From the forewords by Dr. Richard Lipsey and Bianca Jagger to the Epilogue, with the inside story on the cancellation of an entire season of Scotia Prince Cruises in Portland, Maine, Mold Warriors is the first book that brings together the truths that underlies the struggle of patients made ill by toxin-forming mold growing in water-damaged buildings to regain their health and their lives. Mold Warriors has 640 pages and 25 chapters of compelling writing and actual events that demonstrate the medical, legal and scientific battles of the Mold Wars. Biologically produced toxins make many of us chronically ill, steal the life-savings of many victims, prevent our children from achieving their academic potential and our health care system is largely blind to diagnosis and treatment. By reading Mold Warriors, you will learn how to use the Biotoxin Pathway, a magnificent scientific and medical breakthrough, to then easily recognize and treat the mold illness, leavin! g behind meaningless diagnoses such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, stress, “chronic pain syndrome,” deconditioning and more. With Mold Warriors as your companion, you will not be forced to listen to “experts” who tell us that damp buildings might cause respiratory problems, but not neurologic problems, fatigue and cognitive impairment. You will be freed from legal defense consultants who would attempt to falsely deny you your legal rights to compensation for property loss and personal injury. Here are the facts about mold illness; show them to your Congressman and your physician. If you are made ill by exposed to water-damaged buildings, use Mold Warriors to show what is wrong with you on a printed page of lab reports; sometimes just knowing what is wrong becomes the biggest step towards return to health. Begin a step-by-step treatment protocol, published in high level, peer-reviewed, academic journals, that provides a plan to treat sequentially the complex physiologic abnormalities that are caused by exposure to biotoxin-forming indoor molds. You don’t have to stay ill from mold any longer.
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“Thank you for your expert testimony on toxic mold at the Capitol hearing. . . brilliant and cogent testimony in the Congress.” --John Conyers, Member of Congress, Sept. 22, 2004.
“Fascinating insight into a truly national problem. Dr. Shoemaker actually seeks to cure mold affected patients.” --Dan Bryson, Esquire, Lewis and Roberts, Raleigh, NC, November 11, 2004.
“Compelling, immensely readable and relevant. Cuts through the politics and pulls no punches. --Susan Brinchman, author, Center for School Mold Help, November 12, 2004.
“Fascinating insight into a truly national problem. Dr. Shoemaker actually seeks to cure mold affected patients.” --Dan Bryson, Esquire, Lewis and Roberts, Raleigh, NC, November 11, 2004.
“Compelling, immensely readable and relevant. Cuts through the politics and pulls no punches. --Susan Brinchman, author, Center for School Mold Help, November 12, 2004.
About the Author
Ritchie C. Shoemaker, MD is a Family Practice physician from Pocomoke, Maryland. He has previously published four books, Desperation Medicine, Lose the Weight You Hate, Pfiesteria: Crossing Dark Water and Weight Loss and Maintenance: My Way Works, as well as numerous academic publications. He writes from his experience of diagnosing and treating the world’s largest series of 3500 patients with acute and chronic illness caused by exposure to biotoxins made by molds, spirochetes, dinoflagellates, spirochetes and blue-green algae. His practice experience is the foundation that enables him to challenge much of what we hear about chronic illnesses from agencies and academics that don’t treat the illnesses. “Now that we know how to treat mold illness, we can look at what is wrong physiologically that gets better with return to health and what is normal that becomes abnormal with illness acquisition, to understand the basic mechanisms of disease causation in biotoxi! n illnesses. The patient has a right to know what is wrong and the doctor has the duty to show him what the illness is.” Dr. Shoemaker was named Family Physician of the Year 2000 in Maryland and was runner-up for the national Family Physician of the Year 2002.
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
If you suffer from Lyme Disease, Lupus, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, Parkinson's or Sick Building Syndrome, Read this Book !
August 31, 2006
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Mold Warriors contains advanced, sophisticated, effective, state of the art testing and treatment protocols for some of the most perplexing diseases and disorders, confronting medical practices. These protocols treat actual causes of disabling diseases, including Lymes, Lupus, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Migraine, Irritible Bowel Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Parkinson's Disease and possibly even Multiple Sclerosis by altering gene expression, cytokine, leukotriene and hormonal imbalance, in addition to removing potentially deadly neurotoxins, from the body. Mold Warriors contains detailed explanations of sophisticated immunological and hormonal tests, which many physicians have never even heard of. The appendix contains detailed information concerning where to obtain the various tests, diagnostic and procedure codes, etc., which practitioners will find very helpful.
The VEGF test described in this book, frequently reveals why chronic fatigue patients remain fatigued, with impaired concentration, after hypothyroidism iss corrected. Lupus patients tested with the Visual Contrast Sensitivity Test usually fail. The inexpensive Visual Contrast Sensitivity Test is so sensitive, it detected visual field narrowing, in a migraine patientsbefore her aura occurred. Many of the advanced protocols, in this book, will eventually become accepted standard of care.
