Dave Asprey

Okay.

So we have the mold itself is a strong immune system activator.

And then we have the toxins from mold.

They're called mycotoxins.

And the toxins from mold are very, very small fat-soluble molecules.

They look a lot like cholesterol and the body can't see molecules that size.

It's below the level of our immune system for most of them.

So they directly poison mitochondria and they wreak havoc depending which of the about 200 toxins there are in mold that really affect humans.

And you can be suffering from an allergic response to mold or from mycotoxin exposure directly.

And what makes it even more complex is your immune system eventually can recognize some mycotoxins and have an immune response to the compound, but not the mold.

So if you want to get rid of mold, it's helpful to know what you have.

In my case, I had exposure to, among many others, something called xeralinone.

Have you heard of that one?

This is my favorite mycotoxin because anyone who still believes in calories in, calories out, including some of my friends in the bodybuilding community who believe that a Kit Kat is the same thing as an orange because calories.

You can manage your body weight that way until your biology completely breaks.

Well, xarelanoin is 10,000 times more estrogenic than human estrogen, and it absorbs through the skin.

So the dust in your house or that musty blanket, or you could breathe it.

So this is one of the things I had, why I was so obese, why my testosterone was so low.

Yeah.

And it also leads to, you know, basically softness in your muscles.