Heavy Metals and Mold

Then they shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and they shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place. — Leviticus 14:45

The Torah, in the book of Leviticus, contains a passage that has puzzled commentators for two thousand years.

It is the law of the leprous house. Beginning in Leviticus 14, the Torah describes a condition, tzaraat in Hebrew, often translated leprosy although it does not match the disease English-speakers call leprosy today, that can affect not only the human body but the house the body lives in. A homeowner notices that something is wrong with his house. The walls show discolored patches. Something has appeared in the structure that was not there before. He does not yet know what it is, but he knows it is not right.

The Torah’s instruction is precise. The owner is to call a priest. The priest examines the house. If the affliction is real, the house is quarantined for seven days. If it has spread, the affected stones are removed and carried outside the city to an unclean place. The walls are scraped. New stones and new mortar are brought in. The house is watched again. And if the affliction returns despite the repairs, the entire house is torn down — the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house.

What kind of plague grows in walls? Why does the Torah, which speaks of the deepest spiritual and moral matters, devote a whole chapter to what looks, at first glance, like a problem of building maintenance?

I want to suggest a reading that modern environmental medicine makes possible. The Torah is describing, in the categories available to an ancient people, what we now call sick building syndrome: a structure contaminated with biological or chemical agents that make the people inside it ill. The walls of an ancient stone house, in a humid climate, without modern ventilation, could grow exactly the kinds of mold we now recognize as serious health hazards. The greenish or reddish patches the Torah describes sound remarkably like Stachybotrys and other toxic molds. Remove the affected stones, scrape the walls, bring in new materials, and if the affliction persists, tear the house down. That is the protocol any competent mold-remediation specialist would recommend today, thousands of years later and with a great deal more paperwork.

The Torah was also teaching something deeper. The house is part of the body’s environment. A contaminated house is not a separate problem from the health of the people living in it. The house must be cleansed for the people to be well, and if it cannot be cleansed, it must be left. The principle holds whether the contamination is mold in the walls, mercury in the fillings or lead in the pipes.

This chapter is about two of those contaminations. Heavy metals are the most studied toxins in environmental medicine, and the ones for which the protocols for clearing them are most refined. Mold may be the most overlooked, the quiet tenant nobody remembers letting in. I will teach you the five metals that matter, where they come from, how they harm the body and how they are cleared safely, including the careful removal of amalgam fillings. Then we will walk through the moldy house: how to recognize it, why some people stay sick long after leaving it, and what remediation involves.

The Five Metals That Matter

The term heavy metals is somewhat imprecise, and chemists use it inconsistently, which is a polite way of saying they argue about it. For environmental medicine, the metals that matter most are mercury, lead, aluminum, arsenic and cadmium. A few others, such as uranium, chromium and nickel, matter in specific circumstances. The five I have named are the ones every reader should know. Think of them as the usual suspects.

Mercury

Mercury is one of the most toxic substances known. It comes in three forms, like a villain with costume changes. Elemental mercury is the silver liquid in old thermometers and in dental amalgam fillings. Inorganic mercury salts form when elemental mercury reacts with other compounds. Methylmercury forms when bacteria in the environment act on inorganic mercury, and it is the form that builds up in fish.

Amalgam fillings. The silver-colored fillings that have been used for nearly two centuries, and that remain in use in many dental practices today, are about fifty percent mercury by weight. Half of that shiny filling is the same stuff that once rose and fell in an old thermometer.The mercury is bound into the amalgam, but the binding is not complete and not permanent. Small amounts of mercury vapor are released from the surface of the fillings, more with chewing, with hot food and drink, and with grinding, so the woman who clenches or grinds her teeth at night is breathing more of it. The vapor is inhaled and absorbed. For many people, the fillings are a major source of their mercury.

The dentist Dr. Hal Huggins documented this process in great clinical detail. His practice, and the practices of the biological dentists who followed him, reported again and again that patients with chronic illness, from autoimmune disease to neurological symptoms to chronic fatigue, often improved after their amalgam fillings were safely removed. I will come back to the word safely later in this chapter, because it matters more than anything else about amalgam. Underline it in your mind.