Chronic sinusitis and migraine headaches can sometimes be successfully treated with the cholestyramine protocol described in this book. Lupus and Lyme patients are also improving with these treatment protocols. A weakness of this book is a failure to discuss herbal treatments, which can decrease MMP 9, without dangerous side effects of diabetes medications.
Numerous, fascinating case histories and accounts of epidemiological investigations make Mold Warriors more readable and comprehensible. Mold Warriors contains many inspiring stories of noble struggles against suffering and injustice.
These physicians, Shoemaker and Schaller, are brilliant, compassionate, dedicated, courageous practitioners and researchers. Like most medical and scientific pioneers, they have encountered resistance, while they advance scientific progress.
Urine mycotoxin testing is revealing Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, Panic Disorder,Parkinson's and Alcohol patients, who actually were suffering from mold neurotoxicity , which was revealed,using protocols described in this book.
A 13 year old female patient with knee pain so severe, another physician recommended knee braces was sent to Dr. Schaller. Dr. Schaller diagnosed Babesia and treated it so effectively, she was jumping on the trampoline, 2 weeks later, with her sister. Unfortunately, this patient relapsed about a year later and intravenous vitamin C was required to treat her relapse, which may have been caused by West Nile Virus.
The book index numbers are incorrect, but the book arrives with an insert which explains how many page numbers need to be added to correct the index. Despite erroneous index page numbering, this book deserves 5 stars.
A weakness of this book, is the failure to discuss intravenous Vitamin C megadose, which may be the most effective treatment, for Lyme Disease. Another weakness is failure to discuss any herbal antiinflammatories.
Steven Sponaugle
The VEGF test described in this book, frequently reveals why chronic fatigue patients remain fatigued, with impaired concentration, after hypothyroidism iss corrected. Lupus patients tested with the Visual Contrast Sensitivity Test usually fail. The inexpensive Visual Contrast Sensitivity Test is so sensitive, it detected visual field narrowing, in a migraine patientsbefore her aura occurred. Many of the advanced protocols, in this book, will eventually become accepted standard of care.
Chronic sinusitis and migraine headaches can sometimes be successfully treated with the cholestyramine protocol described in this book. Lupus and Lyme patients are also improving with these treatment protocols. A weakness of this book is a failure to discuss herbal treatments, which can decrease MMP 9, without dangerous side effects of diabetes medications.
Numerous, fascinating case histories and accounts of epidemiological investigations make Mold Warriors more readable and comprehensible. Mold Warriors contains many inspiring stories of noble struggles against suffering and injustice.
These physicians, Shoemaker and Schaller, are brilliant, compassionate, dedicated, courageous practitioners and researchers. Like most medical and scientific pioneers, they have encountered resistance, while they advance scientific progress.
Urine mycotoxin testing is revealing Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, Panic Disorder,Parkinson's and Alcohol patients, who actually were suffering from mold neurotoxicity , which was revealed,using protocols described in this book.
A 13 year old female patient with knee pain so severe, another physician recommended knee braces was sent to Dr. Schaller. Dr. Schaller diagnosed Babesia and treated it so effectively, she was jumping on the trampoline, 2 weeks later, with her sister. Unfortunately, this patient relapsed about a year later and intravenous vitamin C was required to treat her relapse, which may have been caused by West Nile Virus.
The book index numbers are incorrect, but the book arrives with an insert which explains how many page numbers need to be added to correct the index. Despite erroneous index page numbering, this book deserves 5 stars.
A weakness of this book, is the failure to discuss intravenous Vitamin C megadose, which may be the most effective treatment, for Lyme Disease. Another weakness is failure to discuss any herbal antiinflammatories.
Steven Sponaugle
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Dr. Shoemaker and Dr. Schaller have created a masterpiece for helping people with mystery illnesses. See mold in your home, school or at work. It is making you or others ill. Anyone that doubts this scientific data is stuck in the 1980's. The book uses interesting stories from teachers to judges. Mold Warriors weaves in new scientific evidence, currently available labs and proven testing. It is easily read and understood by the general audience. The CDC and NIH will take ten years for their consensus panels to get around to actually treating the thousands of folks that form the basis for this book.
As someone who has suffered from "mold" allergies and been made sick by moldy builgings all of my life, with many family members made sick by their schools and work buildings, this book offers incredible insight solutions and hope to all of us. You can get better and feel better. This book is truly innovative and gets to the root of what is making us sick and will offer you and your doctor options for how to get well.
