The Toxic Mold Series

To Reach Optimal Wellness, Breathing Clean Air is Just as Important as Modern Medicine

Becoming ill from environmental allergens, pathogens, and toxins creates an almost impossible path for sick individuals. People inherently believe in poisons being harmful to human health. In addition, there are clear scientific conclusions that air pollution is bad for our health. At a scientific level, it is the particulates. Particulates are separate and distinct particles. Solid, gas, or liquid particles from organic and chemical sources circulate in the air we breathe. Unfortunately, the same people who believe in poisons do not necessarily want to understand or believe that what appears to be clean air can be dangerous. Outdoor pollution in densely populated areas is widely known to be harmful to our health. However, indoor air pollutants on average can be 2-5 times higher than outdoor pollutants in the same geography.

“The scientific evidence is unequivocal: air pollution can harm health across the entire lifespan. It causes disease, disability and death, and impairs everyone’s quality of life. It damages lungs, hearts, brains, skin and other organs; it increases the risk of disease and disability, affecting virtually all systems in the human body.” [1]

“About twice as many people die in total as die just from the [disease]pathways we understand. We’ve been underestimating all along.”[2]

Emergence of  “Upstream Medicine”

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Part 4: Doctors’ Blind Spots Regarding Environmental Illness

While modern medicine is primarily practiced by traditional medical doctors, I have learned over the past decade that many illnesses are often caused by unknown environmental elements that fall into ‘blind spots’ to most medical doctors (MDs). This by no means suggests that modern medicine is not extraordinary in diagnosing and treating chronic diseases, or performing lifesaving procedures. Physicians do regularly address allergies and bacterial pathogens. However, the impact of mold as a pathogen, an immune response trigger, or investigation of toxic poisoning is not standard with today’s western medicine. It does suggest the obvious.

“For any physician to diagnose environmental illness, they have to learn about it, probe for relevant environmental information, and understand how detoxification can be influenced in order to treat it. This type of training is not standard in medical schools today.”

This article will discuss why environmental illness is often overlooked or misdiagnosed.  This leads to extraordinary human and financial costs for patients.  Unfortunately, it is the patients that carry the burden of identifying the potential environmental toxic elements as well as finding the right Doctors or face a lengthy and debilitating period until diagnosed properly.

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Part 3: When Toxins Reach the Brain

By Cesar Collado

A Separate System Called The Glymphatic System Clears Your Brain Works While You Sleep

 

Headaches, brain fog, memory problems, and tremors appear to be the most debilitating symptoms of mold sensitivity.  These symptoms, in particular,  scare patients. Cognitive symptoms and neurological motor function issues impact our ability to function as a family member, friend, or coworker. Fortunately, the brain has its own cleaning system that only works while you sleep.  The Glymphatic System…READ MORE…

The Toxic Mold Series- Part 2

Our Body’s Toxic Load

Part 2 discusses the total toxic load our body can handle before being permanently impacted.  The Toxic Load, sometimes called the “Body Burden” is the accumulated amount of toxins that are stored and negatively affecting your bodily systems over time. Toxins cause stress to many body systems including the endocrine system, the immune system, as well as your mental state. There are no medicines that can simply eliminate toxins in a body. Our bodies must metabolize and excrete the toxins over time. READ MORE…