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Electrostatic shocks
Weight gain despite sufficient effort (resistance to weight loss)
Tremors
Muscle cramps, constant nerve pain, joint pain, pain not caused by inflammatory arthritis, “ice pick” pain
Persistent nerve pain
Numbness and tingling sensations
Abdominal pain, diarrhea, changes in appetite, nausea
Night sweats or problems regulating temperature
Excessive thirst
Increased urination
Metallic taste
By looking at these symptoms, you can easily understand why they are often confused with common symptoms of other illnesses.
However, the disastrous effects of mold have been scientifically studied for more than three decades, and it has been found that it is actually a combination of many types of fungi that grow as filaments and reproduce in creating tiny spores that hatch and fly away, and cannot be spotted with the naked eye.
Mold thrives in warm, humid places. Therefore, they can also appear, for example, in places such as Nevada and Arizona, in poorly ventilated places, or areas prone to flooding or water leaks.
This is why they often appear in the bathroom, on the shower head, in poorly ventilated rooms, and they can attach themselves to furniture, books, pets, shoes, carpets and papers. . Mold can also circulate in the ventilation system, so it is advisable to change your VMC filters every three months.
Buildings that have been damaged by water experience the formation of complex combinations of contaminants in the air and dust, which form a mixture of toxic chemicals. This also produces toxic substances such as mycotoxins that remain on mold spores and fragments released into the air.
Also, please note that mold disease is not caused by a single toxin, but in most cases it occurs in water damaged areas or buildings.
The most recent research has found that sinuses can be a common cause of persistent mold illness.
Unfortunately, it turns out that half of the buildings we live in are water damaged, leading to mold and mold illness for those who are prone to it. Considering the fact that most of us spend a lot of time indoors, in the office or at home, we should all learn how to reduce the impact of these toxins.
More specifically, mold toxicity is classified under the broad category of biotoxin diseases and is also called Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS).
Ritchie Shoemaker, MD, author of 8 books on this topic, including Surviving Mold: Life in the Era of Dangerous Buildings, defines SRIS as follows:
Chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS) is: “an acute and chronic systemic inflammatory response, acquired following exposure to the indoor environment of a water-damaged building with resident toxigenic organisms, including , but not only, fungi, bacteria, actinomycetes and mycobacteria as well as inflammagens…”.
Dr. Shoemaker also comments that “24% of people cannot give adequate responses with their antibodies, and they are part of the 95% who have illness due to water damaged buildings. »
Therefore, we will now describe the role of DNA and its impact on predisposition to mold disease.
As Dr. Shoemaker also stated, approximately 24% of the population is genetically susceptible to mold toxicity because they have an HLA-DR immune response gene.
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