Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

CIRS Episode 1 | Unveiling the Truth About Mold and Inflammation

29 Jul 2024 · 0 min

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A conversational transcript from a YouTube video (Aaron Hartman, MD) discussing terminology and misconceptions around chronic inflammatory response syndromes and the role of mold and water-damaged buildings. Speakers note naming issues in the literature and estimate that about 80% of cases relate to water-damaged buildings, with other causes (e.g., Pfiesteria) accounting for the remainder.

That's a mouthful. Chronic inflameter. What does that even mean? So I use mold because it like that makes more sense to people because they think everything's mold and it's not.
Even just about inflammation. They'll even shoemaker at all will even explain and openly admit that we named this wrong.
But we're not going to go back.
And change the name.
Yeah. Because that's already in the literature. It's already published articles and stuff. But so 80% of this is a water damaged building and 20% is other and other are pfisteria, which is actually the the first cases of a Shoemaker reported in 1997 or 98.