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Already in the second century AD, Marcus Aurelius said: "The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts." Our thoughts create our life. And where do the thoughts in our heads come from and what determines their quality? And what is the impact of the environment in which we live on them and us?
The Bauhaus School proved at the beginning of the 20th century that the organization of space directly influences the way people think and act in it. We are where we are. Since the current society spends about 90% of its time in some interiors, it is worth knowing whether we ourselves are not exposed to the negative effects of a sick construction.
Nowadays, interiors carry even more potential threats and risk factors than there was in the early twentieth century. The way space is organized today should be extended to include the influence of all technologies, materials (chemical composition) and systems used. It all affects the way we think and, as a result, health.
Currently, we are devoting even more attention to what is happening outside buildings, forgetting that the greatest threat may be inside them. We are afraid of falling ill with Covid 19, we want to protect our children and loved ones, we are debating smog reduction, healthy eating, and meanwhile every third child in Europe lives in conditions harmful to his health. In Poland, it is about 1.5 million children.

It has been proven that inadequate housing negatively affects children's development. It contributes to problems with concentration, sleep disturbances, learning difficulties, and building and maintaining relationships. Persistent problems of this type remain for life. Adults are also exposed to the harmful effects of the places where they stay.
This applies to flats, houses, workplaces and places of spending free time. The sick construction industry leaves its greater or lesser imprint on everyone and forever.
When we spend so much time indoors, let's try to make them healthy and have a beneficial effect on our thoughts and actions, i.e. our health and life. Spending 90% of your time in healthy interiors strengthens people mentally and physically, fills their heads with positive thoughts and helps them achieve success in action.







You are, where you are

Thanks to the development of science, we know that the melting of the Arctic glaciers causes more frequent extreme weather events.
It is also known that the burning of defective wood is not a green energy and will not reduce CO2 emissions.

Science more and more often tells us about possible dangers. It depends on us how we use this knowledge, both in order to live a healthy and safe life, as well as live healthy.
Many people ask me if there is such a thing as healthy housing? Yes of course! This is the field that I deal with on a daily basis, which I research, check and to prove its value, I give specific examples to which I have access thanks to science.

First, a few obvious things. There is no doubt that the development of science and research methods has brought benefits in all areas of life.
It helps us to identify the current as well as future state of affairs, and the influence of various factors on health. The use of advanced research methods allows, inter alia, to diagnose and detect diseases at an increasingly earlier stage, which increases the chances of their successful cure.
And here we enter my territory. The search for the harmful factors responsible for the emergence of many serious diseases and ailments led scientists to the places of residence of patients.
On their basis, the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that the physical structure of the building, the environment of the place of residence and the immediate and local neighborhood have a direct or indirect impact on the health of residents.
WHO identifies areas of scientific interest that have the greatest impact on user health: indoor air quality, lighting, noise, mishaps, molds, building, furniture and furnishings materials that emit harmful substances, chemical pollutants such as tobacco smoke, volatile hydrocarbons or ozone ( from photocopiers and printers), electrosmog (computer monitors).
In recent decades, two types of health problems have been identified that relate to conditions in non-industrial buildings - residential and office buildings:
1.Diseases associated with the building -ChZzB (Building Related Illness - BRI)
2.Sick building syndrome - ZChB (Sick Building Syndrome - SBS).

In the first case, these are diseases that have a clearly defined origin related to a factor present in the place of residence and give a specific disease picture.

