1011 - How to Tell If You Have Mold in Your Home (And What To Do Next)
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
4.6 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Up to 50% of homes are at risk of mold exposure, and knowing the warning signs could protect you from the harmful effects of black mold and mycotoxins. In this episode, I share the latest research and my personal experiences with mold symptoms and testing to help you identify hidden mold in your home — including how to choose the right testing option for your situation. I also cover the most common mold mistakes to avoid, so you can find mold, test for it, and confidently take the right next steps.
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📌Timestamps
00:00 Intro
02:25 Mold Symptoms & Warning Signs
05:53 Best Ways Check Your Home for Mold
10:52 Home Testing
21:18 2 Ways to Address Mold Right Now
26:06 3 Common Mold Mistakes
29:39 Closing Thoughts
🎧 Featured Studies
📉 Prevalence of Building Dampness:
https://iaqscience.lbl.gov/prevalence-building-dampness
📉 NIOSH Dampness and Mold Assessment Tool (DMAT):
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37206088/
📉 Why Home MYCOTOXIN Test:
https://drcrista.com/pages/environmental-mycotoxin-test
📉 Antibodies against molds and mycotoxins following exposure to toxigenic fungi in a water-damaged building:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14992307/
📉 The Relationship between Gastrointestinal Health, Micronutrient Concentrations, and Autoimmunity: A Focus on the Thyroid: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36079838/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best. |
| 0:14.8 | To stay up to date on the latest topics, as well as all of our prior episodes, make sure to subscribe in your podcast player. |
| 0:22.2 | For weekly updates, visit Dr.ruciot.com. |
| 0:25.7 | How do you know if you have molding your home making you sick? |
| 0:29.5 | This is not an irrelevant question because according to one analysis of eight studies, |
| 0:35.3 | 47% of homes in the U.S. have either mold or dampness. And dampness or |
| 0:42.6 | moisture is what's needed to feed the mold. A EPA study found that 85% of buildings have signs |
| 0:52.4 | of water damage. And remember that water damage, that moisture is the first |
| 0:57.5 | thing needed for mold to then grow. Mold can also be sneaky or it can be hidden. In fact, |
| 1:05.8 | this is one photo of such an example sent to us from one of our patients who is having these |
| 1:10.7 | debilitating |
| 1:11.8 | neurological symptoms, chiefly anxiety, but not limited to that. And the flooring is infected, if you |
| 1:24.5 | will, with mold. How this was hidden, you can kind of see in the outline here, |
| 1:29.9 | the headboard of his bed was right against this wall where all that mold was growing, |
| 1:35.8 | probably the worst possible location to have mold hiding. So today, with all this in mind, |
| 1:44.1 | let's cover mold signs and symptoms. The best ways |
| 1:49.8 | to identify mold in your home, this involves a visual inspection, which will walk through, |
| 1:56.0 | and then home testing. It's really important here to test not only for mold, but for mold and |
| 2:05.1 | friends, more technically what's known as polymicrobial growth, because that moisture allows more |
| 2:12.3 | than just mold to grow. But thankfully, it's not hard to assess that. However, if you do a standard mold test, |
| 2:21.8 | you won't have the sort of polymicrobial assessment that is available and can be fairly |
| 2:26.9 | readily done. But we'll make sure to clarify that so you don't miss the sort of Anne Friends part |
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