Feeling Low Energy Or Sick? It May Be The Mycotoxins In Your Home! With Seth Jones
We live in a toxic world. One of the many toxins that we deal with is mold. Known as mycotoxins, mold contributes to everything from ill health to chronic disease. But there are things we can do to minimize the effects of mycotoxins in our environments, and their impact on our health.
Join Adiel Gorel and Seth Jones as they dive into a variety of topics, including:
- Solving Health Mysteries: Identifying Building-Related Illnesses
- Detoxifying Our Homes: The Mission to Combat Mycotoxins
- Mold and Mycotoxins: Why Mold Remediation is Often Not Enough for Sensitive People
- Redefining Safe Spaces: How Modern Buildings Lead to Building-Related Illness
- Addressing Chronic Illness: Heal the Home, Heal the Body
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Feeling Low Energy Or Sick? It May Be The Mycotoxins In Your Home! With Seth Jones
How To Purify Your Home From Invisible, Illness-Causing Mycotoxins
It’s a joy to be here with you again and it’s very exciting here. We have a special guest hailing from Nashville, Tennessee, Seth Jones. Seth, welcome to the show.
Thank you. It’s a pleasure to be here.
Leading The Battle Against Illness-Causing Mycotoxins
I understand you have a very colorful and interesting background, which normally doesn’t exactly lead to where you are now. Why don’t you take us through your fascinating path on how you got here?
It’s unusual. There are things that don’t normally go together. I grew up in Louisiana and I went to school in Nashville, Tennessee, where I got into music. I started a band with my college roommates, and we wound up signing a record deal when we were still in school there. We toured the country. I got deeper and deeper into the music industry in Nashville. I became a songwriter fairly young right out of school. I threw mostly twenties and even through my 30s, I made my way to Los Angeles. I became a DJ. I toured all over the world and did all sorts of different musical endeavors.
It was when I was living in Los Angeles, I was a touring DJ and traveling most of the time, producing music, and releasing records. I had begun to work on a couple of other projects outside of music and I met a chemist through my business partner. This chemist has had developed a very unique coding technology that had this amazing ability to resist mold for an extraordinarily long amount of time. I didn’t know anything about chemical manufacturing or distribution or mold or toxins or any of the things that have now come to completely define my life.
It was interesting enough and curious enough that we poked around and pursued it. It was through that discovered that this research chemist who had developed his technology was very unique. That gave us enough curiosity and momentum to start the company. We took off into mold remediation. We had some friends who had gotten very sick from mold and these mycotoxins we were hearing about. I knew a couple doctors. We realized that there was a very large health problem but didn’t know how big it was. We knew there was something missing on the health side because of mold.
We also realized that mold is a part of our life because it’s impossible to prevent because all the products and chemicals we use to kill mold are chemicals. Once water is reintroduced to that environment, it washes those chemicals away and that makes the mold grow. That’s the problem of reoccurring mold and mold grows in buildings. We have found a solution to that through this product. It can be applied inside the wall cavities. It can be from your outdoor furniture. You can put it in your shower and within the cavities of home, it can last upwards of a decade even if the home floods, or there’s like heavy moisture.
Through that, of introducing that product into mold remediation working with a lot of molder meters, what found was that there were some certainly some gaps within molder mediation. It’s very difficult to get it done. It’s expensive. There’s lots of stuff out there. We realized there were some reformed that needed to happen, so to speak, in that industry. There was a much bigger problem that we discovered and some other people began discovering at that time was that mold is a microbe. It’s a living organism and just like all living organisms, it is fighting to survive. It has competitors and its environment.
Its primary competitor is bacteria. In order to defend itself from bacteria, mold creates a poisonous toxin called a mycotoxin. Not all molds do, but many moles do, particularly the moles that grow in water damaged buildings. When mold creates those toxins, we now know they can be released into the air. They get into the air in our buildings and that was the big thing that everyone had missed. We said, “We know we have mold in the buildings. We’re cleaning out the mold, but we didn’t realize that mold was creating toxins that were not living organism.” They are chemicals.
