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There are many people who cannot detect mold in their home but have mold illness symptoms . Or they left the moldy environment, but they still have symptoms and/or have mycotoxins in their urine. How is this possible? Here are some possibilities: 1. You simply cannot find mold (at home or at work), as it is well-hidden but it's there. See this article for more info. 2. You have removed the mold, but the mycotoxins are still in your environment, adsorbed to surfaces and slowly being released. See this article for more info. 3. You have removed the mold, or left moldy environment, but lots of mycotoxins are still inside your body. Mycotoxins love fat (lipophilic), so they could be stored in fat and nervous (brain etc.) tissues. They can be slowly released from these tissues and affect your health. If they are trapped inside the nervous tissue, they may cause long-term nervous system problems. Relatively speaking, this situation is better than having living mold in your environment...

Summary Whether you are staying in your current home or moving to another one, to create a mold-free indoor environment, you must : First make the environment inhospitable to mold Remove the existing mold Remove the existing mycotoxins My credentials: BS in Microbiology PhD in Biochemistry Taught Microbiology at the University level A scientist with active microbiology and clinical labs for 15+ years at multiple institutions Why mold often grows back? Mold is a living microorganism. If conditions remain favorable for its growth, it will likely grow back, even after thorough cleaning or remediation. The reason is that mold spores are likely everywhere, and just a single microscopic spore can come back to the cleaned/remediated area and grow. For example, let's say you have condensation next to a window and you notice mold growth. You remove 99.9% of the mold. However, if you don't remove the source of the condensation, the mold will grow back in a few weeks. Even if you remove...

There is a myth on the internet that ammonia is better than bleach at removing mold. I bust this myth with information provided below from credible sources. The same myth for using vinegar to treat mold is also busted, at the very bottom. Millions of people are sick with mold illness and need a way to kill mold in their homes. There is a myth propagated by non-scientists that bleach should not be used. While other products may also kill mold and mold spores, bleach is extremely effective and I think the best overall solution. See the bottom of this page for a comparison with ammonia, which is promoted by a lot of people as the best mold cleaner. For those people who say that bleach is toxic: it has been safely used in households and laboratories on a daily basis for decades.   My credentials: BS in Microbiology PhD in Biochemistry Taught Microbiology at the University level A scientist with active microbiology and clinical labs for 15+ years at multiple institutions We use bleach ...