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Introduction to Me and My Mission

Written by Daniel Mark Norris Newton Davis

Last Updated: 8-8-06

Vocabulary used:

Qualitatively stronger - the virus, bacteria, or mold fungi is stronger due to its particular species or type.

Quantitatively stronger - the virus, bacteria, or mold fungi is stronger due to its sheer numbers.

Multi-systemic - effecting several of the body's operating systems.

Welcome to my web site. My name is Daniel Mark Norris Newton Davis. Thank you for supporting my research efforts by subscribing to my site. The process of building this web site was time consuming. Now, I can concentrate on finishing the rest of the sections as quickly as time allows. Please excuse any lack of proper grammar. It is more important to get this information out to people as soon as possible, especially after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. I am greatly concerned about the health of all the people in those areas. I am a mold exposure patient. I have personally experienced most of the symptoms that are related to various levels of mold exposures. I will share those experiences with you along the way, as I show you how mold fungi effect the human body's various operating systems.

I am not a doctor. I am not limited to thinking inside their box. Thinking outside the box is one of the ways to find new solutions to old problems. I consider this to be an advantage. I have combined common sense, my personal and intimate health experiences with mold fungi, and extensive research. This has enabled me to understand how mold fungi effect, cause, and contribute to many diseases and ailments. I have used my personal experiences with mold fungi to recognize pertinent information within the research, that other researchers may not necessarily recognize as being connected to mold fungi. When you add the 'mold fungal factor' into the equation, you start understanding the degenerative diseases. I was amazed at how many times I'd be researching a degenerative disease that would end up having the same health symptoms as the ones I experienced from my mold exposure. Then I would get to the end of the disease description usually to have it say "they do not know what causes it". I feel that I have gotten a pretty good picture of many of the cause and effects which are occurring inside our bodies, manifesting various combinations of health symptoms. Each variation of symptom combinations is given a different condition or disease name. Sometimes they are named after the person that is significant to that condition or disease. But, usually the disease or condition is given a name that combines a description of the symptoms, with the part(s) of the body affected. It makes sense to the medically trained personnel. But, it complicates it for those not medically trained.

Once you understand how mold fungi are facilitating their assigned task, to deconstruct, decompose, and degenerate all biological materials down to their basic elements, and recycle them back to Mother Earth, then their role in the degenerative processes start to make sense. I believe it is the catalyst to understanding the degenerative process and diseases. The more you learn about the effects of mold fungi on the human body, revealing critical pieces of the degenerative disease puzzle, the more intriguing it becomes. I will teach you more about mold fungi, than you ever thought you would want to know about mold fungi. I have taken on the name of ' The Mold Missionary' because, I am on a mission. My mission is to enlighten the world to the effects of mold fungi on human beings, and their animal pets.

Several years ago we had a severe toxic mold exposure. For over 20 months we were breathing in toxic mold spores. That exposure to toxic mold fungi caused me severe, disabling, multi-systemic health problems. I will discuss them in the Symptoms section and throughout the site. I have been conducting intensive research ever since, to recapture my good health, and to share my findings with the rest of the world. I decided to start my web site because, I feel millions of people are suffering needlessly from health symptoms related directly, or indirectly, to various accumulated levels of mold fungi inside their bodies. Since the human body has difficulty getting rid of mold fungi from the mucous membranes located throughout the body it becomes a case of incoming vs outgoing. If the incoming mold fungi, from our foods, drugs such as antibiotics, alcohols(fermented equals mold), and breathing environments, is greater than the body's ability to clean them out of your body's operating systems, then they start accumulating to higher and higher concentration levels. Then the cause and effects of their toxins, and the immune complexes formed by the immune defense system to combat them, start interupting the operating systems of your human biological machine. I believe a significant percentage of health problems, for which people go to their doctor, are actually caused by accumulations of mold fungi from their various environments . Dr. Vincent Marinkovich states "Molds or fungi are everywhere in nature, and their windborne seeds (spores) make up the majority of the microscopic particles in the air at any time, even when pollen is at it's peak." It is one of the recognized causes of asthma, which is on the rise in the United States. I feel most people are not able to spend the amount of time researching this subject as I have done. So, I have decided to collate all my past and future research onto this site, to facilitate your own research towards improving your health.

