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Dr. Jessica Peatross : The Truth About Parasites Controlling Your Brain | DSH #1561
09 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What are the hidden dangers of mold in our environment?
Parasites have been around as long as we have. They are not stupid at hiding, at getting detected and tasked, or controlling people's brains if they want to. These people engage in high-risk sexual behavior. They'll gamble. They'll have these irrational anger outbursts.
And it's this parasite which also controls animals' brains too and gets them closer to the source of where it wants to be as a host. Okay, guys, Dr. Jessica Petras here today. We're going to talk some mold and some parasites. Sounds good to me. Let's do it. Was there any mold on your flight on the way here?
You know, sometimes how you see those people on the plane and they breathe on you and they have like moldy breath. Yeah. I'm like, they live in mold, but not on the plane directly. Oh, God.
Chapter 2: How do parasites manipulate human behavior?
It's moldy people, maybe. Well, those are more in common these days, right? Sad but true. I mean, especially in humid environments like Florida, I'd imagine. Oh, my gosh. Everywhere. You can't get away from it. If there's no airflow, you're just doomed. It was the first test I got when I bought my house. Really? And my realtor was like, why do you want that in Vegas?
But I was like, I'm not chancing it. I've seen it everywhere. I've seen it in the Middle East. I've seen it in Arizona.
Chapter 3: What is the connection between mold and immune suppression?
It doesn't matter how dry it is there. It's the way we're building houses. Yeah, I just want the peace of mind. So it was literally the first thing I did. Didn't care about the price. You were mold-free? Yeah, I don't know how advanced the test was because I know there's different tests, but it came back negative. There's a do-it-yourself one I can give you. Oh, yeah?
The ERMI test that's pretty accurate. Okay. Yeah, so that one takes a little while to come back, but it's developed by the EPA, so it's a little more accurate. Nice. How common would you say inside a house is it? Oh, my gosh.
Chapter 4: What are the benefits of fenbendazole for health?
It's pretty bad. We think up to 80% of houses have previous water damage. Wow. And 40% to 45% have current water damage. So that's a big proportion of the houses built in the United States. And people think if they live in a mansion or they don't see it or they have a new build, they're not at risk. But they still are, actually. That's pretty crazy. Yeah, it's scary.
Yeah, I've had a few leaks at my house already. So if you don't notice them quick, I guess they could turn into mold. 24 hours. Oh, that fast? 24 hours. And then you have to cut everything porous out.
Chapter 5: How does Dr. Peatross' personal journey relate to her medical beliefs?
It's crazy because the mold spores, they're like dandelions. And they blow in the wind. And they hang in the air because they're semi-heavy. and they burrow into porous things like couches and drapes and carpets and all those things that people have. And the worst part of my job is telling people, hey, you have to get rid of your brand new furniture or brand new house.
Dang, I didn't even think about it in furniture.
yeah sensitive people they have to be really careful if you're like pretty resilient someone like you you may not have to but it's one in four people have a sensitive genotype or haplotype where they have to really um be vigilant because their body doesn't recognize mold spores to get rid of them and so that's a lot of people and a lot of houses that are at risk yeah yeah how quick do they start to feel it once once the molds are
It's really dependent on your genetic propensities, I have to say. But if your toxin bucket's full, it's full of toxins and trauma, you're going to be more at risk than someone who has a clean vessel or body. Got it. And I would say there are some people who just get allergies. Runny eyes, runny nose, you know, sneezing. And there are other people who are bedbound.
Like they literally have chronic fatigue syndrome and sarcoidosis and every other autoimmune condition linked to mold. Wow.
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Chapter 6: What are the risks associated with root canals and dental health?
So it really depends on the person and then what other exposures and traumas they've been through, right? That kind of makes their body resilient or not. I used to go, well, I still go to Lifetime and their sauna had black mold underneath the wooden tiles.
