Start by measuring your home's air quality with a monitor like Swidget, which tracks CO₂, humidity, and other metrics. High CO₂ signals elevated toxins. Silent killers like radon and carbon monoxide often go undetected, especially in homes with gas appliances, so monitoring is the first step to knowing what to fix.
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So most people are not building a new home imminently. Most people live in their home and have and are going to. So what are we telling people to do who live in a home that was suboptimally built? What are the remedies possible for them?
Great question, because it really leads to understanding your environment, right? I think the biggest thing is we have to understand how our house is performing. Maybe it's fine. So what I recommend people do is buy some type of air quality monitor. There's a system, for example, called the Swidget system that will replace one of your light switches. It will go in where you have an existing light switch and it comes with an application that's able to also give you some results on your air quality. So it will, for example, be able to let you know what the humidity level is in the home. It'll be able to let you know what the carbon dioxide levels are. So carbon dioxide levels, if they are high, it's also likely there's a high level of toxins as well. There's also some silent killers, meaning radon gas and carbon monoxide. Any house that, that has gas appliances will have a, a certain level of residual carbon monoxide, and a lot of houses have radon problems. So getting a monitor to really tell you what those levels are at is the, is the next thing that can be done.
