13 Dec The 14 ways to better health

7 Ways to Good Air Quality:

Control Moisture Sources:

• Vent bathrooms, kitchens, clothes dryer, stove hood and toilets directly outdoors.
• Fix water leaks and clean up within 36 hours after floods
• Ventilate in cold weather
• Dehumidify or air condition in warm weather (RH< 50%)

Control Dust Mites and Animal Dander:

• Wash sheets weekly in 130°F
• Vacuum mattress, chairs and carpeting
• Replace pillows every five years
• Install solid surface floors in bedrooms

Eliminate Combustion Gases:

• Use outdoor air supply for fireplace, wood stove
• Use outside vented stove hood when using gas stove
• Use sealed, power vented water heaters and furnaces.
• Eliminate non-vented combustion sources

Eliminate Toxic Pesticides:

• Eliminate highly toxic pesticides
• Discard synthetics exposed to pesticides
• Reduce air concentration with carbon/zeolite
• Use least toxic pest controls – www.biconet.com

Eliminate Volatile Compounds (VOCs):

• Store toxic/volatile materials (including gasoline) outside living space
• Use No VOC paints and sealers
• Open windows to handle high polluting events, such as the use of home cleaning products, hobbies, painting

Reduce Particulates:

• Use a 3M Filtrete 1250 or better furnace filter
• Replace filters regularly
• Use hard floor surfaces rather than wall-to-wall carpet
• Use a True HEPA filter equipped vacuum cleaner

Improve Ventilation:

• Provide a minimum amount of outside air by
  • Using whole house mechanical ventilation
  • Cracking open a few windows

7 Ways to Lower Electromagnetic Radiation:

Reduce Communication Energies:

• Minimize cell phone usage and use airtube hands-free device from: products.mercola.com/blue-tube-headset
• Children are not to use Wireless Communication devices
• Eliminate wireless internet connections use a wired Ethernet
• Eliminate 2.5 and 5 GHz cordless phone system
• Read Wireless Communications article

Shield House from Cell Towers/Cell Antennas:

• Use building materials that reflect RF
• Retrofit with RF reflection paint
• If you have the choice stay away from cell, radio and TV towers. Generally, urban is worse than suburban is worse than rural.
• In general ground floor is lower in outside RF than upper floors
• Buy a RF meter to assess your living space

Reduce Electric Fields:

• Unplug devices within 6 feet of bed
• Move clock away from bed or get a battery clock
• Eliminate electric blanket, pads, and waterbed heaters
• Eliminate extension cords, power strips near bed
• Turn off circuits supplying bedroom
• Get a Body Voltage measurement kit and assess and remediate all your bedrooms (See Products> EMF Meters)

Reduce Magnetic Fields:

• Unplug Electronics near where you spend a lot of time or move away
• Move 120-Volt powered clock away from bed or get a battery powered clock
• Charge your phone (or anything else) away from the bed
• Keep distance from sources (refrigerator, heating system, electronics)
• Find and fix wiring problems causing unequal current flow and elevated fields
• Buy a Magnetic Field meter to find problems (See Products> EMF Meters> Magnetic Field Meter)

Reduce Static Electric Fields:

• Avoid using plastic floor and wall coverings
• Wear natural fiber clothing
• Use cotton bed clothes

Geopathic Magnetic Fields:

• Avoid metal bedsprings, bed frames, headboards
• Sleep in the N-S direction with head to the north

Light:

• Increase natural light (20 min outside per day)
• Use UV admitting window glazing (plastic, quartz)
• Use full spectrum LED light bulbs that do not make dirty electricity (call me about the SaticPulse bulb)