Our homes should be a place of refuge, where we can close the door, exhale, and feel safe and secure. But what if the home we trust to protect us is quietly robbing us of our health? In this groundbreaking guide, Alison Levitt, MD, draws on decades of medical experience to expose the surprising ways your home environment may be undermining your health. From invisible toxins in your water and food, to poor air quality, to hidden mold and chemical exposures. With compassion and clarity, Dr. Alison Levitt gives you the tools to transform your living space into a true sanctuary for healing.
Is Your Home Making You Sick? The House Call That Will Change Your Life takes you on a different kind of house call, one where the prescription isn’t written on a pad or waiting at the pharmacy. Instead, Dr. Levitt guides you room to room, revealing an overlooked, powerful form of medicine: the thoughtful choices you make every day in your own home.
Many of the modern products and conveniences that promised to make our lives easier, faster, cleaner, and better come with health tradeoffs. The question is: are they worth the risk? Science is revealing that some of the chemicals and compounds we encounter every day in our homes can affect our health in ways we never imagined. We might never knowingly choose them, yet in many cases, we don’t even know they exist.
These potentially harmful substances can be found in the water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we eat, the products we put on our skin, the clothes we wear, and many of the everyday products we bring into our homes. And when hundreds of these small exposures accumulate, day after day, year after year, they can quietly reshape the landscape of our health. Dr. Levitt’s intention is to remind readers that optimal health and longevity are influenced greatly by these small choices that we make moment to moment in our everyday lives.
We cannot control everything we encounter in the world around us, but we can choose what we bring into our homes, what we put in and on our bodies, and what we breathe in the spaces where we live. Every thoughtful choice is a way of caring for ourselves and our families and investing in the health and life still ahead of us.
Blending science, more than three decades of medical experience, personal stories, and the ancestral wisdom passed down from her beloved grandmother, her Bubby, this soulful, science- informed guide offers practical swaps, safer alternatives, old-fashioned Bubby-inspired remedies, DIY cleaners and personal care products, and simple rituals to help you create a healthier home and support calm, resilience, and well-being.
At its heart, this book is about reclaiming your power and taking greater control of your health through knowledge and informed choices. You’ll discover how to lighten your toxic load, one thoughtful decision at a time, giving your remarkable body more support to do what it was designed to do: protect, repair, restore, and heal.
Healing doesn’t always begin in the doctor’s office. Sometimes it begins in the seemingly ordinary choices you make every day in your own home: right under your sink, on your countertops, in your pantry, around your kitchen table.
With knowledge, intention, and simple changes, you can reclaim your home as a healing sanctuary, a place that nourishes your body and supports the health and well-being of you and your family.
