If you smell mold, see mold, or feel the effects of mold, you need to do something, otherwise it can have detrimental impacts on your health.It doesn't take much for our living spaces to be infested with mold. Add a little bit of moisture and a few hours and you have the perfect recipe for mold growth. If you can reduce moisture quickly, then the chances of mold taking off reduces dramatically.In this episode with Jason Earle, we cover how to check your living spaces for mold, and what long term impacts can happen to you if you don't take care of the mold problem.What To Expect From This Episode* How many buildings have mold damage and nothing is being done about it* What signs should you look for to discover if you have a mold problem* Different tests to use for mold testing* What the building recovery process looks like if you do have a mold issueShownotes* [0:00 ] Welcome to the Summit For Wellness Podcast* [4:00 ] How has mold impacted Jason Earle's life* [11:00 ] How many hospitals does Jason believe have mold issues (Seattle Children's Hospital had children die a couple years ago from mold)* [13:00 ] When you have moisture issues, how much moisture does it take before mold starts growing* [15:30 ] If you live somewhere with big temperature changes, does this build up more condensation in the home* [16:45 ] How do you minimize condensation buildup in between walls of a home* [19:15 ] Humans can produce a lot of moisture just from breathing* [21:00 ] Why is the mold inside a home more potent than all the spores we breathe walking through a forest* [26:00 ] Once you smell must, do you already have a mold problem* [27:30 ] What are some at home mold testing kits you can use to discover if you have mold* [31:15 ] If you smell mold or see mold, do you recommend just calling someone in to fix the problem* [34:30 ] What does Jason do every single day to reach his vision of healthResources From This EpisodeSome of these resources may contain affiliate links, which provides a small commission to me (at no extra expense to you).* Get your mold test kits here and use code Summit10 for 10% offTranscript For Episode (Transcripts aren't even close to 100% Accurate) [00:00:15 ] Bryan Carroll: Now the spring time has finally arrived the moisture content and the humidity and the areas that we. Penn to start to increase this time of year, which can lead to a lot of different issues inside of your home, including mold growth, which is what we're going to be talking about.[00:00:33 ] In this episode today, what's up everyone. I'm Bryan Carroll and I'm here to help people move more, eat well and be adventurous. And today I have Jason Earle on the show to teach us all about how to test your home for. And see if mold is having an impact on your health. If you know my story, then you know that I was exposed to mold and it laid me up for months and months, and I really couldn't do anything.[00:00:56 ] I literally felt like I was dying. So mold is definitely a toxic environmental exposure that we want to avoid. And with all this humidity and moisture in the air, there are ways that we can help to reduce that moisture content and also test our different rooms in our home. To see if there is any mold spores or anything along those lines.[00:01:18 ] Now when I had my mold exposure, I wish that there was products available on the market. Like there are now that make it a lot easier to test your living environment for mold. Back then, people really weren't talking that much about mold and its impacts on people's health. And now that larger companies, larger buildings are getting impacted by mold and we're seeing the impact of that.[00:01:42 ] For instance here in Seattle we had the children's hospital actually have deaths among some of the patients because of mold. We are now seeing in real time what this stuff can do to us. And it's not good.