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Q&A: Becoming A Dad, Health Update & Favourite Peptides - #1134
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Health Update: Mold, Lyme Disease & Chronic Illness in Private
At 25:30 · chapter starts 18:50
This is the most vulnerable moment of the episode. Asked about his Lyme and mold treatment by a listener, Chris drops the composure and tells it straight: he's still in it. Years into a chronic mold and Lyme illness, he is managing brain fog — thoughts disappearing mid-sentence, fatigue that sleep doesn't fix, moods that won't shift. The treatment has included extreme interventions like hemo-hyperoxygenation, where his body was held in a forced fever at 104°F for 4 hours while his blood was filtered. He's deliberately kept it off the show because he feared becoming 'the guy who's always got a health problem' — and didn't want to be perceived as seeking attention or making illness his entire personality. But the honest admission lands hard: running Modern Wisdom is a full-time job, and so is being sick. And for everyone else dealing with tinnitus, POTS, dysautonomia, autoimmune disease, mold, or Lyme — he's still part of that club, even if he's not advertising it.
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Chris has been quietly fighting mold and Lyme disease while hosting one of the world's biggest podcasts — two simultaneous full-time jobs. He's avoided talking about it publicly to escape being 'the guy that's always got a health problem,' but the reality is brutal: brain fog, fatigue, and treatments like 4-hour blood-filtration fever therapy.
Chris underwent hemo-hyperoxygenation treatment — a forced fever at 104°F (40.5°C) for 4 hours with blood filtration — as part of his mold illness treatment.
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