64: INDOOR AIR QUALITY: Mold, Radon & More

Because the average person takes between 17,000 and 23,000 breaths of air each day and spends 90 percent of their time indoors, it’s essential to know what the heck you and your loved ones are breathing in daily. You and your family (even your pets) could be breathing in high levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) like cancer-causing xylene, benzene, and formaldehyde as well as asthma irritants, dangerous fumes like radon, smog, and smoke, phthalates, plasticizers, phenols, flame retardants, carbon monoxide, asbestos, lead or mold spores.

In this episode, our guest, Tim Swackhammer, the Founder, and CEO of Mold Medics and Mold Medics Franchising, is clearing the air. Tim explains how to know if you have mold growing in your home, what black mold is, the difference between mold remediation and mold removal, if you should perform your own mold remediation, tips to prevent mold growth, what radon is and how it gets into our homes, how to know if you have elevated levels of radon in your home, radon exposure symptoms and he clarifies what radon mitigation is.