Fish. Methylmercury concentrates up the marine food chain, so the large predators at the top carry the most: shark, swordfish, king mackerel, tilefish and bigeye tuna. Big fish eat little fish, and they keep the mercury as a souvenir. A diet heavy in these fish can produce mercury levels that approach what was once considered occupational exposure. The fish to choose are the small ones lower on the chain: sardines, anchovies, herring and wild salmon carry far less.

Lead

Lead exposure has fallen a great deal since leaded gasoline was eliminated and lead was removed from most paint and household products. But lead is stubborn, and it persists, and the CDC states that no safe blood lead level in children has been identified. Lead harms the developing brain, lowers IQ and affects behavior.

The sources are these, and some of them are hiding in plain sight:

• Paint in homes built before 1978. In an older home, the danger is mostly dust: from windows and doors that rub against painted frames every time they open and close, and from any renovation that sands or scrapes old paint. Charming old windows, uncharming old dust.
• Old water pipes and lead service lines (the pipe that brings water from the street into the house), and lead-soldered joints. The crisis in Flint, Michigan, that emerged in 2014 made the problem famous, but lead pipes remain buried across the older infrastructure of many American cities.
• Some imported spices, ceramics and folk remedies. In 2023, cinnamon applesauce pouches for children were recalled after lead poisoned hundreds of children.
• Contaminated soil.

In an older home, the practical steps are simple. Have every young child’s blood lead checked through the doctor. Keep painted surfaces intact rather than scraping them; old paint is safest left alone. Wet-mop the floors and wet-dust the windowsills, since a dry broom or duster lifts lead dust into the air. Use only certified professionals for any renovation that disturbs old paint, however handy your brother-in-law may be. And test the water for lead, and filter it with reverse osmosis or a certified filter (Chapter 3 explains how to choose one).

Aluminum

Aluminum has been recognized as a neurotoxin for decades, yet it is still in a range of everyday products: cookware, foil, cans, antacids made with aluminum hydroxide, antiperspirants (which use aluminum compounds to block the sweat glands), and some vaccines and medications. For a known neurotoxin, it gets around. Aluminum accumulates in the brain over time and has been implicated in Alzheimer’s disease, though the causal chain is complex and the research is still developing.

You met aluminum in Chapter 2, where Dr. Blaylock warns that fluoride and aluminum together are especially harmful to brain cells. They are a bad pair, and that is one more reason to lower both at once.

The practical answer is simple: stainless steel, cast iron or glass in the kitchen, an aluminum-free deodorant in the bathroom, and an alternative to aluminum antacids. Those changes remove most of the daily dose, and the foil can retire to the back of the drawer.

Arsenic

Arsenic occurs naturally in groundwater in some regions, including parts of the American Southwest, New England and the upper Midwest. The family that most needs to think about it is the family on a private well, because no water utility is testing that water for them. On a well, you are the water department. If you are on a well, test it for arsenic. Reverse osmosis removes arsenic effectively.

The other main source is rice, which soaks up arsenic from the soil more readily than other grains. Babies deserve special care here: a 2021 U.S. congressional report found arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury in many baby foods, including rice cereals. That is not a list anyone wants on a baby’s menu. With rice, rinse it well, then cook it in extra water that you pour off at the end, the way you cook pasta. And vary the grains, especially for babies.

Cadmium

For smokers, cigarette smoke, including secondhand smoke, is the main source of cadmium. For non-smokers, it is food, since grains, leafy greens, potatoes, shellfish and cacao take cadmium up from the soil. In 2022, Consumer Reports found lead or cadmium above its levels of concern in many dark chocolate bars. (I know. I am sorry.) Some imported pottery and ceramics, poorly fired or made with cadmium glazes, contain it too. Cadmium builds up in the kidneys and in the bones, and it is associated with chronic kidney disease. No smoking, and no secondhand smoke in the home, is the first protection.

How Metals Harm the Body

Why do such small amounts of these metals do so much harm? There are three main reasons, and a fourth that ties this chapter to Chapter 9.

They feed oxidation. Metals generate free radicals and burn through the body’s antioxidant defenses, especially glutathione. Every metal the body carries adds to the oxidative load you met in Chapter 1.

They impersonate minerals. This is the one I most want you to remember. Metals take the place of essential minerals in enzymes, the small molecular machines that run nearly every process in the body. Lead mimics calcium and is stored in bone as if it were calcium. Cadmium displaces zinc. Mercury binds to the sulfur groups that many enzymes need in order to work. An enzyme with a metal sitting where a mineral belongs cannot do its job. It is a key that fits the lock but will not turn it.

