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Anxiety, Mold, And The Hidden Threats To Your Wellbeing

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The modern environment, laden with synthetic molecules and chemicals, has drifted far from the natural rhythms that once underpinned human health.
 
Amid this sea of artificiality, your well-being can be unwittingly undermined, leading to an array of health issues including neuroinflammation and immune suppression triggered by mold toxins.
 
Recognizing these challenges and realigning with nature's inherent cycles is pivotal in nurturing your body back to health.

Food Choices, Stress, and Mold Connection 

The link between food choices, stress, and mold is significant. While convenient and processed foods were introduced to save time, they have had lasting negative effects on public health. These foods, rich in additives but low in nutrition, harm both the body and mind.

In the midst of a busy lifestyle, stress can dysregulate the nervous system, leading to various symptoms and illnesses, including heightened anxiety levels.

Anxiety acts as a natural alarm, signaling underlying issues that need attention. One such issue is the toxic aftermath of mold exposure, a hidden intruder that can be as harmful as it is widespread. G

Given the interconnectedness of the nervous and immune systems, taking a proactive approach is crucial to protect against unseen threats in your environment.

Mold Sickness Symptoms and Healing

Mold sickness presents a range of symptoms, from neurologic disruptions to immune suppression, posing a challenge in recognition due to potential misdiagnosis or undervaluation in healthcare.

Actions to Take:

  • Meditate Regularly: Begin with meditation to calm your nervous system, creating a foundation to implement lifestyle changes. 
  • Nourish Your Body: Prioritize a diet that supports your body’s healing from mold-induced inflammation.
  • Beware of Misdiagnosis: Understand that environmental factors such as mold toxicity may be overlooked in mainstream medicine, leading to ineffective treatments.
  • Seek Positive Support: Engage with communities that focus on healing and avoid hopeless discussions.
  • Embrace Nature: Reconnect with natural rhythms and adopt healthier living habits to counteract modern lifestyle-induced hypersensitivity. 

Learn more how to protect yourself from mold sickness by watching my interview with Dr. Traci Potterf below:

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Reconditioned Food

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Under the what's-in-your-food catgory...an article caught my attention at the beginning of the week about reconditioned food.  

I'll be totally honest with you and share that this idea never ever crossed my mind.  I assumed that if food was in any way spoiled it needed to be discarded.  

This article, however, made it abundantly clear that this is not the case.  The fact that the company in question only received a "sharp censure" from the FDA is truly wrong.

In Home Ec (as we used to call it) I remember being taught in the sixth grade that soft foods with any hint of mold, discoloration, or odor should be immediately destroyed as bacteria travelled quickly through them, whereas in hard foods they are more localized.  I don't know about you but in my book applesauce is a soft food.

FDA Guidelines vs. Common Sense

The FDA has a manual that talks about food reconditioning.  But just because you can doesn't mean you should.  With the increasing rates of food recalls due to bacterial infections, poor sanitary conditions and massive outbreaks of illness why is our government willing to allow corporations to knowingly serve bad food for profit?  Silly question...we all know the answer is money.

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As a consumer the answer boils down to what is one of my top catch phrases...eat real food.  Do I buy some packaged foods, yes I do.  But I try to buy as little as possible, purchasing most of our groceries as whole food and then making the items myself.   We have already severely reduced our canned goods (most of what we have on hand is in our emergency preparedness closet), and are weaning ourselves off of most snack foods.  This last is not so popular with our teens but we certainly don't have nearly as much as we used to.  I also get more and more products from local sources that I trust.

Taking Action

The more I learn, the more I am motivated to make things myself.  For example learning that "an average of 225 insect fragments or 4.5 rodent hairs per 8 ounces of macaroni or noodle products." is okay is motivating me to get out the pasta maker again.  I still, and always will, throw out whatever is contaminated in my house.  When we have had a moth infestation everything they got into was destroyed. That's why my dry goods are stored in glass or plastic, to keep them out.  Hard food products can be washed, and cleaned so although I don't like it I understand how it can be allowed in a case like the one in Illinois.  But it's motivated me to double check the pantry seals on things.

The FDA has set up a Reportable Food Registry which is a first step.  But I believe they need to know that this practice is unacceptable.  What are your thoughts on the matter?