As someone who has suffered from "mold" allergies and been made sick by moldy builgings all of my life, with many family members made sick by their schools and work buildings, this book offers incredible insight solutions and hope to all of us. You can get better and feel better. This book is truly innovative and gets to the root of what is making us sick and will offer you and your doctor options for how to get well.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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Shoemaker is a genius and I am so thankful someone referred this book to me. He is exactly what a doctor should be: intelligent and humble, truly dedicated to serving his patients, constantly stretching himself to uncover hidden truths, willing to stand up to government, lawyers, insurance companies and fight the system for justice. Read the book and open your mind. His theory about biotoxin illness makes so much sense and he explains it in layman's terms. Each chapter reveals a different side of this illness and the fight to get it recognized in courts across America. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
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Waste of Time & Ignorantly Biased
The labs he mentions to fit into his pathway are not specific to mold. He is making everyone think that C4a is a mold specific protein in the human body that reveals mold exposure. Read more
Published 2 months ago by james
Great Information, But Shoemaker Only Knows One Way
While I am thankful for having found this book, the problem that I have with this book is that too many individuals are taking Shoemaker's way as gospel, and this can be dangerous,... Read more
Published 6 months ago by EditorWannabe
Overstates the case and is problematic
The chapter in this book on 'CFS' is appalling. It denigrates Cheney and others for not seeing how 'obvious' it supposedly was that 'CFS' was entirely a problem caused entirely or... Read more
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Published 11 months ago by Cara Ellison
Great Starter for CIRS, but Grab a Pen and Paper
People who write reviews of books like these tend to wind up writing reviews of their own health struggles. Read more
Published 14 months ago by hla4353
Mold Warriors
I found this book while watching "Mysterious Diagnosis" on TV. The book explains, in detail, the symptoms that my daughter has been experiencing for the last five years. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Judith A. Williams
A Must-Read!
Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker writes an extremely informative and helpful book on the causes and symptoms of mold. Read more
Published on December 5, 2009 by Madison
How Neurotoxins Can Make You Sick, How to Get Diagnosed, and How to...
Great intro to how neurotoxins work in your body and the domino effect they create starting with overproduction of cytokines which lead to low MSH which ends up affecting your... Read more
Published on November 6, 2009 by sick66MensaMistress
Mold pathway of nonsense---no real practical remediation info= useless
I took the time to spend a few weeks looking up a number of the chemicals that Dr. Shoemaker feels are so important in diagnosing mold illness, which I certainly believe in. Read more
Published on October 24, 2009 by MensaMomMD,PhD
Ummm...Where is the Other Author?
Is it just me, or was the other author's name deleted from this book? I personally own a copy of this book, given to me by a dear friend whose life was literally saved by Dr. Read more
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mold illness, biotoxin exposure, mold castle, mold avoidance, mold victims, mold patients, moldy buildings, mold exposure, mold experts, mold cases, mold toxins, toxic mold, visual contrast sensitivity, high leptin, leptin resistance, exposure protocol, toxigenic fungi, antigliadin antibodies, water intrusion, mold species, mold problem, satiety center Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Scotia Prince, Hampton Bays, State Farm, New York, Lab Corp, Nova Scotia, Pat Romanosky, Saratoga Springs, Carol Anderson, John Hamill, Bob Schrader, Incline Village, Spatial Frequency, Bishop May, Matthew Hudson, Concurrent Controls, Historical Controls, Initial Illness, Ken Hudnell, Long Island, Desperation Medicine, Lake Griffin, Martha Knight, Pandora's Box, Worker's Comp New!
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mold illness, biotoxin exposure, mold castle, mold avoidance, mold victims, mold patients, moldy buildings, mold exposure, mold experts, mold cases, mold toxins, toxic mold, visual contrast sensitivity, high leptin, leptin resistance, exposure protocol, toxigenic fungi, antigliadin antibodies, water intrusion, mold species, mold problem, satiety center Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Scotia Prince, Hampton Bays, State Farm, New York, Lab Corp, Nova Scotia, Pat Romanosky, Saratoga Springs, Carol Anderson, John Hamill, Bob Schrader, Incline Village, Spatial Frequency, Bishop May, Matthew Hudson, Concurrent Controls, Historical Controls, Initial Illness, Ken Hudnell, Long Island, Desperation Medicine, Lake Griffin, Martha Knight, Pandora's Box, Worker's Comp New!
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- Lose the Weight You Hate by Ritchie C. Shoemaker in Back Matter
- Desperation Medicine by Ritchie C. Shoemaker on page 105
- Bioaerosols, Fungi, Bacteria, Mycotoxins and Human Health by Eckardt Johanning on page 192
- Under Western Eyes (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Joseph Conrad on page 307
- Handbook of Pediatric Environmental Health by Ruth Ann Etzel on page 34
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- When Traditional Medicine Fails, Your Guide to Mold Toxins by James Schaller on 4 pages
- The Health Care Professional's Guide to the Treatment and Diagnosis of Human Babesiosis: An Extensive Review of New Human Babesia Species and Advanced Treatments by James Schaller on page 166, page 235, and page 236
- Mold & Mold Toxin Remediation by Gary Rosen Ph.D on page 7
- Wellness Piece by Piece: How a Successful Entrepreneur Discovered the Pieces to His Chronic Health Puzzle by Pat Sullivan in Front Matter
- Artemisinin, Artesunate, Artemisinic Acid and Other Derivatives of Artemisia Used for Malaria, Babesia and Cancer by James Schaller on page 86
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