Know All the Major Players. Traditionally bacteria and mold fungi have been lumped together under the term 'germ'. Everybody knows about bacteria. But, people have been very under-educated on mold fungi, which are Equally important in understanding the body balance required to maintain good health. Bacterial infections and fungal infections display much the same symptoms. It is difficult to differentiate between the two without an accurate lab test. I feel most doctors are inadequately trained in mycology. The lab tests they use are not always accurate, as I myself found out. As a result, I have seen disheartening cases of misdiagnosis. I remember a story I heard on the news about a family in Salem, Oregon. They had a severe mold exposure situation, went to the doctors, were prescribed antibiotics(traditionally made from mold fungi), and ended up with their infant on a heart/lung machine. I strongly feel this should not be happening. With a better understanding of mold fungi I hope disasterous occurrances like this will be eliminated. Traditionally most antibiotics have been made from mold fungi. Penicillin is made from the mold fungi Penicillium, etc.. I believe doctors should be very careful about prescribing mold fungi based antibiotics to a mold exposure patient. Especially when most of their health problems are related directly, or indirectly, to their mold exposures. I feel it is a bad idea to introduce additional concentrated doses of mold fungi into their body chemistry, further upsetting the bacterial/fungal balance.

The most disabling stage of my own health problems was a direct result of being given an antibiotic. An infection was spreading from two teeth needing root canals and up my cheek. I saw my doctor who prescribed an antibiotic. The next day I had the two teeth pulled. The first five or six days the holes filled in and healed beautifully. But, then I went downhill so fast I was no longer confident I would survive the coming year. I could not walk across the room without tripping over my own feet, unless I concentrated on it. I constantly felt like I was about to pass out. If you interrupted me in the middle of a sentence, I could not remember what we were talking about. I had fog brain so bad I had difficulty just trying to think straight. Memory and retention was only at about 30%. A recurring rash, between my thumb and forefinger on each hand, developed into severe arthritis in both thumbs. Both thumbs felt like they were dislocated, making it very painful to pull off my socks. In a period of a week, that severe arthritis spread from both thumbs, to both wrists, to both elbows, to both shoulders, to both hips, to both knees, and then to both ankles. Getting out of bed and going up or down the stairs was extremely painful, due to the sharp daggers of arthritic pain. It was like I had the beginning stages of severe Arthritis, Alzheimer's, and Parkinsons all rolled into one. Now, I know all those symptoms were the effects of the mold fungi. I question how much of the arthritis in older people, living in older houses, is related to the accumulated levels of mold fungi in their bodies. I believe that mold fungi are the direct, or indirect, causation for a very significant percentage of arthritis especially in damp climates where mold fungi thrive.

When mold fungi, or any other microbe antigens, invade the human body, the immune defense system forms immune complexes by combining those antigens and antibodies into search and destroy units. The immune defense system knows the destructive and degenerative nature of mold fungi. It does what any military unit would do, attempt to kill the invaders and block their advance. It is the mission of these immune complex patrols to search for destroy these foreign invaders, who are intent on destroying our defenses, and degenerating our bodies. The number of immune complex patrols sent into battle are in direct proportion to the strength of the invading force. The more microbial invaders, such as mold fungi, entering our body's operating systems, the more immune complex patrols we end up circulating throughout our body. As in all wars and battles there is peripheral damage. The size of the immune complexes are large enough that they often end up getting lodged in and block the smaller blood capillaries. Blood capillaries are noodle-like passageways used to get blood, with it's life giving element of oxygen, from the arteries to the tissues. These blockages are like small dams. They slow down the incursion of the foreign microbes. But, they also prevent our blood from circulating at the proper flow rate, increasing blood pressure, and depriving cells and tissues of the oxygen they require to live and stay generative. It is like stepping on a water hose when the water is turned on. The heart keeps pumping the blood. But, the immune complex dams slow down, and/or, block the blood from circulating at the designed flow rate. This results in lots of resistive blood pressure building up behind the immune complex obstructions. It results in an inadequate volume of blood, with it's life-giving element of oxygen, circulating to the tissues, especially the tissues farthest from the heart. This defensive action is not given adequate recognition as a defining factor in circulatory problems. Without proper blood circulation the construction, repair, and maintenance crews are unable to transport themselves throughout the body to their destinations, at the rate necessary for your body to function properly and stay generative. Parts and operating systems which do not get adequate blood supplies start to break down and degenerate. A communication of pain is sent to the conscious portion of your brain, to make you aware of those degenerative effects. This is why pain can be alleviated by pain killers like aspirin, which thin the blood, allowing the blood to flow around the immune complex dams. The discomfort is alleviated and the communication of pain is gone. But, we have undermined the efforts of our own immune defense system, aided the invading forces, and made it worse in the long run. It is like shooting your own patrols or opening the front gate of the fort. Injuries fail to heal at a normal rate, if at all, due to an inadequate flow rate of blood(H2O) to those tissues. Degeneration of tissue starts to exceed generation of tissue, and operating systems start to fail. I believe this one under emphasized action plays a very significant role in degeneration of the human body, it's cells and tissues, and it's operating systems. The domino effect which results, lead to manifestation of various symptoms, or combination of symptoms, we categorize as diseases and/or conditions.

