Dr. Michael Snyder

It's a very underexplored area, and that's kind of, again, the academic side of me.

I want to understand –

how does your environment impact your health?

And it's not just air, but that's the area we decide to start in.

And, you know, what are you breathing right now?

You have no idea, right?

And so that's the principle.

I'm a sort of big data guy.

As you can tell, I do all these measurements on the inside.

What about the outside?

And we know from plenty of work from others, you mentioned

you know, particulates in the air.

This is where the PM2.5, that's thought to be the stuff that penetrates your lungs and causes all kinds of problems.

Yeah, not good.

So anyway, and these days, as you know, plastics and microplastics have erupted as a pretty big health concern, but nobody is 100% sure why.

what it means but they do know now that when you dissect people's brains of folks who have died and you'll see microplastics they're everywhere and so what is it doing to your health I don't think we fully know but we're starting by just trying to measure this stuff so we've

Decide to start with airborne, but you could argue, you know, what are you drinking?

What's in your food?

That's all very relevant, by the way.

But we'll start with the air.