Dr. Mark Hyman

The next thing you want to do is filter your drinking water.

I have a reverse osmosis filter at home.

As long as you're taking a multivitamin mineral or you're replacing minerals, having electrolytes, you're fine.

Really important because there's just so many, not just metals, but also other pesticides and chemicals and all kinds of things in water.

I think there's 38 different chemicals on average in the average drinking water that are concerning.

And if you're living in an old house, make sure you test it for lead and take care of it.

All right.

The next big source of toxins, and most people don't think about this, is

the air you breathe, especially indoor air pollution, which is one of the biggest problems.

So air pollution from the outside and indoor pollution of air is also a common source of toxic exposure.

And many of us spend a lot of time inside, and indoor air can be more polluted than outdoor air.

because you get VOCs from furniture, from building materials, from mold, cleaning sprays, gas ovens, and poor indoor air quality can cause all sorts of stuff.

Asthma, brain fog, headaches, immune dysregulation.

I met a guy who was building the Bank of America, the new, it was a $2 billion building in New York City, and he was an architect, patient actually, and he told me that they invested a huge amount of money in making the indoor air quality great and doing it environmentally friendly and

no off-gassing.

I'm like, why do they spend all this money?

And he said, because the productivity was so much higher in their employees.

When we built our Center for Functional Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, I insisted that we hire an environmental firm and we follow strict environmental standards for the products in there.

So we wouldn't have off-gassing, formaldehyde, VOCs.

We would have carpets with all kinds of chemicals, paint with chemicals.