Proper flow rate of blood circulation is one of the most important actions of our body. The circulatory system is the road system of the body. Transporting themselves along this highway of blood are the killers, invaders, and the destruction crews of viruses, bacteria, and mold fungi. Also traveling this highway of blood are the repair, maintenance, and construction crews. The police and military forces of your body also use this highway as one of their modes of transportation. The digestive system sends nutrients along this highway system, to get them to their destinations. This system is used to get the oxygen to all the cells and tissues so they don't die. Keeping this transportation system clear of all obstacles is crucial to the proper functioning of our body. The immune defense system faces tough decisions in strategizing it's efforts to stop the incursion, even if it causes other problems. It sends out immune complexes to patrol for invaders. If they encounter invaders, their job is to stop or slow down those invaders, even if those roadblocks cause 'rush-hour' congestion and other interruptive problems.

When there is an injury, the immune defense system immediately rushes additional blood, containing extra repair and construction crews, to the area to help speed the healing process. This influx of blood to the area causes swelling. Usually people put ice on the area to reduce the swelling. This thickens and slows down blood getting to the area, reducing the swelling. This relieves the uncomfortable swelling sensation. But, it also slows the influx of repair crews needed for the healing process. Inflammation is the manifestation of immune system agents battling with harmful elements. In not all, but most cases your body is sending all that extra blood for a good reason. It is more interested in healing the cells and tissues than whether or not you can get your shoe on after a foot injury.

There is a significant difference in your body's healing rate between, when your body has a high accumulated level of mold fungi, and when you don't. When my body had a high level of accumulated mold fungi, with the corresponding level of immune complexes, injuries healed very, very slowly, if at all. A spring-loaded door at work hit my right elbow. Nine months later, it still hurt like it happened a few days before. After I drastically reduced the accumulated level of mold fungals and immune complexes, I started healing incredibly fast. I was down at the Oregon Coast one day. I was walking out on the jetty of Newport Bay. There was a sea lion heading out to sea. I wanted to get a picture of him the next time he surfaced. I was running to get ahead of him, when I jumped down onto a slime covered boulder. My feet flew out from under me, landing me on my back and my elbow. Pain and agony! It felt like I had broken my back, and I could feel the sharp point of the chipped elbow just under the skin. Instead of heading to the car for a pain medication and/or some ice, I decided to test my theories. I sat there and grimaced for a few minutes. A half-hour later, 80% of my pain was gone. A week later, 95% of the pain was gone, in spite of the sharp point from the chipped elbow almost poking through the skin. I was truly amazed at the difference in healing. In many or most cases, if we provide our amazing human body with the elements it needs, and refrain from interfering, it will take care of itself, which has enabled the survival of the human race for thousands of years.

Blockage of the smaller capillaries around your joints leads to inadequate blood supply to those joints. The arthritic pain which results is a communication to you. Your body is trying to tell you that your joints are receiving harmfully inadequate blood supplies. Without an adequate blood supply to those joints, with it's life-giving element of oxygen to maintain the tissue of those joints, the tissue will deteriorate and die. Damaged and deteriorating tissue will trigger mold fungals into action. The job of mold fungals throughout history has been to deconstruct, decompose, and degenerate all biological components back down to their basic elements, and recycle them back to Mother Earth. Dust to dust. This applies whether those structural mold fungi are in a tree or a human body. In a tree or a piece of wood, the mold fungi suck the nutrients and the moisture out of the wood for their own use, degenerating it into dry rot dust. They attempt to do the same thing inside the human body. It's just a lot more complex with the immune defense system. They feed on the damaged and deteriorating tissue, sucking the moisture and nutrients out for their own use, degenerating and recycling it. Sucking the moisture out of our bodies dries out our outer limbs of scalp, hands feet and skin.

