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Grace Joubarne's avatar

My rule of thumb (actually both thumbs): NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER BUY A HOUSE BUILT AFTER 1980s ....ever. I've owned 15 houses, not one built after1980. I would not give you 2 cents for them unless I wanted to commit slow suicide.

In the 1980s they started using chemicals in everything, gluing wood together, using toxic paints, etc. That beautiful carpet you just installed ... highly toxic. That plastic and vinyl wrap that building departments make you wrap your house in ... super toxic and worse, doesn't allow fresh air in. That chemical you apply to your hardwood floors, instead of using linseed oil, walnut oil, etc --- deadly.

All 1980 and onward products off-gas. A new house will be deadly, even if you built it yourself.

That 'new car' smell you love -- you might as well swallow cyanide. Even worse, because people roll up the windows tight and put the air conditioner on to circulate the 1000 chemical gases.

The old folks used only real wood, real rock and never sealed their houses tight. They used varnish and used natural plants for colorings.

They had drafts...that's how they got fresh air circulated through the house, the toxins were removed and they were soooo healthy.

Today, most clothes is made out of chemicals and plastic, which is why the ad says 'I just washed my clothes and it still stinks' -- that off-gassing chemical smell.

Incredible how they are having us think that what we have today is good for us, as we drop dead of all sorts of cancers and heart issues by 45 years old.

If I was younger, I would buy myself a good horse and buggy and use that -- I use to train horses professionally and had a whole collection of antique buggies. Those were the days when we actually had a life.

Ok, I hear you laughing ... but I'm having the last laugh.

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Medicine Girl's avatar

No one is laughing at horses and or buggy's. We are jealous and want one, well at least I do. And, I agree, and had several old victorians I fixed up. The lath and plaster was excellent insulator and found horse hair in it to strengthen and in my opinion, asbestos is an excellent fire retardent, very very rarely does it get stirred up into the lungs. It was the electricians that would drill directly into it and breath the concentrated dust for YEARS that had lung issues. Anyway, they are actively trying to kill us now so building materials need to be as toxic and as flammable as possible.

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M W's avatar
Mar 16Edited

If you haven’t, you may want to watch the movie Dark Waters. It’s about DuPont and how they covered up how deadly and dangerous - it caused birth defects too - their C8 (PFOA) chemical was. And it was put into everything - it was called Teflon on cookware, it was the fire retardant put in pajamas, rugs, furniture, etc. It’s shocking.

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Betsy's avatar

Thank you for bringing common sense to this issue. The understanding that bacteria, mold, yeast, fungi, and parasites are not out to get us, but show up when toxins and material breakdown are happening is so important. Instead we learn that they are predators and we are their prey! "Be very afraid." It is such nonsense!

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Yeowoman's avatar

Isnt it obviously a bit of both ?? they do their thing, we do our thing, if we get weak they do more of their thing .. It is the job of mold to recycle anything that isnt being actively used .. including you and me.

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Betsy's avatar

I do not believe that mold typically shows up if we are weak. Mold operates mostly outside the body, further breaking down materials that are already breaking down, that are already crumbling, dying, on the way down. They are not opportunistic, nor are bacteria, yeasts, fungi, or parasites, as we are told. Certainly it is our job to keep our tissues as healthy as possible, but it is not a competition. Molds are not waiting for us to falter so they can jump in and start causing trouble. We've been taught that nature is trying to get us, even to kill us, and I do not believe that is the way it works. These entities are actually helping us, if we only knew how to have a proper relationship with them.

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Yeowoman's avatar

I used to say that kind of thing about 30 years ago .. I was never taught that bugs were out to get us. What i have learned from being around loads of people becoming sickly in moldy environments is that ecology competes for territory , or at least shares it out .. If your home is full of mold and spores from ferns .. those things are in the air and in your lungs , in place of just ‘air’ .. grasses use chemicals to kill off surrounding plants so they can have the place to themselves, and it is similar with much of ecology . If the place is good for mushrooms it isnt great for you. People worked this out the hard way over millennia .. but feel free to indulge in thick black moldy walls if you like.. My friends have set about removing the mold from their very old house and their families health improves by the day .. The optimal relationship to have with most molds is mutual respect, from a healthy distance.