Once those chemicals got into the building, this was what the very sensitized individuals, the people who had chronic building related illness. This is what was causing the inflammation in their body that led to everything that has been linked to everything in children from panic disorders and behavioral cognitive issues to even autism. You have all sorts of autoimmune disease that comes from the inflammation that happens in the body when exposed to these toxins. You have gut issues.
We see a lot of neurodegenerative issues in people who are elderly, Alzheimer’s and MS and cancer even. Especially liver cancer. These toxins over time can essentially contribute to virtually any disease symptoms because it’s an effective toxicity. This was the problem that we said, “We need to solve this problem,” because no one had done that before. The chemicals that traditionally kill mold, do not break down the chemical toxin and that was the problem. You would go clean the mold out of a building but people would still be sick or they still didn’t feel right.
That was because of the lingering chemical. There’s a long answer to that very simple question. I started in music and through curiosity, I found my way. As I was a part of building that company, I experienced this myself, the home, the little startup house that we all had when we all got together to start this company wound up being infested with mold and mycotoxins. Everybody got extremely sick. I lived the experience as well as we were building the company and here we are years later.
Isn’t that ironic that you build a company to handle the toxins of mold and then you get a exposed because you built the company to the toxic mold and experience it so now, you’ll be a better company. I would like to understand, I think you said that one point even after the mold is remediated people still get sick because the chemicals. Didn’t you mean to mycotoxins in the air?
Correct. The mycotoxins are chemicals.
I just wanted to distinguish between the chemicals they use involved in the mycotoxin that are wafting in the air. Before we go to what you guys do, it’s not enough to kill them all. You need to somehow create cleaning of the air.
Specifically, a cleaning of the chemical mycotoxin that the mold left behind.
I wish I met you before my show. It’s something I’m very passionate about and I want to expose my viewers and readers to many things that could help in life. My main business is realistic investments and we own many homes all over the country. In the past year, I had two cases of mold remediation. It’s very expensive, fraught and dangerous. You could be sued by the local city.
The government can levy fines on you. I don’t know your product well, but we’ll talk about it in a second. I almost wish I know about it. From what you’re describing, it can be used or should be used defensively. Not like, “We have mold. Bring on,” and we talk about your product. No. When you have a building, you look at all the areas that could suffer, and you say, “Let’s apply that coat.”
Understanding Trauma And Triage
You’re exactly right. I like to say there’s two buckets to this. There’s the triage, the trauma. The government says that 66 million homes have ongoing water damage issues. They’re in a state of trauma. Those water damage issues are causing mold growth, which are likely generating mycotoxins which are exposing potentially up to 170 million people in America in those environments. If you take the 40% or so, of people that have an MTHFR mutation or some genetic susceptibility. They have trouble in methylation processes. You’re looking at 60 something million people who are in environments who are experiencing symptoms from that environment.
Chemicals that traditionally kill mold do not break down chemical toxins. Despite cleaning the mold out of a building, people would still be sick because of the lingering chemicals. Share on XThere’s the triage trauma. That’s what our whole home system does and we can talk about that. It takes care of that. The reason that we have trauma and triage is because of the way we build our buildings and manage our buildings because we don’t understand all ways, the consequences, and the implications of water damage and mold growth within these buildings. We sit in between different parties. You have, let’s call them, renters. People who live in investment properties. People who buy homes from large builders or investors. You have landlords and developers, people who create and own building.
What’s happening is there’s awareness. It’s growing very quickly. Not just about mold, but also about mycotoxins, which are even more difficult to address than the mold itself. It’s because there is growing awareness about this, there is a growing effort to start litigating a lot of cases against this group because of, in a lot of cases, very bad actors who don’t take care of their buildings and brush people off. The stories I could tell you in the military housing. There’s so many examples of it’s devastating to these families. They lose their lives and all of their life savings.
