290. Mike Feldstein: The 5 Hidden Air Pollutants in Your Home and How To Fix It!

“to see the next patient. So if they had a little air purifier, they were 45 minutes between patients. If they had a Jaspr, they were eight minutes between patients. Wow. Yeah. Because we had the airflow that they were required. Oh, okay. So it's the volume of air that this thing would move. Yeah. Right. So you take the ceiling. People think air filtration is about square footage.”

“when we find that the carbon is dropping off like a cliff. So you replace the filter every six months, you get a Jaspr and then you put a new correct carbon filter. And we're moving, we're going to be upgrading to coconut carbon this year and hoping that we can actually extend the filter lifespan a little bit.”

“exposure puts them over the edge. So, so back to the Jaspr filter for a minute. So in, in an ideal situation for, you know, the best air quality, is this something that you would put one in the biggest area of your home or would you put them in kids' rooms, your bedroom and one in the biggest area of your home?”

“Wow. When we did a test at the Ritz here, we got a 10 times cleaner in 20 minutes. In the room you're staying in. In the room. You just walked right in there with the Jaspr and set it right in your room. I travel with it everywhere I go. That's awesome. Everywhere I go, I drag that thing with me. If you know me, you know I don't recommend anything I haven't personally tested.”

“If it smells like poop, it is poop. Yeah. And if it's poop, it's incredibly high levels of bacteria. Yeah. So I'd love to say Jaspr is the solution for this. It helps. But the right, like, if there's like one message that I'm a huge proponent of, it's getting those diaper pails out of baby's room. Mm. And there's actually a pretty small one. It's like a $70 Amazon one.”

“filtering their air. So we said, we'll give you guys a Jaspr in exchange for 30 days of sleep data, four weeks. So the first week, keep your Jaspr off weeks, two and three Jaspr on in your bedroom, fan speed, three dark mode week, four, turn your Jaspr off. The average person got 25 minutes more sleep per night, 18% more deep sleep.”

“So there's no standard in the right HEPA is a standard, but they're not mandating that the airflow is at a certain fan speed. So you'll notice when you look at our lab data, we put the CFM on the lab data because we're testing it at the actual fan speed that Jaspr is running. If we test it at”

“I wish we could help public schools. They're very difficult to work with. If you email us, we give several hundred Jasprs every couple months away to schools to put into your kids' classrooms. Oh, that's great. Because we found once the kids, once people's kids start getting, stop getting sick, it becomes undeniable.”

“Then we can pull the scrubbers out. This kept happening. Well, now we had no equipment to do more jobs. So I'm like, let's, what if we go to Best Buy, Walmart? I just buy six or seven air purifiers. Yeah. Put them in the home and let them keep them because we need the scrubbers for work. Right. We put the air purifiers in, we're monitoring the air.”

“Wow. And this was my big moment. I knew nothing at the time. This is 2016. I knew nothing about residential air purifiers. I only knew about scrubbers. Scrubber basically is a big industrial air purifier designed for mold, smoke, asbestos, lead, crime scene cleanup, heavy duty, but they're loud and they're ugly.”

“So I'm like, oh wow, this is a really big problem. These air purifiers on the shelves are making big claims. So I was like, wait, when this restoration, when this fire is done, I'm like, we need to create an air scrubber that is actually quiet and it's beautiful.”

“Yeah. So with the school, the study was done in Finland. They put air purifiers, and I don't even think super impressive ones, but decent ones, into 50% of the classes across a handful of schools. And the absentee rates dropped by 20% to 30%, depending on where. Yeah, yeah, right.”

“Oh, okay. So it's the volume of air that this thing would move. Yeah. Right. So you take the ceiling. People think air filtration is about square footage. It's not. It's about cubic volume. Cause if you have eight foot ceilings versus 16 foot ceilings, the volume is dramatically different. So restoration was where I was starting, but I felt helpless and I felt like we could only”

“mattress, the mattress that you're sleeping on, air filtration, lighting, lighting, these things that once you invest in them, then usually the investment's over. There's some minimal investment thereafter.”

“but, you know, I've heard you also talk about how, you know, your air filtration system is only gonna get you so far because number one, it's not constantly recirculating the air. You mean like HVAC wise? HVAC wise. You know, so it's not constant on. And then secondly, it's recirculating the same air”

“Obviously minimal carpets, minimal rugs. If you are using carpets, getting a really good HEPA vacuum. And I don't mean like the Dyson, for example, there's a real, the mold vacuum that I used to use for mold and asbestos. It was called the GD 930. That sounds serious. It's very serious. Sounds like a front end. They're only five, $600 now. Really? And they're on Amazon. And what is the difference?”

