How to take care of mold naturally for health

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Mold has been known to cause a variety of health issues, from minor allergies to more serious illnesses. Understanding the potential impact of mold in our environment and how best to protect ourselves is key to achieving optimal wellness. 

Inhaling or touching mold spores can trigger an allergic reaction, such as a runny nose, coughing, sneezing, or skin irritation. People who suffer from asthma are especially vulnerable to the presence of airborne fungal particles and may experience difficulty breathing when exposed. In addition, studies have linked exposure to some molds with long-term respiratory problems such as chronic sinusitis and neurological disorders like memory loss. 

The best way to avoid the negative effects of mold is prevention; keeping the home clean and dry helps prevent the growth of fungi indoors.

Introduction

As we all know, mold is one of the most harmful and dangerous substances that can grow in your home. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most common issues people have in their homes. If you’ve ever seen those infomercials for a product called “Mold-Away” or something similar, you know that there are many ways to get rid of mold. However, what if I told you there were natural solutions? Yes, it’s true! You don’t have to expose yourself to harmful chemicals when trying to clean up your home from mold growth because there are safer options out there: vinegar and tea tree oil!

Most people know that mold can make us very ill.

Most people know that mold can make us sick. However, despite the dangers of mold and its potential to cause serious health issues when present in your home or workplace, there are steps you can take to prevent it from growing in your space.

Mold is a fungus that grows in damp places such as basements and crawl spaces; it thrives on moisture, so if you’re having trouble with this type of growth inside your home or workplace then you should seek out an expert for help!

Mold can cause serious health issues.

The presence of mold in your home or office can lead to some serious health issues. It’s important to know what you are dealing with and how to manage it properly.

Mold can cause respiratory problems, infections, asthma attacks, and allergies. Some people even experience severe skin irritations when exposed to mold spores. In addition to these health effects, molds produce mycotoxins that may be harmful when inhaled or ingested by humans or animals – especially those with weakened immune systems such as children and the elderly.

Not all molds are bad for your health.

Although you might think that mold is everywhere, it’s not true. Molds are only a problem when they grow in your home or on food. Mold can cause health problems for some people who have allergies or asthma. If you have asthma, it’s important to know how to keep mold from growing in your home so that you can stay safe and healthy at all times.

Mold spores are everywhere—they’re even in our homes and workplaces! But there’s nothing to be worried about as long as they don’t get too big because then they become visible to the naked eye (and therefore easy to remove). So if you see a few black spots on the walls of your apartment building, don’t worry too much about them unless those spots begin spreading rapidly throughout the entire building – which could indicate a larger issue like leaky pipes or poor ventilation somewhere within its walls/ceilings/floors, etc., requiring immediate attention before things get out of hand! 

An expert will be able to check your problem and dispatch help if it becomes apparent you have a chance of mold in your house. If you live at a rental property managed by another individual, it’s essential to be alert to any possible indications of mold before it gets out of hand and causes future health issues or property damage.

Penicillium is a type of mold that can be deadly to humans.

Penicillium is a type of mold that can be deadly to humans. This type of mold needs moisture to grow, and it can grow on bread, cheese, and other foods. Penicillium can cause food poisoning if you eat contaminated food with this type of mold growing on it.

Molds can grow around the body and cause serious respiratory issues.

• Molds can grow anywhere there is moisture. If you have mold growing in your home, it’s best to consult a professional for removal.
• Mold can cause allergies and respiratory issues. People who are allergic to mold may experience sneezing, runny nose, and skin irritation when exposed to mold spores.
• Molds are common causes of infections such as pneumonia (lung infection). They may also cause asthma attacks in people with compromised immune systems like children with cystic fibrosis or AIDS patients.

If you have mold in your home, you need to get rid of it.

You should get rid of mold in your home or office if you have it. Mold can cause respiratory problems, skin infections, and allergic reactions. It can also cause eye infections, lung infections, and throat infections.

One way to get rid of mold is by using vinegar.

Vinegar is one of the most popular natural cleaning products. It’s inexpensive, nontoxic, and can be found in most homes.

Vinegar is effective at killing about 80% of species of mold. The way it works to kill mold is by disrupting the cell membrane and destroying the cell walls of the mold.

Vinegar kills about 80% of species of mold and is completely natural.

Vinegar is a natural disinfectant and preservative, fungicide, deodorizer, and cleaner. It can be used to kill over 80% of mold species. The only problem with vinegar is that it takes time to work and may not eradicate all remaining spores in the area (which would continue to grow). If you have black mold, then you will need stronger chemicals such as bleach or boric acid powders that can help kill this type of mold quickly without being toxic to humans or pets.

Vinegar is inexpensive, nontoxic, and can be found in most homes.