The most common examples are: legionellosis, asbestos-related cancer, cancer resulting from exposure to radioactive radon and its breakdown products, mite allergy and carbon dioxide poisoning.
The Sick Building Syndrome is a combination of more symptoms of physical and mental discomfort, which are so difficult to define that they cannot be associated with one specific factor. These are local lesions with symptoms such as:
• drying and irritation of the mucous membranes of the eyes, burning, feeling rough on the mucous membranes
• dry and irritated throat, dry cough, "runny", stuffy nose, pain around the sinuses
• drying and irritation of the skin with its redness, peeling of the epidermis usually on the face, auricles, upper limbs
General symptoms:
• headache, dizziness, decreased concentration of attention
• drowsiness, weariness, depression, nausea, heartburn, bad taste in the mouth
• chest pain, difficulty breathing
• exacerbation of symptoms related to an existing medical condition such as asthma.
Some names of the Sick Building Syndrome emphasize the air quality (Indoor Air Quality Syndrome), others - the symptoms of mental discomfort (Environmental lilness, Chronic Fatique Syndrome), and others - the crampedness inside the building, the action of volatile chemicals (Building Syndrome, Tight Building Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity).
WHO emphasizes that the symptoms of the Sick Building Syndrome appear mainly in new or newly renovated office and residential buildings as well as buildings with complicated ventilation systems.
Sensational results were brought by studies on the impact of materials widely used in construction on human health. Asbestos is commonly used as insulation of water and sewage pipes, cladding of ventilation ducts, roofing or floor tiles has been officially recognized as harmful and is to disappear completely in Poland only by 2032!
And this is not the only harmful substance that should also be banned. Many substances are considered only potentially harmful to health and, despite the knowledge about their negative effects on health, have not yet been legally banned.
Such a substance is, for example, formaldehyde. Already on September 11, 1996, it was classified as a possibly carcinogenic substance for humans, according to the Ministry of Health and Social Policy and IARC (group 2A). Unfortunately, despite this, it is still used in the production of varnishes, adhesives, dyes, foams, wood-like boards, furniture, and is used as a disinfectant.
Although its emission decreases over time, it remains harmful - among other things, it irritates the mucous membranes, causes inflammation of the respiratory tract and causes severe headaches, a feeling of tightness in the chest, general weakness, lacrimation, various types of allergies and irritation, including cancer.
According to the ITH publications, from 30 to 60% of flats in Poland are contaminated with this substance in a concentration exceeding safe values! And in 20% of the surveyed interiors, the only source was furniture!
Inappropriate housing contributes to a variety of ailments, from respiratory and neurological disorders to psychological and behavioral disorders. Children, the elderly, the chronically ill or those with reduced immunity are most at risk.
According to the report "Healthy Homes Barometer 2018", every third child in Europe lives in a building whose technical condition has a negative impact on health. In Poland, it is as many as 1.5 million children! Especially those living in single-family houses.
According to the authors of the report "Barometer of healthy homes", living in the so-called sick houses has a negative impact on the psychophysical development of a child. The most common ailments are: wheezing, asthma, cough, allergies, atopic dermatitis.
Weakened children are less able to cope with school tasks, and more often they miss school due to illness (additional 2.5 days of absence per child per year), which often results in poorer academic performance. These health problems do not disappear as you get older, but they persist into adulthood. Unfortunately, the poor health of a child also affects parents who, for example, have to take days off at work more often.
The American Public Health Association describes inadequate housing as the current public health crisis, arguing from research that the link between inadequate housing and poor health is increasingly well documented.
When looking for the causes of your ailments and when planning treatment, it is important to identify the factors inside your home or office that are responsible for the irritating, toxic or allergenic effects on the body.
This can significantly shorten the diagnostic process, reduce its costs and speed up the correct diagnosis, which will allow you to start effective treatment faster.
Thanks to science, we learn what makes a building "sick" and "infects" its inhabitants and users.
It is on the results of scientific research that my original Method of 12 Determinants is based, which allows me to thoroughly analyze the degree of health of the property and find the most harmful or unfavorable factor. The starting point of the method are the results of the research of the Bauhouse School, thanks to which we know that the way space is organized directly influences the way people think and act.
A building audit allows you to create a healthy building: an apartment, hotel or office. Positive Art is also helpful here, as it allows you to create any atmosphere in any room, but that's a topic for the next text.










Let's live positively
 
Already in the second century AD, Marcus Aurelius said: "The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."
 
Our thoughts create our life. And where do the thoughts in our heads come from and what determines their quality? And what is the influence of the environment in which we live on them and on us?
 
The Bauhaus school proved at the beginning of the 20th century that the organization of space directly influences the way people think and act in it. We are where we are. Since today's society spends about 90% of its time in some interiors, it is worth knowing if we ourselves are not exposed to the negative effects of a sick construction.
 
Nowadays, interiors carry even more potential threats and risk factors than there was at the beginning of the twentieth century. The way in which space is organized should now be extended to include the influence of all technologies, materials (chemical composition) and systems used. It all affects the way we think and, as a result, health.
 
Currently, we are devoting even more attention to what is happening outside buildings, forgetting that the greatest threat may be inside them. We are afraid of getting sick with Covid 19, we want to protect our children and loved ones, we are debating smog reduction, healthy eating, and meanwhile every third child in Europe lives in conditions harmful to his
 health.
It has been proven that improper housing negatively affects children's development. It contributes to problems with concentration, sleep disturbances, learning difficulties, and building and maintaining relationships. Persistent problems of this type remain for life. Adults are also exposed to the harmful effects of the places where they stay. This applies to apartments, houses, workplaces and places to spend free time. The sick construction industry leaves its greater or lesser imprint on everyone and forever.
 
When we spend so much time indoors, let's try to keep them healthy and have a beneficial effect on our thoughts and actions, i.e. our health and life. Spending 90% of your time in healthy interiors strengthens people mentally and physically, fills their heads with positive thoughts and helps them achieve success in action.

 

 

 

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