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ragall 4 hours ago

Have you ever done a mold spore count in your house ? There's a hypothesis that, due to living in stick frame houses, a large part of the American population might be suffering from a low dose chronic mold intoxication which shows up as a heightened state of inflammation.

> I may be biased, because I live in a city filled with houses over 100 years old, and we get incessant rain. They seem to hold up fine

I wouldn't be so sure.

loandbehold 3 hours ago | parent [-]

In places like Boston there are many 100+ years old stick frame houses. They hold up just fine. Properly built wooden houses don't get any mold.

ragall 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Very few are properly built, especially in the last decades. Asymptotically to zero.

loandbehold 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I have many friends who own houses built in the last 10 to 30 years ago. None of them have any issues with mold.