Jenny McCarthy's journey to healing has finally come into focus after a particularly challenging year. Four months after she shared with the world that she was experiencing an ongoing health crisis that had caused growths to appear in her eyes, she revealed during a March 31 Heal Squad episode that the root cause was mold. Recalling her doctor's words after months of surgeries and antibiotics, she said, "The reason why you're having constant infections, your body won't heal, you're oozing things, is because you have mold." Indeed, Jenny's doctor had told her that due to her already fragile immune system, she was highly susceptible to "mycotoxins poisoning."
"These mycotoxins bury themselves underneath microfilm in your gut and in your nose," she explained, pointing to the reason behind her prior infections. "They go hide out there and they hang out there." After finally learning her diagnosis in December, Jenny embarked on a "heavy-duty mold protocol" in January. "I'm in month three," she explained. "I'll probably have to go a year of it."
Her treatments include a nasal spray, about "a hundred supplements," and extracorporeal blood oxygenation and ozonation (EBOO), which involves drawing blood from the body, filtering it, and then returning it to the body. While the treatment for her ailment is extensive, Jenny is relieved to finally have answers. As she put it, "I also felt relieved because I also knew why."
It had been a long road to recovery for Jenny after her slew of infections began with an infected root canal last year, resulting in six months of "living hell." "It didn't get cleaned out all the way," she recalled. "There was infection left in there and bone grafted on top of it, so I went on my merry way with now an infection brewing in my bone. I wound up a few months later getting basically a jawbone infection." And later, it spread to her eyes.
"I'm on surgery number eight and I started getting these growths on my eye," she lamented. "It looked like the nastiest white head. A puss-filled eraser top. I'm like, 'What the heck is this?' They're like, 'You're not watching your eyes enough.' And I'm like, 'Bulls--t.' I had to have it surgically removed. Four weeks later, it grew back."
Luckily, Jenny's longtime doctor finally came through for her. "My functional medicine doctor said, 'Okay hold on, you're the healthiest patient I have,'" she recalled. "'We've got to dig deeper.' She goes, 'I'm going to test you for mold.'"
