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Dr. Elroy Vojdani

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Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

Understand that the goal of improving your health from an environmental perspective is not to be a perfectionist about everything. It's to make meaningful differences in the areas where differences can be made. Right. So low hanging fruit. Don't drink out of a plastic bottle. Don't microwave things in plastic containers. Right. There are equal things as far as air quality is concerned.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

Exactly, right? You know, so do the fundamental things. And when you do the fundamental things, you dramatically reduce your overall exposure. That's, I think, the best that you can do in these situations outside of, you know, clean eating and maybe taking supplements to protect yourself.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

Exactly, right? You know, so do the fundamental things. And when you do the fundamental things, you dramatically reduce your overall exposure. That's, I think, the best that you can do in these situations outside of, you know, clean eating and maybe taking supplements to protect yourself.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

Exactly, right? You know, so do the fundamental things. And when you do the fundamental things, you dramatically reduce your overall exposure. That's, I think, the best that you can do in these situations outside of, you know, clean eating and maybe taking supplements to protect yourself.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

But this is not a, you know, a conversation in which I want people to take away from this, like, we're screwed. We're living in this, like, you know, complete toxic mess. Yes, but that knowledge is very important because it gives you an ability to make meaningful changes.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

But this is not a, you know, a conversation in which I want people to take away from this, like, we're screwed. We're living in this, like, you know, complete toxic mess. Yes, but that knowledge is very important because it gives you an ability to make meaningful changes.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

But this is not a, you know, a conversation in which I want people to take away from this, like, we're screwed. We're living in this, like, you know, complete toxic mess. Yes, but that knowledge is very important because it gives you an ability to make meaningful changes.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

Yeah.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

Yeah.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

Yeah.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

Yes. what are some really straightforward things that you can do as you mentioned you know high quality air filters um you know i recently sent out a newsletter to all of our patients that essentially was trying to give everybody a little bit of a structure of what do you do in this post-fire LA environment, because there was a lot of understandable fear about it.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

Yes. what are some really straightforward things that you can do as you mentioned you know high quality air filters um you know i recently sent out a newsletter to all of our patients that essentially was trying to give everybody a little bit of a structure of what do you do in this post-fire LA environment, because there was a lot of understandable fear about it.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

Yes. what are some really straightforward things that you can do as you mentioned you know high quality air filters um you know i recently sent out a newsletter to all of our patients that essentially was trying to give everybody a little bit of a structure of what do you do in this post-fire LA environment, because there was a lot of understandable fear about it.

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

But what I wrote in the newsletter was, I hope at this point you have an indoor air filter. And the reason I wrote that is because for anybody who's been in the clinic, we've kind of been harping for a very long time

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

But what I wrote in the newsletter was, I hope at this point you have an indoor air filter. And the reason I wrote that is because for anybody who's been in the clinic, we've kind of been harping for a very long time

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

But what I wrote in the newsletter was, I hope at this point you have an indoor air filter. And the reason I wrote that is because for anybody who's been in the clinic, we've kind of been harping for a very long time

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

about like reducing your environmental exposures where you can the plastic bottles the microwaving this that and getting a high quality indoor air filter and people who walk into our clinic will also see that there are several of them walking around which is you know for many reasons actually meant to be a talking point for people like oh what air filter is that why do you have that here why are you doing this and that's a way that we try to educate people about this is something that you should be doing for your own home but

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

about like reducing your environmental exposures where you can the plastic bottles the microwaving this that and getting a high quality indoor air filter and people who walk into our clinic will also see that there are several of them walking around which is you know for many reasons actually meant to be a talking point for people like oh what air filter is that why do you have that here why are you doing this and that's a way that we try to educate people about this is something that you should be doing for your own home but

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

about like reducing your environmental exposures where you can the plastic bottles the microwaving this that and getting a high quality indoor air filter and people who walk into our clinic will also see that there are several of them walking around which is you know for many reasons actually meant to be a talking point for people like oh what air filter is that why do you have that here why are you doing this and that's a way that we try to educate people about this is something that you should be doing for your own home but

Dhru Purohit Show
A Silent But Deadly Killer: How Poor Air Quality is a Driver of Chronic Disease and What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves Now

Absolutely. Everybody living in a major urban environment in the United States and around the world should have a high quality air filter in place. And I think the secondary thing that a lot of people should be doing is they should start monitoring what their air quality looks like, both indoors and outdoors, and making a assessment about what their outdoor activity levels are going to be