Mike Feldstein
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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.
So outdoor pollution is your mold, your pollen, your allergens, the rubber from the tires, the chemicals, the factories, just like general pollution.