"The Doctors" Got It Right

I just watched the episode of "The Doctors" which featured a segment on toxic black mold. The show featured an entire family that seemed to be sick all the time. "The Doctors" ordered up a home inspection to look for hidden dangers in the family's home that might be affecting their health. I thought that was a brilliant move. Typically doctors don't think in those terms. This was very out of the box thinking and they have to be commended!

Among the things the home inspector looked for were radon, toxic chemicals in the water, and mold. It turned out the occupants of this house were being subjected to over 200 times the amount of toxic mold spores that was considered dangerous. Actually, some people (those with a certain genotype) can get sick even when there are low levels of toxic mold spores. But, in the case of the family on this show....no wonder they were getting sick. 200 times what already was considered dangerous levels of black mold toxins. Wow!

What most people don't know is that 30% of all structures (home and office) have some type of mold. The leading medical doctor who has treated thousands of mold cases has found that 25% of all people are very susceptible to even moderate mold toxin exposure. So, if 30% of structures have mold and 1/4 of the people in those structures are highly likely to have ill effects from exposure that means approximately 8% of all people may have some underlying illness issues related to mold toxin exposure. That's a lot of people.

And what was most impactful about the segment on "The Doctors" was that the family being exposed to the mold explained that they went to many doctors and experts to seek help. However, nobody seemed to know what was causing their terrible and recurring sickness. It was almost a medical mystery to all the health professionals they sought out. Unfortunately, this is the signature of mold toxin illness----lots of symptoms that affect the entire body and often unexplainable by conventional medical diagnostics. It’s no wonder that most people who suffer from mold toxin illness think they're going crazy because no one can verify that they have a basis for their illness. Most of them are at their wits end.

Luckily, we have discovered ways to uncover whether a person is possibly suffering from this horrible sickness. More to come on that later............