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

And so you have people saying like, oh, I took care of that mold in my house by putting bleach on it.

Well, actually, that's a terrible idea.

You never want to try and kill mold because what you're doing is you're enacting its defense mechanism and you're causing that mold to break into mold fragments, which are more easily absorbed into the human body.

There are ways to clean mold that's on non-porous surfaces relatively safely.

So if you have, when I say non-porous, I mean things like metal or glass or sealed wood.

Those aren't absorbent surfaces.

And so if mold is growing on top of them, there are ways to very carefully remove that mold.

But the process should never be with the intention of killing it.

Mold should never be killed.

OK, it's a terrible idea because if you come in with things like bleach, not only is bleach very toxic to the human body.

I know you've talked about that on this show before.

When you come in with bleach on mold, like a dark mold, you see mold in your shower like I'm going to bleach it.

Google told me to do that.

What you're doing is you're basically doing the same thing that somebody would do when they go to get their hair bleached blonde.

You're changing the color and maybe you're killing the colony per se.

But what you've also done is you've caused that mold to release mycotoxin gases into the air and poison you.

And you've also caused that mold to break into dead mold fragments, which will float more fluidly through your air.

It's more likely that those fragments will cause harm on your body because they're smaller and more potent.

Is there good kinds of mold?

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