How to fix a mold problem

Hey everybody, Dr. Diane, your chronic illness expert here. Welcome back to my channel. We're talking about what to do with mold illness, and if you have mold in your house, I'm going to tell you how to access my complete mold field guide for free at the end of this video. So make sure you stay tuned for that. So one of the number one reasons why I find that people do not get well with Lyme, do not get well with chronic disease, why there's suffering over and over and over again, why they see expert after expert after expert with nothing working. One of the number one things I find is having mold in the home. If you have mold in your home, and a lot of people, by the way, if you're listening, you're like, I don't need this because I already tested my home for mold. Air inspections, which are what most common inspectors do, are not very good because the heavy molds like black mold, aka Stachybotrys, is really heavy, doesn't suspend in air, and it lands on surfaces. Unless you're doing a dust sample or a surface swatch and having an inspector do things like look behind drywall by removing the plates that are the electrical plates and using speculums to take samples behind the drywall, unless you're doing things like that, mold gets missed. In fact, the worst story on mold I've heard in my life was actually just this past year. where somebody had mold illness and it was just not found and not found and not found, and every test was negative. And we knew it was in the house because of her symptoms, we knew it was in the house because it was in her body and she was just not getting well. So when we got an inspector in there, the inspector said, he actually called me personally because he said the mold was some of the worst he had ever seen. He said it was so bad that it was basically almost like a termite scenario, that the mold had actually eaten through the frame So bad that it was like a structural integrity issue, and the house was on verge of collapsing. He said it looked like termites, but it was mold, and all of the tests actually missed it. So I tell you that story because if you're not getting well and you're reacting to everything, you're feeling like your body is so sensitive. This is something we want to consider because yes, your body may be sensitive, but with sensitivity, what we're dealing with is a threshold. The liver has a rate limit, which means you can only speed up the liver and the detox so much. So things that you might be doing— glutathione, ALA binding, NAC, etc., etc.— things that you might be doing already to remove toxins, we can only use those things to make the liver work so fast, because even when you give more things like that, the liver reaches its max rate. And so when the liver is at its max rate, Then any toxins that are in the body that are coming in the body beyond that just build up and build up and build up. And this is what happens to so many people. This is why the moment you start trying to detox or kill it doesn't work and you react because your threshold is already high and your liver can't work any faster. And what keeps the threshold high is breathing in things and getting exposed to things day after day after day that are causing a toxic reaction in the body. So number one, and I'm going to give you this, this guide, but some of the myths that we see with mold is one, new homes don't have mold. That's a total myth. I've talked to enough contractors now, or contractors once removed, who've told me things like that they build with moldy materials, especially if you're living in a wet and humid climate. Oftentimes contractors will take material that is wet and that is mold sometimes all over it and put it in the building. Literally. So new homes can absolutely have mold. If it does not smell, that does not mean it has no mold. Mold does secrete VOCs, volatile organic compounds. However, many molds do not secrete those. So if you smell it, it's probably there. But if you don't smell it, it doesn't mean it's not. A clean inspection by your air samples do not mean it is a clean home, as I've already talked about. Please do not use bleach on your mold. Bleach is one of the worst things for mold, and I know it's propagated online, but one of the problems with bleach is bleach, one, has a lot of water in it. Water is one of the ingredients in it, and bleach, like, or mold, like any organism out there, wants to survive. So when you pour bleach on it, it's going to do what any organism was going to do, which is a last-ditch effort to proliferate and prolong the species, meaning it poofs, it spreads, it spores in the air and the spores spread and the water that was in the bleach will actually be used by those spores that have spread to actually help them grow. So botanical surfactants such as EC3 are much better solutions. I have discounts for those things on my website. I will also include the link, um, where you can get discounts on all sort of mold-related products in the show notes below. So sensitivity threshold is up to you. So when you're thinking about mold, when you're thinking about remediation, when you're thinking about inspection, one, First step is a good test. You want a dust-based test, not just an air test. Two is when you're looking for an inspector, they are not all the same. Many inspectors, they— the problem is, is even if they say they are certified, are still not certified with the up-to-date standards for biotoxin illness, meaning they are just doing the air samples and doing a visual inspection. We need to do more than that, and a good inspector is going to do more than that. So I have a list of good inspectors on my website. Again, I'm going to play place that in the show notes below. These inspectors are— some of them are national, you will find. So it can help you if you're in the United States, at least it can help you with so many things. Also on this webpage, I'm going to give, give you our questions of how to interview an inspector and how to interview a remediator. If you're looking for somebody online, it is essential that you bring them through a process and you have certain answers that you're looking for. You're looking for how much time they spend. You're looking for methodology that you're looking for, how they contain the space, and more. So you'll find that on the webpage below as well. In addition, when it comes to mold, if you are moving, you're moving from a moldy place to a non-moldy place, it is essential that you clean. Now, some things are debatable about what you can clean and what you can't. For example, particleboard is very porous. So any cheaper types of furniture that are bought from some of our cheaper stores that tend to be particleboard, oftentimes that's porous. The mold particles seep in. You're gonna wanna get rid of them. Things like hair dryers, vacuums, you're gonna get rid of them. So also on the page below, you will find in the link on my guide for you, you will find a step-by-step protocol as far as what to keep, what to take, what to toss, and how to clean. And one of the most important things with cleaning is what's called a small particle clean. A small particle clean is done to eliminate any fragment mold toxins. So what can happen is Even when mold is effectively removed, the small fragments, which are are a tiny little micron in size, they are often left, and we can react to those fragments. So we need to do things such as using microfiber or a dry Swiffer pad. These two types of materials grab the remnant fragments more than other types of materials, and after remediation or when we're cleaning stuff to move, we want to use these types of materials combined with something like EC3, Benefact, Decon 30, these types of agents. agents to really make sure that we are completely getting all of those microfragments away that can be on our ceilings, our floors, our books, our furniture, on and on and on, because we can react to those fragments as much as we can react to the spores. The body does not always know the difference. So these are some of the top things to consider about fixing a mold problem. I really encourage you to do 2 things. Go and look at my field guide. I'm gonna put a link for that totally free in the show notes below. And two, if you need help with any good products that are going to help you eradicate mold, make sure you go to my page, my product page, which I will also link, where you can find discounts on all sorts of things that are helpful in a mold-related situation. So please do subscribe and share this with your friends, family, and anybody you know that might have a mold-related problem. Please let me know how we can help, and I will see you again on another video real soon.