There’s some part of it, but there’s also investors and landlords, the people who were trying to do the right thing who don’t know or don’t have the tools. They want to be protected from liability as well, but because there’s no real direction, there’s no standards. There’s no laws. There’s no liability because there’s no understanding of what this problem is, how big it is, and how it should be addressed. Anytime I get to talk to someone like yourself, who is also on the investment side, on the real estate side, and on the development side, I like to lay that out and say, “Taking care of your buildings, we have products that do that. It’s very important.”
Also, when you’re building new construction, our technology allows you to have that insurance package, so to speak, on a building because you’re going to have water damage in a building. Ninety-eight percent of all basements flood in homeowner’s lifetime. You can’t avoid it. You want to be prepared for it. Our product is an invisible water-resistant coating. It can be sprayed on the virtually any surface. It doesn’t rub off and wash off. That coating is protected from any type of mold and mildew growth. It will last for many years.
Again, you hit it at the right stage in the building process and now that developer got essentially an insurance package against mold on that building in case something happens. They can begin to do the right things for that tenant, that occupant in the building. I had this happen. It happens very often where you may have two people in the same building. One’s extremely sick and one’s not, because of their unique bio individuality.
If you’re a landlord and you’re renting to that couple, it’s very hard to understand why you should have to go an extra mile to create a safe and clean environment for that person who’s sick. You start to doubt that person. That’s where we are with our products. Those are the two things that we’re trying to do. It’s about making people aware that this is even an issue. Most people don’t even know.
When you talked about the awareness of mycotoxins getting into the general psych of the public. There is a TV series called the Last of Us, which took it to the extreme. The mushrooms took over the world. It’s gone. It took over your brain and that just shows you that people think about that stuff. Now, let’s me ask you this.
How To Detoxify Our Homes
Before we even talk about the properties of your coding, I already know from what you just said that there’s spray, which is very convenient. I assume the spray itself is not toxic, but you could always wear masks. Let’s say here’s a builder on Zoom with us and he says, “I’m only in Seth. I’m starting to build a brand-new home, a single-family home. You tell me the areas of my home that I should pre-spray.” What would they be? What do you recommend?
Great question. You can think about it in phases. The first phase is when a building gets compromised with mold is before it’s even built. When those that would come to the job site, that’s trust the show up. They put a right there in the mud. They don’t even cover them. Nobody even thinks about that. There is mold in that wood before you even close those walls up.
The first thing you want to do is protect that lumber on your job site. You can take our endurance coding, which is the coding that we’re talking about. You can put in a pump garden sprayer, an airless sprayer. You can also have a little spray bottle. You’re going to spray that would to give it that protection and cover it. That’s just going to make sure that you’re not growing mold in that wood.
A question before you move any further. Here is a 2X4 four long beam that just came and it already has mold inside from the road. You don’t control it. You’re spraying it in a way. I’m assuming you’re sealing it. Now, aren’t you feeling the mold that’s inside already?
We’re not. Other products that are mold-resistant coatings or that say they’re mold-resistance coatings. Many of them are just paints. They’re polymer paints or coatings that have some type of antimicrobial in that paint. Usually because that is a very dense polymer, there’s not much bioavailability in that coating number one. Number two, you’re right. It will seal up that board and it will trap the moisture inside of the board. That can lead to dry rot over time and, in most cases, in most states that won’t even pass code.
You can’t seal up structural wood, especially if there’s mold already on it because you’re just going to create a bigger problem. Our coding is not a sealant. It’s completely breathable. When you spray it, water can pass through. You can’t see it on the surface. You can’t feel it. That allows you to put this barrier onto structural wood. Now, the way that our coating works is there is a polymer layer and then there’s a layer of preservatives in that polymer.
It has extreme water resistance. It can be underwater for 24 hours run over under continuous water. It won’t affect the performance. It can go through hundreds of wet and dry cycles, but that adherence to that surface when molds pour lands on that coating, those preservatives in our coding, the water makes them bioavailable. The mold pour can’t grow in the coating. That delivers that performance where you can spray it onto the wood.
