Autoimmunity and the Indoor Environment: Could a Past or Present Home Be Playing a Role?
An autoimmune diagnosis rarely comes with a why. Could a past or present home be part of what set it off, or what keeps it flaring?
Why a Detox Can Make You Feel Worse – Even When You're Doing Everything Right
Feeling worse on a detox doesn't mean you've done anything wrong. Often the timing, dose or pace just isn't the right fit for your body and home yet.
What I Wish Everyone Knew About EMFs: A Practical, Calm Guide to Reducing Your Exposure
Address EMFs the way you'd declutter a room: calmly, one step at a time, at a pace you can manage.
Sensitive Children: What Highly Reactive Kids Are Actually Reacting To
A reactive child is very often not a mystery. They're a system with a smaller buffer, responding honestly to a load nobody has totalled up.
The Inflammation Loop: When Your Home Keeps Undoing Your Treatment
Your protocol may not be the problem – or not the whole problem. Even a well-designed one can't outpace a tap that's still running.
How I Assess a Patient's Home and Health Together
Every practitioner I saw examined my body. Not one asked a serious question about my home. This is the process I built because I needed it.
Sleep in a Sick Building: Why No Sleep Protocol Will Work If Your Bedroom Is the Problem
You spend a third of your life in one room. It deserves an assessment, not just a routine.
The Renovation That Made My Patient Sicker
The people most likely to renovate for health reasons are exactly the people most vulnerable to a conventionally executed renovation.
Hormonal Disruption and Your Home: The Environmental Connection Nobody Is Talking About
Hormones are messengers, and messengers respond to conditions. Before assuming yours are misbehaving, ask what they're responding to.
What a Building Biologist Sees in Your Home That a Regular Inspector Misses
The report answered the question it was designed to answer. Whether the building is making someone sick was never on the checklist.
The Gut-Mould Connection: How a Water-Damaged Home Can Disrupt Your Digestion Long After Exposure Ends
The question that almost never gets asked in a gut consultation: where were you living when this started?
Why Moving House Didn't Fix Your Health (And What That Tells Us)
An incomplete recovery after moving is common, explainable and addressable. It is not evidence that you imagined the problem.
The Nervous System Under Siege: How Toxic Buildings Drive Anxiety, Brain Fog and Burnout
The tell that points away from a purely psychological explanation: the symptoms track with the building.
Mould Illness vs. Mould Allergy: The Distinction That Changes Everything About Your Treatment
An allergy test asks whether your immune system reacts to mould. It doesn't ask whether your building is making you unwell.
When Your Child’s “Asthma” Is Actually a Building Problem
If the wheeze eases on holiday and returns within a week of coming home, the pattern you’ve noticed is worth investigating.
The Missing Piece In Chronic Fatigue: What Building Biology Reveals That Blood Tests Don't
Standard fatigue investigations look inside the body. Almost no one asks about the room you spend eight hours a night breathing in.
Why Your Doctor Can't Find What's Making You Sick (But Your Home Can)
Standard blood panels are designed to find disease, not the environmental exposures that keep a body unwell. If your tests are normal but you aren't, your home may be worth investigating.
The Full Back Story of My Experience With Water-Damaged Buildings
Before I was a naturopath and building biologist, I was the patient with confusing symptoms and a pile of normal test results. This is what I learned, and why it matters for you.