Re: Is an air purifier INEFFECTIVE against carpet off-gass???

[Guest guest]

You are lucky, many of us are so reative that walking into a room

with contaminated clothing would make us abandon the the place

immediatly- we all have different levels of tollerance- consider

yourself luck you do not have to practice total avoidence- one hr a

day in a contaminated house woud keep me debilitated for the other 23

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> Hi ph, I'm not suggesting that anyone

> gradually *increase* their exposure to mold!

> However it IS well known, not an unknown, that

> too clean all the time, lowers your resistance to

> disease, not improves it, but small amounts, but

> certainly not *increasing* amounts, does help to

> preserve a health immune system. I'm not

> encouraging anyone to deliberately expose

> themselves to toxic mold or dirt either. I'm

> just saying for *myself*, I think now spending

> 22-23 away from home, the one hour there is not

> bad (I also wear a N95 mask and carbon filter)

> but my clothes do get exposed and hair and

> skin,etc, but there must be a tremendous

> difference to my system to be away 22-23 hours a

> day, where the last 15 years I there 22-24 hours

> a day, so it should make a tremendous positive

> difference to my body. I do remove my clothes

> and put them in laundry bag when I get to hotel.

> I *KNOW* I'm walking into my room wearing them

> but I am not convinced that this type of ultra

> avoidance works out well or is necessary and in

> fact may not be desireable long term. My house

> is not the only toxic place in the world. I've

> been looking at places to live and to me 90% of

> them smell musty, so I have to learn to get along

> with a little bit of mold and dirt, unless I want

> to spend the rest of my life like a rolling

> stone.

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