Dr. Pejman Katiraei

The microbiome wasn't perfect, but it wasn't falling apart.

The gastrointestinal tract was maybe a little off, but nothing bad.

The mycotoxins, when the exposure is high enough, long enough, especially early enough, that's like the 500-pound gorilla that comes and sits on that load and then suddenly breaks it.

So you've got the total toxic load with the mycotoxins pushing that toxic load way beyond what our physiological buffering capacity or tolerance capacity is.

Then you get into building science.

So think about...

50 years ago or even 20 years ago, we didn't have this kind of energy efficiency, right?

Buildings were way more leaky.

Exactly.

Yes.

Okay, got it.

Well, it's a protection layer.

And there was this really amazing publication that actually talked about how through this energy efficiency, we have created buildings that have the potential to become more toxic.

Not that they are inherently more toxic, but now because you've got this completely closed system that does not breathe at all, if there's some kind of contamination, whether it's you put down carpet or whatever, something is off-gassing or paint or in this case a mold, all of those toxins recirculate continuously in the home.

So let's say you've got a tiny little leak, you don't even see it.

And prior, you know, 40 years ago, because the building was constantly breathing, these mold toxins wouldn't concentrate into the environment the same way they do now.

Yes.

Yes.

And some of the environmental experts that have been teaching me, like one of the things they say is if you're worried about having mold contamination in your home, open your windows as much as you can to get fresh air in because that actually dilutes the concentrations of these mold toxins and allows them to kind of be moved out of the home.

So we've got that.