The circulating immune complexes can also interfere with the blood supply to our brains. Many of the smaller capillaries are located around the joints and in the brain. Without adequate blood supply to and throughout our brain it will not function properly. Our brain is one of our most important control centers. Without our control centers functioning properly our bodies can not function properly, leading to an assortment of disabling health problems. I believe many of the headaches we experience, especially migraines, are the result of the immune complex blockages of smaller capillaries in the brain. The resulting pressure, as the heart keeps on pumping the blood, would explain that feeling of pressure headaches. That pressure would also translate to explaining, at least in part, the pressure on the optic nerves, sensitizing the sufferer to light. Since the brain is the most important control center, it would be understandable for the immune defense system to send extra immune complex agents to the brain area, in order to try to protect it. I have personally experienced and felt all of these actions.

When I had a high level of accumulated mold fungi inside my body I experienced what they call 'fog brain', to go along with my headaches. Fog brain feels like you fell asleep on a hot sunny afternoon. When you wake up, you feel like your head is full of spider webs, and you just can't clear them out. You can't even think, your head is so fogged up. On a scale of one to ten your concentration level is one, if you're lucky. Concentration and memory got so bad that, if people interrupted me in the middle of a sentence, I could not remember what we were talking about. This happened constantly. I became virtually non-functional. But, as a single-parent, single income household, I had no choice but to go to work. The last thing I needed was to lose my job and my health insurance. Fortunately the worst stage occurred during our slow season at work. The six-hour days left me exhausted from chronic fatigue. I had been locating underground utilities for about 10 years. Automatic pilot, a regimented routine, and an understanding management team, was the only way I got through that stage of an extremely high level of mold fungi in my body.

There was one day while working in the field when I got out of my car and almost passed out. I had to call one of my daughters, and keep her on my cell phone the whole time while I drove home. I would tell her what street I was on, the direction I was heading, and the streets I was passing. That way if I passed out she would be able to tell emergency services where to send the ambulance. I went to the doctor. They ran an EKG, blood, and other standard tests. Despite the bright red raccoon effect on my face they could find nothing wrong with me.

The mold fungi suck the nutrients and the moisture right out of us for their own use. Sucking the moisture out of us leaves us with dried out hands and skin, a dried out scalp(dandruff), and dried out feet and toes. Just as with a plant or tree that lacks adequate moisture, the outer limbs and extremities dry out first. This complicates an already serious condition of under hydration that most of us handicap ourselves with. The dehydrating substances such as coffee, caffeine drinks, and alcohol further deplete the levels of H2O in our bodies. Without the proper levels of fluids in our bodies, we severely handicap our body's ability to function properly. You can live longer without food, than you can without water. Our bodies are composed of 70 to 90% water. So logic tells me that the quantity and quality of the H2O we maintain in our bodies is very, very important. I think this would be a good place to tell you, the story about 'The Worm'. I was walking along a sidewalk on a very hot sunny day when I noticed about 20 or 30 worms which the hot sun had dehydrated into flat, dried out skins, laying on the sidewalk. Then I noticed one worm who was not flat. It still retained it's round form, in spite of being stiff as a board. I decided to dip him in the water pond of a nearby yard. I was quite surprised and elated by it's immediate wild wiggling action, as it grabbed it's second chance at life. I found him a nice piece of shaded dirt to place him on. This incident really emphasized the importance of water in our bodies. Without it, we are just a flat, dried out pile of skin and bones.

Since the human body has difficulty ridding the mold fungi from the mucous membranes, which we have throughout our bodies, it becomes a case of accumulation. Incoming versus outgoing. If the strength of the mold fungi are growing at a faster rate than our body is able to get rid of them, they accumulate, filling the 'glass' to overflowing. Bacteria and mold fungi are like brothers, continuously in sibling rivalry with each other. Each one trying to get stronger than the other. Then another bacteria or mold fungi joins the battle, making that side stronger quantitatively and/or qualitatively, upsetting the balance. Various flu like symptoms appear. And various parts of the body are effected depending on vulnerability.

Qualitative and quantitative balance is necessary for the body to function properly. To achieve better health, I believe we need to gradually reduce the levels of both bacteria and mold fungi in our body, to the ideal level required for our body to function properly. This must be balanced with allowing safe levels of various bacteria, viruses, and mold fungals, in order to trigger the immune defense system to manufacture defensive agents against them. They don't manufacture defensive agents against an enemy until they encounter them. That takes a period of time to do so. This is why viruses our bodies have never encountered before, such as the bird flu, and have not had time to manufacture defensive agents against, pose a serious threat.

