Mike Feldstein
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It's just like it's omnipresent.
But yeah, it definitely stays in you for quite some time.
Yeah, I didn't realize it at the time because my I mean, when I go to these like disaster zones, we were working like 18 hours a day and living a pretty unhealthy lifestyle for a few months at a time.
And yeah, mold.
But for us, heavy metals were really bad, too, because it wasn't just the 5000 homes that burnt down or it wasn't just a million acres of trees that burnt.
or the 5,000 homes, but everything in every house was gone.
So when you would drive down a street after a wildfire zone, all you see is chimney stacks.
Piles of ash and chimney stacks.
So where's the WD-40?
Where's the paint cans?
Where's all the cleaning chemicals?
Like, literally, the cars, the fuel, everything in everyone's homes, the factories...
kind of got into the smoke and makes it like a toxic plume of smoke.
I got like I still have a little bit of it.
It gets triggered now by like gluten.
I have a bit of psoriasis and that got triggered after this wildfire in 2016 and like living in that environment.
I have, and I probably am due for another one now.
So an air purifier is one of the tools, but there's actually a lot of stuff that people can do like for free at home immediately.
And I think the main thing is just starting from air awareness.
So like broadly, there's outdoor air pollution and there's indoor air pollution.