
Your House Is Making You Sick
Bryan Johnson
Sep 3, 2025
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Utilize pink noise to enhance sleep quality
For masking disruptive sounds during sleep, pink noise is considered best as it is less high-pitched than white noise and has a sound signature similar to rain or wind.
Clean first four steps to reduce contaminants indoors
The first four steps inside your house track in 85% of the outside world's contaminants, including lead and pesticides.
Test your home for radon to reduce lung cancer risk
Radon gas is the second most prominent cause of lung cancer behind smoking, making it a meaningful risk that you should test for in your home.
Reduce gas stove use to lower childhood asthma risk
Using a single gas burner can quickly spike nitrogen dioxide and fine particles, which are linked to around 13% of childhood asthma cases in the US.
Question the value of the 'organic' label in food choices
After extensive third-party lab testing of foods, the speaker has concluded that he does not trust the 'organic' label at all.
Create a completely dark room to protect melatonin production
Your body is so sensitive that even 10 lux of light can halve your melatonin production and fragment sleep, making a completely blacked-out room essential.
Automate health with systems to reduce anxiety
The best approach to health is to build systems that run on autopilot, like installing a high-quality HVAC filter, to avoid anxiety and decision fatigue.
Use dim red LED light to enhance sleep preparation
Using a dim red LED light in your living room for two hours before bed can help your body wind down and prepare for sleep without disrupting melatonin.
Protect skin indoors from UVA sun damage
Non-tinted glass allows 37% of skin-aging UVA rays to pass through, so you can get more sun exposure than you want even when inside.
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