You can spray it on the stone and it’s not going to seal anything up. You would never know it was there but also, because of the way our coating works, there’s a zone of inhibition that almost radiates, so to speak, out from that coating. In all of our testing, you’ll see that there’s about a 2-centimeter inhibition zone of mold resistance to that coating. It’s very powerful in construction in this application.
You cannot seal structural wood especially if it has mold on it. That would simply create a bigger problem. Share on XOnce again to the builder. Here’s the builder, he or she is here on Zoom with us with a note pad and their writing. They just wrote, “Start with the beams.” Let’s continue.
Treat the trust. Protect that would that sit in the dirt then when you start to frame up the house, it depends what extent you want to go to. I suggest coding all of the studs of the house. As you’re putting them up, you can have a pump sprayer. It’s just a real light myth. You don’t need any personal protective equipment. You can for overspray if you’re in a tight space and doing a lot of it. You can wear a mask, but it is very safe. It can just wash off your skin. All of our products are designed for the most sensitive individuals. You don’t need the PPE, but you would spray all of the studs.
When the drywall goes up, some builders will spray all inside the drywall. Now, that’s going to take a much longer to do. Others will just spray the plumbing drops. Those places where if you get a leak in a pipe, maybe we don’t need to protect the whole link of the wall, but let’s protect that area. The other place to use it in the new build is in the ductwork and the HPC system. You can put it directly onto the coils of the system and you can put it in all the duck.
Subfloor is another good place to put it. You put it underneath those floors and all around your shower. Think anywhere in that build that there’s a chance of failure and moisture. That’s where the coating can go. To just answer the question that everybody asks, how much does it cost? Retail price out there on the market is about $0.7 per square foot. For a builder, we have a wholesale program. We work with professional builders.
We offer it at wholesale pricing of those builders on those types of jobs. It’s a very affordable solution as well. It is something that when you’re building a house for a little bit more. You get that performance and you can do it in those steps. Protect it when it gets the job site. Protect the studs when you frame the house and do whatever protection on the drywall and HVAC once you once it’s closed up.
Going The Extra Mile
Have you seen builders or companies brag because that will be a big bragging point? “Our houses have X, Y, and Z. Therefore, they’re much more protected.” Have you seen that?
We haven’t. That is the opportunity with our product and with builders. It’s to set themselves apart as having gone that extra mile and as you know this, a builder or any company is not going to offer something unless that customer is demanding it and asking for it or less or unless it helps them generate more revenue.
Now, more customers starting to ask for it but there’s an opportunity for a company or a builder to step out and say, “We’re going the extra mile to ensure this.” We’re early in a project with the development that should be a very public development where they’re looking at doing that with our product and partnering with us. we’re excited about that.
I’ve been in the real estate investment space for decades and it’s not often that you encounter mold that you need to do something about them. I’m sure there’s always many stuffs but when you do, it’s a nightmare. It’s a illegal exposure and all kinds of things. That could be a very nice added value for a builder.
Now, what about a non-building is? Somebody just bought a house. They bought an existing house. The house is making up a story. They moved in. On the very surface level, they don’t smell more. That’s a good start because in many places you walk in. I have a friend who was a house on top of a beautiful hill in the Bay Area with the great view of San Francisco. They live on the top floor that gets a lot of sun through the windows and it’s all dry with the sun, but there’s a bottom floor.
I go down to the bottom floor and I smell mold. I tell them, “You folks have mold here.” “No.” They bought this machine. I don’t know what it does but you plug it in and you need to get out of the house for like a day. The ozone generator is the thing. I don’t know how effective it is. Somebody goes into the house and they want to buy. It’s fifteen years old and it doesn’t smell. That’s a good start, but what should they do? What should they spray? Where should they spray?
Great question. It depends. I would say the things that you always want to do when you move into a new place and I’m going to this. I’m moving into a new home. I found a home that I love but it’s a little bit of a fixer upper. It’s very dirty and there’s smoke smells. I’ve need to put some effort into it. What I would say to everyone is your HVAC system needs to be cleaned. Have your HVAC system cleaned before you move in and keep it cleaned. Every two years you want to have that cleaned out. It’s also great to use our products within the HVAC system.
