Impacting Indoor Air Quality From Mold and Mycotoxins:

Scott introduces us to Seth Jones, CEO of Hygia Living Corp, to discuss the growing issue of toxicity in homes and businesses. Seth highlights that 66 million homes and 170 million people in the U.S. are affected by ongoing water damage and mold, leading to mycotoxin production. He shares his personal experience with building-related illness in Los Angeles and introduces Hygia products: a biodegradable cleaner for mycotoxins, a chlorine dioxide gas for decontamination, and an endurance coating to prevent mold growth on surfaces. Seth emphasizes the importance of personal accountability in creating healthier living environments.

Your Co-Host Today:

Seth Jones is the CEO of Hygia Living Corp., where he and his team developed Superstratum, the first patent-pending process to remove mycotoxins from homes. His work has focused on understanding the hidden causes of Building-Related Illness (BRI) and developing products and solutions to address these issues. Before founding Hygia Living, Seth spent 15 years as an international songwriter, producer, and DJ. However, a personal experience with BRI changed everything, leading to the creation of Superstratum. Now, Seth and Hygia Living are on a mission to heal the estimated 66 million homes in the U.S. that create toxic conditions leading to BRI. With 170 million people currently living in these homes, the Hygia Living mission to heal our homes has never been more important. Seth believes that our health can only rise to the level of our environment and that a pure, toxin-free environment is essential for the healing of the body, mind, and soul. 

Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

1. Current statistics: 66 million homes and 170 million people affected by ongoing water damage issues.
2. 47-48% of homes and office buildings in the US have ongoing water damage issues.
3. The role of environmental toxins in chronic illness and the need for lifestyle changes to improve health.

Today’s Guest Co-Host Links:

• Superstratum.co
• Hygia.Life
• SickQuiz.com
• Instagram: @superstratum.co
• Instagram: @‌sethh_jones
• linkedin in/SethHJones
• x-twitter @SethH_Jones

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• https://youtu.be/lzQtFGZFKr0

Timestamped Show Notes:

24:40 – Disinfectants like our products are specifically designed as oxidizers to destroy other chemical contaminants. Our Cleaners are specifically designed for Mycotoxins, and we’ve done research as well as published a white paper from that hard work. Let’s not forget the other contaminants like the VOCs aka Voltaile Organic Compounds, that are present in our environments. That new construction smell, off-gassing from paints, carpets, caulks, sealants and much more are different.

29:25 – The chemist who developed it, he had worked at Sherwin Williams for many, many years in non-toxic craft paints and things. So he had a very unique chemistry knowledge. He moved to the mountains up in Georgia, and started getting algae growing on the side of his house. So he developed a long term mold resistant coating that would stick to vinyl and give him many years of resistance performance,

40:00 – Today, a lot of kids are growing up in really toxic environments. It’s affecting their cognitive development while impacting their learning disabilities. These mycotoxins have been linked to childhood autism as well. It was a blessing to be able to grow up and have access to outside and clean air.

54:15 – Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

Superstratum is about solving the mold mycotoxin problem, but Hygia Living is really about that legacy mission. How do we live in our environments in the right way, so that it creates the reality of positive results for our health, the reality of our environment? We’re all chronically ill, and we’re all out of whack with that, and there are so many things that go into that. It’s not just, here’s your pill, swallow it with water. No, YOU have to take personal accountability and responsibility, and you have to move into action, and you have to be committed, and you have to be devoted.

Healing is not complicated, but it’s not easy, and that applies to healing the environment as well. So I always like to just encourage people to know when they start hearing these messages, it’s like these alarm bells are going off because they know the problem and they don’t want to face it. So that’s the first thing, is just encourage people to do that. Then, on a more practical basis, what I like to tell people, lot of times people hear this and they get confused and say, well, where do I even start? How do I know? What do I do?

We talked about some of the testing, what I’d like to tell people is, it’s really simple. When you travel and you go on vacation, or you leave your home for two to three days, does your energy come back? Does your brain fog go away? Does your skin clear up? Do your gut issues get a little bit better? Does your autoimmune disease not flare up as much? Then, when you go home again, did those things return? That means, almost certainly, that there’s something in the building that is contributing to that disease. Now, what it is from that point you can begin the journey. Sometimes it doesn’t matter, because the steps to fix that environment are the same, but that is the easiest thing that I like to tell people. It’s all about getting to that AHA moment and react to yourself with wait a minute, why have I been on this health journey for six years? Why can none of my doctors seem to get me better? Why do I keep taking the same medications and I’m not getting better? Sometimes that’s all it takes, and that will start the train for people to then move into action and heal their environment. That is the first step to getting your health back. It is all about getting to and living in that clean and healthy environment.

