Re: Request for group: Need your best references on inhaled or absorbed mold or mycotoxins and human illness.

[Guest guest]

--- In , LiveSimply <quackadillian@...>

wrote:

>

> I have a request for the group. I have a need for as many

references about

> INHALED or ABSORBED mycotoxins, and mold illness as people can send

me.

>

> Animal studies are GOOD, but anything relating to humans is best..

URLS are

> fine, you don't have to send me the papers themselves (but it

wouldn't hurt,

> PDFs are best)

>

> I have a lot already, but I need more. Also, animal studies where

they

> compare the inhaled or absorbed route of toxicities with the

ingested

> routes..

>

> I need refs to studies that don't beat around the bush, I need to

make point

> A, then move on to points B and C that are based on point A..

>

>

> These references are going to go in an email to staffers of some

very

> important people who have very little time to wade through anything

that is

> not immediately relevant to our cause, so I need your help! (No, I

don't

> know these people, I just want to write and tell my own personal

story now

> while I think I can get some attention.. before the rush, as it

were..)

>

> By the way, IS our cause JUST getting mold illness recognized?

>

> It needs to be much more than that..I think

>

> Because that WILL happen, and I am sure that it will happen soon,

so at this

> point we need to think long and hard about the law of unintended

> consequences and how that could effect poor and middle class people

who

> currently live in 'substandard' housing that might have mold issues

of long

> standing and who can't afford new housing on their own..

>

>

> Also, if any of you are authorities on one kind of issue or another

and

> trust me and don't mind my wearing my heart on my sleeve the way I

do, and

> want to send me your contact information.. please do it.. I

promise not to

> bug you, I am just trying to build up a list of people who know

more than I

> do..

>

> Thank you!

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I have his book, and yes, I agree, its *excellent* and the best resource on

the subject. But I need to take it to another level. Most public officials

(I have tried lending them that book - they don't have time to read it!)

simply want to be able to read some short peer-reviewed paper that explains

the situation. Or receive a short letter from some credentialled 'expert'

explaining things like the development of mold sensitivity because of long

exposure to mycotoxins in the environment and the need to treat mycotoxins

like other hazardous substances, like lead, instead of seeing them as

'mold', or worse 'mildew' (the thing that does not exist except for a word

dreamed up by the anti-mold-illness-recognition PR team..)

I am very close to getting public officials in my city to take a new, FRESH

look at this situation, and I need something more than what I've got. Thats

basically what it comes down to. I need some specific help from

toxicologists and doctors in particular.. (the people I'm trying to convince

will listen to doctors..)

Here - we spend a lot of time going back and forth over the same ground and

arguing about things that were (scientifically) settled a long time ago and

precious little time putting all the pieces together in a coherent whole

that will convince policy makers...

And thats very understandable - because lets face it, we all need shoulders

to cry on.. but its also frustrating for those of us who want to get some

action on this because hell could freeze over before we elicit change this

way, and when it does come, it might not even be what we want.. (for

example, all new leases carrying clauses that make mold illness the fault of

the renter not the owner to do basic maintenance, i.e. legally 'take it or

leave it, flooding and toxic mold or not'... THAT IS NOT A CHOICE FOR PEOPLE

WHO CAN'T AFFORD TO BUY...)