Mike Feldstein

And especially when you're cooking.

And on that note, people should test their range hoods.

More than half of people's range hoods don't actually work.

So if you take it, just take a tissue, do a tissue test, turn your range hood on, hold it up to the vent and make sure it's actually pulling the tissue up and then make sure it's venting outside because often that thing is venting into the crawl space.

It's venting behind your wall.

It's like a little microwave one that's like venting in the cabinet above or in your attic.

It's not actually venting outside.

It's just putting it in another room.

And if you can, when you're cooking, especially if you're boiling stuff, use the back burner because the range hood does collect much, much more from the back burner.

The shower, when you're using your bathroom fan, run it for like two hours after your shower because all that humidity and make sure that vents outside to those often vent into attics because you shower.

Think about how much water a towel can soak up.

So when you're done showering, there's like a gallon plus of water just like on your towel, in the shower floor.

And then if it's not exhausting outside, that just goes inside and that contributes to your mold growth.

So a few reasons, definitely like a nonstick pan is worse, not clean food is worse, but even if you're using your grass fed, grass finished steak with organic oils and everything, no seed oils and you're doing all the things right, high heat and protein creates a lot of byproducts.

So there's chemical compounds that are created like PAH, which is polysilic aromatic hydrocarbons, and a bunch more stuff.

Same stuff that we'd be testing for after wildfire smoke.

So there's a lot of chemical compounds that aren't the food and aren't the oil that get created from the proteins and the heat.

And then that gets embedded in your carpets and your furniture.

Anything in your home that can get wet and absorb water also absorbs air.

And then the other thing to consider is just because you can eat something, it doesn't mean you can breathe it.