The first step to using vinegar is to dilute it with water. For example, if you want to make a cleaning solution with one part vinegar to three parts water, add 7 ounces of the vinegar and 21 ounces of water into a spray bottle. You can also use a bucket and create a mixture of 1 cup or 16 ounces of each ingredient.

Once your solution is ready, use it as part of your regular cleaning routine around the house. If something needs more attention than just wiping down or damp mopping—like hard-to-clean grout between tile floors—use more concentrated amounts of vinegar in smaller amounts (for example, 1 cup per gallon).

Vinegar kills mold by disrupting the cell membrane and causing the cell walls to collapse.

Vinegar is an acid, which means it disrupts the cell membrane of the mold. The cell walls then collapse and the mold dies.

Another way to clean up mold is by using tea tree oil.

Another way to clean up mold is by using tea tree oil. Tea tree oil is made from the leaves of the Melaleuca alternifolia tree, and it contains many active ingredients that are considered to be anti-fungal, antiviral, and antibacterial.

Although this type of essential oil can be harmful if ingested or applied directly to your skin in large quantities, it’s generally safe for most people when used with care. The biggest concern about tea tree oil usage comes from its skin sensitivity: some people may experience rashes or burns from exposure to high concentrations of tea tree oil (especially if they’re sensitive).

Tea tree oil works great against molds because it attacks their cell walls—basically breaking them down so they die off on their own. You can find several brands of products containing tea tree in stores such as Whole Foods Market or Sally Beauty Supply; however, if you want something all-natural you can make it yourself by mixing 4 ounces water with 1-ounce coconut oil until combined well before adding 15 drops each of:

lavender essential oils along with 5 drops each of lemon, myrtle, eucalyptus, thyme, rosemary, tangerine, orange, and piney oils together into one bottle filled halfway up with distilled water before straining out any particles left behind after mixing all ingredients.

Tea tree oil is safe and non-toxic to you and your family while being one of the best ways to kill any kind of mold in your house.

Tea tree oil is safe and non-toxic to you and your family while being one of the best ways to kill any kind of mold in your house. It’s a powerful natural anti-fungal and antiseptic, but it doesn’t have any negative side effects for humans or pets.

You can use tea tree oil on hard surfaces like wood or tile floors, countertops, walls, cabinets—just about anywhere you want to get rid of unsightly black or green spots caused by mold spores. You don’t even need gloves or protective gear; simply apply a few drops of tea tree oil with a sponge or cloth (which can be thrown away afterward), then wipe it over the surface until clean. Afterward, just give everything another quick rinse with water before drying it with a towel.

Tea tree oil will help kill existing mold and keep new molds from growing.

Tea tree oil is a natural disinfectant that helps kill mold and keeps new molds from growing. It can be used on hard surfaces and fabrics, so it’s a great option for cleaning up all types of mold. Tea tree oil works best when mixed with water and applied to the surface or fabric that has been contaminated with mold. This mixture can then be scrubbed into the area until all visible signs of the fungus are gone.

It’s also possible to use tea tree oil on walls by diluting it in water or vinegar before spraying it onto the surface being cleaned. If you’re dealing with large areas of the wall, spray one side of each wall first before moving onto another side so that your entire room won’t be coated in liquid at once.

natural solutions don’t expose you to harmful chemicals

Natural solutions, like baking soda and vinegar, are safer for you and your family. They can be used daily without exposing you to harmful chemicals or fumes. The cost of natural solutions is also much less than the cost of traditional mold cleaners that come in cans and bottles. Natural solutions are better for the environment because they don’t contain any harsh chemicals that might harm you or animals when they’re disposed of in landfills or thrown into sewers.

Conclusion

Molds are dangerous, but they don’t have to be. If you have mold in your home and need to find a way to get rid of it, then vinegar is an easy solution. Vinegar will kill about 80% of species of mold and is completely natural. You can also use tea tree oil for a more potent solution that will keep new molds from growing on your walls or floors!

The following is a transcript and video for “Black Mold Symptoms & 16 Natural Remedies”

Hey guys, Dr. Josh Axe here with Ancient Medicine Today.

So excited you’re here with me. Today we’re going to be talking about black mold symptoms and natural remedies to help cleanse your body of mold. And I’ll tell you what, mold toxicity is a major issue for a lot of people, especially those that live in humid environments or have moved into older homes. And you may not realize, there is a black mold or mold in your air ducts, they can be in your basement, and they can be growing almost anywhere within your home. 

And so I’m going to talk about how to really detox your body, and what are some of the the biggest symptoms that you might be struggling with a mold related problem. Also, hey, help me spread this message. There are so many people, hundreds of thousands of people that have mold-related symptoms that are causing major health issues in their bodies. So take a minute right now, punch that share button, click that like button, and help me spread the word on how to use natural remedies, essential oils, herbs, and foods as medicine.

