warn of the risks of mold

The president of the Alborada Foundationthe doctor Pilar Muñoz-Calerohas warned that the household pollutants how mold and aromatic candles can affect health, which was stated during the recent celebration at the Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), of the 10th International Congress of Environmental Medicine.

Mold and mycotoxins are microorganisms that “may be present both in food and buildings with humidity problems or water damage,” explained Muñoz-Calero, who added that this is a situation that, “in some countries (such as the United States), affects more than half of the buildings“.

In this quote it has been explained that many of these exhibitions occur in interior spacessuch as homes and the workplace, where people spend most of their time, and where they can accumulate chemical compounds, microorganisms and radiation that affect the body, according to Europa Press.

Exposure to mycotoxins can be triggering or aggravating of environmental diseases, since “it can provoke a response chronic inflammatory and very diverse symptomswhich makes its diagnosis difficult,” continued Muñoz-Calero, who recalled that vulnerability “it is not the same for the entire population”. “Approximately, a 25 percent of people would have more difficulties to eliminate these toxins, which favors their accumulation in the body“he stressed.

Regarding scented candles, he highlighted that indoor air pollutants, such as these, “come from everyday elements present in homes.” The combustion of them for one hour “can raise nitrogen dioxide levels indoors to values ​​close to the limit recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO)”, he assured.

Technological devices

To the above, are added the consequences of certain technological devicessince there are possible biological effects from exposure to electromagnetic fields and radio frequency radiation generated by wireless technologies. “Various studies suggest that these fields can act at the cellular level through the activation of calcium channels in the cell membranes“said biochemist Martin L. Pall, professor emeritus of the American Washington State University.

This “would trigger a cascade of biological processes related to neurological, hormonal or cardiovascular alterations“, he continued, while the professor emeritus of the Canadian University of Trent, Magda Havas, has expressed that, “in certain experimental studies, they have been observed changes in parameters like the heart rate wave pulse variability after exposure to radiofrequency radiation from wireless devices”.