Spray the coating on the coils that will prevent growth in that coding and inside the system. That’s general maintenance cleaning. As I’m moving into this home, I will be performing our super stratum whole home system, which is our three-phase detoxification process for a building that uses our three products. That’s something that you typically would do after a mold remediation to clean up those mycotoxins. It involves what they call a small particle clean. That’s a very deep detail clean. We use our chemicals to do that, but that is a poster mediation clean.
It’s a deep detoxification of the home, but it’s a great thing to do when you’re flipping a building or a unit, or you’re moving into a home. You can run this process. It takes about two days. The first step you come in, you fog the home. You do a white down all the surfaces of the home. The second phase is a gas phase. We put packets out of our deodar bombs and add water that creates chlorine dioxide gas which will fill up the building, envelope, purify it and then we come. We are out the building the next morning and we apply the coding and all of those places.
That’s the three-phase process is. It’s designed to be a DIY process. People can get on our website, order those products and do it themselves. Professionals can do it, but of the detoxification, that’s the Ferrari. When you want to go full route, you got to take care of whatever active source mold is already in that building. Some people may need mold remediation first. They may have mold growing in the walls and different places. Get that mold out first, but then to purify that environment, you can use our super stratum whole home system. Either after mold remediation or when you’re moving into a new home.
That’s the basics to get you clean. I would always say, address the HBC system. The other place to always make sure because people don’t understand the impact that this has, is your crawl space, your basement, and the areas underneath your house just like your friend that you mentioned. Seventy percent of all the air we breathe in a home comes up from the crawl space. The stack effect pushes that air up into the home.
In many cases, mycotoxins are odorless. In some cases, mold is odorless, too. You’re not smelling mold. You don’t know you’re being exposed and that often happens in cases where you have toxic basements where there’s moisture, high humidity, mold is growing and air is getting toxic. It’s being pushed up into the home.
You’re breathing that in and it causes all these health issues over time. I always tell people you want to check the HVAC and make sure your crawl space and your basement is in good shape. From there, depending on how dirty the house is or how sensitive you are, you can do the cleaning all the way to our full protocol, which is the whole home system that involves all our products.
I would assume that you’d always want to go to places where water is. You don’t want to break the walls open now because it’s an existing home, but you’ll go to the kitchen underneath the sink. You would go to the showers, the bed or the toilets would be. Wouldn’t you?
It has great use as a cleaning product like that around the house and your shower the lasts for three months. If you’ve got furniture outside that maybe grows some algae or mildew. Clean it off and spray it and it won’t grow anything for two years. You can find lots of places to use it around the house. Anywhere, as you said, we’re moisture is and where it calls is, that growth.
The longevity varies by where it is in the shower which is constant water for three months. Where does it last for two years?
Outside the home, so on your siding or in an exterior application.
Where does it last for a whole decade?
Undisturbed areas like a crawl space or a wall cavity. Places like that were not getting continuous moisture or a lot of abrasion.
You just got me thinking about something else that you just mentioned. Many homes, at least, were we are here are built with siding. Now that I think about it, the siding would be there in the rain. They would be there in the storms, get the strong sun. They would dry and wet. The sightings are pretty much made of some material resembling wood in many cases. Would it make sense for somebody to say, I’m listening to this show. I’m listening to Seth. My house has a lot of siding. Should I apply it to my whole house on the outside?”
One of the sidings in the house is a good application particularly on the shady side of your home. That’s where you get that growth, where the sunlight is not hitting the side of that home. A lot of people struggle to keep that they got a power wash it every year or every few months. The next time you power wash that side of your house and you get it all clean. You can just take a spray bottle or a little garden sprayer. One gallon will cover about 600 square feet. You lightly spray that siding. It will dry on that side and it will last about two years in that application.