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Betsy's avatar

I'm with you! I do not advocate living with black mold all over the walls! My only point is that the mold being there is a sign you have breaking down materials in your house and that is why the mold is there, doing its job. You should fix the problem in your house rather than focusing on removing the mold. If your walls are damp and the drywall or wood is decomposing, the mold will be back. What I think is that people are afraid of mold as if it is attacking them. It's just telling them what's wrong with the house that is making them sick so they can deal with it.

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Amaterasu Solar's avatar

I had concluded the "black mold death" was BS. I didn't have anything but the fact that I have lived with it off and on through the decades of My life, and never gotten ill once. The only things I can state categorically that made Me ill were jabs.

I don't doubt there are chemicals that will make Me sick here and there - need to detox - but mold? Hahaha! Not! When the big "black mold death" fearmongering first emerged, I laughed.

Thank You for details I had not seen. I enjoyed reading and hope We all do. We need to stop living in fear!

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Crixcyon's avatar

..."folks are marinating in toxic waste from prescriptions and other legal drugs, synthetic clothes, toxic cleaners, chemical air fresheners, media exposure and television programming." I do my marinating in the outdoors if the sun is shining and the murder pilots aren't out spraying their toxic chemical crap.

I don't worry much about mold. I would be more concerned with the formaldehyde, aluminum and mercury they put in vaccines. And the fluorides they put in so many things, even drugs.

Cleaning the air? That's a good one. I admit I kind of fell for that over 40 years ago and while there is dust and dirt and who knows what in the air, it is always there. Every breath we take is filled with dust and other particles. The dust is falling on your food and drinks constantly. It doesn't seem to make us sick.

How did people survive for thousands of years without all these miracle cures? I figure there were a lot less chemical toxins around. If I get sick, it is because I am overloaded with toxins. Not from some fake boogeyman virus or moldy conditions.

We are being marketed to death. Everyone has something to sell to fix your perceived problems...health or otherwise. As in chemicals, invent the fear that our houses are not clean and that we need these poisons to eradicate all the bad things. The nature of the earth is to break down and rebuild. We are not excluded.

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Medicine Girl's avatar

100% I’m picturing cleaning the air similar to a fish buying water filters for the area it lives in. A recipe for futility.

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Greg's's avatar

Lala land stuff again medicine girl..even if your point had majority truth one of the functions of mold, fungus, parasites is to break down previously living material like flesh into material that blends with soil,surely you won't argue that point.

So it holds to reason even if your majority right infestations of above could ruin material in the body, especially where blood flow is low like around toe nails or in the lungs.

Black mold lung infections kill thousands worldwide every year and heart and brain large worm infections hundreds with drilled holes visible.

Unfortunately such lung infections are fatal in 88 % of cases ,dead fast all in under 5 years ,most in under 2 years.Go to pubmed.com and search mold lung infections...some people are resistant.. guessing the unvaccinated as molds are out in vaccines just as peanut oil is causing mass later intolerannce to peanuts..

Your blanket statements irresponsible no exceptions to worry about evet take is bad news for people you will hurt with misinformation..list the exceptions to the rule! Sometimes your majority wrong as well but always wrong nearly with blanket simplicitys.

