WEEKEND CASUAL VIDEO on Sinusitis, black mold, why my sinus lavage is the best and safest, iodine-iodide, mucosal immuno-defense/tolerance, and Cv19 leadership

All this, a bit more, and snippets from two other great videos with hyperlinks to the original videos provided below

Topics:

1. Distinguishing verbal exchange formats

   1. Conversation

   2. Lecture

   3. Presentation

   4. Long-form (see excerpt in video and hyperlink)

2. My recent sinusitis and black mold experience

   1. How to get rid of the “black mold” problem: a simple outline of the most important strategies

   2. What are the management differences between maxilary, frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid sinusitis? What connects these spaces together? What causes the pooling of mucus and what is the inevitable consequence?

   3. Why my sinus lavage is the best and safest: avoiding Nagleria + antimicrobial and mucolytic

   4. Iodine-iodide: see video discussion and section from Chapter 4 on diet and basic supplementation (PDF download)

   5. Mucosal immuno-defense/tolerance: name two nutrients that help in these areas

3. Cv19 leadership: Excerpt in video and hyperlink provided below

For more technical and clinical details, see the Dysbiosis-Microbiome Course and the video on Sinus Dysbiosis:

Microbiome and Dysbiosis Video #6: Dysbiosis by Location—The Sinuses and Respiratory Tract (two videos)

CASUAL VIDEO on Sinusitis, black mold

Black mold—do you have it?: If you see it, you’ve got it. If you don’t see it, then it might be under the bed/mattress or behind the furniture or in the basement/attic or below the sink or behind the commode. If it’s outside in the surrounding area, then it could still affect sensitive/vulnerable people but the concentration will be much less. If you’ve got black mold inside your car/office/workshop/home, you might tolerate it for a while but then not, eg, you could become less tolerant due to other problem or nutritional deficiency, other allergens might bloom, or the mold might bloom due to summer humidity or winter condensation.

How to get rid of “the problem”? The problem is the physiologic response triggered by exposure, so either change the response (see my nutritional immunomodulation protocol in Chapter 4) or eliminate the triggering offense.

Black mold = invisible chemical warfare: Mold/fungi communicate, fight and defend territory by producing volatile air-borne chemicals that are (obviously) biologically active. The more complex multiorganism biofilms can also contain bacteria that produce LPS/endotoxin, which is commonly considered the most potent pro-inflammatory agent known to biomedicine. This invisible and mostly odorless airborne chemical warfare is inhaled into your body, first the nose and sinuses (rhinitis and sinusitis), then the lungs (asthma) then the entire body (systemic autoimmune disease, also multiple sclerosis).

American medical organizations deny this because 1) they don’t make money from treating the problem but rather from medicating the manifestations, 2) they serve to protect other big businesses such as insurance companies and corporations that might have liability for sick workers/residents, 3) they want to protect the “individualized medicine” paradigm which is infinitely profitable with endless tests and treatments under the guise of “treating the unique patient” which feeds people’s narcissism.

Functional medicine profiteers/labs overdiagnose, overtreat, and undermanage this problem. Commercial laboratories may overstate and misrepresent the idea that fungal toxins in the sinuses are absorbed systemically for toxic effects; publication of this marketing message in “peer-reviewed research” (2014) gives the impression that the notion has been substantiated even when the supposed “supporting evidence” was misused/miscited.

Eliminating black mold problem:

1. Ventilation: Dilution of the ambient air is the fastest solution

2. Reduce water/humidity/condensation, eg, hot-cold winter, ie, if you’ve got condensation on your windows in the winter then you’ve probably got too much trapped humidity

3. Reduce organic/carbon “food” for the mold: Mold can feed on nearly anything, including house dust, pollen and outdoor dust; obviously wood construction and the paper-binding of drywall/sheetrock is MRE (meal ready to eat)

4. Antifungal chemicals, including diluted bleach: Effective and toxic—1) set up ventilation, 2) apply chemical, 3) remove excess, 4) ventilation and dehumidification

5. Dry the area: Fix leaks, remove condensation, use fans, buy a dehumidifier (ours is great and I think we paid roughly $100)

6. Cover it: Impenetrable paints/plastics (including those with antifungal chemicals), all the way to building a new wall and filling the void with polyurethane foam

7. House maintenance, drainage: My first home in Houston Texas came with a built-in retaining pond under the house (managed with a box fan in a “dog house” that I attached to the subfloor and then had the fan blowing away/out), leaky wall-roof junctions that created a mold bloom in my office under the bookcase within the first few months of paying for professional construction inside (office) and outside (siding).

Sinusitis: See video discussion for combination of nutritional immunomodulation protocol from Chapter 4), iodine-iodide/Lugol from the diet protocol (PDF, excerpt from Chapter 4) , and topical/intranasal sinus rinse with iodide/iodine. The best oral iodine+iodide supplement is Iodizyme-HP from Biotics Research at 12.5 mg per tablet.

PS: Additional details about forms and concentrations of iodine and iodide are provided here healthythinking.substack.com/p/additional-details-about-forms-of as an extension of this conversation.

Links to other videos mentioned/excerpted above:

1. Putting Our Kids First: A Look At COVID-19 School Guidlines And How They're Affecting Our Children; June 1st, 2021 https://odysee.com/@sayerji:7/freeourkids:8

2. The War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger; Aug 19, 2019 youtube.com/watch?v=7LqaotiGWjQ

Dr Alex Kennerly Vasquez (introduction; brief Bio-CV) writes and teaches for an international audience on various topics ranging from leadership to nutrition to functional inflammology. Major books include Inflammation Mastery, 4th Edition (full-color printing, 1182 pages, equivalent to 25 typical books [averaging 60,000 words each]), which was also published in two separate volumes as Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine (Volume 1: Chapters 1-4; Volume 2: Chapter 5—Clinical Protocols for Diabetes, Hypertension, Migraine, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriasis, Vasculitis, Dermatomyositis and most other major inflammatory/autoimmune disorders); several sections have been excerpted including Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (ISBN 1502894890) (aka, Antiviral Nutrition [available as PDF download] and Brain Inflammation in Chronic Pain, Migraine, and Fibromyalgia. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks and his new Telegram channel is https://t.me/DrAlexVasquez.

This wonderful and insightful conversation is not personalized medical advice :-)