“Even in mold restoration, this would last us months. For residential use, you'll probably never have to change the filter ever. Wow. And this should be your, But you can't get these things at like Walmart or Target.”

“Amazon has them now. Amazon has them. EuroClean, NoFisk. What is it called? G-D-930. G-D-930. So that is like your deep clean vacuum. Okay. And I really recommend that every family, part of your news year is resolution. And you're getting ready for the holidays.”

“Yeah. So you really want to balance that airflow. So the, the HEPA, the media, that's grabbing your particulates, your mold, your dust. That's micron size. Yep. Yeah. Particulate. Okay. And then the, the activated carbon absorbs the gases and the odors as they're coming through.”

“has a lifespan for how much it can absorb. Yeah. So with HEPA, the filter actually, after about a month performs better than the first day, cause a little bit of particulate on there is, is, is actually better. It's plugging up a little bit of the spores, pores, giving the more resistance, which is effective. But then you hit a point of diminishing returns where the airflow is dropping.”

“got this moldy pollen full there that you're just driving deep down your airways. Come on guys. Another duh moment. So, um, HEPA, I'm kind of on a, we're going to change our language soon. Cause you know, we're calling our HEPA filter. HEPA is bullshit. It is why it was totally bullshit. Why is it just particular size or what?”

“other contaminants that are in the air that are, that are not particulate? They do. That's what the, that's what the activated carbon's for. And it's really a dance. A lot of people think more carbon's better and they're competing on more carbon, but you need to find the sweet spot. We found about one pound to be the sweet spot”

“your particulates, your mold, your dust. That's micron size. Yep. Yeah. Particulate. Okay. And then the, the activated carbon absorbs the gases and the odors as they're coming through. Now, does that have a, a, a life cycle too? Cause we, I use activated charcoal a lot in, in my detox protocols, you know, for like molds, mycotoxin things. So, so that activated charcoal,”

“Really, really, really quickly. It's just like water filters work. Air filters work. In half an hour. Half an hour. Wow. When we did a test at the Ritz here, we got a 10 times cleaner in 20 minutes. In the room you're staying in. In the room.”

“well on what typically they have these big claims. Then you look at the five print, it's like seven foot ceilings in an isolated chamber on, on, um, on full speed. Most people are running the air filter at the lowest speed all the time”

“moment where I realized, whoa, what, what are we doing here, guys? We'd go into a home. First thing you do is you set up the air scrubbers, then you, you start to rip out carpets, insulation, furniture, anything that's porous, you're getting rid of hard sealed surfaces, depending on the value, we would clean them, restore them.”

“So I'm like, what are we going to do about this? We came back and we put four air scrubbers in the house. And then we waited three hours. We retested the air and the air was fine. So I'm like, okay, we can't, insurance is not going to let them come back, but let's at least put the scrubbers in the home and wait a couple months until they let, so they can live.”

“Yeah. Just a no-brainer. So cooking, let's get that range hood going. Number two, bathroom fans. Everything I said about the range hood applies the exact same to the bathroom fan. Take the tissue, hold it up. You might be surprised. It's not working. If it's caked in dust, clean it, open it, clean it, check where it vents.”

“It can be a gallon of water, plus the water pooled up in the shower. And then it's going, even if your bathroom fan's running, it's going into the attic, which often is not ventilating. So you really want to make sure those bathroom fans are venting outside. If they're going into the attic, then you want to make sure that the attic is breathing properly.”

“the window, and you close the blinds. Right. Baby's sick all the time. Yeah. And the worst is, you get these little diaper pails. Yeah. They're supposed to be airtight. But you go into a nursery- Yeah, Diaper Genie or whatever it's called. Yeah. That's one of the big brands. Yeah. And it stinks like poop in there. Yeah.”

“It helps. But the right, like, if there's like one message that I'm a huge proponent of, it's getting those diaper pails out of baby's room. Mm. And there's actually a pretty small one. It's like a $70 Amazon one. It's very small. Yeah. And it works like a trash chute. Yeah. And it's small enough that you're dumping it out every single day. Yeah.”

“Yeah. And like water is an obvious thing. If people realize it only in the last 10 years, did drinking filtered water become like kind of a table stakes? Everybody grew up, you know, drinking from the hose. Yeah. And then you think back. I did too. Me too. I do. Me too. Yeah.”

