Air Quality and Your Health

For everyone suffering from allergies and asthma as well as any health-conscious individual, this information about pollution and how it affects you is vital. It could change your life for the better.

Oxygen is essential to life. Without it the body dies. The air we breathe provides us with nutrients that enable the body to function and affect our energy level and the way we feel. We have a challenge that is getting worse, however, and that is pollution. Our environment is polluted and that includes the air.

The recent California fires are a case in point. The pollution from the smoke alone has a long-range effect on our health and well-being. Check out the picture below that I took only a couple of days ago here in San Francisco at sunset. (July 2008)

Scary, no?

Yes, the pollution is visible and evident. Wonder what our lungs look like, even if we don't smoke?

And the smoke and smog affect not only our lungs, but also our kidneys, our skin, and every other system in our bodies. It's a domino effect. And here's the main thing: we either are the filter or we have a filter to help us deal with all the contaminants.

Our homes, by the way, often have air quality that is even worse than on the outside. Why is that? Well, we are surrounded by chemicals inside our homes: in the walls, the carpets, the ceilings, the cabinetry, or our mattresses.

But there is a solution that is easy and effective: the wellness home solution. It could just save your health.

Be aware that you either have an air filter or your lungs are working overtime.

So, make sure you improve the quality of the air in your home AND your car right away through air filters that finely filter out impurities, allergens, and other pollutants, and additionally freshen the air with negative ions - which actually calm your mind.

In Japan negative ion therapy exists in the treatment of depression. Imagine that!

And make sure to get an air filter that produces negative ions without the nasty by-product ozone.

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Air Pollution is real. Check out the data here.

County by County Air Quality Data for the US