Let’s dive right in and talk about where does black mold hide? Well, number one, in high-cellulose content surfaces. So these are certain things within a home, tend to be even sometimes drywall, in between drywall sheets or high-cellulose content surfaces is where black mold can hide. And then air ducts are another big one. And then high moisture spots, where there’s a lot of moisture. This is why people that live in Florida or in the South or even anywhere in the North, but tend to have more of these issues with mold growing within the home.But again, if there’s a lot of moisture in the home they can also hide as we talked about in the HVAC or air conditioning systems. High moisture spots is an area you can look for black mold.

And then also inside you. That’s right, inside your body is a place where black mold or mold can hide and start to live and can cause major symptoms there as well. In fact, I had a mentor who worked with, a doctor now, who actually came down with mold poisoning and it gave him the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, was tired all the time, and he thought, “Hey, maybe I’ve just been working too hard.” But it went on year, after year, after year, and he realized mold was one of his issues along with heavy metal toxicity from when he had his amalgam fillings removed. It was a combo with what he struggled with. But here are some of the symptoms that you might have, and if these symptoms are reoccurring month after month after month, it could be as the result of having mold in your body or being exposed to mold on a regular basis.

Number one is headaches. If you have a headache that you can’t seem to pinpoint it, you know it’s not stress, maybe isn’t necessarily a migraine, but you just get headaches really frequently, sort of a headache that’s just a dull pain around your entire head, that could be due to mold symptoms. Chronic fatigue syndrome. If you are chronically tired every day, that could be due to mold toxicity. Another big one is brain fog. I would if you have brain fog and fuzzy thinking and poor memory on a regular basis, all the time, that can actually be a mold-related symptom. Also fever, if you tend to just get sick, infections, and tired, and your temperature is raised on a regular basis, that can be mold symptoms, eye irritation is a big one, sneezing, rashes, issues with mucus membranes, your sort of always have mucus or irritated throat lining, chronic coughing on a regular basis, and depression.

And I mentioned another big one is brain fog, if you have any of those symptoms that can be related to mold toxicity. And by the way, if you’ve ever known anybody or you, yourself, are struggling with mold issues, let me know that right now here on Facebook Live and YouTube Live, I would love to hear from you because there are hundreds of thousands of people struggling with mold toxicity on a daily basis and they don’t know it.

So we’re going to jump into how to do a mold cleanse on your body and the top natural remedies to do so. 

Let’s teach the world how to use these natural remedies to heal their body. Because here’s what happens, a lot of times of when people have mold toxicity, they go into their medical doctor, and their doctor will say, after a time they’ll say, “Okay, well, maybe your issue is . . . hey, here is a medication for this. Here’s a medication to treat this other symptom. Hey, here’s a medication for headaches. Here’s a medication for fatigue.” And then they’ll say, “It’s all in your head.” By the way, if you’ve ever had a doctor say that to you or say that to someone you love, let me know that because that happens all the time. Doctors say, “It’s all in your head.” It’s not in your head. There’s a reason why you’re experiencing some chronic health issues. 

One of the number one cleansers for cleansing mold from your body is bentonite clay. Now, bentonite clay, I believe, is typically found in Montana, and there are other forms of clay that are fantastic.There are clays in France that are also very effective around the world. But clay in general, you can tell if you’ve ever used it, it’s very sticky, imagine that going through your body, it will bind and then stick to toxins such as mold in your body, helping detoxify your system. So actually doing a cleanse when you’re drinking a lot of water, doing bentonite clay, and then even doing extra fiber, let’s say acacia fiber or a certain type of psyllium seed on a regular basis, that can actually help really cleanse your body.

Now bentonite clay, you wouldn’t want to do that for over a month in terms of a cleanse because it will really start to, can start to back you up and give you constipation if you do it too long. But overall bentonite clay is a great natural cleanser of the body especially when it comes to mold.

Another one is raw garlic. So we have a combination here where bentonite clay can bind to things, raw garlic will actually kill off bad yeast and candida and bad types of funguses and molds that get within your body there as well. Raw garlic contains a compound called allicin, which actually is a potent, natural antibacterial, and antifungal, so it can help kill funguses in the body and then similarly in the mold family there as well.

Activated charcoal will actually work very similar to bentonite clay to where it binds the toxins. When somebody comes down with alcohol poisoning, this is what the hospitals would give them. And historically they give them charcoal because charcoal will bind to alcohol, bind to all toxins, and help get those out of the body as well. But similar to bentonite clay, even more so, charcoal you’d only want to do for short periods of time because they actually bind to minerals in your body over time and can cause constipation long-term. So charcoal here and there, once a week, or for a month-long cleanse you can do, but you wouldn’t want to do it long-term, every day.

