How to Detoxify Your Home with Dr. Jenny Goodman

Jenny Goodman· Guest0:00

Why does the air in your house need freshening in the first place? I mean, just empty the bins and open the windows. [laughs] If your sofa is made, and your carpet, is made of synthetic material, anything synthetic, that means it's made of petrochemical material, that means it's flammable, so by law it has to be impregnated with flame retardants. It's not one individual chemical that's the worst problem, it's the cocktail effect. It's the fact that we're exposed to all of them all the time, and we spend 90% of our lives indoors.

Matt Gibberd· Host0:34

Hi, folks. Welcome back to Homing. I'm Matt Gibberd. As many of you will have noticed, we're now alternating between two different episode types. So one week we'll do a house visit, like the one with Maria Balshaw, and the next we'll do a foundations episode, like the one today. So we'll be drilling down into a particular topic. Today's conversation is about toxicity. My guest is Dr. Jenny Goodman, a practitioner of ecological medicine who's written two books on the subject, Staying Alive in Toxic Times and Getting Healthy in Toxic Times. A lot of what Jenny advocates relates specifically to the home, so the harmful effects of cleaning products, how to prepare and store food safely, avoiding plastic, reducing electromagnetic radiation, and all sorts of other things like that. She tells me why she believes everything from