Dr. Michael Snyder

And so what we're doing here, it's not just measuring PM 2.5 and PM 10.

It's basically...

It's sucking up air.

There's a pump in here.

And underneath the intake valve, there's a filter that captures all the particulates like pollen, bacteria, fungi.

And under that, there's a chemical absorber.

It's called zeolite.

It captures both hydrophobic, hydrophilic, positive and negative.

And then not in real time but offline –

We'll measure all the biologicals like the fungi, the pollen, the whatever that's captured on the filter, and we'll measure the chemicals using something called mass spectrometry, the things that have an airport that measures bombs and things like that.

So we're trying to measure that in real time to see what's going on, and then we try and correlate what's outside with what's inside because we'll measure your blood as well with these deep profiles.

What we've discovered is, first of all, you'll be getting exposed.

For me, I'll do one of these during the week, one on the weekend.

We don't do it every five minutes kind of thing because you have to collect enough sample, but we will basically determine what kind of exposure you're getting.

And if you're at high risk for certain things, you may want to know this, like asthma or allergies.

What are you exposed to?

There I can give you an example.

I used to have moderate allergies.

Now they're pretty mild because allergies can fluctuate a bit.

And they would come every spring.