Snapshot · The Shawn Ryan Show
Owens battled a severe mold illness caused by an HVAC leak around 2015, spending approximately a year bedridden with cognitive impairment, hair loss, eczema, and candidiasis.
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In one of the episode's most personal segments, Candace describes the mold illness that overtook her life around 2015. An HVAC leak in her building caused systemic candidiasis, head-to-toe eczema, and hair loss — but worst of all was the cognitive fog that left her unable to think or write. She spent most of a year bedridden, crawling on her hands and knees bargaining with God, asking not for her appearance back but just for her ability to think. Recovery required starving the infection through an extreme no-sugar, no-fruit diet that also made her gaunt. She now looks back on it with gratitude, calling it the humbling that protected her from the vanity of public life.
Right before Candace Owens entered the public sphere, a toxic mold infection from an HVAC leak triggered systemic candidiasis, head-to-toe eczema, hair loss, and devastating cognitive fog. She spent a year mostly bedridden, unable to think or write. Recovery required starving the infection through an extreme no-sugar diet. The experience, she says, humbled her in ways that inoculated her against the vanity of politics.
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