Toxins

This category inverts the rest of the site. Instead of "what to add," it ranks "what to reduce," scored by avoidance priority — a blend of how much harm an exposure does, how strong the evidence is, and how common it is. Everything here scores poorly by design; the number tells you how much an exposure is worth your attention to avoid, not whether it is "good."

The unglamorous top of the list

The highest-priority exposures are the ones people underrate because they are familiar. Tobacco smoke, excess alcohol, chronic sleep deprivation, a sedentary lifestyle, and social isolation all sit at or near the top, backed by enormous bodies of evidence. They are far less exciting than microplastics — and they matter much more.

Real environmental hazards

Air pollution (PM2.5), lead, radon, PFAS, and benzene are genuine, well-evidenced harms worth engineering out of your environment — air filtration, water testing, radon testing. This is the corner of the database that rewards practical changes to your surroundings more than anything you can swallow.

Where the worry outruns the evidence

Some popular fears — EMF and RF from phones and Wi-Fi, evening blue light, acrylamide from cooking — rank lower here because either the harm magnitude or the human evidence is weaker than the headlines suggest. That is not "harmless"; it is "lower priority than the things above." Spend your avoidance energy where the score says it actually pays off.