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Mycotoxins, Mold In Your Home, HVAC Remediation, and More:

Brandon Faust joins your host Scott Mulvaney to discuss the importance of addressing mold in homes and businesses, emphasizing the health risks associated with mold exposure. Brandon, founder of Mold Solutions, shares his personal experience with mold in his home, leading to severe health issues for his son and himself. They highlight the role of HVAC systems in mold growth and the benefits of UV light technology and proper filtration in preventing mold. Brandon also stresses the importance of proper mold remediation techniques and the impact of mycotoxins on health. Scott and Brandon agree on the need for education and proactive measures to maintain indoor air quality.

Your Co-Host Today:

Brandon Faust is the visionary owner and founder of Mold Solutions, an industry-leading Indoor Air Quality company specializing in top-tier remediation, atomized sanitization, and duct cleaning services. Driven by a personal journey rooted in his commitment to health and healing, Brandon’s dedication stems from witnessing his own family’s struggle with unexplained chronic illnesses. With a heartfelt mission to address these widespread health concerns, he has become a beacon of hope for countless individuals in search of answers.

In an astonishingly short span of just 1.5 years, Brandon has propelled Mold Solutions from a dynamic start-up to a thriving enterprise, boasting a highly skilled team of 15 dedicated staff members. Brandon’s exceptional accomplishments and unwavering commitment have garnered well-deserved recognition. In 2021, he was honored with the prestigious Inc 5000 Award and propelled the company to an impressive #377 ranking on the coveted Inc 5000 list.

Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

1. Mold Issues and Home Remediation
2. Role of HVAC Systems in Mold Prevention
3. Health Symptons and Indoor Air Quality Impacts

Today’s Guest Co-Host Links:

• https://moldebook.com/
• https://moldsolutions.com/
• Facebook – @moldsolutionsusa
• Instagram – @mold.solutions
• Youtube – @mold.solutions – Mold Solutions

Mentioned Influencers:

• https://ultravation.com/

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Timestamped Show Notes:

08:25 – There’s a distribution center for multiple spores and the little known aspect of mold, which is mycotoxins. Myco being the Greek word for fungus and toxins, obviously a poisonous substance. So when you’re dealing with the health end of it, that’s if you go to a doctor that specializes in mold toxicity, they’re looking at how can they pull the mycotoxins out of your body, through binders and things along those lines. But interesting enough, most of the guys in this space don’t even look for mycotoxins. They might do an air sample, but that’s just testing for spores. The thing that’s actually the most poisonous for humans is what mold releases to defend its territory, which is a mycotoxin.

17:30 – Mold loves glue and it loves wood. So you’re gonna have a moldy mess throughout the entire house, which we’ve definitely seen that too. The the most important thing on preventing mold is making sure that your home is as dry and clean as possible. Sometimes you have to think preventative. 

28:00 – How about not knowing where your whole house filter is? In this scenario, it had been a year and a half since she had changed the filter. So it was completely bio-nesting? It was full of mold, full of all kinds of growth, and both of her HVAC units were completely contaminated. It knocked her out for four months in regards to her health. She had returned from working on disaster relief activities in Turkey and got hit with some sort of a toxic kind of blast while she was there. They were burning off all kinds of toxic stuff over there. So she comes home, she’s not feeling well, she’s in her bed, and that’s where it hit here like a chain reaction. It just got worse and worse and worse. 

55:00 – Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

I’m gonna tell you this, because you’re about to go through it. Make sure when you open up your walls, I don’t like to call it demolition, I like to call it precision deconstruction. You must really be precise. You don’t want to attack mold or aggravate it, if you do that, it’s like kicking a hornet’s nest. So you want to make sure that you do it as nicely as possible. But before you do it, you have containment, and ideally, you would have engineered a control. 

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Indoor Air Quality Impacts of Humidity, COVID Viral Load, Saving Lives, and Radical Transparency:

Jeff Gusky, MD FACEP is a Board-Certified Emergency Physician now on the front lines against COVID-19. Dr. Gusky is talking about critical pieces of the COVID puzzle and what will be needed after the crisis, that no one is yet speaking about. Jeff is focused on giving people some realistic and practical things they can do now that will help keep their view of the future positive.

