You’re Not Crazy, Toxic Mold Exposure Is Poisoning Your Brain - Brian Karr : 1066
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
If you have all sorts of unexplained health problems in your home, where you work, or where you go to school, symptoms can be very different. One person's gaining fat, another person's always tired, other people have dark circles, emotional irregularity, sudden weight gain, onset of allergies that no one can explain, on and on.
In the episode today, you learn the smarter, not harder, ways to deal with toxic mold exposure in your environment from one of the world’s leading experts on the matter.
Our guest is Brian Karr. He's a second-generation indoor environmental consultant and he works with hypersensitive individuals with complex medical conditions. He's the co-founder of We Inspect, an environmental testing company which works to help people understand mold, mycotoxins, and even bacterial toxins that exist in your homes. He takes time to explain what's (usually) there, why it’s important—even down to the genetic level—and what it's doing to you.
Go back to the definition of biohacking… The art and science of changing the environment around you and inside of you so that you have full control of your own biology. If your environment is moldy and has biotoxins, maybe you don't have control of your biology—the mold does.
Brian's become a go-to guy for medical doctors across the country, helping more than 5,000 people as sensitive as I used to be to create healthier living environments. You're going to learn a lot in this episode, even if you're saying… Well, I don't have a mold problem. You'd be very surprised.
00:17:00 — Meeting the Mold (and Brian) Head On
• Dave’s younger years battling his own health
• The xenoestrogen that took over his life
• Brian Karr’s background and introduction
• We Inspect environmental testing company
• Moldy Movie: moldymovie.com
• How Brian married into the business and fell in love
• Building an infrastructure to serve the country
• Betsy Maldonado’s story
00:15:02 — We Inspect: Spotlighting Innovation & Access
• We Inspect’s process—what’s unique and special?
• Most mold is hidden out of plain sight
• Perils of dry mold: more mobile than wet, living mold
• The importance of knowing what to look for
• Prioritizing innovation and accessibility
• Training program: Mold Finders Method
• Mobile app: We Inspect Together
• Pitfalls of other, commercially driven services
00:29:18 — Dealing With Mold in Our Day to Day Lives
• Brian’s game plan for getting out of a moldy lease
• Does spraying bleach work?
• Why Dave avoids AirBnbs
• Homebiotic: homebiotic.com
• Balancing removal options
• Three easy steps to take in your home
• Understanding the Human Cloud Effect
• Gaps in capability of air testing
• Effectiveness of dust sampling
• Find Out If Your Home Is Making You Sick
• 100M structures in the US have meaningful mold problems
00:50:04 — Looking Ahead At Life With Less Mold
• 90% of structures are exposed to toxic mold
• Danger Coffee: dangercoffee.com
• What is truly pure?
• Balance of bacteria vs. mold in caves
• Added susceptibility of women and children
• 40% of population impacted by mold exposure
• Story time: Dave’s mold-triggered PANDAS
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:05.0 | Formerly, Bull of Traudy Upradion. |
| 0:10.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm going through on some of these episodes and I'm teaching you some of the things that are in my new book, Smarter, Not Harder. |
| 0:28.0 | The idea there is that you can upgrade yourself and there are things that we know work like, I don't know, exercise. |
| 0:37.0 | So you could say I'm going to go do 90 minutes a day of exercise and I know I'm going to get results. |
| 0:44.0 | And the reality is you probably will get some results but it might take a huge amount of time. |
| 0:48.0 | In my case, it was 702 hours of exercise over 18 months. |
| 0:54.0 | That's about a third of a full-time job for a year in the gym sweating. |
| 1:02.0 | Now you think I would have been chiseled in all but I wasn't. |
| 1:05.0 | I actually still had a 46 inch waist and still weighed 300 pounds. |
| 1:08.0 | And it's one of the things that made me a biohacker today because I'm on a low fat, low calorie at the time, semi-vegetarian diet. |
| 1:16.0 | And just hungry and tired all the time and still going to the gym with all of my effort. |
| 1:23.0 | What I didn't know was that I was also being exposed to a Xeno estrogen. |
| 1:29.0 | This is an environmental estrogen a thousand times stronger than human estrogen. |
| 1:35.0 | Human estrogen makes you fat. |
| 1:38.0 | You need some of it, men and women both needed but you need the right levels. |
| 1:41.0 | You also need testosterone. |
| 1:43.0 | My testosterone levels were at 100. |
| 1:46.0 | They were less than my mom's testosterone. |
| 1:49.0 | We actually have her lab data and my lab data from the same time. |
| 1:52.0 | So is it any wonder that I looked androgynous in 300 pounds and still have stretch marks from that time, |
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