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The Delicious and Life-Saving Benefits of Mold and Fungi
September 16, 2022
The Fungus Kingdom contains a very wide variety of lifeforms just as diverse as plants, animals, or bacteria. We typically group fungi into three groups- invisible microscopic single-celled yeast, mold with invisible spores but obvious large colonies, and the species that produce the large fruiting bodies known as mushrooms.
What is NADR and how does it prevent infectious diseases?
September 11, 2023
What does wildfire smoke smell like?
September 11, 2023
How long will an activated carbon filter last?
September 07, 2023
How To Keep Your Lungs Healthy As You Age
August 23, 2023
4 Ways Air Quality Affects Your Mental Health
August 22, 2023
What's the best air purifier for RVs?
August 21, 2023
How Wildfire Smoke Changes the Way You Behave
August 14, 2023
Wildfire smoke is composed of tiny particles and chemicals. As they travel through the air from the site of the fire to you, they often pick up other pollutants and energies from the sun that make them even less healthy than their original forms.
How to increase the humidity in your room
August 14, 2023
Is your roadtrip ruining the air?
August 04, 2023
The most massive contiguous structure known to all of human history may very well be the American highway system. If its 41,000 miles were made into a parking lot it would be a cube more than 20 miles on a side and could hold 50 million vehicles. Understandably it’s a great way to get around.
Does Heat Kill Mold?
July 31, 2023
Why Hotel Air is So Dry and What to Do About It
July 31, 2023
Think back to your last hotel stay. Have you ever woken up to dry, itchy skin or a scratchy throat? If so, you are not alone. In fact, frequent travelers commonly state that they experience dry air in hotel rooms.
The Rarest Allergies
July 11, 2023
Allergies are a result of having an immune system capable of defending against trillions of possible invaders. Our immune systems are finely tuned to identify threats among the cast-off skin cells, fragments of fungus, and the rest of the rain of biological matter in everyday life.
How to Clean a Vacuum
June 27, 2023
Vacuums are one of the most powerful cleaning tools you can have in your home, but they still need a little help from time to time. Every vacuum, from simple upright models to automated smart vacuums with all the bells and whistles, requires regular cleaning and maintenance. Typically, you should clean your vacuum every six months, though you may need to do it more often if you notice stinky vacuum odors, a loss of suction, or visible debris left behind during use
What is Deshedding?
June 27, 2023
The furry part of our furry friends doesn’t just accumulate under the couch and along the baseboards, it also harbors pet dander and any other allergy or asthma triggers that our pets rubbed up against along the way. There are so-called hypoallergenic pets that shed less or may have no fur at all, but none of us will be swapping out our companion for one that leaves less residue around the house.
Where do I put my air purifier?
June 16, 2023
Air purifiers can remove unhealthy particles and toxic gasses, which helps protect us from diseases made more likely by air pollution in addition to reducing allergy and asthma triggers. When choosing an air purifier it’s very important to have one that is sized to the space it’s used, and that it’s in a spot where you’re most likely to breathe the air it cleans.
How to forecast smoke in your area
June 08, 2023
Wildfire is a serious concern for most of us, not just the danger of the fire itself but also the smoke that can travel for hundreds or thousands of miles. The smoke from burning wood can be more toxic than those from car exhaust. Those of us that don’t have good ways of keeping the smoke out of our homes or who need to spend a few hours outside each day need to know how bad the smoke is or is going to be in order to be properly prepared.
How fast does an air purifier work?
June 07, 2023
Each indoor space is unique, with its own sources of pollution and rate of exchange with outside air. Pollutants can build up indoors so Outside air is usually cleaner than indoor air. A great way to stop pollutants from building up is to remove them with an air purifier that filters out toxic particles and gasses, but their total impact is never completely clear because air pollution is constantly coming back.
Can allergies cause a fever?
June 07, 2023
Allergies share many symptoms with sinus infections, including runny nose and itchy, watery eyes, but they can’t cause a fever. In fact, taking your temperature can help your healthcare provider determine whether you’re dealing with allergies or an infection. For adults, a fever is any temperature higher than 100.4°F.
What’s the difference between coarse and fine particle pollution?
June 07, 2023
Particle pollution is a broad term that describes a complex mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets suspended in the air. Also called particulate matter (PM), this class of pollutants includes inorganic compounds, organic chemicals, metals, dust and soil particles, mold spores, pollen, and other biological materials—basically, anything that’s small and light enough to float.
5 New Ways to Make Your Home Smell Good
June 07, 2023
Bad odors and poor air quality often go hand in hand. Aside from being unpleasant, stinky scents can sometimes be a sign of unhealthy pollution in your indoor air. In previous posts, we’ve broken down what causes bad smells, how to know when they’re a sign of something harmful, and how to remove them from your home. Here, we get into the positive side of scents with five new ways to make your whole house smell good (without toxic chemicals or synthetic scents ruining your indoor air quality).
PECO v. PCO Air Purifiers: How are they different?
August 13, 2019
Here's how Photo Electrochemical Oxidation (PECO), the proprietary tech inside the Molekule air purifier, compares with PCO- type air cleaner technology.
Why are we still doing daylight savings time when it is not healthy?
March 10, 2023
Many of us have never been quite clear why daylight saving time (DST) exists, and have only been aware of the very abrupt schedule change. Like moving from one time zone to another, it seems to take days or even a week to fully adjust to changing everything by one hour.
The Colors of Noise
March 10, 2023
Colors are wonderful descriptive analogies because they exist along a spectrum with the violet and blue end having the opposite quality as the red and orange end. Temperature intuitively fits into the color spectrum, with warm reds and cool blues.
Do sleep trackers work?