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Medicine Girl's avatar

Thanks Mr then government is my friend pub meb cog in the wheel. I don’t know why you read my Substack. It’s not for those that have their heads down and are closed minded. i’m not suggesting you go out and start breathing in black mold. It’s a symptom of a bigger problem the moisture as I pointed out many many times in my article aerosolizing toxic chemicals in the house with breathing in dank dark chemicals (ALONG WITH THE OTHER TOXIC THINGS THAT ARE OCCURRING IN THE PERSONS LIFE CHILDREN UNDER FIVE GET CLOSE TO 84 INJECTIONS OF MERCURY, ALUMINUM FORMALDEHYDE, FETAL TISSUE TORTURED ANIMAL TISSUE )over a long period of time is the problem

I would appreciate it if you just moved along and didn’t feel the need to PubMed my articles or even read them

This is their excuse for all of the other ways they Tawkify and poison, our environment and us as a result they blame it on the natural environment from ticks mosquitoes to yeast, fungus, etc. I don’t know. I’m rereading my article for you again just find someone else’s Substack that Allows you your echo chamber.

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Greg's's avatar

That's how replys work agree or disagree to steer deserving people to better course..you do it too so be fair there..ain't about insisting all agree ,it's sharing info and ideas and letting many readers decide..

As for chemical excuse doesn't apply well here at all, mold is hazardous and many infections occur with landscapers or such who inhaled too much natural toxins of the mold,fungal variety and for you to not know that is strange as a alleged researcher of truth..people deserve the fuller truth ,natural mold and fungus cause illness and harm without synthetic chemicals,easy to know and prove.. evidence centuries...if you want to say it's EXAGGERATED do to factors then make that finer point respecting the lines and people will respect you more as they will find out sooner or later and think back to med girl mislead they don't appreciate!

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Farmer Pete's avatar

Greg, you said "mold is hazardous and many infections occur with landscapers or such who inhaled too much natural toxins of the mold,fungal variety and for you to not know that is strange as a alleged researcher of truth..people deserve the fuller truth ,natural mold and fungus cause illness and harm without synthetic chemicals,easy to know and prove.."

The word "infection" is simply an accumulation of sewage in the body, blamed on the bacterium that is only trying to help you break this sewage down. This is how stupid man has become.

“Infection” indicates that the bacteria (or garbage man particle of choice) and waste at the site of the inflammation are there with a nefarious purpose. It is this wrong thinking which allows doctors, vets, and even natural medicine practitioners to prescribe dangerous antibiotics, antibacterials, antifungals and antivirals over and over again in a futile battle to “kill the invaders."

So I doubt you can "easily prove" something that is wrong headed (unless you like germ nutter religious speak) to begin with. If some paper you have shows that medical testing found mold in people who were sick, it doesn't prove mold is the cause of the illness. Effects do not prove causes and this is circular in reasoning. But if you possess some great evidence, let's look through it together. My suspicion is that it will be more pseudoscience marketing "EBM" nonsense that can only prove that you can find garbage men near piles of garbage while conveniently omitting any toxicology investigations.

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Greg's's avatar

There are hundreds or thousands of molds and fungals and bacterias.The percentage that work commonly in symbiosis with human body is well know to not be 100 percent and thats what your indicating is so without exception!?A ridiculous statement from common knowledge and to know 100 percent you'd have to be a top expert to even know name and safe function range of each.. virtually impossible!( Not all even discovered even if you covered rest).

The toxicity range of above is similar to poisons and venoms used in the plant and animal kingdoms as well...even since if the chemicals in our foods are problematic without touching in the 4 we're discussing that are more potent often.

A good example is numerous ones used as components of insecticides.

Serrata Marcescens bacteria is famous as a fungal growth booster.It invades the insect and boosts whatever fungals are present in extreme fast growth for a number of hours and kills by excessive toxicitys.

Search :Serrata Marcescens cockroach study..should pull up,if not reply back and I'll look for it for you..

Im guessing your pushing all parasites even the giant ones shitting massive amounts internally are good for you or the ones drilling visible holes in brains and hearts are somehow beneficial!?

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Corona Studies's avatar

To be fair this same article could also be written about the ludicrous 'peanut allergy' fad which is so popular these days (or a dozen other food allergies).

For those of us who are not allergic to such things it seems ridiculous. But for those who get sick from peanuts (or just being in the vicinity of peanuts), or some other food, it's a major PITA and not a joke at all.

