A little-known secret about mold avoidance

Most people think we do mold avoidance only to heal. That is not true.

While mold avoidance does accomplish healing, part of the reason we do it is to build “mold avoidance skills.”

Mold avoidance skills basically boil down to learning how to tell when you are being exposed to problematic mold toxins, and then having plans in place for how to reduce those exposures so that they are below the threshold required for healing.

There’s really no other way to build these skills, other than doing mold avoidance itself. Laboratory testing of your body or your home is pitifully inadequate. Environments change from month to month, and laboratory tests don’t know exactly which molds are the ones hurting you as an individual. Even if they did, the tests are woefully inaccurate.

But it goes much further than that. As you recover, your tolerance for certain exposures will increase. This is what we call, “the power curve.” Testing can never tell you how much of a given exposure you can tolerate at any moment in time.

Finally, laboratory testing doesn’t tell you anything about the outdoor supertoxins which keep mold illness patients from recovering.

So, as you pursue mold avoidance, you will be developing a skill-set which allows real-time, on-the-fly assessment of what your reactivity level is, how much you can be exposed to, and what kinds of plans you should have in place in order to avoid exposures which are too problematic.

Here’s an analogy. Let’s say there’s a kid who has been fed only junk food his whole life. Sugar for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And now the kid has 17 health problems.

Do you think it would be all that helpful for this kid to get a bunch of testing to tell him how much sugar he should eat? Of course not. Really the only logical course of action is for the kid to stop eating ALL sugar, heal his body, and then only once he has been stabilized, and learns what a “healthy baseline” feels like, THEN he can slowly re-introduce little bits of sweets, to see how they affect him and see if he can stay healthy while eating them.

This is how mold avoidance works. The body is so F’ed up from literally being over tolerance on mold for DECADES, that you really need to pull back, get healthy, regain your tolerance, and THEN slowly dip your toes back into various exposures to see if you are ready for them yet. This is called mold avoidance skills. And there’s really no other way to attain this.

So, what are some SPECIFIC mold avoidance skills, and how do you get them? That is an important topic and one which I will talk about soon.