The worst, because you're going to get rid of the mold, and then you're like, there's mold spores in the air that you're sitting in the sauna in. It's crazy. Crazy. I wonder. And someone found it on accident. One of the tiles popped up, and he lifted it. There was black mold everywhere. This is the way houses work, too. You don't always smell it.
Now, people who are sensitive, they'll smell it more because they're kind of like a hound dog. Their body says, hey, you can't recognize pathogen proteins or mold spores, so you're going to smell this so bad that it's going to make you run out of the house to warn you because you have to trust those people, right? But a lot of people, they don't smell it.
Chapter 7: How do parasites affect pets and what symptoms should owners watch for?
They don't see it. It's behind walls or behind the ceiling or the ground, and so no one suspects until something like that happens. Yeah. Would you say you're pretty sensitive to it? No, actually, I'm a warrior genotype. I don't I'm not sensitive. I'm the worst patient. Don't give me anything to try. I don't won't feel it. Wow.
I'm very lucky that I was able to come on to these things and believe my patients because I never feel bad. So but a lot of people do. And what's the link with mold and parasites? Is there a direct link there? So yes, what mold does is it's a potent immunosuppressive agent.
Chapter 8: What practical strategies can help detox from parasites?
In fact, mycophenolic acid, also known as Celsapt, is a drug, a pharmaceutical drug that we give patients who've had a kidney transplant to keep them from rejecting the kidney. It suppresses the immune system that much. That drug is for mold. Mycophenolic acid is a type of mycotoxin.
And so for real, mold actually suppresses the immune system to such a degree, it causes such inflammation, a cytokine storm in the brain, that your body isn't resilient anymore. So you're kind of a sitting duck if you have other infections that pop up or other exposures. Your body can't really fight it off because the immune system is so lowered. And parasites are really common, right?
Yeah, you know, people tell me all the time, oh, we don't have parasites in America. Like, they understand borders or something. It's like so ridiculous, right? And yeah, you know, we don't have the cleanest food in this country anymore either. Let's be real here. We don't have very clean water. And we use all kinds of different...
you know, chemical agents and man-made toxins, environmental toxins, industrial toxins in our food, in our water, in our everyday lives. And so absolutely, this makes a difference to our immune system and who is resilient and who isn't. And when your terrain is full of toxicities, you're going to attract things like parasites or mold for cleanup.
That's what they do in the environment, in the ecosystem. Mm-hmm. You're a part of the ecosystem. Yeah. I got two parasite experts on standby for me. Do you really? Yeah. Every time I get sick, I'm like, all right, which parasite is this? Like I had this eye twitch and we found out it was a parasite. That's one of my questions. Yeah.
I had this eye twitch for like a month and no one could figure it out. That's what it was. It was a parasite, yeah. That's one of my questions. Do you have muscle twitches or fasciculations at night? Do you have sugar cravings? Do you have rectal itching? Do you have a dairy sensitivity? Do you grind your teeth at night? Are you worse with insomnia or anxiety around the full moons?
Because their life cycle happens around the full moons, right? They're reproducing at that time. They're moving. About 7 o'clock at night they start. It's a stress on the body, so you clench, grind your teeth. Yeah. Wow, I must have had a ton as a kid because I used to grind my teeth so hard as a kid. Really? Yeah. Maybe some pinworms or something. I walked around barefoot a lot as a kid.
Oh, yeah. That's how you got them too, right? You was a sick kid? I would say I was pretty sick. I was skinny, underweight and got sick a lot. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So definitely if you had like a lowered immune system, you're walking around barefoot. I mean, this is a risk for people. I tell people to ground all the time. People were like, what about hookworms? You know, nothing can be perfect.
But yeah, if you're not resilient, if you're sick, you've got other things building up in your toxin bucket. Do something like that. There is a chance. Yeah. Yeah. I was eating processed food a lot. Like everyone in America, 80% of people do that. Yeah. Welcome to the U.S., right? Which cleanses have you had success with for parasites?
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