Show 1177: How You Can Avoid Toxins in Your Home

Are there toxins in your home? As it turns out, many houses hold furniture, electronics and other products that have been treated with toxic chemicals such as stain repellents and flame retardants. Some of these are there because of misguided legislation requiring them in the past. What are the consequences of chronic exposure to compounds like PFOA and PFOS? How about the bisphenol compounds found in plastic containers? Where are they lurking and what can you do to minimize your exposure and that of your family? We’ll also find out about policy initiatives that could protect everyone better.

Watch Out for Mold:

Some of the toxins in your home may be natural. That doesn’t make them less dangerous, however. Have you inspected your crawl space or basement lately? If you did, did you find mold?

We may consider mold an unpleasant and unsightly problem, but in fact chronic or intense exposure to mold may trigger health problems. What are the symptoms of mold exposure, and what can you do to help your body recover?

Five Tools to Conquer Mold:

Dr. Jill Crista, a naturopathic physician, has spent decades working with patients to help them recover from their exposures to mold. She has her own story that helped her take their problems seriously. Now, she offers us five tools to conquer mold and feel better. Find out how to treat a flooded building and what else to do about mold that may show up with other toxins in your home. Dr. Crista also tells us how to overcome the negative health effects of mold exposure. To treat the building, she recommends building experts certified by the ACAC, the IICRC or the BBEC.

This Week's Guests:

Arlene Blum PhD., biophysical chemist, author, and mountaineer is Executive Director of the Green Science Policy Institute and a Research Associate in Chemistry at UC Berkeley. Blum’s research and policy work has contributed to preventing the use of flame retardants and other harmful chemicals in children’s sleepwear, furniture, electronics, and other products world-wide. Her current “mountain” is to educate decision makers and the public to reduce the use of entire classes of harmful chemicals in everyday products.

Learn how you can reduce your own exposure to such chemicals at www.sixclasses.org/

Dr. Jill Crista is a nationally recognized educator on illnesses associated with mold and mycotoxin exposure. She shares what she learned after over a decade working with people struggling with chronic diseases related to mold. Dr. Crista is the author of Break The Mold: 5 Tools to Conquer Mold and Take Back Your Health. Her website is drcrista.com

Find out if you could be having health problems due to mold: https://drcrista.com/quiz