Create Your Ultimate Home Detox™ Experience with Practical Nontoxic Living™

Your Healthiest Life Begins at Home

Uncover and reduce hidden toxic exposures—from harmful chemicals to heavy metals and EMFs — using science-backed strategies designed to optimize your healthspan and epigenetic legacy.

Choose your ideal path to the Ultimate Home Detox™—from bespoke guidance and structured programs to expert-guided self-learning. Your enriched life awaits.

Explore Your Detox Path ➔

Welcome to Ruan’s Ultimate Home Detox™

The most transformative detox begins not with a temporary cleanse—but with what surrounds you daily. By uncovering and reducing invisible exposures in your home, you unlock the opportunity to support your body’s natural healing potential, nurture fertility, and influence your family’s genetic legacy.

Ruan Living offers flexible paths—from personalized consulting to expert-guided programs—grounded in science and brought to life through Practical Nontoxic Living™.

Ready to begin? Explore your path below.

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Choose Your Ultimate Home Detox™ Path

Create your healing home with guidance from by Sophia Ruan Gushée—founder of Ruan Living, bestselling author of A to Z of D-Toxing: The Ultimate Guide to Reducing Our Toxic Exposures, and creator of Practical Nontoxic Living™ .

Whether you’re seeking high-touch support or a flexible, self-paced experience, Ruan Living offers a range of science-backed programs to help you detox your home and cultivate a healthier, more resilient life.

Explore our offerings below to find the path that aligns with your goals, lifestyle, and pace.

RUAN SIGNATURE DETOX

Private Home Detox Consulting

Experience the luxury of personalized detox support. Let Sophia Ruan Gushee create a bespoke detox journey tailored precisely to your lifestyle, home, and health goals.

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40-DAY HOME DETOX

Structured and Flexible Home Detox Program

Our science-backed program empowers you to eliminate up to thousands of toxicants from every room in your home by targeting six Household Repeat Offenders. Bonus: This educates your commonsense, making Practical Nontoxic Living™ more intuitive.

Start Your 40-Day Home Transformation ➔

D-TOX ACADEMY

Membership to Ruan's Practical Nontoxic Living™ Library

Access an evolving treasure trove of detox roadmaps, curated shopping guides, workshops, and community support. Perfect for those seeking flexible, affordable, self-paced mastery for lifelong Practical Nontoxic Living.

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DETOX BOOKS

by Sophia Ruan Gushée

Trusted Resources for Practical Nontoxic Living™

Start or deepen your detox journey with Sophia’s essential books—A to Z of D-Toxing, an authoritative encyclopedia of practical strategies for reducing toxic exposures, and the EMF Detox Workbook, a focused guide to minimizing electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Designed to help optimize your healthspan and family’s epigenetic legacy.

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FREE RESOURCES

Accessible Tools to Begin Practical Nontoxic Living™

Explore free resources curated by Sophia Ruan Gushée—including the Practical Nontoxic Living podcast episodes, expert guides, wellness newsletters, and a carefully vetted Ruan Living Amazon store.

Start reducing toxic exposures and supporting your healthspan, fertility, and family’s epigenetic future — at no cost.

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Why Detox Matters

Your home is your most influential environment—and it can either nurture your vitality or silently undermine it.

Everyday products, building materials, and technologies introduce hidden exposures to toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and electromagnetic fields (EMFs). These invisible exposures accumulate over time, quietly impacting your immune system, fertility, hormonal balance, cognitive health, and even the epigenetic legacy you pass to future generations.

The good news:
Research shows that reducing these exposures can help unlock your body’s natural resilience.

At Ruan Living, we believe detoxing your home is the most powerful form of self-care.
Through Practical Nontoxic Living™, we make it achievable — empowering you to optimize your healthspan, support fertility, and protect the genetic future of those you love.

CHOOSE YOUR ULTIMATE HOME DETOX

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Sophia is a breath of life. Dealing with chronic migraines, brain fog, and other sensitivities... I was able to create a much more clean and toxic free environment. The changes have improved my symptoms substantially, and I am forever grateful to Sophia.

—Mrs. D

Manhattan

MEET SOPHIA

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The 40-Day Home Detox program is an excellent program. It was a great introduction to harmful ingredients in conventional products. The guidance it provided on how to evaluate my current products and also determine possible replacement products was invaluable. I was asked by my functional medicine doctor to detox my cleaning and personal care products, but had no idea where to start. In a month’s time I was able to completely overhaul my products with confidence that the new ones I chose were vastly less toxic.

I especially liked the mindset that was shared about evaluating products I love and letting me decide if I want to keep them, especially if they are used sparingly and infrequently. I felt like I had control over all the decisions about products and replacements, so I could tailor the program to my families needs. The program did a great job providing the framework to identify what is important to me. It taught me that perfection wasn’t the goal, rather being more educated about product ingredients and making more mindful decisions is the ultimate goal...

