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No, this is terrible advice. It doesn't protect you at all, and you're much better off spending that same amount of money on simply eating a generally healthier, more plant based diet with less processed food.
If you're already a healthy-weight, 90%-vegetarian who has good house ventilation with clean air, THEN maybe swapping to all-organic might help, but that's hardly proven. Pesticide residu on food is basically at the limit of detection, and after it's washed, you're looking at such minute traces you often can't even find it without specialized lab equipment. And there is no real reason to believe organic pesticides are less unhealthy. And in some places organic farmers are STILL ALLOWED to use non-organic pesticides if they "have to".
And what you especially shouldn't do is blindly eat your own homegrown food. That bag of compost is full of PFAS, that ground you're sitting on could be a massive health risk. Get your soil tested if you're eating homegrown, doubly if you live remotely urban.
Farms get inspected, and they mostly know what they're doing. Your neighbor could be spreading clouds of god knows what in your garden unknowingly. You could be right at the landing spot of an upwind factory. Maybe the previous owners dumped their dirty engine oil where you grow food, or your houses used to be next to a gasworks or a drycleaners.
If you ever go swimming in a river, you're practically bathing in pollutants and animal shit. You wouldn't even touch that water if it was in a bucket, but people happily swim in it, and dunk their faces in it.
Do you ever bake or fry food? You know how small birds generally die quickly when kept in the kitchen? That same stuff goes right into your lungs too, you're just too big to drop dead instantly, but it's literally a canarie in your kitchen.
Ever sit at a campfire? Use a fireplace? All that soot it going straight into your lungs, even in a closed burner. Most of the fine dust goes up the chimney, down to the ground and straight back into your house. You're pretty much smoking a tree right there. And while solid fuels are bad, gas and oil are only somewhat better. And of course, your neighbors cause the same effects. On good piece of meat on the smoker is more harmful to your body than months of trace residu
Most people have no idea how many hazardous chemicals they come in contact with. Eating organic food is basically the final thing you could do. It's a fraction of a fraction of a difference.