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🏠Mold: Just a Musty Nuisance…Or a Hidden Cancer Risk?
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🏠Mold: Just a Musty Nuisance…Or a Hidden Cancer Risk?
I used to file mold under “housekeeping tips until two close friends felt so sick they literally moved houses, twice, trying to escape hidden mold.
A brand-new IMA guide (link in the first comment) lays it out: chronic mold exposure isn’t just about sniffles. Emerging research ties certain molds and mycotoxins to immune burnout, mitochondrial stress, hormone chaos, and yes, a higher cancer risk. Functional-medicine doctors are seeing it firsthand.
Sound familiar?
Have you ever felt worse at home than on vacation, only to discover mold later?
Did you battle “mystery” fatigue, brain fog, or rashes that cleared up after leaving a damp environment?
Or maybe you’re just now wondering if that musty smell in the basement matters?
👇 Share your stories, fears, or mold-busting tips below. And if the guide helps you, please post it on your socials, someone in your circle might finally connect the dots between their symptoms and what’s growing behind the drywall.
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Our grandniece died unexpectedly in her sleep at 3 months of age. Initially it was considered a SIDS death. The autopsy showed a mold in her lungs as a cause of death. The family lived in a basement apartment, which was determined to be the source of the mold.
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Oh @DBartonRD thats such a sad story, thank you for sharing it, it may alert someone else to potential dangers of mold.
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My 35 year old son was tentatively diagnosed and treated for mould disease here in Australia, after his functional medicine doctor/naturopath (she is both) tried to help him with his ulcerative colitis. My son was diagnosed first with ulcerative colitis and then Type 1 diabetes within two months of each other at the age of 18 years old. We were told, at the time of his UC diagnosis that his bowel was in the worst state that the gastroenterologist had ever seen in a young person. He received treatment for many years with moderate success until the last 5 years when no treatment, new or old was working. Immunosuppressants caused him to get regular staphylococcus infections on his legs. Finally his treating specialist said there was no more he could do for our son and to start looking for surgeons to remove his bowel.
My husband and I refused to accept this diagnosis and sought out a doctor who would take on his case. We found a functional practitioner who is also a naturopath and who, coincidentally, was doing a study on mould disease (poorly recognised here in Australia). My son agreed to be part of the study after an extensive interview to find out if he was eligible. The treatment has been nothing less than miraculous (along with gut supporting treatments and a special diet). Not only is my son symptom-free without the nasty drugs, his gut is in the best shape it’s ever been! He is a strength and conditioning coach for elite athletes and teams and is super-fit himself.
The doctor has said that there is some correlation between mould disease and autoimmune diseases so we think that was what may have caused his UC and possibly diabetes. My middle son also developed Type 1 diabetes, albeit at the age of 12 years. Both boys’ bedrooms were in a similar part of our home. Our eldest son had a bedroom on the second floor and has never developed an autoimmune disease.
Mould is insidious and dangerous – it’s often hidden and needs specialist treatment to remove it, because you cannot see the spores.
More research needs to be done to understand this disease so we can all be aware!
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