Interior Medicine’s Origin Story

When I was 22, I saw a Teflon pan with a pink breast cancer awareness sticker on it, announcing that some percentage of the cost would go to cancer research.

I did an abrupt stop walking - furrow brow - tilt head sequence in the store— and the moment is still crystallized in my memory 15 years later.

I had just finished an environmental medicine class where I learned that Teflon pans (at that time) were made with PFOA, an endocrine-disrupting chemical that was possibly carcinogenic.

In that moment, I learned most companies don’t consider our health when they make products, and some deliberately mislead you into thinking their stuff is healthy, even when they know it isn’t.

It still happens every day, but we have the power to become informed and demand change. Companies that sell home products should be, at a minimum, doing no harm.

Interior Medicine exists (because of that pan!!) to inform, uncover, and find actually healthy solutions for you and your home.

Photo by @devolkitchens