Mold is everwhere!

When I bring up mold as a possible cause of illness to patients, one of the common replies I will get from patients is "well, mold is everwhere." 

This is both true and not true.

Mold is everywhere! There is a diverse microbiome outside your home. Bacteria, viruses, and yes fungi (mold) exist everywhere on Earth. There is a balance of microbes which humans have co-existed with throughout time. 

What doesn't exist everywhere are the abnormally large quantities of certin molds that occur inside water damaged buildings. Specific types of mold are not occuring in nature in the amounts that occur inside a water damaged building. Our bodies aren't cut out to manage these levels of mold which give off mycotoxins as they fight for terrain.

So it's the specific types of mold in the water damaged building and the amount of it that makes people sick. 

So while mold is everywhere, it is not occuring in the way it hapens in water damaged buildings. 

If mold is everywere, there's no point in fixing my living space

It is SO IMPORTANT for a person struggling with mold illness to have a clean space to go to at the end of the day. True, a person can't control the entire outside world but they can control their living space. Having a clean living space allows the body to reset and heal. We all spend so much of our 24 hr day in the home. That environment being clean is essential for healing. You can also choose where you go outside of the home and can avoid certain places that are toxic. 

The first and most critial step in healing from mold is avoidance of that which made you sick. 

I am available for assessing or treating of mold related illness (CIRS and other toxin related illnesses). I am also a licensed psychotherapist and can see clients for psychotherapy services related to mold and they can keep working with their current mold doc. 

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