November 08, 2022
We spend around a third of our lives asleep, and most of us put effort into getting the best sleep we can. Apart from looking for the right bedding and nighttime environment, a great technique to improve sleep is to use a wearable sleep tracker. We obviously can’t know what we’re doing when sleeping, so wearing a sleep tracker on the wrist or finger can provide information on physical activity during sleep, which can be a good indicator of sleep quality.
An Interview with Michael Rubino, The Mold Medic
September 09, 2022
Michael Rubino, the Mold Medic, doesn’t just know how to remediate mold, he’s a mold expert who has helped thousands of people with their indoor mold problems. During Mold Awareness Month, Molekule is partnering with Michael to spread the message that mold is serious but treatable and preventable.
What is an allergy trigger?
October 21, 2022
Allergy triggers are substances in our environment that cause an allergic reaction. Though some of the symptoms overlap, an allergic reaction is a very specific event in your body and is different from an infection, intolerance, or poisoning.
How to Protect Your Skin From Pollution
July 20, 2022
Your skin is an adaptive whole-body protection organ that is constantly fending off attacks from all angles. But as we age, our skin will inevitably start to break down both for natural intrinsic reasons and environmental extrinsic reasons. Aging from outside and from within have been found to be tightly linked to oxidative stress, which is chemical stress on your body’s tissues. This stress ages your skin in many ways, including increasing inflammation, slowing healing, and causing cancer.
The Cost of Bad Office Air Quality
May 10, 2023
As of September 2022, office attendance is hovering around half of what it was before the Covid-19 pandemic. This has been met with mixed reactions from workers and employers alike, with a trend toward workers wanting to remain at home and bosses wanting them back in person.
How Long Do Seasonal Allergies Last?
October 18, 2022
Seasonal allergies affect up to 30% of the global population, making allergy symptoms extremely common among adults and children. A seasonal allergy develops when your immune system overreacts to something in your environment, whether it's burning bush in the fall or grass pollen in the spring.
Biophilic Design: Best places for indoor plants and flowers
July 07, 2022
Plants and other natural features don’t just look nice, they can actually improve the productivity, health, biodiversity, resilience, and sustainability of a space and its occupants. Actual living plants are not even necessary— images, textures, smells, and other sensory cues also inspire thoughts of the natural world.
The best indoor air for learning
July 22, 2022
The best indoor environment for studying is free from distraction. A recent review article that examined 21 studies on how both students and teachers get distracted, found that “neutral” levels of noise, temperature, lighting, and carbon dioxide were best for learning.
Good Vibes Stress Management Techniques for Mind & Body
April 28, 2022
Part of raising your vibration or having good vibes is taking action to reduce stress and promote mindfulness. Controlling stress is linked directly to mental and physical health and there are many ways to manage it. We all know that stress doesn’t just come in one shape; it can be physical strain, mental exhaustion, emotional fatigue, or countless others. Scientists even refer to the damage done to our organs by air pollution as “oxidative stress,” which is damage at the chemical level.
3 new ways indoor air quality can impact wellness in the kitchen and beyond
May 12, 2022
We have known for thousands of years that not only is smoke unhealthy, there is a lot more of it in cities where more people are cooking and keeping warm. Even Ancient Rome was infamous for its large clouds of noxious industrial pollution. But it wasn’t until thousands of people were literally suffocated by the pollution on the streets of London one week in 1952 that scientists, researchers, and governments started dedicated resources to studying and solving the impact of air pollution on peo...
How many plants does it take to clean the air?
June 09, 2022
It takes a lot of plants to clean the air. A NASA study in 1989 found some interesting results when exposing plants to the air pollution chemicals known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs). It seemed that the plants in combination with the soil and soil microbes could reduce the amount of VOCs in the air.
Do air purifiers remove carbon dioxide?
May 24, 2022
No. They do not remove carbon dioxide (CO2). Almost all air purifiers are designed to capture some combination of particles and toxic gasses, but CO2 can’t be captured by the same filters that capture other gaseous air pollution. Only ventilation removes CO2.
Next Level Indoor Cannabis Cultivation with HAPA
April 20, 2022
Regardless if you are an amateur cannabis grower or are trying to have the best tomatoes in your greenhouse, there is always more to learn. Indoor cultivation requires just the right amount of outdoor ecology combined with a bit of environmental control. After all, beneficial fungi in the soil is good, but mold eating your crop is not.
Sleep Hygiene: How environment and air quality impact sleep health
November 10, 2023
While some of us suffer from chronic sleep problems, everyone has had trouble sleeping. Fortunately there are professionals who dedicate careers to helping people learn all the ways they can sleep better and feel better. Experts like Dr. Breus, also known as The Sleep Doctor, recommend several different steps for optimal sleep hygiene.
Home Improvement Interior Design Ideas with Bobby Berk
March 07, 2022
We have already talked about how to turn your home into a sanctuary in our previous post with Bobby Berk. This time we want to talk about a few ways to make simple but impactful changes in your home. Color and light are very important to consider during home improvements, but this time we want to plan even more specific methods of making your home feel just right.
What is Dust Made of? Dust Particle Sizes & Composition
April 07, 2022
What does environmental justice mean in 2022?
February 25, 2022
Introducing the Molekule Indoor Air Day View
March 22, 2022
Molekule is thrilled to announce Indoor Air Day View, an upgrade that activates a robust suite of advanced features for all our Molekule Air Pro purifiers, allowing you to track your air quality trends over the course of a day. When we introduced the Molekule Air Score and enhanced sensor capabilities back in January, it enabled us to provide customers with real-time air quality data, and this new update will take these features to the next level, allowing customers to see indoor air like nev...