Symptoms are Shared with Diseases

Written By Daniel Mark Norris Newton Davis

Updated: 12-10-06

The biggest problem in mold exposure litigation cases is proving that certain health symptoms are from that particular mold exposure. This is particularly difficult since, most symptoms caused by mold exposures can also be attributed to other medical conditions. The evolution of medical information, theories, and practice has always been, and always will be, an ongoing process. In my opinion, all too often in the medical field the wrong conclusion is come to. There seems to be an inherent tendency to put the cart in front of the horse. This appears to be the result of trying to make the conclusions fit into the currently available boxes of diagnosis. New discoveries each year are constantly changing the arrangement and availability of those boxes.

When it comes to identifying what health symptoms are from mold exposures, it is not a case of the symptoms of mold exposures also being attributable to other diseases and/or conditions. I believe it is a case of the mold fungi, with their multi-systemic effects on the human body, being the most significant underlying causation of most of those very diseases, and/or conditions, which the symptoms of mold exposures are conviently blamed on. Once again, the cart before the horse. It makes a lot more sense to acknowledge that the horse is pulling the cart.

I believe mold fungi play a very significant role in aging and degeneration of the human body. They are like little gremlins, subtly disabling the operating systems of the human body. They use at least three methods to carry out their assigned task of deconstructing, decomposing, degenerating, and breaking down all biological matter to their basic elements, and recycling them back to Mother Nature, from whence they came.

Invading mold fungi trigger the immune system to form immune complexes, which interrupt the flow of oxygenated blood in the circulatory system. They suck the water out of your body, depriving your body of the adequate levels of H2O it requires to function properly. And mold fungi produce mycotoxins, which damage your brain and nervous system.

Mold fungi cause interruption of the circulatory system. When mold fungi invade the human body, our immune defense system forms immune complexesfrom the invading fungi antigen and their antibodies. The immune complex patrols are sent out to stop or slowdown the incursions of mold fungi into your body. The size of the immune complexes is large enough that they often get lodged in, and block, the smaller blood capillaries. The blood capillaries are noodle-like passageways used to transport blood, with it's life giving element of oxygen, from the arteries to the cells and tissues.

These blockages obstruct and reduce the blood flow rate in the circulatory system. Blood pressure builds up behind them. The rate of blood flowing to the cells and tissues, especially those farthest from the heart pump, are reduced to sub-generative levels. This results in numbness and pain. This is similar to the sensations of putting a string or a rubber band around your finger, depleting the tissues of the oxygenated blood, which they require to stay generative and live.

Mold fungi suck the moisture and the nutrients out of your body for their own use. Dehydrating your body of the water(H2O)(O=Oxygen) depletes your body of adequate levels required for your body to stay generative and live. The tissues require the O in H2O to live. Both the electrical and chemical communication systems of your body require adequate levels of water to maintain proper chemical consistency, in order for the communication matrix to stay in flux. A very rough analogy would be like letting the water get too low in a car battery, shorting the cells out.

Mold fungi manufacture mycotoxins to kill off their microbial competitors, with toxins that harm your brain and neurological systems. One of the mycotoxins, aflatoxin, is listed as a known carcinogen, by the National Institute of Health, in it's 11 th Report on Carcinogens .

I am no longer amazed at the high number of diseases, syndromes, and other afflictions which all have the same health symptoms as my toxic mold exposure. We are being inundated with mold fungi from all directions. I am no longer amazed, and I am no longer amused, by the high numbers of diseases, syndromes, and conditions whose ending sentence is "they don't know what causes it". If you want to understand the forest, look at the trees.

My research has connected our mold exposures to the degenerative diseases and processes of the human body, leading to diseases/conditions such as Arthritis, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Cancers, and many more. They have been the engineers of deconstruction, decomposition, and degeneration of all biological components back down to their basic elements throughout history. It is their job, assigned by Mother Nature. Once people accept this truth, all the degenerative diseases/conditions start to make a lot more sense.

Arthur Schopenhauer said "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Then, it is opposed violently. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

There are similarities between the actions of mold fungi in a tree, or piece of wood, and the actions of those same mold fungi in a human body. This is especially true of the structural molds, that thrive in the building materials from which houses are constructed. In a tree or piece of wood they suck the moisture and nutrients out, for their own use, untill they deconstruct, decompose, and degenerate that piece of wood down to just dry rot dust.

In a human body those same molds attempt to do the same thing. It's just a lot more complicated with our immune defense system. They don't care that you are a human being. They only care that you contain the biological materials they require, in order for them to survive and grow. They don't care that sucking the moisture and nutrients out of you degenerates your body. They are the ultimate biological recyclers. Their job has always been to deconstruct, decompose, degenerate, and break down all biological components into their basic elements, and recycle them back to Mother Earth. The cycle of life.

