders.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 14:40 0
“And it's funny because sometimes I'll wake up tired already thinking of when I'll get back to bed again. But exactly the moment that I lay my head on the pillow, it feels like the machine of crazy what if thoughts is turned back on.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 15:15 0
“Sleep Breakthrough combines the power of magnesium with other natural ingredients to help us fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and actually wake up feeling refreshed.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 19:49 0
“The reason why she moved in next to me was because she was living in a mold infested apartment downtown Miami. And she started having mold-like symptoms.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 20:04 0
“And we went and did the vibrant test on her mold off the charts. And uh, so then I had the uh, condo tested and they found the same species of mold in the condo that showed up in the blood.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 20:23 0
“But then we started the mold detox program which is definitely something that I want to talk to you about because I pretend to know what I'm talking about with mold but I really would love to talk to an expert in that arena.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 24:52 0
“if I want to look at a total tox who comes into my clinic we do that test on every single person as well as a blood work panel on every person that comes through and what I look for with people with this brain fog mystery symptoms like migrating joint pains, maybe they might have um fatigue, weight gain that doesn't come off, that's pretty resistant.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 25:10 0
“hormonal issues, which hormones are never root cause. They're always a byproduct of something else that's confused within the body.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 25:40 0
“you can't supplement or treat your way around poor sleep.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 26:13 0
“people are so stressed out. And the number one and number two reason for histamine release, which I have to start there with everyone and fix that first, is mold and nervous system dysregulation.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 27:30 0
“we live in the mold capital world here, Miami, Florida, won the mold lottery. Um but um people that are in drier climates like Malibu or Scottdale, Arizona, they think, 'Well, we don't have mold out here.' Oh, yes you do.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 30:26 0
“Avoidance, first rule of environmental medicine, a thousand percent.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 31:32 0
“The reason is is because the way we're building modern housing. We're using toxic adhesives, toxic carpet, letting it be exposed to the environment where it rains on the wood while we're building the house.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 30:45 0
“I can sometimes open people's drainage in mold if they're more of a warrior genotype if they have HLAD, which is a genetic haplotype that is on the like a little sticker that's on the immune cells.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 34:50 0
“I noticed too that people that have mold toxicity very often, especially younger kids, will have repeated sore throats.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 36:06 0
“Mold is so immunosuppressive that they take micopenolic acid which is a type of miccotoxin and they make micopenolate out of it which is a suppressant when you get a kidney transplant.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 37:24 0
“And then get them sleeping a little bit better.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 40:09 0
“when I'm pulling parasites, I'm also pulling mold spores. I'm pulling heavy metals as well that they digest because they're there to digest things in the environment that's not supposed to be in you.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 40:36 0
“So Ivormectin gets some parasites but not all of them. It has not full coverage for everything.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 41:55 0
“The herbs increase the broad coverage for ivormectin and fenibendazol and they actually help with everything not just mold right so bacteria as well.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 45:22 0
“It's a big red blood cell and it's because I didn't have B vitamins which are needed to make red blood cells and have correct production of them.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 45:29 0
“If you have iron deficiency anemia, they're super small, the red blood cells. I see that a lot with parasites because parasites eat iron and they don't let people absorb and assimilate properly because of the inflammation.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 45:50 0
“I love that you asked this question. I was stressed out. So, I had to be my own patient and then I took what I learned on myself and brought it to the clientele.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 46:12 0
“They won't be able to get into a deep RM sleep at night, right? Because they don't feel safe to get into rest and digest.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 46:32 0
“One of my favorites are is liposal GABA with atheanine because GABA became immunuperic acid with athenine.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 47:02 0
“I decide what kind of type of B vitamin they need because I do the same thing. That's so good. Not everyone can handle methylated B vitamins.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 50:17 0
“It's astounding to me how many people I talk to about, you know, what's your routine to go to bed? And they're like, I just get in bed. I'm like, well, when do you get in bed? Well, whenever I'm done with my day, right?”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 51:19 0
“So I have to make them aware, the observer of their thoughts to see what they're doing that is actually standing in their own way of their body healing itself.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 51:57 0
“I go there and I use a lot of bio hacks that you talk about. Breath work is a huge one that I have people do.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 55:39 0
“And that that that environment represents their relationships, you know, their diet, their lifestyle, their spiritual well-being.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 55:39 0
“And that that that environment represents their relationships, you know, their diet, their lifestyle, their spiritual well-being.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 55:39 0
“And that that that environment represents their relationships, you know, their diet, their lifestyle, their spiritual well-being.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:00:19 0
“You have to get them there where the mitochondria are more balanced with energy production and immunity so that they can actually handle the detox.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:00:35 0
“Watch the sunrise and sunset. Put your bare feet on the ground.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:01:36 0
“I insisted that he go to bed at the same time every night. Even if he didn't go to sleep, I was like, 'Get in the bed.'”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:01:55 0
“We would go out every morning. We would get sunlight and then his girlfriend would take him down and they would do walks in the park and touch the ground.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:04:50 0
“You can take people who are super anxious and depressed, even suicidal, and put them on a, you know, a week of camping, like a new person. Yeah. They won't even forget. They'll forget that their mood disorder existed.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:05:03 0
“I also really regulate their diet. But to be honest with you, their diet is usually fixed by the time they come to me because these are people who are really sick. They've seen 30 doctors. They have mystery symptoms. So, by the time they come to me, they're gluten free. They're dairy free. They're soy free. They're nut free. They're egg free.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:05:24 0
“Most of the time I have to instruct people to stop scrolling to distract themselves or dissociate because they're not able to process their emotions if they're scrolling all the time.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:05:48 0
“I'll put them in the sauna. Take a binder before and a binder after. We're mopping up toxins. You'll notice your body starts sweating sooner with a binder in it.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:06:04 0
“Activated charcoal is great for hangovers or food poisoning because it stays in the gut, but it doesn't go systemically.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:09:43 0
“have a uh brain fog and now we're we're looking at a mental issue.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:10:18 0
“Lyme disease is caused by the bacteria called a spirochete. It's corkscrew shaped.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:10:06 0
“Lyme disease often runs together with mold as part of biotoxin illness, and they have overlapping symptomatology.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:10:58 0
“I'm not a fan of monotherapy for Lyme disease at all.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:15:05 0
“I started drinking this water two to four liters a day and I started having symptoms of metal toxicity and lo and behold, I had heavy metal toxicity and this and the same metals that were in this machine were in my in my blood.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:15:23 0
“I did a keelation provocation. Yes. And what did you use? Um DM DMSO or DMPS? Uh DMPS. DMSO. EDTA. Yeah. EDA. Okay. EDTA. Yes. And um so we provoked it um you know with a keation and then I did an 8 hour urine afterwards and it was off the charts.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:20:59 0
“what came out um glyphosates, bisphenols, aphletoxin A, aphletoxin B, microplastics”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:23:08 0
“you can sweat out microplastics. You can sweat out BPA. You can sweat out a lot of these microtoxins. You can sweat out a lot of man-made industrial toxins in general.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:24:36 0
“we isolate, you know, gut health or or brain health or um, mold or miccotoxins or heavy metals or autoimmune and we pick different topics and we take deep dives.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:24:36 0
“we isolate, you know, gut health or or brain health or um, mold or miccotoxins or heavy metals or autoimmune and we pick different topics and we take deep dives.”

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Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites | TUH #157
Understanding Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Toxins for Holistic Wellness 1:25:24 0
“And the ultimate human it's it's mental, it's emotional, and it's physical well-being.”

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