Chemical hygiene
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Following up on digital hygiene, I wanted to write up my (evolving, opinionated) guide to chemical hygiene. I keep ranting about this topic to all of my friends recently (you can tell I'm really fun at parties), so I thought it would be worth writing it up to have it all in one place/url:
Starting out with controlling your water system, which is the easiest in terms of concrete, high confidence recommendations that in my experience still only <5% of my friends have adopted:
All your drinking water should come from Reverse Osmosis - the gold-standard Point of Use water filtration system, with a remineralization post filter. Ideally install an under the sink system, but fallback to countertop…
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