Interesting, but makes so much sense. The sunny side even though he does get the rain into the same way. The sun will usually dry it up so thoroughly that the mold is not going to stand much chance. The shady side, now you’re talking. Let’s say, even in my own house, sometimes I will close to the shady side in the morning. It was raining and I’m saying, “Am I smelling mold?” No, it’s on the outside. It’s on the bricks leading to the house and stuff like this. I never thought about this shady side. It’s where the danger is.
You’re right. I talk to a doctor one time and he could tell when the wind outside would shift direction because it would blow the toxins from the mold on the side of his house inside. He could feel it. There are some people who become very sensitive even to some of the that mold that grows outside. Now, it also might be an indication of another problem. Maybe there’s a leak around that window. Maybe there’s something that’s going on. Maybe it’s not outside. Maybe there’s water creeping in when it rains. It’s starting that mold growth inside the wall and you’re smelling. It’s something to investigate, but you’re exactly right.
There can be sometimes even outside. It’s not the case unless you’re sensitive. You have to be sick for that to call as a problem, but there are, as you’re saying all these different failure points that can happen in that building. In many cases, you would never know. You’d never find them. I work with people every day who they go to the doctor for months. They get so sick, they almost die. One day, through some serendipitous way, they pull back something and then they find it then everything makes sense with all the experience and their faces with having to fix that.
That’s the mission of our company. It’s our goal to end building-related illness. To end this epidemic of people being becoming sick in their buildings, but also to help guide people through that process and to support them. There’s not any company that’s doing that, specifically helping people who were sick from their buildings and given them all the tools. For those types of people, you have to go to such great lengths to create an environment that they can heal and be safe in, so much so that in the past, many people would leave their homes.
A builder or any company will not offer something unless it helps them generate more revenue or the customers demand it. Share on XThey would get an RVs and travel because they couldn’t be inside any buildings. They would throw away all of their belongings. They would have to cut their hair off and throw all of their clothes. Everything is infected by these toxins they were so sensitive to. We’re very excited because we believe we have a solution to that problem, but it’s a very strong solution because for many people, it’s extremely severe.
You mentioned that most people wouldn’t feel anything and they wouldn’t because they are sensitive. So what? Do you want to breathe toxins just because you’re not sensitive? That’s even strengthens what you’re saying.
It’s hard for me to think of how to overstate how big this problem is. We are in an age that we’re becoming aware of what we calling root cause is. The route calls camps are appearing. We’re looking at it as parasites. Is it Candida? Is it mold? Is It mycotoxins? What is it? The real story is it’s usually all of those things or some combination. It’s a web. It’s not a chronological order of, “Let’s follow it all the way back to the thing that started.”
What I always believe is the most important and the foundation of our health is always our physical environment. That’s where it starts, because that’s where these toxins come from our environment. Prioritizing that is the most important thing when you’re dealing with anything because if you’re in a moldy toxic environment, you’re not going to be able to get better.
It doesn’t matter what supplements you’re taking or what doctor. It can be the right doctor doing the right thing, but you’re being exposed constantly. As I said, our company’s mission to partner with doctors and with people and say, “We’re here to handle that side of it to give you a foundation of cleanliness and purity in your environment to stop the exposure of the toxins so that you can do all the things that you need to get better.”
Letting The Sunlight In
Let’s go to that sinister shady side of the house. It would stand to reason that the shady side of the house will be more likely to develop mold doing the winter. Let’s say I leave in the place in Northern California. We do have a winter. a lot of rain and storms, but we also have summer, spring, fall and an Indian summer.
Now, let’s say somebody wanted to apply your sealant. I’m going to call it sealant. Won’t it stand to reason to say, “We are in the middle of February. Heavy rains for months. How about we wait until September or October?” Let it soak six months of strong sun, which will treat it a little bit like the sunny side of the house. We go into that and we clean it. Doesn’t make sense?