Oregano.Oil of oregano is one of my favorite natural anti-fungal. Oregano is anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-viral, anti-parasitic. It is one of the most powerful, natural bug killers out there today. So doing oil of oregano, you could do this as part of a one-week to a one-month total cleanse. Again, this is actually a very strong herb or an oil, so you wouldn’t want to do it over too a long period of time because it can actually start to irritate your mucous membranes and your stomach over time if you’re doing the oil.

If you’re just doing the leaf on a daily basis, let’s say a teaspoon a day or a teaspoon three times a day, you’d be fine. But as an oil, doing it in small amounts is very, very powerful at actually killing off funguses within your body. Green juices.So now if you’re going to do a cleanse, what I recommend is doing a cleanse where you do bone broth, veggie juice, and herbal teas.

You might do an oregano tea, you might do a Pau d’Arco tea as well. But green juice, this isn’t carrot juice or beet juice or fruit juice. This is green juices, it’s cucumber and celery, and then lots of greens, it’s kale, it’s spinach. 

Doing herbs like ginger and turmeric, lemons and limes, even wheatgrass juice, but doing really green, a very potent green juice with no sugar at all, very powerful at cleansing and alkalizing your body, really creating an environment that mold can’t thrive in. So think about this when it comes to mold, typically it likes to grow in a warm, damp environment. Let’s say, and again Florida’s a prime example, a basement where an area in the dark, in Florida, very moist, very warm, that’s where it likes to grow.There are also certain pHs it likes to grow in. It likes to grow on certain things, we mentioned cellulose earlier, certain types of surfaces, same thing, in your body mold or funguses or yeast and candida for that matter like to grow in a damp environment. 

That’s why in Chinese medicine they recommend doing things that dry up the dampness, is the key to getting rid of mold and candida in the body. So again, green juices can be beneficial. Sugar is one of the dampest-causing foods out there, and will feed fungus, mold and candida.

So getting all of the excess sugar out of the body. The good news about cinnamon is, cinnamon is known as a warming herb in Chinese medicine. So actually it can help the body in certain regards, there as well, whereas candida and funguses like to grow in a very damp environment.

Cinnamon is mildly drying which is good. It’s also warming, and also it helps balance out blood sugar levels. Now, again here is one of the keys to getting rid of mold, is doing a bone broth and herbal tea cleanse. I would drink three things. I would do this for a week. I would only consume bone broth, herbal tea, and green juices during the day, and then at night you could do a piece of organic meat and vegetables, sautéed in coconut oil. Just for all day drink bone broth, herbal tea, green juice, and then at night do a meal. If you do that cleanse, I’m telling you, you will kill off mold very fast, you’ll see radical changes in your health.

And this is good as well for getting rid of candida very, very quickly, not just mold and fungal issues. Now fix a moisture source. So again, if you know that you have a . . . I would have somebody check your HVAC system, or your house. If you believe that you might have mold toxicity, you can actually have mold inspectors come and test your entire home, I would do that.

Also throw or get rid of any moldy items. In fact, in the Bible it talks about, if you have mold in your home and you can’t get rid of it, burn it down, or specifically in your tent burn it down because they knew in the Bible and historically that mold was so damaging to your health and body.

Tea tree oil is a great essential oil that has antifungal properties. Rubbing tea tree oils on different areas of the body can be beneficial. In fact, my mom who had toenail fungus for years, she loves it when I talk about that, but she did a mixture of oregano oil and tea tree oil on her toe which killed off a fungus,which again is in that family of mold. Baking soda being very, very alkaline, and that is acidic, getting in more of that alkaline environment with baking soda and green juices can help get rid of mold out of your system.

Vinegar, cleaning your home with vinegar and tea tree oil together, your showers or shower curtains, or different things that may have mold build up is a good blend to do.

 Grapefruit seed extract is a good supplement to take. 

Hydrogen peroxide is beneficial because mold cannot live in this oxygenated environment, so hydrogen peroxide, another thing you can do are hydrogen peroxide, vinegar, and tea tree oil, clean different areas of your home with that. Really another tip here and getting rid of mold from your home is keeping humidity levels low, having drier air in your home is also beneficial there as well. So here’s some tips that you can follow.

Number one, cleansing your body.

Bentonite clay is fantastic, raw garlic, activated charcoal, oregano, green juices, sugar, cinnamon, doing a bone broth, and herbal tea cleanse. And by the way, if you’ve ever used any of these and saw results with getting rid of mold in your body, maybe some of the symptoms like brain fog, any issues of candida, let me know that right now on Facebook Live and YouTube Live. I’d love to hear the results you’ve seen with doing any of these different remedies here as well.

Remember, cleanse your home with some of these natural remedies such as vinegar, tea tree oil, or hydrogen peroxide. If you do this, you can get rid of mold for good.