Surviving Mold, Houston, Texas August 2017: In the Wake of the Flood
Rising waters lead to rising fears in Texas after previous repeated failures of government agencies to protect people’s health from toxic, water damaged buildings
Floods from Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy in our recent past have shown us just how poorly Federal and Public Health agencies (FEMA, HSA, EPA, CDC, HHS, HUD) have performed in helping flood victims understand the dangers of reoccupying buildings that have experienced massive and widespread water intrusion - including homes, schools and workplaces. Once microbes gain residence in these water damaged buildings (WDB) an epidemic of debilitating illness will soon follow consequent upon exposure to molds and bacteria, biotoxins, inflammagens and their volatile organic compounds. The illness is a chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS-WDB). The responsible agencies continue to ignore well-published studies reporting on thousands of patients in case/control, prospective and double-blind, placebo controlled trials.
If Hurricane Harvey has ravaged the Southeast Texas as a Category 4 hurricane, will the next Category 5 do more damage somewhere else?
Simply stated: wet buildings make genetically susceptible people acutely, and then chronically ill. We know why, we know how, we know how to measure the injury, including brain injury as shown by a special MRI software program called NeuroQuant, and we know the underlying gene basis for the injuries. All these concepts have been published after peer review.
Featured Resources for Community
Answers to your questions about… Practitioner Resources and Certification
We continue to get unique, case-specific questions as well as common questions from our community friends, members, and physicians. Here, we answer questions we’ve received from the community about Practitioner training and resources
Shoemaker Protocol™ Quick Start:
The 3 initial steps to determine if mold is affecting you One of the most common questions we hear is, “how do I know if I have mold illness?” Rest assured, if you’re asking this question, you’ve come to the right place.
Joint Surviving Mold/ CIRSx Conference May 17-19, 2024 in Frisco, TX
With a world-renowned lineup of speakers including keynote Ritchie Shoemaker, MD, from May 17th-19th.
Dr. Scott McMahon & Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker on Episode 415 of the Dr. Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson speaks with Dr. Scott McMahon and Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker. They discuss their potentially groundbreaking research into CIRS, or Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome.
Guidelines for Preventing Exposure (through the holidays and always)
It does take diligence and some proactive planning, but preventing mold exposure and thriving with CIRS is doable and possible, even through the busy holiday season. There are apparent consistencies, practices, and behaviors among those who thrive with CIR...