It would make that much of a difference because it’s not a sealant. We call it that, but because it’s not a sealant, moisture, air, and sunlight, it doesn’t change anything about that coating. Now, I will say it’s like a paint. You need to be at least 40 to 45 degrees before you apply it. It wouldn’t be something you could apply in the cold in the winner because the coating would become too brittle. During the summer time, that’s the best time to use it because heat is what cures it and makes it more resilient.
My question was about give it six months of strong sun. Maybe even get treated whatever it is there now. Maybe it will kill the mold.
Let the sunlight treat the mold on the side of the house?
Even on the shady side of the house, in the summer it will still get some for hours a day, then there would be no rain. It will get drier and the sun is strong and stuff like that. Does that make sense?
I think so. Cleaning it off and letting that sun hit. Sunlight is going to reduce that. It will dry it out and oxidize that mold as well. Sunlight is always a good solution. The more sunlight you have in your house, the healthier that your house is. These are some basic upkeep things that a lot of people don’t think about in your home. Sunlight doesn’t make us feel happy. More sunlight in the house reduces the conditions that can cause mold growth and helps to oxidize some of these contaminants.
Let’s get into that for just a second. Many of the windows that people have in their homes have been treated. It’s not to let a lot of UVA and UVB light in. In fact, most of them will block all UVB light and 70% of UVA. It lets the infrared going. The red go in and the rest of the spectrum. You don’t get the spectrum of a real sunlight but that’s good enough. The red and infrared and the heat that comes from those windows.
That’s a good question. I don’t know the date on that. My intuition tells me that you’re probably right. It is the UV bands in spectrums that have the ability to stop that microbial growth and working it. That’s why you see these devices that some people sell to put into their HVAC systems, these UV germ killers and things. I don’t particularly recommend them, but that’s what they’re trying to do. They’re using that EV technology. I do think it’s probably lost in the filtering of that UV light, but any sunlight is still good.
The other thing I tell people to do, if they’re in an environment where the air is poor quality. It’s the easiest thing to do, just open the windows. When is the last time you open the windows in your house and just let the house air out? This is something that in Europe, especially in Germany. There’s a practice that they do this. They call it Lufkin or so.
More sunlight in the house reduces conditions that can cause mold growth within a home and helps oxidize some contaminants. Share on XThere’s a name for it and they mean they open up all the windows. They let the house air out. They do it once a week. That was a practice I got into in my house. Now you can’t do it if it’s super humid. There’s some other conditions. You want to maintain the humidity in your house, but in many parts of the country very simple. You just let the house are out and it is easier to do it on the West Coast.
Fascinating. That’s jives with a lot of talk about having your windows open more to let the full spectrum sunlight into the house. Some people even have shown that’s when you exercise. Let’s say you’re in a gym. Many gyms might even be in a basement with neon lights. You go to the gym with neon lights and you lift.
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It’s been shown that if you are in an open a window and you let the full spectrum sunlight in, you are going to recover faster. Your muscles are going to do a better job. It dovetails into what you’re saying. It’s not only good for the mold. It’s good for you. Not to mention as you say, clean out the air in the house and air it out. It all makes sense. Now, because people are visual, how about you show us the products?
I have some right here. Here’s a couple examples. We have our endurance coating. This is the product that I mentioned, our coating technology. This a 32-ounce bottle. You can buy it in the spray bottle. This is what you would use in your shower. For the professional, we sell in gallons. We sell all the way up into totes. For those professionals, if you’re doing a big job, you can order in bulk, but this is our gallons and containers. It’s virtually the same performance. This is just our product for the professionals.
I wish I had some of our everyday cleaner. I don’t have it with me, but it’s probably our most common product. What our system is built on in terms of it’s ability to destroy mycotoxins. I’ll get a little chemistry nerdy here. The issue when it came to cleaners and mycotoxins is hypochlorite like bleaches and peracetic acid. These chemicals can do a fine job sometimes at destroying mold and killing mold. However, they don’t destroy the chemical toxin.
When we started our company, we pursued solving that problem and we met some people in the industry, some research labs and consultants who are all trying to find a solution for this. We teamed up and did some research that became our white paper. That is available on our website that talks about what we did here. We tested our building cleaner and our everyday cleaner, which is a formula of what we call hypotonic electrolytic hypochlorous acid or HEHOC.
