In this week’s New York Times there was an interesting article about Detoxifying the Home that I thought you might enjoy. The reporter, Penelope Green, wrote about hiring a consultant to come into her NYC apartment and assess how safe it was from a toxins/chemical exposure perspective. The consultant, Matthew Waletzke, is “a 35-year-old triathlete-in-training with a degree in psychology, who turned to building biology as a way to “detox” Simply Vibrant, his Rockville Centre, N.Y., wellness center. He was treating a lot of autistic children, he said, and after learning that some studies indicate their immune systems have a difficult time processing toxins, he wanted to create as benign an environment as possible there.”

So Mr. Waletzke goes through Ms. Green’s apartment with a fine tooth comb, so to speak, and enlightens her on everything from electromagnetic radiation, to cleaning product toxins, to mold and mildew.

Anyway – it’s a pretty interesting and a somewhat entertaining read so definitely check it out if you have a minute – you can click here to read the complete article. (Note: the photo credits go to the NYT article)