Mold fungi are Mother Earth's official recyclers of all organic material. Throughout history it has been the assigned task of mold fungi to deconstruct, decompose, and degenerate all organic compounds down to their basic elements, and recycle them back to Mother Earth. Dust to dust. Life begins when Mother Earth gives up her basic nuritional elements to plants. The plants give up those basic nutritional elements to humans and animals. Humans get some of their nutrition indirectly through some of those animals. This nutrition is used as energy to fuel the human biological machine. Then, the mold fungi degenerate the human body down to their basic elements, and back to Mother Earth. It is the circle of life, death, life. To truly understand this circle of life, you must address each and every one of the players, especially the major players. I believe you will never find the answers to the degenerative process, unless you factor in the most subtly prominent player, the Mold Fungi. The train engine named 'Degenerator No.101' is racing down the track of life. The engineer on that train is named Mold Fungi. The conductor on that train is named Bacteria. As the engine named 'Degenerator No.101' races down the track of life, it pulls behind it the cars named ALD, Alzheimers, Arthritis, Chromes, Parkinsons, Multiple Sclerosis, Cancer, etc.. The cars are separate, yet connected. The common denominator in the degenerative processes is the mold fungi.

How can you understand a degenerative disease when you don't even understand the engineer? It is very important to get to know all the major players. Most licensed doctors, in my opinion, have had very inadequate training in mycology, the study of mold fungi. Most medical schools require various levels of what I consider to be inadequate schooling in mycology. Veterinarians receive more training in mycology than people doctors. I believe mold fungi, with their degenerative cause and effects, are the missing link to understanding the degenerative process within the human body. Mold fungi remain the missing link , partially due to the lack of research, training, and knowledge in the mold fungi arena. I believe a better understanding of the role mold fungi play in the degenerative process has the potential for becoming a catalyst for correlating a lot of the aging/degeneration research. Perhaps it is time for doctors to revisit the words of the oaths they took, whether they took the Hippocratic Oath, or the Oath of Maimonides. I feel it is important for them to become knowledgeable about all the major players. Then they can once again teach and guide their patients to good health. We need them to get past telling patients to take a pill and call them in the morning, for some more pills!

Here in the United States we are amongst the most affluent in the world. But that has sometimes led us to be the most gullible just to "feel better" fast, even if it hurts us in the long run. Too many of the drugs circumvent and disable crucial weapons used by our immune defense system to defend and protect the life generating components of our body. To me, this equates to taking the armor off of an armored vehicle. Or, it is like gunning down some of your own troops that are defending your encampment. By using immune system circumvention to relieve symptoms, that are indicative of the underlying causes, we have killed the messenger, prevented remedy of the original causation, hurt ourselves in the long run, and resigned ourselves to being life long drug users. I don't blame the doctors. They are caught between their patients and an entrenched profit oriented system, not of their making, which devalues their idealistic motivations for becoming a doctor in the first place. The managed care controls allow them to spend an average of 12 minutes with each patient to analyze and diagnose their health problems. They are just playing the cards they are being dealt by a high profit system. Our ' Instant Gratification Society' is partly to blame. We, 'the people' are partly to blame. They give us what we keep asking for. "Take away the pain and discomfort. I want to feel better and I want to feel better now!". People love to take advantage of our instant gratification mindset, and make a lot of money off of us as a result. "We just give them what they want". Since a significant percentage of the drugs circumvent the immune system, the underlying causations remain in place and worsen. Then another drug is needed, evolving into being life long drug customers. The quest for physical and mental wellness becomes a vicious cycle merry-go-round.

When the legal drugs fail to correct the underlying causation, the quest to feel better often leads to the street drugs. It is a perfectly natural desire to want to feel good. We have a basic need to not feel lousy, to not feel bad. So, if you really want to reduce all forms of drug abuse, stop telling people they need this drug or that drug to feel better. How can you expect our children to not take drugs, when every other advertisement on television is promoting drugs, to feel better for this or for that. Our children perceive this as a blatant hypocrisy. People in the United States consume more drugs per capita than any other country in the world. Where would they be if we all learned how to be healthy (feel better) on our own, like people used to.

I believe it was the Greek philosopher Apocrates that said " Thy Food is thy Medicine and thy Medicine thy Food ".

