The Science of Setting Up a Healthier Home

A few tweaks to our homebound lifestyle can help us optimize our health

Emily Anthes
Elemental
Published in
6 min readAug 17, 2020

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Over the last few months, I’ve developed a new morning routine. After I brush my teeth but before I don my dog-walking shoes, I wander over to the windowsill to check on my microgreens. In the early days of the pandemic, I’d scoffed at the idea of quarantine hobbies, mostly…

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Emily Anthes
Elemental

Emily is an award-winning science journalist and author of The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness.