Kristen Van Gilse (Organimama)

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · How One Mom Beat a Hidden Mold Infestation—Step by Step! | @the.organimama · 16 Jan 2026 podcast

We have like four distinct seasons because we were living in Indiana at the time.

And when it started to get into the spring where it's raining and getting warmer, we smelled kind of that like mildewy, musty smell and just really didn't know to think twice about it because we thought, oh, that's just normal in an older home.

but we were so wrong.

Probably something along the lines of like, oh, it's not a big deal and it can't really impact you that much.

And if you're not around it, then it's probably not impacting you anymore, which is not true because mold can colonize in the human body and wreak havoc on your system for decades after being exposed to it.

So just because you're not living actively in a moldy environment right now doesn't mean that somewhere you lived in the past might not have exposed you to mold.

And you may still be very sick now from mold exposure in the past.

Another thing that people don't really realize is that if you live in a moldy environment and that mold is systemic throughout your home, your belongings are contaminated with that mold.

Anywhere that smoke can go, mold spores and mycotoxins can go.

And so if you're living in a moldy home and then you're like, well, we're going to leave because there's mold.

And then you take all of your possessions out of that home and move into a new home that's clean.

You've just contaminated your new home with all of that mold.

And then if there's a water source or if there's high humidity in that new home, that mold that's on your stuff can just recolonize and keep growing.

I have a lot of beef with most of the people in the mold industry because I would say, at least from my perspective, about 90% of them are doing it the wrong way.

definitely sparks a lot of controversy, especially for people that are in the mold world.

But there are different ways to test your home.

And one of the more common ways, one of the more cost effective ways that probably a lot of your listeners have done before is air sampling, where they will hire a local inspection team to come in and the inspection team will say, OK, we're going to test your home.

We're going to do air sampling.

So they set up this big machine where they run this filter and it collects a bunch of air for a while and then they go and analyze what they found in the air.

I would never recommend this as the first method of mold testing for anyone because it's just not giving you the full picture.

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