The hopeful side of this is that a body short of calcium, zinc, iron and selenium absorbs and holds more metals, and a well-nourished body absorbs and holds fewer. When the body is hungry for a mineral, it takes up whatever looks like it, the way a hungry shopper grabs whatever is on the shelf. This is one reason good nutrition is protective: enough calcium, zinc, iron and selenium from food helps the body resist absorbing metals in the first place.

They are stored. Metals settle in bone, brain, kidneys, fat and other tissues, where they may stay for years. They can be released back into the blood during pregnancy, weight loss or illness, which is why a metal you were exposed to long ago can still matter today. Metals keep long memories.

They feed the EMF loop. In Chapter 9 I describe the loop the practitioner Wendy Myers has documented: metals may concentrate EMF energy in the tissues where they are stored, and EMF damage slows the body’s clearance of metals. Each problem makes the other worse, so the two are best addressed together.

Testing, and Its Limits

Readers often ask me which test will tell them their metal load. You can order most of these tests yourself from a consumer lab and learn to read the results yourself. Here is what each common test can and cannot do.

• Blood lead is the standard test for lead and shows recent exposure. Every young child in an older home should have one through their doctor.
• Blood or urine mercury shows recent exposure: blood for mercury from fish, urine for vapor from amalgam fillings.
• “Provoked” urine tests, done after a dose of a chelating drug, are used by some practitioners. Mainstream toxicologists consider them unreliable, because the drug raises metal levels in anyone’s urine. Stir any pot and something floats up.
• Hair mineral analysis is popular in holistic practice for tracking minerals and some metals over time. Results vary between labs, and it is not accepted for diagnosis by mainstream medicine.

The most useful test of all costs nothing. It is an honest exposure history: an old home, well water, amalgam fillings, fish, hobbies such as stained glass, shooting ranges and pottery, the work you do, and smoking. When I sit with a student, those questions usually tell us more about where to start than any lab report. A good question is cheaper than a good lab, and often smarter.

Clearing Metals Safely

The full protocol for heavy metal detoxification is more than one chapter can hold, and anyone with significant exposure should work with a practitioner. But I want to give you the framework, so that you understand what a sound protocol looks like and can recognize an unsound one, however shiny its packaging.

First, stop the exposure. This is the first rule for every toxin, and it is Dr. Richard Schulze’s rule for healing: stop doing whatever is making you sick. No detox can keep up with a mouth full of crumbling fillings, a daily tuna sandwich or a child chewing on a lead-painted windowsill. You cannot mop a floor while the faucet is still running.

Second, open the exits before you stir anything up. This is Dr. Schulze’s other great rule, and Dr. Christopher Shade of Quicksilver Scientific, who has spent his career on how the body clears mercury, teaches it in his own way. Every toxin goes through three stages: it is mobilized from the tissues where it has been stored, processed by the liver into a form the body can excrete, and eliminated, mostly through the bowel and kidneys. Chapter 12 teaches these stages in full. Here is why the order matters for metals. Metals pulled out of storage travel in the blood to the liver, which sends them out in bile into the intestine. If the bowel is sluggish, the bile flow poor or you are dehydrated, the metals are reabsorbed and redistributed, sometimes into the brain, and you can end up worse off than before you started. It is like evacuating a building with the fire doors locked. A sluggish bowel can make a metal protocol worse than no protocol at all.

So before any metal is mobilized, check the exits:

• The bowel must be moving every day. Dr. Schulze’s bowel program, in Chapter 13, is the foundation.
• Bile must flow, because metals leave the liver in bile.
• You must be well hydrated, so the kidneys can do their work.

Binders. A binder works in the gut, at the elimination stage. It holds on to metals so that they leave in the stool instead of being reabsorbed. Think of it as an escort to the door. The four I use for metals are:

• Chlorella, a single-celled green algae with a particular affinity for mercury and lead, which also provides nutrition. Quality varies greatly, so choose a tested, cracked-cell-wall product (chlorella’s natural cell wall is indigestible, so the cracking is the whole point).
• Modified citrus pectin, a soluble fiber from citrus peel that binds several metals.
• Bentonite clay, which binds metals particularly well. Choose a product tested for lead; the FDA has warned about clay products contaminated with it. A binder that brings its own lead is no bargain.
• Activated charcoal, very porous and powerful, best for short courses.