Just because the world is full of health hysteria and grifters does not mean every health concern is nonsense. Just because some people get sick from X, while others appear to be unaffected also does not mean it's all nonsense.

The most convincing explanation for 'peanut allergies' that I've heard came from Sasha Latypova - that peanuts are perfectly safe and yummy, but if you happen to have had one too many vaccines (containing peanut oil), eating peanuts might harm you, or even kill you.

Most people who get sick from WIFI were perfectly happy around microwaves, until a sudden high dose exposure or a long term exposure which pushed them over the edge. After this threshold was passed they became sensitive to it and started to get so sick they had to avoid it (many are driven to go and live in a cabin in the woods to get away from it).

A pattern emerges.

There also seems to be a crossover with EMF sensitivity and mold sensitivity, as if people who are pushed over a certain threshold just become sensitive full stop - as if their body can no longer cope with detoxing itself and so symptoms start to develop.

We see a similar pattern with toxic ideologies too. People can handle so much mainstream media, or feminism or woke Hollywood movies and they are not affected. Then a threshold is reached and they start to feel sick and can't bare any more of it. They become sensitive to all the toxic messaging and have to avoid it as much as possible to avoid feeling ill or shouting at the TV.

There is even a strong case to be made that tobacco was not actually that harmful to health in the past, but after the electrification of the world followed by the spread of EMF (radio etc) we saw a huge spike in cancers and other diseases often associated with smoking.

What seems to be happening is something often referred to as a 'binary weapon'. A and B might not cause much harm on their own, but when combined they are lethal.

Just about every disease is caused by an overload of some form of toxin. It makes sense that different people have different exposures and different cocktails of toxins inside of them - all cross reacting. And some people might just be better at detoxing than others, making them less likely to build up an accumulation and start to develop symptoms.

Peanuts were never toxic until mass childhood vaccination became the norm. Maybe mold only became a problem after WIFI and other forms of microwave pollution became the norm in most houses (today's young adults are the first generation in human history to be born into a microwave saturated environment).

Now that most people are vaccine contaminated to SOME extent (very few people are 100% vax free) and wireless pollution is literally everywhere (very few people live microwave free lives) it is very hard to establish a clear set of diagnostic criteria. And that is just how the industrialists like it. The causes of modern sickness and ill health as so multi faceted and complex now that it is hard to pin it down, which makes it easy to get frustrated, throw your arms up in the air and declare it must ALL be hypochondria, or a scam, or disinformation.

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Annemarie's avatar

Great article..love a bit a bit of good old fashioned common sense :-) Interested what you think about EMF's as you mentioned it in the article.

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Carolinareaper1's avatar

There is no actual evidence that lead is dangerous to have in your paint or in your glass because that was another scare tactic that was put out by the government years ago so they can get rid of it or not let people know what is was purposely used for.

Certain reports have shown that lead in paint or glass have the properties to reflect radio frequencies that were harmful to us and they also used to distort thermal imaging or listening devices.

Why do you think in most steel buildings you cannot get a cellphone signal because there is lead in the steel.

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Greg's's avatar

It's not all conspiracy! All the heavy metals have a toxicity generally exceeding most other substances that enter body and cause health issues....exceptions ?! Not sure but Ive EXPERIENCED severe lead poisoning and you can't even walk right dude!

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Kenneth T's avatar

I call that the saturation point. There comes a point where too much is - too much.

