{"id":2288914,"date":"2026-02-19T11:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2288914"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:21:35","slug":"health-influencers-husband-lost-50-lbs-in-under-4-months-when-they-discovered-the-cause-they-had-to-leave-home-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/health-influencers-husband-lost-50-lbs-in-under-4-months-when-they-discovered-the-cause-they-had-to-leave-home-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Influencer\u2019s Husband Lost 50 Lbs. in Under 4 Months. When They Discovered the Cause, They Had to Leave Home (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hannah Holt and her husband, Chase, experienced severe symptoms for almost four months before they realized their home was infested with toxic black mold<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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In herself, the health influencer noticed respiratory trouble, a rash and brain fog, but her previously fit husband’s weight loss was the most jarring<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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Chase dropped about 50 pounds due to severe gastrointestinal symptoms so extreme that he had to take several months off work<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
After a week-long vacation in July 2025, Hannah Holt and her husband, Chase, found their Florida home in a different state than they left it in it. The changes \u2014 a strange smell, scattered mold spots and some water damage \u2014\u00a0initially seemed only slight and somewhat typical of a house in Florida during the hot summer time.<\/p>\n
When they called for help, they weren’t too worried about the situation. They certainly were not aware of the fact that they were dealing with a black mold infestation, and they wouldn’t discover that reality until several months later, after they’d already experienced the potentially fatal consequences of the toxic fungus.<\/p>\n
In July, their building maintenance came and tried to topically remove the mold with bleach, which Hannah, 25, and Chase, 26, only later found out can make black mold even worse. But at the time, they thought the issue was solved. They didn’t see any mold for about a month, which is why they didn’t immediately connect the infestation to any of the physical symptoms that appeared a week after they returned from vacation.<\/p>\n\n
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Hannah Holt and her husband, Chase. <\/i><\/p>\n
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“For my husband, that was the gastrointestinal issues,” Hannah tells PEOPLE. She maintains that she’s not at all exaggerating when she says Chase was running to the bathroom between 50 and 60 times per night, experiencing severe diarrhea and getting little sleep.<\/p>\n
He visited the emergency room, where doctors found inflammation throughout his entire colon, which could be a sign of a number of ailments, including ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease. Chase was referred to a gastroenterologist, who suggested he schedule a colonoscopy for mid-August.<\/p>\n