A Sovereign Home is a Healthy Home

My previous blog posts, Are You an HSP & Sip Panels Solve Problems, I touch upon the topic of Healthy Homes and what we can do to enhance and improve our indoor living environments. My wife and I are HSP’s(Highly Sensitive People) and because of that we need to make sure that our home supports optimal health. I believe most of todays homes are making us sick. For example we’re currently looking for a new rental to live in while we build. The last three places we’ve found, either tested positive for mold, or I could visibly see and smell it. The owners seemed unaware and surprised. It’s clear that little is known or understood about optimal indoor living environments. Not surprising as most people are unaware that the food they are eating is also making them sick.

I recently read the book Fiat Food by Matthew Lysiak. Fiat Food is well researched investigative journalism, where Matthew walks you through the history of how and why our Government food guidance has produced disease and obesity throughout the American population. Everything we’ve been taught about food is wrong. From government guidance to medical journals. The baseline of our nutritional information has been corrupted, through agri-food industry and government collusion, in effort to cover up inflation or rising food costs, due to monetary debasement and corruption. I believe something similar is happening with building and energy codes. The government is creating building codes that are making our homes less healthy.

I’m currently reading the book Prescriptions for a Healthy House in effort to understand how to properly build a Healthy Home. What I’ve learned so far is that everything we are doing is wrong, including building “Green Homes” that are energy efficient. This topic is incredibly complex and personal which I’ll expand on in later posts, but I will leave you with a clear example. Most homes before the Petro Chemical Revolution(pre WW2) were built of local and regional earthen materials. The materials and methods were passed down through generations based on what worked best. Post WW2(Post Petro Chemical Revolution) we are now building homes with new Petro Chemical products that are massed produced and being used before understanding how they effect the indoor living environments. Essentially our homes are filled with Petro Chemicals that are off gassing, while the government is forcing us to build tighter and tighter homes, where very little air is able to pass through the building envelope. Homes today are so tight, they require mechanical ventilation to prevent us dying from CO2 exposure. Sounds about as crazy as prescribing a low fat diet that consists mostly of refined carbs and seed oils.

Excerpt from Perscriptions for a Healthy House:

Building Biology founder and practitioner Dr. Anton Scheider uses the body analogy “the envelope of our home is analogous to a third skin, with our clothes being the second. This approach involves building our indoor evironments of natural or nontoxic materials enclosed by a flow through or vapor diffusible envelope.

Essentially our homes need to breathe like our skin and clothes! Sovereign Homes address this through ventilation, along with careful product and building envelope selection.

My wife and I exploring Thorsmork Valley, Iceland. We had to cross 5 rivers in the Land Rover we rented.

We were able to filter our drinking water directly from this glacial river.