Most doctors take the Hippocratic oath. But, when I was researching the different oaths doctors take, the one which moved me was this one. When doctors are allowed and encouraged to follow this one, the world will be a better place.

The Oath of Maimonides

The eternal providence has appointed me to watch over the life and health of Thy creatures. May the love for my art actuate me at all time; may neither avarice nor miserliness, nor thirst for glory or for a great reputation engage my mind; for the enemies of truth and philanthropy could easily deceive me and make me forgetful of my lofty aim of doing good to Thy children.

May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain.

Grant me the strength, time and opportunity always to correct what I have acquired, always to extend domain; for knowledge is immense and the spirit of man can extend indefinitely to enrich itself daily with new requirements.

Today he can discover his errors of yesterday and tomorrow he can obtain a new light on what he thinks himself sure of today. Oh, God, thou has appointed me to watch over the life and death of thy creatures; here am I ready for my vocation and now I turn unto my calling.

The Prayer of Maimonides

Almighty God, thou has created the human body with infinite wisdom. Ten thousand times ten thousand organs hast thou combined in it that act unceasingly and harmoniously to preserve the whole in all its beauty the body which is the envelope of the immortal soul. They are ever acting in perfect order, agreement and accord. Yet, when the frailty of matter or the unbridling of passions deranges this order or interrupts this accord, then forces clash and the body crumbles into the primal dust from which it came. Thou sendest to man diseases as beneficent messengers to foretell approaching danger and to urge him to avert it.

Thou has blest Thine earth, Thy rivers and Thy mountains with healing substances; they enable Thy creatures to alleviate their sufferings and to heal their illnesses. Thou hast endowed man with the wisdom to relieve the suffering of his brother, to recognize his disorders, to extract the healing substances, to discover their powers and to prepare and to apply them to suit every ill. In Thine Eternal Providence Thou hast chosen me to watch over the life and health of Thy creatures. I am now about to apply myself to the duties of my profession. Support me, Almighty God, in these great labors that they may benefit mankind, for without Thy help not even the least thing will succeed.

Inspire me with love for my art and for Thy creatures. Do not allow thirst for profit, ambition for renown and admiration, to interfere with my profession, for these are the enemies of truth and of love for mankind and they can lead astray in the great task of attending to the welfare of Thy creatures. Preserve the strength of my body and of my soul that they ever be ready to cheerfully help and support rich and poor, good and bad, enemy as well as friend. In the sufferer let me see only the human being. Illumine my mind that it recognize what presents itself and that it may comprehend what is absent or hidden. Let it not fail to see what is visible, but do not permit it to arrogate to itself the power to see what cannot be seen, for delicate and indefinite are the bounds of the great art of caring for the lives and health of Thy creatures. Let me never be absent-minded. May no strange thoughts divert my attention at the bedside of the sick, or disturb my mind in its silent labors, for great and sacred are the thoughtful deliberations required to preserve the lives and health of Thy creatures.

Grant that my patients have confidence in me and my art and follow my directions and my council. Remove from their midst all charlatans and the whole host of officious relatives and know-all nurses, cruel people who arrogantly frustrate the wisest purposes of our art and often lead Thy creatures to their death.

Should those who are wiser than I wish to improve and instruct me, let my soul gratefully follow their guidance; for vast is the extent of our art. Should conceited fools, however, censure Me, then let love for my profession steel me against them, so that I remain steadfast without regard for age, for reputation, or for honor, because surrender would bring to Thy creatures sickness and death.

Imbue my soul with gentleness and calmness when older colleagues, proud of their age, wish to displace me or to scorn me or disdainfully to teach me. May even this be of advantage to me, for they know many things of which I am ignorant, but let not their arrogance give me pain. For they are old and old age is not master of the passions. I also hope to attain old age upon this earth, before Thee, Almighty God!

Let me be contented in everything except in the great science of my profession. Never allow the thought to arise in me that I have attained to sufficient knowledge, but vouchsafe to me the strength, the leisure and the ambition ever to extend my knowledge. For art is great, but the mind of man is ever expanding.

Almighty God! Thou hast chosen me in Thy mercy to watch over the life and death of Thy creatures. I now apply myself to my profession. Support me in this great task so that it may benefit mankind, for without Thy help not even the least thing will succeed.