Now, hypochlorous acid is a chemical that’s becoming more popular. It’s used in face sprays for women for makeup. It’s being used in certain disinfectants. It’s a powerful chemical that’s generated within your own body. Your white blood cells make it, so your body’s very familiar with it. It’s very safe. The same product that we use that destroys these mycotoxins is I wash my vegetables with it. It’s very safe. This is our everyday cleaner. This is our version of our HEHOC.
What does it say?
Everyday cleaner. It’s a 300-part per million HEHOC. I’ve got these basically in every bathroom and every room. I use this as an all-purpose cleaner. This is a product that in our research has been shown to destroy mycotoxins. It’s this formula. This is the 300-part per million. Use it around the house. The 500-part per million is our building cleaner. It’s the same product but a higher concentration. This is what we use for the fogging, then the system.
Typically, we’ll take this and put it into a ULV fogger. This is not our product but these are commonly available. You fill this up and you can take that and fog throughout the house. It’s a great thing to do as a maintenance up keep for your home. I fog my home once every month or so. It makes everything feel fresh. It clears out the air.
It gives you opportunity to clean up all the dust. Those are our two most popular products. People use our cleaners. The product I don’t have with me that I’d love to show you is our deodar bomb. These are the small packets of chlorine dioxide gas. They create a controlled amount of gas for a specific cubic area, say a bedroom, a automobile, or a camper. Whatever that area is, you can place the right amount of gas in that room. That’s another very powerful product for deodorization destroying VOCs, which many people are very sensitive to, and then destroying the mycotoxins that are in all those hidden areas.
How can we find your products? What’s your website?
The website is SuperStratum.co. We’ve got our shop. There has all of our products. We have the products that I’ve showed you. We have some different bundles. That bundle our products together for some people are like, “I’ve got an apartment. What do I need?” We’ve got those pre-made bundles. We’ve got some great videos that show people how to use our products and how to perform our whole system.
There’s some blogs there that give people some instructions and information. That’s all at SuperStratum.co. We’ve also got a link for the show, so people can go there and they’ll get a coupon code there. The best place to find us is on our website and, online on Instagram, they can find us at @SuperStratum.co. We’re on TikTok as well. I’m very active there and sharing lots of information about building related illness and about our products. We’ve got a growing community of people who are all trying to solve these problems. They’re all experiencing some version of this problem. Their family is sick and went through mold remediation and we’re giving them Information there.
The reader or viewer of this show who has a regular home seems to be okay. We know things lurk anyway but things to be okay. What is your recommendation? Let’s say they say, “Seth, I want to buy some of the basic products and start using them. What do you recommend that I do?”
I would recommend our combo pack. We sell a combo pack of these two products, our endurance coating and our everyday cleaner. We have a combo pack of both of those products on our website. In fact, if you just go to the website, you’ll see a pop-up that offers you 15% off that combo pack. That’s a great way.
You want the combo pack.
You can use the cleaner. It’s great in the shower and around the bathroom. Use it like you would use the cleaners around your house. Use the coating on any of those surfaces that get wet. Use it on your outdoor furniture or put in your shower. Make sure you get that surface clean first and then apply the coating.
Episode Wrap-up And Closing Words
We’ve learned a lot and it sounds like you could make a difference if you just get that connection to builders and it starts to spread virally. You’re going to be taking care of millions of home. That would be fun, wouldn’t it?
It would be able to be a lot of fun. We hope to do it.
Seth, I want to thank you so much for taking the time. I certainly learn a lot. It sounds extremely useful. I appreciate and I hope to see you soon.
Wonderful. Thank you for the conversation.
Take care. Bye-bye.
Important Links
- Seth Jones on LinkedIn
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- Superstratum
- Superstratum Shop on TikTok
- HYGIA.life
- Is Your Home Making You Sick?
About Seth Jones
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.