Amie Skilton, Naturopath, herbalist, nutritionist, life coach and educator joins me today to discuss CIRS -chronic inflammatory response syndrome. CIRS occurs due to the inability to remove certain biotoxins, such as mould, from the body. Amie shares her own personal journey with CIRS as well as the difficulties for identifying mould and then how to deal with.

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Amie Skilton website

Unstress episode with Nicole Bijlsma on creating a healthy home

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Hello and welcome to Unstressed. I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich. Now, if you're not familiar with the acronym CIRS, and I didn't misspell it. It is C-I-R-S and it stands for Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome. Now, as many of you will know, the common denominator in all chronic diseases is chronic inflammation.

There's a difference between acute and chronic inflammation. When we injure ourselves, or there's some tissue damage, acute inflammation is an important part of the repair process, but when it persists for months or even years, well, that is the beginning of chronic disease. Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, CIRS, occurs due to the inability to remove certain biotoxins such as mould from the body.

It's said to occur in genetically susceptible individuals, and can cause chronic fatigue, weakness, aches, and vertigo, and as you will hear, much, much more. Now, we've also talked about putting your own house in order. We did that a few episodes ago with Nicole Bijlsma. She gave us a great overview of the challenges of finding mould, first of all, and then actually dealing with it. Mould is a very tricky one.

Well, my guest today is Amie Skilton. Amie is a naturopath, and herbalist, and nutritionist, a life coach, and an educator, and a very good one at that. I've heard Amie speak at many conferences and she is an absolute wealth of knowledge. I heard her relate her own story with CIRS and mould, at a conference on building biology last year in 2018.

I wanted to get her on the podcast and share that story with you. Not only her personal experience but as a health professional, how she navigated through it. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Amie Skilton.

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Welcome to the show, Amie.

Amie Skilton:                        Thank you, Ron. So pleased to be here.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Amie, there's so much I wanted to talk to you today about, but I thought, I wondered if we might just first start, give us a little bit of background about your journey.

Amie Skilton:                        Yes, sure. So, I am a natural health practitioner, so naturopath, nutritionist, and herbalist. That's been my whole career. I got into it very young and I feel yeah, very blessed actually for so many reasons that that's the case. And from a personal point of view, certainly to be so well informed and educated, as to keep my health in good nick, I'm very, very grateful for that. And in case you hear it come through in my accent, I'm a Kiwi.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Oh, okay. We've had a few Kiwis. We cross borders, we don't hold anything back here. We've had plenty of Kiwis.

Amie Skilton:                        I know, there's so many of us here. The weather is overall better here in Australia, which I'm pretty sure is why so many of us flock here. I've been here now 14 years.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Wow. I must say, with your Prime Minister, I was almost tempted to emigrate. There are so many good things that go on in New Zealand as well, and environmentally, politically, socially. Anyway, this isn't about New Zealand, it's about you, Amie. Go on, go on.

Amie Skilton:                        So, I've since been here, I've made Sydney my home, and yes, I have an online clinical practice, as well as having the joy and privilege of flying around Australia,