Dr. Gusky is also a renowned National Geographic Photographer and Explorer. His discoveries and photographs are featured at The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. He found a secret hidden for a hundred years that changes the way we see race in America and the way we heal ourselves.

Quote: When crisis turns our world upside down, paradigm shifts that restore what’s humanly safe and humanly real are critical.

SPECIAL NOTE: This podcast recording was accomplished on June 8, 2020, and streamed LIVE on our Facebook page like we do with all podcasts, realtime. – https://fb.watch/3OsaVEtcFT/

Top 3 Hot Point Takeaways:

1. Impacts of Humidity for Indoor Air Quality
2. Black History From WWI
3. COVID Truths and Paradigm’s

Today’s Resource Links from the Podcast:

• Email: jeffgusky@gmail.com
• Website: https://jeffgusky.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HiddenWWI
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/hiddenwwi
• Tumblr: https://hiddenwwi.tumblr.com/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/HiddenWWI
• Press Release from The Joe Piscopo Show: https://omny.fm/shows/the-joe-piscopo-show/9-am-hour-4-30-20-dr-jeff-gusky-a-board-certified?t=0s

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Scientific American 60-Second Podcasts – https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcasts/

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Timestamped Show Notes:

00:30 – Introduction

10:00 – World War Bunkers. This is a place that still exists and they still find human bones from 102 years ago. It’s so surreal that you still have remnants from so long ago because the magnitude of mass destruction is beyond human comprehension when you have millions and millions of people that die in this kind of narrow, 450-mile line called the Western Front. So seven miles north of there, and I didn’t, or did I know it at the time, I didn’t know a whole lot about what I’m going to share with you now. So seven and a half miles north. This is a very important place out in the middle of nowhere in a farm field, which is sacred ground for America. This is one of the two parts of the Smithsonian show that I’m now part of, at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. So I’m honored to participate in a second Smithsonian show, and it will be up through September 6, 2020, if anyone’s in DC. It’s the big new Smithsonian Museum near the White House and they took out Oprah’s exhibit and put this exhibit in, its’ place.

19:30 – I don’t know if I’ll ever find any more. But it shows us how these heroes felt about themselves and there was a reverence between the white officers and the African American soldiers. It’s the opposite of what you would think from a racist South Carolina deep south. Even after the war for 10 years or more, they had reunions and you see letters back and forth and you see respect and love and a passion for this moment in time where they expressed what it was to be an American.

28:00 – So now here’s the really interesting part that puts it all together. Why? In fact, when we were talking before the show, you mentioned history repeats itself and people often say this. I say, well, yes and no, because this is not history repeating itself. It’s new, in the last 125 years, it sounds like it’s an underlying principle that, I guess, has been able to keep going. It’s a technology story. We all can relate to how our lives and society have changed so drastically, because of the exponential increase of scale of communication with Google smartphones, and social media.

31:00 – What is America? It’s a place where we all can agree and disagree with each other. It’s basically being different without killing each other. It’s not about loving with each other or even liking each other. It’s about defending the right of someone you cannot stand to be who they are, even with your life. That’s what America is, in my view. That’s what brings out all the altruism and the decency, because when that happens, society-wide, you enable the greatest human potential, and the ability to be free and to be who you are, and express yourself. You have that right, as an American, it’s imperfect. It was always imperfect, it will always be imperfect.

40:00 – If this is not paranoia, this is just human nature and checks and balances and what America is with transparency. So if you knew 102 years ago, there was a Supreme Court ruling written by Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes on free speech, and it was about shouting fire in a theater to create panic, was that allowed or not, and it wasn’t right, it was outlawed. So what you have now is a media that no one could have imagined that has become so powerful and so manipulative and so capable of creating myths that are totally untrue. They’re completely shameless about it, because there are no consequences for being shameless. So you cannot believe anything you hear today about COVID or very little you can hear. A perfect example was, and I don’t want to take too much time going on about this, but talking about hydroxychloroquine.

44:00 – So there is something called absolute humidity. It’s not the relative humidity, which is what is reported on the weather service and measured at home. It’s the actual amount of water in the air and you can listen to a Scientific American 60-Second Podcast, it’ll tell you from 2009 that we’ve been looking at the wrong thing all along. This knowledge is not new. Birx and Fauci should have known this as biologists. So the absolute humidity is directly correlated to indoor viral danger and if it’s a certain number outside, you can predict what the air will be inside. So what happens is that in every single hotspot, the air was dangerously dry indoors and in that condition, COVID spreads like wildfire.

