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90% of our lives are spent indoors.

This is sad, but it also shows how important it is to make sure that we do not get sick in the end. After all, our own home can make us sick.

The reason is that we are unfortunately paying far too little attention to the most essential questions:

Where do we build our living space?
With which materials do we build our flats, our houses?
And finally: How do we furnish our homes - especially the bedrooms but also the living rooms? Studies?

Every single decision we make in this regard has an influence on our well-being and health. Pollutants from furniture, synthetic materials and home textiles, electrical appliances (especially printers), lighting, electrosmog, fine dust and chemical pollutants cause damage to our body - often unnoticed for a long time, growing over many years.

Those with a strong immune system have a clear advantage. However, an intact immune system requires a healthy home.

Electrosmog, fine dust pollution and 5G: is healthy living still possible?

Fortunately, I can answer this question with a resounding "YES! Yes, it is possible and in fact not that difficult, provided you have the right consultant and expert at your side. Often it is indeed the small things that can make a big difference in this extremely delicate topic.

Rear view of a couple relaxing on a sofa at home and looking outside a green background through the window of the living room Couple relaxing on a couch at home

Those who know their present situation have already taken the first big step.

And if you are now asking yourself what the quickest way to find out your present situation is, I can give you a simple answer: we will solve this question for you. We analyse your location, measure your radiation exposure, test your tap water and assess the light quality in your home. It does not take long and it does not make a mess. As a rule, we are all a lot smarter afterwards and start to figure out a concept in-house to eliminate your problem areas.

Let us find out together how your own home is doing. If you wish, we can also determine the regulatory capacity of your autonomic nervous system by heart rate variability measurement, and we can measure how much stress you are under or how quickly you can relax.

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Those who know their present situation have already taken the first big step.

House dust: so that dreams of living do not dissolve into dust. Harmless dust bunnies or ticking allergy bombs?

Quite often I can definitely describe house dust as a toxic cocktail.

Imagine the following situation: every day a human being sheds millions of very fine skin scales. This is absolutely normal. As normal as the house dust mite feeds on this abundance of dandruff. The mite's excrement is joined by other particles: fallen hair, mould spores, pollen, fine particles that we bring into the flat with our shoes, and the abrasive dust of furniture. Depending on size, all of this accumulates sooner or later on your floor. Finely mixed with ultra-fine dust caused by laser printers and poisonous substances from most diverse equipment. What seems like a utopian horror scenario here is unfortunately underestimated in everyday life in too many homes.

Six milligrams of dust per square metre a day are mirroring your entire living situation. Anyone who suffers from allergies or allergy-like symptoms should therefore check their house dust for suspicious substances bound to it, or minimise them in any case.

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Humans emit up to 1 million biological particles (germs, bacteria, etc.) per hour

and have long been known to transmit pathogens to other people and to surfaces, including carpet floors. Research confirms that an inhabited space is microbiologically different from an uninhabited one, and shows for the first time that individuals release their own personalized microbial cloud.[1]

Incidentally, this also applies to pets, which add allergens, too, that can impair individual health.[2]

This shows that living room and office air can be significantly polluted. Cooking, cleaning and working indoors (characterized by the movement of people) significantly increase particle concentration. But movements while sleeping or during intimate activities also lead to a significantly increased particle load in the bedroom.

Therefore, a high-quality and, above all, short-pile rug can be useful for binding house dust and removing it from the air we breathe. The rug serves both as a reservoir for and sometimes a source of environmental pollutants, and as a surface that supports chemical and biological transformations. Unfortunately, the health effects of these properties have not yet been fully examined. Regular vacuuming of the rug with a good anti-allergy vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter is all the more important. It would be ideal to supplement it with a professional air cleaner fitted with an active air disinfection system (www.cubusan.com) - especially in places such as open-plan offices, conference rooms, hotels, schools, retirement homes, etc., where large numbers of people regularly gather.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4582947/ (25.12.2022)

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5809771/ (25.12.2022)

[3] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es990348y (25.12.2022)

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7017391/ (25.12.2022)

[5] https://allergia.at/de/allergien/staubsauger-allergiker-geeignet (25.12.2022)

When moving on smooth floors, too much dust is stirred up.

The prevailing opinion that smooth flooring is preferable to textile flooring is absolutely wrong - however, appropriate quality and regular vacuuming are needed. Because every step you take on a smooth floor stirs up huge amounts of dust. You breathe it in as a cloud of fine particles that cannot be held by the smooth surface. The finer the dust, the easier and deeper it can penetrate your body through the lungs. And it does so for about 90 per cent of your lifetime, because that is how much we stay on average in indoor spaces.

Flotex: sustainable protection from stains

Currently, the best way to bind fine dust by simple means is to use textile carpeting or rugs. The industry has developed good problem solvers and introduced them in the market, such as Flotex. The Flotex high-tech floor is a very good problem solver. Tests have shown that five to fifteen times higher mechanical forces are necessary to swirl up and remove fine particles from the textile material. Basically, it is a simple principle: a carpet will hold dust until you vacuum it. Many carpets are so easy to clean that wet cleaning can be done without chemicals. Clear water - that is all you need. This is guaranteed, for example, by the manufacturers (Flotex or Lano), and both promise a lifetime stain guarantee. Lano also uses natural components based on corn starch in the pile for a new product group, which makes it possible to obtain a carpet that is easy to maintain and dust-binding.

Plea for the carpet.

To give you a better idea: in rooms with smooth floors, the concentration of fine dust is twice as high as in those with carpeted floors. By the way, we currently know more than 20,000 allergens. However, not a single allergy can be attributed to carpeting.

In my book "Gesund wohnen. Besser leben" ("Healthier Living - Better Living"), I discuss this extremely delicate topic in detail.

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