All right, everyone, welcome to Heel Thyself episode number 12.

We've done 12 shows, believe it or not, and it's gone fast, but guess what? People are downloading the show. People are subscribing and it's growing and it's growing nicely. So I'm really happy.

Feel really blessed to be disseminating some great info and hopefully that it's something that is applicable to everyone just moved to a new place in Venice and I decided it be a good idea to talk about the importance of detoxing your home or at least identifying the toxins in your home. So I put together a show for you today so you know how to empower yourself and what to do about making your home

toxin free. And this will be a one part and then we'll cover a few shows later,

other parts, but really I just want to talk about a few things so why don't

we get started and just get right into the knowledge bomb. All right so moving

into my new place, I wanted to start bringing up the importance of what they call

volatile organic compounds, right?

So before we moved in, I had mentioned to the homeowner that we want it repainted with low VOC paint.

Why? Because paint is one of the major contributors to home off-gassing.

And when you think about it, and we have to think as a whole, right?

We have paint, we have flooring, we have wallpaper, we have couches, beds, shower liners, all of that creates

a compounded exposure to these chemicals.

And it's important because as adults, we're susceptible.

100% because we see that in studies, but guess who's more susceptible,

children, infants. So what I'm going to do today is just talk a little bit about where they're found what they are and how to intervene, some take homes, and then for the review review segment we'll go into some important

interventions too. So volatile organic compounds are basically high vapor

pressure compounds so at room temperature they vaporize and they're regulated by

the EPA. The EPA says our indoor quality has two to five times more volatile organic compounds than outdoor.

But, but in some instances it can go up to a thousand times more

then is safe.

So one of those instances, well things like painting, things like bringing in a whole

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