“And like the lead's off the charts. Really? Off the charts. Oh, just because of the pipes. Yep. Yeah. So like we all realize, and once you start drinking filtered water, now you learn to trust your senses more and you can taste what top water tastes like. So true. Versus filtered water. So the cool thing is, what's really exciting here is ignorance is not bliss.”

“Yeah. Anti-fragrances. Yeah. You're big on fragrance awareness. I guess while we're talking about the free tips, no Glade plugins, no Febreze, no air fresheners. Dude, I, I have a driver in Las Vegas and I went out to, for, for the fights this weekend with the family. And we got into his, um, uh, suburban.”

“inside, get your range hood, go and get your bathroom fan going. Tell your Uber driver to take out the Christmas tree and unplug, Glade plugins, wherever you go, we're looking to build We're looking to build a clean air ambassador army. So, you know, thank you so much for listening. And I hope this helps you guys out.”

“Okay. And then the, the activated carbon absorbs the gases and the odors as they're coming through. Now, does that have a, a, a life cycle too? Cause we, I use activated charcoal a lot in, in my detox protocols, you know, for like molds, mycotoxin things. So, so that activated charcoal, has a lifespan for how much it can absorb.”

“Yeah. Anti-fragrances. Yeah. You're big on fragrance awareness. I guess while we're talking about the free tips, no Glade plugins, no Febreze, no air fresheners. Dude, I, I have a driver in Las Vegas and I went out to, for, for the fights this weekend with the family. And we got into his, um, uh, suburban.”

“Yeah. And the worst is, you get these little diaper pails. Yeah. They're supposed to be airtight. But you go into a nursery- Yeah, Diaper Genie or whatever it's called. Yeah. That's one of the big brands. Yeah. And it stinks like poop in there. Yeah. Newsflash, trust your nose. If it smells like poop, it is poop. Yeah. And if it's poop, it's incredibly high levels of bacteria.”

“what I'm trying to make a big difference in. You can build a really great energy efficient home that also has very clean air and keeps your CO2 down. So there's products called HRVs and ERVs. HRVs and ERVs. Energy recovery ventilator and a heat recovery ventilator. And these bolt onto your HVAC system?”

“Yeah. Anti-fragrances. Yeah. You're big on fragrance awareness. I guess while we're talking about the free tips, no Glade plugins, no Febreze, no air fresheners. Dude, I, I have a driver in Las Vegas and I went out to, for, for the fights this weekend with the family. And we got into his, um, uh, suburban.”

“So there's products called HRVs and ERVs. HRVs and ERVs. Energy recovery ventilator and a heat recovery ventilator. And these bolt onto your HVAC system? They do, basically. And you can, the best of all is you have a really tight home, but you have an ERV or an HRV.”

“thereafter. But there, that doesn't add a minute to your day. You know, if you buy a hyperbaric, you got to find 60 to 90 minutes in your day to, you know, you got to find a hole. If you have a red light bed, you got to find 20 minutes for that. You got to find 20 minutes for a sauna. So eventually you, you just don't have the time to do that. But Yeah.”

“It's trying to reading the nutrients. That's why you can eat four boxes of Oreos, but you can't eat for, I've always got room for dessert. Yeah. I'm always have room for dessert. Right. Cause for avocados is too nutrient dense, you know, you would gag, but you can eat, you can eat a whole box of Oreos because they're chemically designed to circumvent that response.”

“You know, if you buy a hyperbaric, you got to find 60 to 90 minutes in your day to, you know, you got to find a hole. If you have a red light bed, you got to find 20 minutes for that. You got to find 20 minutes for a sauna. So eventually you, you just don't have the time to do that.”

“Okay. So, and then what do you think it is for glyphosate? It's going to be the same. Yeah. You're walking around on, just because you're not using Roundup, you're walking around on public grounds all the time. Yeah. Dog poop, that dog poop and glyphosate is on your shoes. Then you come inside, you're walking on your carpets,”

“if you buy a hyperbaric, you got to find 60 to 90 minutes in your day to, you know, you got to find a hole. If you have a red light bed, you got to find 20 minutes for that. You got to find 20 minutes for a sauna. So eventually you, you just don't have the time to do that. But Yeah. You know, air, water, and lighting”

“and passive biohacking. So passive, I would put, you know, water filtration, mattress, the mattress that you're sleeping on, air filtration, lighting, lighting, these things that once you invest in them, then usually the investment's over.”