And the everyday binder is the one on your plate: fiber from vegetables and other whole foods. Binders bind more than toxins, and they are not picky, so take them at least two hours apart from food and medications, drink plenty of water, and stop if constipation develops, because a binder that stalls the bowel holds the toxins in the very place they can be reabsorbed. Chapter 12 says more about each binder.

Feed the liver. The liver uses glutathione and the minerals selenium and zinc to process metals. Whole foods supply the raw materials: eggs, garlic, onions, broccoli and Brazil nuts. One or two Brazil nuts a day is plenty for selenium, since too much selenium is harmful. This is one place where more is not better.

Sweat. Studies of sweat have found arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury in it, sometimes at higher levels than in urine. The skin, it turns out, is an exit too. Regular sauna supports this exit; shower afterward so the toxins you have sweated out are not reabsorbed through the skin. Chapter 12 gives the sauna guidelines and safety notes.

Go slowly. Dr. Shade’s approach, and mine, favor gentle, gradual protocols over aggressive ones. His work sequences binders, liver support and elimination support so the body can clear mercury without the redistribution that aggressive chelation can cause. (His company sells detox products; I value his explanation of how the body clears metals, and I keep that separate from any particular product.) If a person on a metal protocol feels worse, with headaches, fatigue, rashes or constipation, that is not a sign the detox is working and the dose should go up. “No pain, no gain” belongs in the gym, not here. It is a signal that the exits are not keeping up: slow down, drink water, get the bowel moving, and rest, as Chapter 12 explains.

Chelation drugs are for doctors only. Prescription chelators such as DMSA, DMPS and EDTA bind metals in the blood. They are powerful, they can deplete essential minerals and redistribute metals, and in rare cases they have caused deaths. They are used only under a physician’s care, never on your own and never as everyday prevention. This is not a do-it-yourself project.

Amalgam Fillings and Safe Removal

I said that careless amalgam removal is dangerous, and I want to be very clear about it. The removal of amalgam fillings is a delicate procedure. Simply drilling a filling out, the way an ordinary dental practice would without special precautions, releases a burst of mercury vapor and can cause a far larger exposure than leaving the fillings in place. Done wrong, the fix becomes the problem.

The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) teaches a Safe Mercury Amalgam Removal Technique (SMART) designed to prevent exactly that. It includes:

• a dental dam to isolate the tooth,
• high-volume suction and water spray to capture particles and vapor,
• cutting the filling into chunks rather than grinding it away,
• a separate air or oxygen supply for the patient, and covering of the skin and eyes,
• air filtration in the room, and protective equipment for the dental team.

The IAOMT keeps a directory of trained dentists on its website. Removal is usually done gradually, a few fillings at a time, often with detox support before and after, and it is planned with a dentist trained in safe removal. It is never rushed. The person who has read that her fillings are poisoning her and books an appointment to have them all drilled out next week is about to make her exposure worse, not better. Urgency is understandable; here it is also the enemy.

The world is moving. Slowly, but moving. In 2020 the FDA recommended that people at higher risk (women who are pregnant, planning pregnancy or nursing, young children, and people with neurological disease or impaired kidney function, among others) avoid new amalgam fillings when appropriate. The European Union banned amalgam for nearly all uses from January 2025.

Mold and Mycotoxins

Now we come back to the house in Leviticus. I want to give mold sustained attention, because mold is, in my experience, the most under-recognized contributor to chronic illness in the modern home.

Mold is a fungus, and there are thousands of species. It grows wherever there is moisture and something to feed on: drywall, wood, carpet, dust. It is not a fussy eater. Dozens of species are common indoors, and several are particularly toxic: Stachybotrys chartarum (the so-called black mold), certain Aspergillus and Penicillium species, and Chaetomium. These molds produce mycotoxins, chemicals released as the mold grows that can affect the body even in tiny amounts.

The conditions that let toxic mold grow are present in many modern homes. Well-sealed construction, poor ventilation and any source of moisture together give mold a place to establish itself and produce mycotoxins for years before anyone notices. We built the perfect greenhouse and then wondered why something grew.

