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Very strong endorsement of the effects of indoor air contamination and the need for air purification by Doris Rapp, MD, as interviewed by Linda Eicher, Bob Giddens and Doug Hoffman on the Webinar program. Dr. Rapp is one of the best-known and foremost expert in this field. The call was on New Year's Eve, less than 2 hours before midnight, and Dr. Rapp really got excited about being with us. Her passion and expertise come through loudly and clearly.

Share this call with health professionals in Central Florida--including allergists, behavioralists, pediatricians, psychologists and psychiatrists, and family physicians. Share it with teachers, parents, school administrators, law enforcement people, mold remediators, duct cleaners, air conditioning and heating experts, and of course all EcoQuest prospects and distributors. 

To skip the intro, use the slide at the bottom of your on-screen video player to 4:25 where Dr. Rapp begins. Her opening point:

"The most important thing is the fact that what we eat, touch, and smell can absolutely affect any part of our body, and our water and our air and our food are very contaminated now with all sorts of chemicals in particular."

A few other notable statements (there were so many!):

"...molds, for example, in the air can do much more than cause hay fever, asthma, skin problems and intestinal problems. Molds in the air can affect any area of your brain. It can cause some people to become depressed and suicidal. It can cause children to become hyperactive or fatigued or withdrawn. It can cause aggression. It can cause anger. It can cause changes in how you learn. It could cause things that people never realized can possibly be due to a mold sensitivity: arthritis for example."

"Most people do not understand or appreciate even to a little degree the extent that molds can cause a problem. And if an air purifier takes those molds out of the air and the person suddenly feels well, you have done something that's very, very good. If you are always worse on moldy days, on rainy days when you are in damp places, I can tell you your symptom is the mold."

"If you've got a nail in your shoe causing a sore in your foot, the treatment is to remove the nail. If you're living in a house that's moldy, if an air purifier solves your problem--wonderful. That's a relatively easy and inexpensive solution."

"As you can imagine, these are monumental problems in schools."

"Most doctors and those in the health profession aren't even thinking of these things."

"Other times you have to find a doctor who knows about treating environmental allergies."

"...the percentages are very, very high. Lots and lots of people know that something makes them a little itchy or gives them a little belly ache or something makes them cough a little bit, but most of us don't pay attention to minute symptoms. Many, many people are sensitive in some way that it affects their brain, and they don't spot that they get angry or aggressive or hostile or cry or moody or don't want to be touched or get depressed. They don't recognize that different areas of their brain are being affected."
 

14:13 (start listening here if your time is limited and you just want to sell yourself on the value of listening to the whole lecture)

At this point in the call, Dr. Rapp seems to get extra passionate about her message. She also talks specifically about the value of a home air purifier.

"There is no doubt in my mind that if you can decrease the total load of what's in the air--the dust, the mold, the pollen, the chemicals--if you can cut down on that, you will have far fewer problems with allergies. You don't have to eliminate everything to be symptom free; you just have to get your level of exposure below your tolerance level. And many times the air purifiers all by themselves can do it. Many times you can move them from one room to another and you can do a whole house with one air purifier by putting it in different areas of the house for 8 hours. If the air purifiers take out germs as well as other things, then the patients do even better, particularly the children who have one infection after another. Air purification is becoming better and better as time goes on. You really need to breathe as pure air as possible at all times."

22:33

"Many times, if you just put in an air purifier and it's due to dust, mold, pollen or chemicals--if it's one that also takes out chemicals--that person will be better in just a day or two, sometimes in just a few hours."

24:10 - What types of guests should be invited to the Orlando presentation?