Is Mold from Hidden Water Damage Making You Sick with Brian Karr

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Kate Kresge

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, 810564, Medicine

4.8 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The Root Cause Medicine Podcast is created by Rupa Health, the best way to order, track & get results from 30+ lab companies in one place. In today’s episode, Dr. Carrie Jones is joined by Brian Karr, Indoor Environmental Consultant and Co-Founder of We Inspect. They discuss all about mold and mycotoxins in your home and what you can do about it. Key Takeaways: Mold Symptoms: Mold affects the whole body and determines neurological issues, brain fog, skin problems, hair loss, chronic fatigue, gut issues, and many others. Looking for Mold the Right Way: If you walk into a house looking for mold visually, you will not find it because mold is hidden. Mold inspectors use generic methods of determining if you have mold, which is mostly ineffective. They should be looking for additional signs of mold and use various approaches. If you've been told your house is fine, yet you are still sick, try finding other inspectors and methods of checking the possibility of mold exposure. Brian’s Practical Advice: If it's not wet now, it doesn't mean there is no mold. Just because the water dried out doesn't mean that the mold would just disappear. Think through wherever you're living and consider the tiny drops that might have happened in places you didn't think were a big deal. Empty all the sink cabinets that you have in your house. If you see staining, bubbling, cracking, or anything that doesn't look consistent with how the wood was installed when they did it, there is a high chance there is some mold issue. Brian is an environmental consultant who specializes in working with hypersensitive individuals to understand if mold, mycotoxins, or other indoor pathogens exist in their homes that may be contributing to their health conditions. He is a Certified Microbial Investigator (CMI) accredited through the American Council for Accredited Certifications, the creator of the Mold Masterclass, and the Co-Founder of We Inspect.

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0:00.0	Today on the root cause medicine podcast.
0:03.1	All of that said, symptoms, really common things that I hear a lot is neurological issues in some way.
0:10.5	So sometimes it's like it's brain fog.
0:13.3	So people say, I just feel kind of foggy.
0:15.3	They don't feel like they have like brain damage necessarily.
0:18.7	They just don't feel like they feel like almost a little drunk sometimes, almost like the memory goes away sometimes, comes back and lose your words here or there, like stuff like that. That's a pretty common one. And I'm going to throw things out there, a bit of just pull the score. I'm not a doctor, but I just talk a lot of them. So mycotoxins, which are normal toxins, they're fat soluble.
0:38.3	Your brain is mostly fat.
0:39.7	So, like, if they're able to get to that pathway, which they can through different barriers to break, then your brain's going to want to still hook it up because that's where it wants to be, right? Because your brain's primarily fast. It's one reason why neurological stuff is pretty common. But hormones are common. Reproductive, which is hormones, is common.
0:55.7	Like skin stuff, that's common. I hormones are common. Reproductive, which is hormones, is common. Like
0:55.9	skin stuff, that's common. I've seen hair loss. There's chronic fatigue. There's, I think your whole
1:01.5	body is inflaming. So then depending on where it's manifest and you can get pain in different places,
1:06.2	gut problems are a super huge thing. Hello, hello. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones.
1:11.9	And today I'm talking with expert environmental consultant and home inspector Brian Carr,
1:17.5	all about mold and mycotoxins in your home and how it could secretly be the reason
1:23.4	behind your fatigue, brain fog, hormone issues, autoimmune, and then once you find mold,
1:29.9	what do you do about it? Before we get started, though, I want to talk to you about an easy health
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