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Welcome to the Dr. Gundry podcast. Well, you hear me talk about all the time about putting the right foods into your body, but what about the right air?

Yes, that's right, air. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, indoor air can be up to 100 times more polluted than outside air.

And unfortunately, some of the contaminants found inside our homes can cause debilitating health issues and have a tremendous impact on our quality of life. But it's not all bad.

My guest today says there is something that you can do about it. He's Peter Spiegel, Home Environment expert and creator of the air doctor.

And in just a minute, we're going to share those shocking effects of air quality on your health and how you can protect yourself and your family by taking steps towards a contaminant-free non-toxic home.

Say, tune, you don't want to miss this one.

So tell me what's your inspiration behind the air doctor and how you got into this industry.

All right. Well, thank you for having me here, Dr. Gundry. I really appreciate it. And my interest in air quality started at a much younger age than most people would imagine.

As a child, I had really significant and severe airborne allergies.

Basically, if it's in the air, I would be allergic to it. So it could be pollen, dust, grasses, a smoke, so mold, mold spores.

So whatever was in the air, I would be allergic to it and my allergies were pretty significant.

So even at a very young age, my parents would be experimenting with putting different type of filtration devices in my home.

So as I got older and became responsible for my own health and wellness, I became more and more interested in air purifiers, what's in the air?

What do they do? I also moved around a bit. I was born in New York City and grew up outside of New York City.

But I had the opportunity to live in the Midwest, not far from Omaha, Nebraska. I lived in Iowa for a bit of time.

And in Iowa, I really developed very, very severe allergies. And for the first time, I had allergies caused by asthma that was caused by airborne allergens.

So then my interest in removing particles from the air became deeper.

I spent some time in Austin, Texas. I lived there for about a year. And in Austin, there's a phenomenon that they call cedar fever.

And in the winter time around December, January, right around this time, the cedar trees release so much pollen into the air.

It's literally a cloud of pollen. You can see it in the air and it causes symptoms that are quite debilitating.

And I actually lived there not for a couple of years, the first year I was okay. But then I started developing sensitivity to that.

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