Paradigm Change Publishing
This page lists books published by Paradigm Change.
All of these books are available for free in PDF format, and some also are available in Amazon Kindle or paperback formats.
To learn about additional books on mold-related illness, please go to the Mold Illness Books page of the Paradigm Change site.
Back From The Edge
This is a readable and easily comprehensible biography of the life of Erik Johnson, a pioneer in the field of toxic mold illness and a cohort member of the 1980’s Lake Tahoe epidemic of the disease that the CDC eventually went on to call chronic fatigue syndrome.
The book provides a fast introduction to a number of difficult topics, including the role of toxic mold in ME/CFS; mold hyperreactivity; mold avoidance; detoxification; and hypothesized interactions between environmental chemicals and mold.
The book was written by Lisa Petrison, Ph.D., and was published in 2013.
The book contains a foreword by Keith Berndtson, M.D., and was favorably reviewed by Ritchie Shoemaker, M.D.
It is presented as an Amazon Kindle book.
A free PDF version is available to those signing up for occasional updates about new informational content from Paradigm Change.
A Beginner’s Guide to Mold Avoidance
This book – written by Lisa Petrison and Erik Johnson – provides a summary of the basics of mold avoidance to those interested in pursuing it or just in learning about it.
The book was published in 2015. The subtitle is “Techniques Used by Thousands of Chronic Multisystem Illness Sufferers to Improve Their Health.”
The book is available in Amazon Kindle and paperback formats.
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Erik On Avoidance
This book includes mold avoidance pioneer Erik Johnson’s writings (from 2000-2015) on a wide variety of mold avoidance topics – everything from converting a cargo trailer to how he currently deals with water to his experiences with the substance commonly known as “Hell Toxin.”
It was published in 2015 and includes a foreword by Giles Meehan of “Get Well from M.E.”
An Amazon Kindle version is available.
The Role of Toxic Mold in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
This free downloadable PDF book is a collection of the public writings of Erik Johnson about mold and about myalgic encephalomyelitis from 2000-2010.
It includes a wide variety of information relevant to pursuing mold avoidance (including topics such as “Getting Clear” and “Choosing a Mobile Environmental Containment Unit”) as well as details of the events that occurred during the Lake Tahoe epidemic of the illness that went on to be named CFS.
A group discussion of mold-related issues with Dr. Keith Berndtson, M.D., also is included.
This book (published in 2010) is more than 900 pages long and organized by topic.
A very brief summary of the material on mold avoidance was published in the blog “My Chemical-Free House.”
The Avoiding Mold Archives
Individuals who have successfully improved their health through mold avoidance answer questions about avoidance and related topics in this book.
The Q&A’s were posted on the Avoiding Mold page on Facebook from 2013-2014. The book was published in 2015.
It is available in PDF format for immediate downloading.
CFS & Biotoxins: An Introduction
This free downloadable PDF book consists of some of the public writings of Lisa Petrison, Ph.D., from 2010-2011.
The writings provide factual information about toxic mold and make an argument that it might be related to myalgic encephalomyelitis.
It was published in 2015.
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