S5E7 What to Do if You Suspect You Have Mold & How to Cultivate a Healthy Home | Christine Cimabue
What's The Juice
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🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Are you committed to your personal health but have a feeling your home is a roadblock? Do you worry about living with mold, high EMFs, or strong LED lights that can throw off circadian rhythm? Christine Cimabue is a licensed general contractor and holistic construction consultant who believes that the condition of our home can play a huge role in our ability to heal, thrive and feel safe. She doesn’t fearmonger or tell you to spend $$$ on remediation – instead she gives simple, actionable tips on how we can start getting to know the quirks of our home, install simple safeguards under appliances that leak, and feel empowered with education to maintain and prevent.
HERE’S THE JUICE:
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All about mold in homes – why it grows, how to find it, how to get rid of it and prevent
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What it means to have a “healthy home” vs a “sick home” and the refreshing idea that a healthy home is NOT perfect
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Why decorating your bathroom with aesthetic touches like wallpaper can be problematic
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Why your entire bathroom should be a “wet room” and what this means
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The potential downsides of “energy efficient homes” and air-tight environments
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How to effectively monitor humidity and moisture levels in each room with a $5 device to identity and prevent water damage
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Her controversial opinion that basements should actually NOT be finished and what to do if you currently have a finished basement
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Why LED lights can be overstimulating to our nervous systems & what to use instead to support your circadian rhythm
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The affordable tool that helps to prevent and avoid potential leaks from your appliances
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The key to renovating old homes with healthy materials (like KD versus green lumber)
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Exact questions we can ask potential contractors when we are interviewing them and the checklist Christine gives her clients
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| 0:00.0 | I'm sure you guys know that an incredibly important factor in our health is our home. |
| 0:08.0 | Just think about how much time we spend in our homes living, working, hosting, sleeping, and how the condition of that home can play a huge |
| 0:16.6 | role in our ability to heal and thrive. Our home quite literally has its own microbiome, |
| 0:21.7 | just like any other environment and that |
| 0:23.6 | microbiome an ecosystem in which we reside has a massive influence on our |
| 0:29.0 | microbiome. So I wanted to bring on a guess that could come on and not scare us about mold, right? |
| 0:35.6 | We're not trying to make anyone feel like they need to up and make some big changes and |
| 0:39.6 | do an expensive move and feel unsafe in their homes. |
| 0:44.0 | But instead today's guest is actually teaching us little bits and pieces we can do here and |
| 0:48.3 | there for mold prevention and for actually getting to know your home and its quirks and some of the areas where it may be more prone to leaks or damage so that you can be in relationship. |
| 0:59.0 | Coming back to the season theme, You can be in relationship with your home |
| 1:04.0 | and actually understand how to care for it, |
| 1:06.6 | like the temple that it is, |
| 1:07.6 | just like you care for your body. |
| 1:09.1 | In this episode, I'm speaking to Christine Simabue, a licensed general contractor and founder of |
| 1:15.6 | holistic homes who takes a true holistic approach to construction. She gave us so |
| 1:21.0 | many tangible and actionable tips that felt simple and understandable |
| 1:25.7 | and this episode is just for anyone who wants to get a better picture of how to |
| 1:30.3 | positively influence their health by taking care of their home in a bit more of a holistic way. |
| 1:35.6 | We're going to talk about the issue of mold in homes, why it grows, how to find it, what to do, |
| 1:41.6 | and the importance of just maintaining a mold-free home through simple |
| 1:45.6 | regular checkups long after it's gone. |
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