Pollution in the Bedroom
Most people spend at least a third of their lives in bed. In fact, given that your face is planted right in a pillow or mattress much of the time, the potential for being, quite literally, gassed in your sleep is quite high.
Many of the materials that make up modern pillows, mattresses and bedclothes have been shown to release fumes that are either themselves or in combination with other bedroom chemicals, harmful to human health.
Over the span of a lifetime, this can add up in ways that are just now being explored.
Flame retardants, federally mandated in new mattresses, are known to bio-accumulate in human beings. They are so widespread that in recent tests researchers couldn’t find a single lactating mother who didn’t have this chemical in her breast milk.
The coverings and petrochemical fillings are also well known to off-gas for months and even years, with potentially carcinogenic consequences.
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