50:00 – On the way up there, I have a special device to measure absolute humidity, this is a metric that’s key to viral safety indoors. I measured it in Terminal C at DFW terminal. DFW is one of the world’s largest airports, it’s a city under roof. The humidity in DFW’s Terminal C was better than the Cincinnati jail. It’s probably one of the safest places in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex and no one knows it. Then I land in Cincinnati and measured the indoor air at the CVG Airport. It’s what Wuhan was at the worst in December when the viral bomb went off. This is A Tale of Two Cities if DFW Airport can make indoor air greener than any other place in the world. If they can make indoor air green, then I would venture a guess that it’s as easy as flipping a switch in many cases or resetting the dial so to speak.

59:00 – Final Words Shown Below…

Our Final Words of the Show:

Buy a $10 hygrometer on Amazon or Walmart, you can see a real-time readout of your indoor humidity. If you buy a cheap humidifier, I have a couple of my own, you can get them cheap on Amazon too. I put the hygrometer 10 or 15 feet away from the humidifier, you’re getting a real-time reading of the actual diluted air, you know what the humidity is out from the humidifier right? Do this 24-7 because at night is the time of greatest risk when your air in your lungs dries out. So I hope this has been helpful.

One last thing, it’s about the airline industry, I’m issuing a call to action to the airline industry. So we will never get green air in aircraft cabins. Sure, but guess what, you don’t need it. All of these draconian measures from the CDC about six-foot social distancing are not based on real science, they’re just creating fear-mongering. They’re creating this as a new normal of fear, which is not a new normal at all. So, what I’m saying is that one size does NOT fit all when it comes to COVID. Risks outdoors are different than indoor air. It turns out that pressurized air in an aircraft is much different than air in a nursing home because the air is constantly moving.

So I’ve asked many aviation and aircraft experts, editors, and chief of big publications, I was with the Vice President of Safety of one of the largest airlines in the world last Thursday too. Everyone answers the same answer to this question, do you know of a single case where a person gets on an airliner with COVID, like back in February coming out of China or Europe and infects a cluster of people on the airline? Have you heard of any cases, Scott? I haven’t been either. I think there’s a reason for it and I think that it turns out that aircraft cabins right now, for reasons we probably don’t completely understand, are probably the safest one of the safest places to be against COVID because the air is constantly moving. It’s designed to actually have a separation between one person sitting right next to another. They have HEPA filters that do a better job than N-100 masks at filtering out viral particles from the air with high turnover. So think about that, I hope that helps.

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A Father and Husband First, A Business Owner Second, and NSNG Advocate:

Lonnie is a 43-year old that follows the NSNG Lifestyle. This healthy choice allows Lonnie to focus on his family and business, instead of the next meal. He’s also one of the Admins for the popular Vinnie Tortorich NSNG Facebook Group.

Lonnie A. Beauchamp is a husband and father from Jefferson City, MO, USA. During business hours, he is an indoor environmentalist and the owner of Restore It Restoration. Restore It Restoration specializes in mold remediation, water damage, and odor elimination. We’ll also get into the importance of the health impacts of Indoor Air Quality today too!

On This Episode You Will Hear:

• [spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
• [spp-timestamp time=”08:00″] Finding and joining the public group for the Vinnie Tortorich fans of the NSNG aka No Sugar No Grains, healthy lifestyle.
• [spp-timestamp time=”22:50″] Lonnie drinking our mutual love for Pure Coffee Club.
• [spp-timestamp time=”23:00″] Scott and Lonnie geek out about Indoor Air Quality in relation to the HVAC/R industry and our home IAQ.
• [spp-timestamp time=”38:47″] Finding certified professionals through the IICRC or the CIR.
• [spp-timestamp time=”41:00″] Shoutout to supporting the FatDocumentary.com
• [spp-timestamp time=”41:30″] Final Words

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Links and Resources:

• Restore It Restoration
• Restore It Restoration on Facebook
• Restore It Restoration on YouTube
• The No Sugar No Grains Facebook Community
• FAT: a documentary

People Mentioned:

• Vinnie Tortorich

Final Words:

The two things that Lonnie lives by…

1. Lonnie is a dad first, he wakes up as a dad and goes to bed as a dad. He always respects this first and foremost.
2. In his business life, he strives to help everyone, “Put Your Life Back To Normal”.

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