Mold fungi are very adaptive, parasitic, opportunistic, and always evolving all around us. Like all species, mold fungi pursue survival. In order to survive mold fungi require three things; heat, moisture, and biological material for a food source. Our bodies are definitely biological. They will suck the warmth, the moisture, and the nutritional elements right out of you for their own use and survival, whether or not your body can afford those losses.The sooner this is understood, the sooner all the pieces of the degenerative puzzle will start to fit together!

Throughout nature 'survival of the strongest' has always been the code. Any scar tissue from injuries, damaged cells and tissues, or malfunctioning operating systems in your body, represent easier prey for the mold fungi. Decomposition and degeneration of that tissue has already done part of their job for them. Nature taking the path of least resistance.

After being given an antibiotic( a concentrated dose of mold fungi, being sent in to battle the bacteria) for an infection, my health deteriorated rapidly. Additional mold fungi added to an abnormally high level of mold fungi, already causing multi-systemic health problems, and upseting the bacteria/mold fungi balance further, triggered a rapid decline in my health.

In seeking a way to test some of the compositions being coughed up from my lungs, I ended up in contact with Dr. Berman. Dr. Berman is the director of the Toxicology Information Center at Oregon Health Science University in Portland, Oregon. His training and experience in veterinary medicine gave him insight into the effects of mold fungi. My memory was still being effected during the periods when we talked. But, some of the messages I took from our conversations were as follows. The aspergillus mold fungi, like I was exposed to, tend to colonize in the lungs and feed off scar tissue. When I was given an antibiotic, it killed off the mold fungi's bacterial competitors. Without the competitors which help keep the mold fungi in check, the mold fungi had free reign to wreak havoc throughout my body. The bacterial/fungal check/balance equation was upset.

Also Dr. Berman educated me as to how the immune system combines invading mold fungi antigens with antibodies, to form immune complexes, which hunt down and destroy the invading mold fungi antigens. These immune complexes are large enough that they get lodged in, and block, the smaller blood capillaries. This can cause the severe arthritic pain I was experiencing. I wondered why so much research was still being done on arthritis.

This was the first information which made sense of the drastic downturn in my health. I will forever be grateful to Dr. Berman for this. This information gave me the start of understanding and hope, as my health slipped out from under me. Those words helped guide me down the path I have followed to get me to here. Now, I will share all that I have learned and experienced with the rest of the world. Millions of people who are unknowingly suffering the direct, or indirect, effects of mold fungi inside their bodies. I believe that my research will bring them understanding and hope.

With the aspergillus mold fungi colonized in my lungs, my lung capacity was reduced. This reduction in lung capacity was verified when I traveled to see Dr. Marinkovich three months later. My reduction in lung capacity was further complicated by my altered sensitivities to smells. My sense of smell was reduced in some ways, but was extremely enhanced in most ways. Which is good when it comes to nice smelling things like foods cooking, flowers, fresh air in the woods or the smell of the ocean air.

But, this enhanced smell sensitivity was quite unpleasant when it came to bad smells, or pleasant smells which now were unpleasantly strong. Strong colognes, strong perfumes, not so fresh foods, garbage trucks, exhaust, especially diesels, people with bad hygiene, instantly made me feel nauseous. Your body reacts to limit exposures, by holding your breath or taking shallower breaths. This can envolve to a habitual pattern of shallower breathing. This further complicates the problem of reduced lung capacity.

Your body depends on, and is designed for, using your lungs to their full capacity. Proper respiration of inhaling needed oxygen into your lungs, and exhaling the body's waste gases such as carbon dioxide, depends on using the full capacity of your lungs. If you want to have 100% use of your body, you need to have 100% use of your lungs. Inadequate oxygen is one of the key causes in degeneration of tissues in the human body.

The human body is best understood if it is looked upon as a biological machine. It is one of the most sophisticated machines in the universe. It is very complex, yet simple. It has basic needs of oxygen, water, and nutrient fuels. If we provide our bodies with the proper quantities and qualities of those elements they require, they will run well. If not, they will degenerate and break down.

Our human biological machine is designed to run with certain specifications, at specific flow rates for each element. If we maintain our biological machine with its required fuels and fluids, the human body performs like the most awesome and adaptive machine it was created to be. If we don't filter out the degenerative elements, their contamination of our biological machine will lead to minor, then major breakdowns, in a domino of cause and effects.

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