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Greg's's avatar

Specifically,it was from lead paint fumes I was poisoned as I painted a room with bad ventilation...it will still offgas a long time..solution partly is to put a coat or 2 if non lead paint in inside and outside of lead paint in the middle but you'll still be exposed applying it and it won't stop all outgassing just slow it to safer levels research lead paint fumes studies, lawsuits

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TC's avatar
Mar 18Edited

Need to enable human activity recognition radar/total surveillance (for national security and your health, wink, wink) inside your home a.k.a. kill-box as per DoD:

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/19/7175 - Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Based Non-LOS Human Activity Recognition for Next-Generation 6G-Enabled Hell-care System;

https://surveillanceresistancelab.org/resources/hart-attack-how-dhss-massive-biometrics-database-will-supercharge-surveillance-and-threaten-rights/;

https://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/MTTP-KillBox.png

All in the name of Agenda 2030 aka Biodigital Convergence into Internet of Everything.

One of UN's Sustainable Development Goals is Human Hybrid/Cyborg via Graphene-Based Biosensors for continuous health monitoring (psychopaths love that 24/7 spying on their electric-fenced smart city sheeple/human resources) for more effective eugenics/euthanasia.

A very thorough description is in this pdf: Internet of Things and Digital Twins Applications:

https://www.iec.ch/system/files/2023-10/wsdcombinedpdf_0.pdf

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Dr. Sadaf Gilani's avatar

This is a brilliant, food for thought article. Thank you!

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subspacetechnician's avatar

Textbook case of terrain theory. If conditions are right for mold, it is also right for you to get sick.

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Bryan Manson's avatar

Aspergillus Nigrus sounds like Planet Of The Apes!

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Crixcyon's avatar

Or some unknown place in Africa.

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Yeowoman's avatar

I've lived in various old houses where the mold levels were getting high and my health was definitely worse if I let the molds grow, and better if I could keep it all cleaned off and dried out.. My health was basically sound until I had a brain infection , which may have been fungal or involved fungal somethings .. once the blood brain barrier was damaged I had to avoid molds like the plague, sadly. I recall part of the argument was that ecology communicates amongst itself .. so the mold level all communicates with the molds in your body . Historically doctors believed we drank so much alcohol in this region in order to fight off the effects of molds.. I have noticed that it works. I just choose to stay out of the moldy places now and feel much better . Forests are good as long as they arent tooo moldy. It is the ecology as a whole tho, and probably not one or two 'pathogens' that lead to sickness.

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corvus's avatar

Excellent article!

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Jacqueline Medicine Weaver's avatar

The image that comes to mind a bit is that everyone is yelling THIS BULLET HURT ME but not looking at what (or who) the bullet was fired from. I could throw a bullet at you and it wouldn't do a dang thing. I could even use a slingshot for more force and it *might* leave a mark (but wouldn't actually fire so...). It aint the bullet (in this case mold) but the gun its being fire from (in this case, toxic building materials and solvents).

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Tilly's avatar

This came up after a video where a guy was feeding his dog 70% chocolate and had been for 15 years so what the hey. If people want to get rid of mould they can use clove oil, but dilute it because it will melt your bath (sadly I know this first hand) and you don't need much to do the job anyway.

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Greg's's avatar

Clove oil is quite caustic and had hurt a lot of people who overdosed and has killed alot of teeth roots,nerves as well ie pain relief try ..It's a amazing herb,but be careful

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Medicine Girl's avatar

I know this is true, but can you provide links? I want to include it in my class please

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Greg's's avatar

I'll try and get to it ,years of bad teeth and study's there ie memory..but in general you might search holistic dentists clove oil dangers or clove oil toxic, dangers overdose.or pubmed.com clove oil...Within a few weeks I hope to have a dental anastetics alternative study done hopefully,looking for help,know we have disagreements but I'm confident you don't trust dental drugs and would like to see herbal or other alternatives set into attractive protocols that may win over dentists and patients ie I think we're in agreement in this field largely so productivity could be enhanced for greater good .hoping to get a dentist on board Med girl to do video and create a one page or so protoculs for dentists and patients to follow and do hopefully ie easy enuff ,concise ,back up short 6-12 minute video maybe go viral in current atmosphere of dental material nano fears..

Haven't even scanned for other such videos already existing ,this idea , project in birth stage.

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N. Urb's avatar

Are we really still believing that viruses exjst?

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