A number of us made the unpleasant discovery that toxic mold, which under the right conditions tends to invade our homes, can seriously affect one’s health. It can involve one or any number of organs including brain, kidney, liver, digestive system, you name it. The longer you remain in a mold infested home, the more serious the resulting health problems.
To cope with the consequences can be a lengthy and painful process. If you are unfortunate enough to have your liver affected, the consequences can be irreparable. Most doctors tend to be skeptical but that’s nothing new. Our physicians have one way of looking at it. If it doesn’t fit into the norm or what they learned in school, it doesn’t exist. Yet this is the way it was explained to me by a governmental toxicologist: “If you eat poisonous mushrooms, it destroys your liver. If you inhale toxic spores, the result is the same except it takes longer for the symptoms to appear.” After all, the liver is supposed to neutralize whatever toxins we put into our body-unknowingly or otherwise.
Many illnesses require strict, salt-free diets. Shopping becomes a nightmare in futility. Every product lists enormous amounts of sodium and other chemicals. Yet there are countless people who must avoid salt and spicy food due to various illnesses such as high blood pressure, heart problems, diabetes, liver ailments and lots of others.
Which brings me to the main reason for this letter. I cannot drink milk or milk products except goat milk. Strangely enough, even the goat milk available in markets has 5 percent sodium. My limit is 2 percent maximum. Is there anyone in Malibu or nearby communities who raises goats and would be willing to sell me fresh goat milk? If you do, or know anyone who does, please call me at 456.2687.
Given all the environmental pollution, we should at least have access to foodstuffs and livestock less contaminated with chemicals added for the sole purpose to prolong shelf life. Maybe we’d do well to return to the old ways and support small farms growing organic food. Utopia? It’s up to us.
Emma Segal