Source: W. K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library

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This web site will enable me to reach out and contact other people who have had severe mold exposures. By surveying them and hearing their stories I can collate the commonalities. I wasted a couple of years of my life and thousands of dollars, due to inaccurate diagnosis. I was given unnecessay drugs with side effects that matched the symptoms I had complained about. I had the symptoms blamed on stress and depression. I was sent for a seven hour analysis by a neuro-psychologist, who diagnosed me with chronic depression. Many times during those two years I asked my doctors if my symptoms could be related to the severe mold problem in my apartment. Each time the answer was "I don't believe so". After being prescribed an antibiotic(concentrated mold) I had a severe downturn in my health.

I sought out and made an appointment with Dr. Vincent Marinkovich in Redwood City, California. After examining my medical records, a blood test which measures the antibodies fighting the different mold fungi in my body, and an office examination, I was diagnosed with fungal hypersensitivity, allergic rhinitis, and mild asthma . He gave me a nose spray with an anti fungal in it. It gradually killed off the mold fungi in my body. Within a week the symptoms started going away. After over two years of suffering, and thousands of dollars in doctor bills, a simple nose spray was finally relieving the disabling symptoms. It was, and is, incredible that the gradual return of my good health turned out to be so relatively simple. Thousands of dollars could have been saved if I had been accurately diagnosed in the first place. But, most doctors know very little about mold exposure symptoms. They receive very inadequate mycology training in medical school.

As the anti-fungal nose spray reduced the level of mold fungi in my body, the symptom of depression also went away. Depression in the United States is at epidemic proportions. I believe that depression , in most cases, is a communication from the sub-conscious, attempting to inform us of the serious health problems inside us. And that if we don't change our current course, the serious problems will get even worse. The communication matrix between the sub-conscious portion of our brain and the conscious(actuating) portion of our brain is still in the pony express/ telegraph stage of development. This makes it very difficult to communicate to our conscious mind the sensory data which has been collated from all the sensory mechanisms throughout our body, in order to initiate the necessary corrective actions. With our under-evolved communication matrix a summary report of our body's situation, sent over the carrier waves of emotions, is the best form of communication available. This is what I believe depression is in most cases. When we learn to listen to our bodies, and stop disconnecting the communication lines of emotions, premonitions, women's intuition, dreams, etc., I believe we will start to evolve use of 'The Other 88%' of our brain, and complete the communication matrix necessary to attain the full potential of the human existence.

If people live in a residence with higher levels of mold fungi, it can at some point of systemic accumulation have the mycotoxins effect their brain and nervous system, causing heightened levels of anxiety and irritability. I believe that this heightened level of anxiety and irritability can lead to domestic dysfunction, confrontations, abuse, and violence. I would like to develop a program which would take cases of domestic abuse and violence, and test the participants, and their environments, for levels of mold fungi. After what I personally experienced, I suspect there will be significant correlations.

Shortly after moving into my environmentally controlled apartment, my arthritis, my chronic fatigue, and my depression, essentially disappeared. National surveys have found that all homes have various levels of mold growing in them, especially old houses. This begged the question; how many of the older people, especially the ones living in older houses, are suffering arthritic pain due to the accumulated level of mold fungi in their bodies. The more I research scientific studies, the more I am convinced that our ongoing mold exposures from foods, drugs such as antibiotics, and breathing environments play a major role in the degenerative diseases, such as arthritis, alzheimers, parkinsons, cancer, and many more.

I worked for a few days on the Oregon coast. I spent part of my time in and around a dairy/farming community. Several things stood out. The smell of cow dung was very strong in the area. If it is in the air, we are breathing it into our bodies. I also remembered that hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms grow out of cow dung piles. After only a few days in that community my sinus canals filled up so bad that I had a stiff neck and swollen glands. I also noticed that a very disproportionate number of people from that community, both old and young, were displaying arthritic symptoms. I want to set up a project to study the level of mold fung in the air, and in the people, of that community. Then correlate the health symptoms to that exposure. This is very important to all dairy/cattle/farming communities in this world. There is a reason they call it 'farmers lung'.

I want to put together a program for regular testing of the outside air at sites with various environments. These samples would be analyzed to identify the different species of fungi, and their concentration levels. Since different types of molds have different effects on the human body, this information is very important. They test pollen levels. But regular testing of various mold fungi, and their concentration levels in our outside air, is basically non-existent. Even when pollen levels are at their highest levels spores of mold fungi are 10 to 100 times higher. Considering the degenerative nature of the mold fungals our current lack of testing is very inadequate.