Almost everyone comes in contact with toxic mold every day without knowing it. You can come in contact with it through touch, ingestion, or breathing.
Mold is silent, keeps shifting, and puts our health at risk. It could grow anywhere – under the floors, behind the walls, and even in what we eat. But what makes it so harmful is that it could make us all ill and may even prove to be deadly.
Most of us never realize how badly mold can affect our bodies. If there is no control over the growth of mold, it could overwhelm and even disarray our immune system. People who suffer from mold toxicity usually can’t understand what is causing the illness, and this leaves them in a state of confusion and frustration.
Mold Can Adversely Impact your Health & Performance
Certain types of molds can release toxic and invisible compounds called mycotoxins, which are very hard to destroy. Mycotoxins will spread all around you – they will contaminate everything from your clothes to your furniture. They are biotoxins that will travel within your body causing distress in the immune system, nervous system, joints, and other parts. They will Portland Clinic, the way you feel, and even your lifespan.
Molds can not only release mycotoxins, but they can also release allergens and irritants which can trigger reactions that are usually connected to your sensitivity. According to studies, 25% to 28% of people from North America have a genetic inclination to suffer from health problems due to water-damaged buildings.
Symptoms of Mold Toxicity
Most often chronic mold toxicity gets misdiagnosed, as the symptoms are similar to other syndromes and diseases. Usually, it is taken to be other conditions like:
- Celiac diseases;
- Lyme disease;
- Chronic fatigue syndrome;
- Fibromyalgia.
According to research, mold exposure could cause the following:
- Confusion/Brain Fog/Memory loss;
- Sleep disorders;
- Auto-immune problems;
- Mood issues;
- Neurocognitive problems;
- Headaches;
- Joint pain;
- GI problems/food sensitivities;
- Fatigue;
- Inflammatory issues;
- Numbness and tingling;
- Sensitivity to light;
- Weight fluctuation;
- Blurred vision.
If your immune system is compromised, some infectious diseases caused by mold could affect your skin, lungs, and eyes among other organs.
Where Can You Find Mold?
Almost half the buildings in the U.S. have some kind of water damage. This means there’s a very high risk that there’s mold in your room too. Mold can thrive in areas that are damp and not properly ventilated. It often begins with some problem with the plumbing, roof leakage, or after a flood. Wherever water can reach, mold could grow there behind drywall, within the wood, under the carpet, or in poor-quality construction materials.
Besides, if your HVAC system is dirty there can be a buildup of dirt and moisture. This can create the perfect environment for mold to grow.
But mold is not just limited to growing in dark and damp areas. The strongest strains can be found in dry climates.
Mold can also be found in our foods. Foods like grains, coffee, nuts, wine, and chocolate are high in mycotoxins. If you have Daily Health Post in your environment, there’s also a good chance that you can suffer from mold/yeast in your food.
Molds are considered to be one kind of environmental load on our body system. Every day we are getting exposed to chemicals, pesticides, viruses, bacteria, and solvents. Our bodies can suffer from so many things when the environment is out of balance. It can leave us weak. When you want to boost your energy level, performance, and focus, you should eliminate exposure to toxic mold.
How to Deal with Molds?
Our medical community doesn’t have a complete idea of how mold affects us and its symptoms. But more studies and discussions are taking place around a mold, and it is also being increasingly covered by mainstream media. If you are also concerned that mold may be causing some problems, you should get as much information as in fighting it. Once you have eliminated the mold, your boy is going to enter recovery mode to return to normal.
With the growth in mold awareness, the resources have also grown:
Check for Mold Around You
ERMI (Environmental Relative Moldiness Index) is the most commonly used test. The EPA developed it. Collect samples from your environment – home, office, and anywhere else you spend some time. Make sure to test the area before you spend any more time there. If there are mold spores, they can worsen the situation.
Get Help from Professional Mold Remediation Experts
If the ERMI test is positive, get help from a mold remediation expert to identify the sources around you and locate the place where the moisture is trapped. It will also be required to use a contractor-grade drying system. Once the leaks are repaired, the air exchanges cleared and the mold removed, conduct a retest. This is done to ensure that all mold spores are removed before you reuse the space.
See the Right Doctor
Search for a doctor who has familiarity with the mold illness or has training in Shoemaker Protocol. Even after your environment is cleaned of molds, your body will have to be detoxified.
Supporting Own Body
Avoid all foods which have or that feed on yeast, fungus, or mold. This includes sugars and carbs. Take supplementation that helps in recovery and removing toxins. Good examples include activated charcoal, glutathione, and products that could help in rebuilding and restoring mitochondria.
Get All the Information
To get information on the subject – watch the complete documentary, Moldy the Movie. It provides info on mold diagnosis, experiences, treatments, resources, and much more from patients, doctors, leading mold experts, and expert contractors
You may be suffering from any level of immune responses, keep in mind that any contact with toxic mold means paying a biological price. Your body will respond to your environment and you must eliminate these toxins so that your biological resources get freed to work on other essential things.
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