How One Mom Beat a Hidden Mold Infestation—Step by Step! | @the.organimama
Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Turning Point USA
5 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
What looked like a sick baby was actually toxic mold unraveling an entire family’s life
Kristen Van Gilse (@organimama) shares how unexplained illness led to a devastating mold discovery that forced her family from their home and wiped out nearly 80% of their belongings. We cover what to do when mold is found, the mistakes most people make, and how to support detox and recovery—so you don’t have to learn the hard way.
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| 0:00.0 | You're a regular mom who discovered toxic mold in your home. |
| 0:03.6 | Our home had 600 times the safe level of one of the worst, most toxic molds called |
| 0:09.0 | Ketomium Globosome. |
| 0:10.4 | Anywhere that smoke can go, mold spores, and mycotoxins can go. |
| 0:14.0 | If you see or smell something that gets labeled as mildew, that means actively growing mold in your environment. They're exactly the same |
| 0:22.4 | thing. It's a term that has been used by contractors and landlords for many decades to try |
| 0:28.7 | and gaslight people into thinking that the serious mold problem in their home is not actually a big deal. |
| 1:00.3 | Thank you. deal. in 2020, my guest. In 2022, my guest thought that she was just dealing with a sick baby. |
| 1:04.5 | What she didn't know was that toxic mold was silently turning her life upside down, |
| 1:08.8 | making her infant dangerously ill, forcing her out of her home and wiping out nearly 80% of her belongings. |
| 1:10.1 | Today I'm sitting down with Kristen, aka Organa Mama, on Instagram, to talk about how she |
| 1:15.3 | uncovered the truth, what options actually exist when mold is discovered, and how to support |
| 1:19.9 | your body through detox and recovery. She learned this the hard way, so you don't have to. |
| 1:24.3 | Watch this episode on the real Alex Clark YouTube channel or Culture Apothecary on |
| 1:27.6 | Spotify, pause and leave a five-star review letting others know how this podcast has impacted your |
| 1:31.9 | health or your family. Please welcome Kristen, aka Organa Mama on Instagram to Culture Apothecary. |
| 1:40.9 | You're a regular mom who discovered toxic mold in your home. What were you seeing in your child that made you think something is not right here? Well, we already had a non-toxic lifestyle. So we had looked into pretty much all of the different things. We had her tested for allergies. We thought surely she would come back with positive allergy testing. and it was all negative. So we're like |
| 2:01.2 | something else has to be happening here that doesn't have to do with toxins in our home or allergies |
| 2:06.1 | or anything like that. But she was dealing with hives, eczema, food intolerances that we thought |
| 2:12.2 | maybe were allergies and they weren't allergies. And I thought what the heck could possibly be |
| 2:17.1 | causing skin problems |
| 2:18.6 | in my infant that I can't solve? And that started the entire journey for us. Take us back to the |
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