Where the moisture comes from:

• roof and plumbing leaks,
• water damage that was not dried within a day or two, or was never properly remediated after a flood,
• flooded basements,
• condensation on windows and inside poorly insulated walls,
• bathrooms without exhaust fans,
• humidifiers, and air-conditioning systems.

Each of these can feed mold quietly for years. Mold is patient, and it never sends a bill.

What to look for in the home: a musty smell that lingers, visible spots or staining on walls, ceilings or floors, peeling paint or warped floors, condensation on windows or pipes, and any history of water damage. Your nose is a better inspector than you might think.

What people feel. The symptoms of chronic mold exposure are broad and easily mistaken for other conditions: sinus congestion, cough and asthma, headaches, brain fog, fatigue, joint pain, rashes, and mood changes including depression and anxiety. They are easy to mislabel because they resemble dozens of other illnesses, and because most physicians are not trained to ask whether a patient’s home has water damage. The most telling clue is the pattern: many people feel better when they are away from home and worse when they return. When I hear that pattern, I think of the house before anything else.

Why Some People Stay Sick: Dr. Shoemaker’s Work

Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker, a Maryland physician who specialized in environmental illness, built the most complete clinical framework for what he called biotoxin illness, or chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS). He reported that about a quarter of people carry gene types (HLA-DR) that make it hard for their bodies to clear mycotoxins. The other three-quarters can usually clear them reasonably well once the exposure ends. But the quarter who cannot may stay ill, sometimes for years, long after others in the same house have recovered. Same house, same air, very different outcomes.

His first rule, and mine, is this: leave the exposure. No protocol works while the person is still breathing the mold. A binder taken in a moldy house is a bucket bailing a boat that is still taking on water.

Once the person is out of the exposure, the protocol in Dr. Shoemaker’s approach uses binders, including the prescription drug cholestyramine. Dr. Isaac Eliaz, whose research established modified citrus pectin as a binder, uses modified citrus pectin to bind mycotoxins in the gut and prevent their reabsorption. Combined with liver support and sweating, these approaches have helped many people with mold-related illness make real recoveries.

Testing, Cleaning and Preventing Mold

The practical work for mold has two halves. First, find the source. Second, remediate it. Skipping the first half is how people end up repeating the second.

Testing the home. A professional mold inspection is the most thorough. It combines a visual inspection, moisture readings in walls and floors, and air or dust samples, and it shows whether mold is present at elevated levels, which species, and where. It typically costs several hundred dollars. A reader who suspects mold but cannot afford a professional can begin with the ERMI test (Environmental Relative Moldiness Index), a dust sample the homeowner collects and sends to a laboratory. Yes, your dust can be mailed in for questioning. It is not as definitive as a full inspection, but it is a useful, lower-cost starting point.

When you can clean it yourself. The EPA advises that small areas of mold on hard surfaces, under about 10 square feet, can usually be cleaned by the homeowner, after the moisture source is fixed. Wear gloves, an N-95 respirator and goggles, keep the room well ventilated, and never mix cleaners. Cleaning mold without fixing the leak only means cleaning it again, and again, and again.

When to call a professional. Larger areas, mold in drywall, carpet or insulation, mold in heating and air-conditioning systems, and any home where someone is ill call for professional remediation. A professional contains the area so that spores are not spread through the rest of the house, removes contaminated materials, handles the underlying structure and dries the space thoroughly. Done properly, remediation costs thousands of dollars. Done poorly, it makes the problem worse by spreading spores throughout the house, which is the most expensive way to make things worse.

Sometimes the right decision is to move. A family living with significant mold that cannot afford full remediation faces a hard choice. The Torah’s instruction to tear down the house if the affliction returns despite every repair is not as ancient and quaint as it first appears. Some houses cannot be cleansed. Some houses, after the work has been done and the affliction has returned, must be left behind.

Keeping mold away. Prevention is far easier than remediation, and far cheaper:

• Fix leaks quickly, and dry any water damage within 24 to 48 hours. Mold does not wait for the weekend.
• Keep indoor humidity between about 30% and 50%.
• Use exhaust fans in bathrooms and kitchens, and actually switch them on.
• Keep gutters and drainage directing water away from the house.

