The Curse of Tutankhamun: amazing facts about mold

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It is something able to save lives and be deadly. It is at the same time - and the animals and plants, as eats, breathes and multiplies. A recent study of scientists argue: it still has intelligence. What is this?

This mold! The substance, which appeared on Earth about 200 million tapes ago (long before man), and teach to survive in a totally unreal space conditions, the arctic cold and lethal level radiation. And not just to survive, and multiply rapidly.

the danger of mold

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Entire colonies of this "creature" has long become familiar "residents" of many houses, apartments, bathrooms and refrigerators. People just used to ignore it. Meanwhile, this microscopic fungus is capable of destroying not only the entire walls and buildings - it just deadly for humans as acts on the body as a time bomb.

The human immune system is unique and is able to deal with thousands of germs and viruses. But in dealing with fungal spores, caught in the body, it is powerless. Once in the human body, mold release substances - mycotoxin - capable of killing the cells of living organisms, thus creating, prosperous environment for their own habitat.

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It has been proved that mold, in addition to the fact that reduces the human immune system in a few times, and even It promotes the development of allergies and asthma, and may also trigger leukemia and various cancers tumor.

Curse of Tutankhamun

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Mold called "curse of Tutankhamun" is not in vain. History knows many cases when opening his tomb entailed more than a dozen deaths. Today, scientists have proven the existence of deadly mold in the tomb, and at the beginning of the uncertainty associated with the mummy of Egyptian Pharaoh is literally struck terror.

Unfortunately, mold can poison today. And often such poisoning confused with symptoms of other diseases, and signs of toxicity will depend on the different types of mold.

It can be:

• Frequent shortness of breath
• Recurrent signs of suffocation
• Violation of the blood pressure
• Chronic cough and runny nose
• Pneumonia
• Frequent headaches or dizziness
• Skin rash
• Chronic fatigue
• Allergies

Get into the human body fungus can in two ways:

• A breathing apparatus (if mold is present in the room)
• Through the digestive tract (with products poisoned fungus)

That's why I encourage you to know that removing from the product surface, such as jam and bread, only the tip "Iceberg", you put yourself at risk to run into the body thousands of spores that are invisible to the eye, but spread throughout the product.

USEFUL MOLD

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At the same time I want to note that not all the mold on the product is deadly. There is also the so-called "noble", grown in special conditions and is popular in many countries has been for many centuries.

As an example, one type of fungus - penicillum notatum, saved during the Second World War, millions of military life. It is from this substance bacteriologist Alexander Fleming created the world's first antibiotic - penicillin, which the author will "take only if the patient was between life and death."

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