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 recently just bought a new construction home in the Detroit area.

And we went and looked at a dozen new construction homes and almost all of them had visible signs of water damage, brand new homes.

And out of like the dozen homes we looked at, there were only two that we didn't see any signs of water damage.

And that includes like going down in the basement and looking up at the lumber that they have, like the unfinished basements with the visible lumber.

You can see most of the boards are just covered in mold.

Yeah, unfortunately in our modern day world with the speed at which new construction homes are going up, they don't have industry standard practices to dry everything out properly.

And so a lot of times you'll have lumber that's coming right from the lumber mill and it's already wet there.

And then they just immediately frame it and then close it in with the drywall as quick as they can to knock out as many houses as they can.

And what you're doing is you're just making people chronically ill because you're closing in all of this mold behind people's drywalls.

And the homes that we live in today are designed to be very tight.

People do not open their windows.

Unless your outdoor humidity is insanely high.

Because humidity is one of the most common ways that people get mold in their homes and they don't even think about it.

This is so important.

Because indoor humidity, if it's over 55 or 60 percent, mold can just grow on your walls.

Just like straight up.

If your indoor humidity is consistently above 55, 60, like if you're getting into the 60s or the 70% even.

And so people that don't have humidity control in their homes where the indoor humidity is matching the outdoor humidity, you're getting this in a lot of southern states, right, in the United States.

Florida is one of those ones that's especially hard for humidity control.

You can almost guarantee that they're going to have some level of mold problem in their home if it's consistently over that 60%.

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