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Your House Might Be Making You Weak

Why You Need to Defend Yourself From Invisible Threats on Your Health in Your Living Space

By Ishani and ShelbyPublished 5 years ago 6 min read
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Most illnesses are caused due to mold toxins around us. Mycotoxins in the environment are something that a lot of us are unfamiliar with. It is the leading factor of why we might be getting weaker and unable to reach the full potential of human performance.

According to Dr. Shoemaker, an innovative expert in treating biotoxin illnesses, twenty-eight percent of people have a genetically influenced innate immune response from environmental mold. If you are one of these people, you get exposed, you get sick, and you stay sick. The remaining seventy-two percent of people get inflammation in their bodies and may come down with a cold, sore throat, love handles, retain water or constantly suffer from headaches or migraines. Some of them may have no symptoms at all. Since mycotoxins in the environment are linked to cancer and heart disease, these people are still threatened by serious illnesses.

Dave Asprey, famous biohacker and Chairman of the Silicon Valley Health Institute says that toxic mold grows in buildings, houses, schools, and businesses. Mycotoxins can seriously destroy your brain, impacting how you think and feel. Mold is also a food contaminant linked to many chronic mental and physical health problems.

The National Centres for Environmental Disease states that toxic molds release small chemical poisons to keep other molds and bacteria from competing with them for food. These chemicals have a direct effect on the body which is different than a moldy allergy. They persist even after the mold spores are destroyed.

The World Health Organisation is trying to raise awareness about the harmful effects of mold exposure by training medical practitioners on how to test for mold exposure. The researchers at the World Health Organisation state that children are highly sensitive to mold toxins and how the exposure to mold spores is associated with the reduction in the number of brain cells, heart diseases, kidney failure, and other illnesses in children.

We are an integral part of our surroundings and they are a part of the ongoing process that is your body. Our bodies are constantly making new cells and shedding old ones, our eyes which began reading this sentence are not the same eyes that finish reading it. Countless things which happen in our bodies are influenced by the environment we live in, which is why optimising the environment can make us more resilient and “bulletproof.” Making sure that we are not swimming in performance- hindering toxic mold is a part of that.

Annotated Bibliography

Asprey David, “Our Moldy World Part 1: Mycotoxins.”

Dave Asprey for his website Bulletproof Exec, founder of the Bulletproof Diet and Bulletproof Coffee and the chairman of Silicon Valley health Institute, shines light on the problem of mycotoxins (mold toxins) and how they are making us “sick” and “stupid.” He explains how big of a problem mycotoxins are for our health and how they sabotage cognitive functions through several research studies that have been conducted over the years by the government, independent scientists, and at the Silicon Valley Health Institute.

Asprey, David and Shoemaker, Ritchie: “A Brainstorming Session on Furthering the Science of Mold Toxins” Paradigm Change.

The backgrounds of the mold experts and patients interviewed in Dave Asprey’s documentary about the health hazards of environmental toxic mold are summarised in this article including their actual quotes from the interview for the documentary. They talk about how being exposed to mold toxins soon after moving to a moldy environment led them to develop various illnesses in spite of following a healthy regimen and with no prior illness records.

This is a documentary created by Dave Asprey, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, founder of Bulletproof Diet and Coffee and Chairman of the Silicon Valley Health Institute. Asprey relates how he grew up with mold issues and then became ill as an adult subsequent to a Stachybotrys in his home. He summarises his own and other people’s mold experiences and recovery in- depth in this documentary. He spent fifteen years and hundreds of thousands of dollars figuring out how to regain and improve his performance, and shares what he learned to help others optimise their own health in a toxic world.

University of Hawaii Botany, “Sick Buildings and Houses.

This is a lecture posted by the faculty of Botany from the University of Hawaii. This post explains how mold spores reproduce in a building that has the suitable conditions for their survival. The spores attack people and animals in these environments. When these fungi and bacteria attack us, we become a host for them and they draw nutrients from our body and create a breeding ground in our system. They hijack our immunity and cause allergic reactions and other diseases.

World Health Organisation, “Mycotoxins.”

This is a presentation created by the World Health Organisation for training in the health sector. The presentation explains how sensitive children are to mycotoxins and how the exposure to mold spores is associated with a reduction in the number of brain cells, heart diseases, kidney failure and other illnesses in children.

National Treatment Centres for Environmental Disease, “How Does Mold Make You Sick?

This article written by the toxicologists at the National Treatment Centres for Environmental Disease talks about how exposure to mold toxins in the environment makes us sick. It causes an allergic effect within a few minutes of exposure to the mold spores in people who are sensitive to mycotoxins. People who are not sensitive to mycotoxins feel the effects of exposure in the form of various illnesses. The toxicological effects of mold exposure is called Mycotoxin poisoning or Mycotoxicosis. According to the researchers at the National Centres for Environmental Disease, the medical profession fails to understand Mycotoxicosis and its treatment as Mycotoxicosis is not a disease bacteria or virus-like medical practitioners normally see. There are no antibiotics to prescribe and nothing to kill. So, as most MD’s are not toxicologists, they have no understanding of what they are looking for, how to correctly test for it, and even less certainty on how to treat it.

National Treatment Centres for Environmental Disease, “Symptoms of Mold Exposure.”

This article written by the toxicologists at the National Treatment Centres for Environmental Disease talks about how exposure to mold, mycotoxins, and mycobacterium in the environment can cause multiple symptoms, adverse health effects, diseases in human beings and domestic animals such as dogs, cats, birds, etc. Some common Level 1 Early Mold Exposure symptoms include headaches, rashes, and sneezing. Level 2 Advanced Mold Exposure symptoms include breathing disorders, nosebleeds, chronic sinusitis, etc. Level 3 Late Mold Exposure symptoms are more severe and cause Aspergillosis, which is responsible for more deaths and invasive fungal infections in the U.S. than any other species of fungi. Some symptoms of Aspergillosis are fever, coughs which may bring up blood or plugs of mucus, fungal mass which is a growth of tangled fungus fibres in the lungs, tuberculosis, bleeding from lungs, chest or joint pain and skin lesions.

-Ishani

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