Max Lugavere

or you're exposed to industrial solvents and the like, you want to make sure that you're breathing in, yeah, clean air in your home, especially.

Indoor air can be orders of magnitude more polluted than outdoor air because of the off-gassing of furniture, the presence of volatile organic compounds, which readily evaporate.

Typically, what you ingest has to bypass the blood-brain barrier for it to gain entry to the brain, but what you inhale through your nose

It has, you know, easy access through the olfactory bulb to the brain.

And this is one of the reasons why it's speculated that the sense of smell is one of the earliest senses to kind of become diminished, you know, pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease and even Parkinson's disease sense of smell is affected.

So you want to make sure that, you know, what you're breathing is clean air with, again, the acknowledgement that like,

You know, we're all going to end up in polluted parts of the of the world now and then.

It's about the chronic exposure to these kinds of pollutants.

But there have been studies in, for example, Mexico City decades ago before they cleaned up the air, where they found, you know, they looked at the brains of cadavers across the age spectrum.

So even children that had been exposed to, you know, chronically polluted air and they find pathology that looks a lot like Alzheimer's disease, like accelerated Alzheimer's pathology.

in the brains of people who were breathing in you know excessively polluted air and again it's because amyloid it's thought that amyloid actually at least initially serves a protective purpose in the brain so for people who are breathing in these these particles right that again have easy access to the brain that amyloid might aggregate as a way of protecting the brain from from you know the exposure to these particles all that is to say you want to make sure that your air is clean you want to make sure that your water is clean you want to make sure that your food is clean

Well, I drink, I'm pretty privileged.

I order like spring water.

I drink that, you know, in glass in my house.

I do Mountain Valley.

Yeah.

But before that, I was using a reverse osmosis purifier, which my brother just got for his house.

And he lives in Vegas and he spent like just a couple hundred dollars.

It was like two, three.

He said just two, three hundred dollars to equip his kitchen sink.