Flourish Clinic recently welcomed Alex Kessler of healthyhomeguide.com to our treatment team. This week, Alex chats about the best air filter for CIRS. The Best Air Filtration for CIRS Don't miss part one: The Best Air Purifier for CIRS Have you heard of ultra fine particles? Ultra fine particles are smaller than 0.1 microns, … [Read more...]
Flourish Clinic recently welcomed Alex Kessler of healthyhomeguide.com to our treatment team. This week, Alex chats about the best CIRS air purifiers, and if HEPAs are worth the hype. I wasted $2000 on HEPA purifiers Have you ever spent way too much money on what was supposed to be the best CIRS air purifier, turned it on, and … [Read more...]
Expert Recap: CIRS and GI issues Your intestinal wall is not a simple barrier. It's a layered system; a combination of physical, chemical, immunological, and microbial systems all working together to let nutrients in and keep harmful things out. Mycotoxins compromise every layer of that system, causing measurable structural and functional changes … [Read more...]
Expert Recap: What Is CIRS? CIRS as an acquired, chronic illness involving innate immune dysregulation triggered by exposure to a water-damaged building and the organisms within it: mold, bacteria, actinomycetes, mycobacteria, and their byproducts like endotoxins and beta glucans. It can be mistaken for many other syndromes such as fibromyalgia, … [Read more...]
Expert Recap: Long COVID and CIRS The results of a published study in the Medical Research Archives comparing patients with long COVID and patients with CIRS showed fundamental similarities in Visual Contrast Sensitivity test (VCS) results, Molecular Hypometabolism (MHM) and impaired cellular energy production. Both illnesses also share a number … [Read more...]
Expert recap: What Are the Symptoms of CIRS? The many symptoms of CIRS are non-specific. For example, fatigue can be attributed to many different diagnoses. But when taken together, all of the symptoms point to a CIRS diagnosis. There are 37 recognized symptoms: Fatigue Weakness Aches Cramps Unusual pain Ice-pick pain … [Read more...]
Expert Recap: Is CIRS a Real Disease? For a condition to qualify as a legitimate medical diagnosis, it needs to pass three criteria: The condition must have a defined, reproducible symptom pattern published in journals, where other clinicians and researchers have scrutinized and validated the findings. Not on blogs or websites. There must … [Read more...]
Expert Recap: Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) and CIRS Mast cells are immune cells that are concentrated in your gut lining, sinuses, lungs, skin, and urinary tract. When they detect a threat, they release a cascade of chemical signals to sound the alarm. Normally this works well: threat detected, alarm raised, immune system responds, threat … [Read more...]
