How to Clean Your House Like an Oncologist
Oncologists emphasize the importance of reducing exposure to harmful substances in the home to improve health. They recommend practical changes such as eliminating plastic from kitchens and using air purifiers. These adjustments can help mitigate risks associated with chemicals and pollutants.
- ▪Oncologists suggest that many exposures in the home can be controlled to improve health outcomes.
- ▪They recommend replacing plastic kitchen items with glass or wood to avoid harmful chemicals.
- ▪Using air purifiers with HEPA filters can reduce respiratory issues and improve indoor air quality.
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You can’t control whether a relative smoked in the house you grew up in, whether the factory near your childhood home leached chemicals into the groundwater, or whether the air outside your apartment has fine particulates floating through it on any given afternoon. But oncologists—the doctors who spend their careers thinking about why people develop cancer—are clear about one thing: There’s a long list of exposures inside your home that you can actually do something about.“How we sleep, what we breathe, what we eat, what we drink, what we expose ourselves to—all of these things definitely factor into your physical and mental health,” says Dr. Michael Dominello, a radiation oncologist at Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit.
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