The 40-Day Home Detox was vital in my pursuit of health and wellness for myself and my family.

—Mrs. K

North Carolina

40-DAY HOME DETOX

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D-Tox Academy was 5 out of 5 stars! It was definitely worthwhile.

—Ms. C

California

D-TOX ACADEMY

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Wow! WOW. Wow.

—Susan

Texas

DETOX WORKSHOP

Detoxing The World...

Sophia Ruan Gushée, Ruan Living's founder, has been the go-to nontoxic lifestyle expert for nearly two decades for the world's leading health, wellness, beauty, or lifestyle platforms such as the select ones below. Click to learn more about Sophia's events and press.

Doctor Oz Show features Sophia Ruan Gushee, toxic exposures expert

Today.com features Sophia Ruan Gushee, home detox expert

Health magazine features Sophia Ruan Gushee, home detox and nontoxic lifestyle expert

Family Circle features Sophia Ruan Gushee, home detox and nontoxic lifestyle expert

Purist magazine features Sophia Ruan Gushee, home detox and nontoxic lifestyle expert

Dr. Frank Lipman features Sophia Ruan Gushee, home detox and nontoxic lifestyle expert

MindBodyGreen features Sophia Ruan Gushee, home detox and nontoxic lifestyle expert

Fast Company features Sophia Ruan Gushee, home detox and nontoxic lifestyle expert

Elle magazine featured Sophia Ruan Gushee

AOL features Sophia Ruan Gushee, home detox and clean living expert

Beach magazine features Sophia Ruan Gushee, home detox and clean living expert

Brown University School of Public Health invites Sophia Ruan Gushee to its Advisory Council

Manhattan magazine featured Sophia Ruan Gushee

Reader's Digest featured Sophia Ruan Gushee, nontoxic living expert

Thrive Global featured Sophia Ruan Gushee, home detox and nontoxic living expert

Columbia University featured Sophia Ruan Gushee, home detox and nontoxic lifestyle expert

Meet Sophia Ruan Gushée

Sophia Ruan Gushée is a pioneering voice in Practical Nontoxic Living™ and the founder of Ruan Living.

As a bestselling author, podcast host, and trusted advisor on toxic exposures, Sophia has dedicated nearly two decades to making science-backed, nontoxic living both practical and empowering.

Through her signature framework, Practical Nontoxic Living™, Sophia simplifies the complexities of reducing toxic exposures—helping individuals and families optimize their healthspan, fertility, pregnancy outcomes, and family's epigenetics.

I created Ruan Living to offer the essential insights I wish I'd known earlier — so you can live with greater vitality, resilience, and peace of mind.

Meet Sophia ➔

What Does "Home" Really Mean?

At Ruan Living, "Home" is more than just a house or physical space. It’s everything that surrounds and supports your well-being.

That includes:

Your body, which is your very first home (especially important during pregnancy and childhood)
The space you live and work in, like your house or office
The planet, which provides the air you breathe, the food you eat, and the materials in your home

We recognize that the boundaries between our personal health, indoor spaces, and the Earth are deeply interconnected. The toxins we absorb, the air we breathe, and the products we use don’t just impact our homes—they affect our inner and outer ecosystems. That’s why Ruan Living champions Practical Nontoxic Living™—a realistic and empowering approach to protecting all your homes: your body, your living space, and the planet.

Insights for a Healthier, Safer Home

Checkout these enriching free resources if you're interested in:

How to create a fertility-friendly home environment and lifestyle, then listen to Practical Nontoxic Living podcast episode 10 with Dr. Hugh Taylor, Chair of OB/GYN and Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine and Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D., one of the world’s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists, on Practial Nontoxic Living podcast episode 38
How to avoid up to thousands of toxic chemicals and heavy metals with six strategies, then visit Ruan's blog: "Household Repeat Offenders: The Simplest Way to Reduce Toxic Chemicals, Heavy Metals, EMFs & Stress"
Reducing EMF exposure at home with simple changes, then listen to Daniel DeBaun, former telecom engineer and senior executive, on Practical Nontoxic Living podcast episode 44

For more support to reduce toxic exposures at home, explore all articles and Practical Nontoxic Living podcast episodes here: Ruan Living Blog. Also, learn more about Ruan's Practical Nontoxic Living perspective.

REDUCE YOUR TOXIC EXPOSURES

LIVE WITH INTENTION

IMPROVE YOUR LIFE QUALITY

Your Healing Home Awaits

You have the power to transform your home—and your future—through mindful, meaningful changes.

Whether you're seeking a complete, concierge detox or starting with simple, practical changes, Ruan Living offers the tools, expertise, and support you need to thrive.

Begin Your Detox Journey ➔