Aliquot #132: Mitigating the Harms of Air Pollution
Update: 2025-08-01
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Air pollution leaves a biological fingerprint on our lungs, our blood vessels, and even our brains, eroding the body's defenses, triggering inflammation, weakening the blood-brain barrier, and accelerating cognitive decline. Exposure to air pollution is particularly concerning for people already at risk for neurodegenerative disease. But emerging research also points to ways we might minimize the harm.
In this Aliquot, Drs. Michael Snyder, Axel Montagne, Jed Fahey, and I discuss how precise monitoring, targeted nutrition, and environmental adjustments may blunt the biological effects of the air we breathe.
This episode includes several key discussion points:
In this Aliquot, Drs. Michael Snyder, Axel Montagne, Jed Fahey, and I discuss how precise monitoring, targeted nutrition, and environmental adjustments may blunt the biological effects of the air we breathe.
This episode includes several key discussion points:
- 00:00:39 - What is the exposome and how do we measure it?
- 00:03:12 - Air pollution’s overlooked role in Alzheimer’s and autoimmunity
- 00:05:58 - How exposome data shapes personal health decisions
- 00:07:29 - The environmental exposures most linked to chronic disease
- 00:08:22 - What are firefighters breathing in?
- 00:09:30 - Clearing air pollutants with sulforaphane and sauna
- 00:11:15 - How city living may amplify dementia risk
- 00:16:01 - Could omega-3 and air filtration protect the brain from pollution
- 00:16:55 - What really matters when choosing an air filter
- 00:19:48 - How sulforaphane helps after wildfire smoke and chemical exposure
- 00:26:07 - Why green spaces matter in polluted environments
This Aliquot features segments from Q&As with Dr. Rhonda Patrick and segments from the following episodes:Â
- Q&A #17 with Dr. Jed Fahey + Rhonda on Sulforaphane and Moringa
- Q&A #45 (3/4/23) with Dr. Rhonda Patrick
- Dr. Michael Snyder on Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Deep Profiling for Personalized Medicine
- Axel Montagne, Ph.D. on Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
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