This is the record of one patient's eight years of being treated for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) by Dr. Joseph Brewer of Kansas City, MO. Circa 2013, using a newly developed medical test, Dr. Brewer and two other independent CFS doctors tested their patients for toxic mold infection. In all three medical practices, the positivity rate for this specific infection was approximately 90%. By 2016, in Dr. Brewer's practice alone, over 500 of his CFS, fibromyalgia and chronic Lyme disease patients had tested positive for toxic mold infection. Additionally, in late 2017, Dr. Brewer discovered that Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) can play a major role in CFS, and for which he has also treated his patients. Along with co-infections - like reactivated HHV-6 and EBV viruses - Dr. Brewer has painted a more complete picture of the illnesses of CFS, fibromyalgia and chronic Lyme disease than has previously been understood. This record, as presented, is mostly in Dr. Brewer's own words.

At this point, some may ask: Why hasn't Dr. Brewer's work gotten more national attention? Dr. Brewer has published four papers on his work, all of which were observational studies. However, based on a conversation with one science writer, the problem is that Dr. Brewer doesn't have a case-controlled study backing up his work. Dr. Brewer's response to that was to say that nobody has wanted to fund such a study. Still, many prominent CFS specialists over the past 10 years have adopted Dr. Brewer's work with toxic mold into their own medical practices, and many of those doctors are named in the book. One of those CFS specialists, in an interview in late 2014, said that it wasn't until he had begun testing and treating his CFS, fibromyalgia and chronic Lyme disease patients for toxic mold that he began to see those patients make progress and get better.

Then some may think: But I wasn't exposed to toxic mold. Even the author's best friend with CFS had, for years, been resistant to being tested for toxic mold. Even after she was finally convinced to be tested (with the test being fully covered by Medicare), and after she received the toxic mold urine test, she still waited for over a year to take and send her test sample in. The reason for the many year's long delay: she didn't believe she had been exposed to toxic mold. However, she recently got her toxic mold test results in, and she tested positive for 4 out of 5 types of toxic mold. She is now seeking treatment.

Back in June 2013, Dr. Brewer said the finding of toxic mold in his patients was the most amazing thing he'd ever come across in doing CFS for almost 30 years. This quickly led to Dr. Brewer's groundbreaking treatment of his patients with traditional antifungal drugs. In June 2014, Dr. Brewer said he was on the right track with his treatment of CFS because he had seen over 100 of his patients improve, with some of those patients having returned to normal health - something nobody had ever seen with CFS. Then, in 2017, Dr. Brewer also became convinced that nearly all of his patients had MCAS, and the treatment for that is also discussed in the book.

The book fully discusses the symptoms of toxic mold infection; how toxic mold causes most of the problems seen in CFS; how to find a toxic mold specialist; and where to get tested for toxic mold.

Finally, people like to read reviews of books before they buy them. However, if someone buys this book and then follows Dr. Brewer's testing and treatment guidelines for toxic mold, unfortunately it will probably be a minimum of a year before they see real results. At that point, I'm not sure who would think to go back and give a review of this book. But hopefully someone will do that soon.