What Mainstream Medicine Says

I want you to know what the other side says, so you can weigh both views fairly and hold your own at the dinner table.

Mainstream medicine agrees that lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium are harmful and that exposure should be kept as low as possible. On that much, everyone agrees. Where it differs from what I have taught:

• The FDA still considers amalgam fillings safe for most adults and does not recommend removing fillings that are in good condition.
• Mainstream toxicologists distrust provoked urine tests and hair analysis.
• Mold is accepted as a cause of allergies, asthma and lung infections, which is the focus of lung specialists such as the pulmonologist Dr. Roger Seheult. But CIRS and “mold toxicity” as a whole-body illness are not widely accepted, and the urine mycotoxin tests some practitioners use are debated.

Know what each side says. Blood tests, chelation drugs and antibiotics come from the doctor. Fixing the leak, changing the fish and moving the bowel are in your own hands, and they do most of the work. Nobody needs a prescription to call a plumber.

What to Do

Here is the whole chapter in one list, small enough to stick on the refrigerator. You do not need to do it all this week. Start with whatever touches the children first.

• Test the water for lead and, on a well, for arsenic. Filter with reverse osmosis or a certified filter.
• In an older home: have the children’s blood lead checked; keep paint intact; wet-mop and wet-dust; use certified professionals for any renovation.
• Fish: choose small, low-mercury fish (sardines, anchovies, herring, wild salmon) and limit the large predators.
• Rice: rinse it well and cook it in extra water that is poured off, pasta style; vary the grains, especially for babies.
• Aluminum: stainless steel, cast iron or glass instead of aluminum; aluminum-free deodorant.
• No smoking, and no secondhand smoke.
• Nourish: enough calcium, zinc, iron and selenium from food helps the body resist absorbing metals. Fill the parking spaces before the impostors do.
• Amalgams: only with an IAOMT-trained dentist, and never in a rush.
• Before any detox: stop the exposure, then open the exits (a daily bowel movement, good bile flow, plenty of water), and only then, gently, use binders and sweat.
• Mold: walk the home for moisture and musty smells; fix leaks; dry water damage fast; test when in doubt; remediate properly; and if you are ill from mold, leave the exposure first.

The house in Leviticus was examined, cleansed, and watched. Do the same with yours, and with the body that lives in it.

Footnotes and sources for this chapter

Sources and Further Reading

• Huggins, H. It’s All in Your Head: The Link Between Mercury Amalgams and Illness. Avery Publishing Group, 1993.
• International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT). Safe Mercury Amalgam Removal Technique (SMART) and directory of trained dentists, iaomt.org.
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 2020 recommendations on dental amalgam for people at higher risk.
• European Union ban on dental amalgam for nearly all uses, effective January 2025.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Statement that no safe blood lead level in children has been identified.
• U.S. House of Representatives congressional report on toxic heavy metals in baby foods, 2021.
• Consumer Reports. Tests of lead and cadmium in dark chocolate, 2022.
• The 2023 recall of cinnamon applesauce pouches contaminated with lead.
• Review of sweat studies finding arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury in human sweat, 2012.
• Shade, C. Educational materials on mercury detoxification, Quicksilver Scientific; and How to Detoxify Mercury, Lead, Cadmium and Other Heavy Metals, interview with Chris Wark.
• Mercola, J. Mercury Detoxification: The Natural Way to Remove Mercury from Your Body. Articles and educational materials at mercola.com.
• Cutler, A. Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment. Self-published, 1999.
• Myers, W. Limitless Energy: How to Detox Toxic Metals to End Exhaustion and Chronic Fatigue.
• Shoemaker, R. Surviving Mold: Life in the Era of Dangerous Buildings. Otter Bay Books, 2010; and the Surviving Mold website, survivingmold.com.
• International Society for Environmentally Acquired Illness (ISEAI), directory of physicians trained in biotoxin illness, iseai.org.
• Eliaz, I. Research and clinical materials on modified citrus pectin and binders, Amitabha Medical Clinic.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Guidance on mold cleanup in the home.
• Seheult, R., with Huberman, A. Mold Toxicity: Signs, Symptoms and Treatment.
• See Chapter 9 for the EMF–heavy metal loop, and Chapter 12 for the three stages of detoxification, binders and sauna.