Air Health Our Health

Lung and ICU doctor connecting the dots among healthy air, healthy people and a healthy economy. I want to keep people from landing in my clinic or the ICU. Clean air saves lives. If you do nothing else, don't light things on fire and breathe them into your lungs.Learn more at airhealthourhealth.org, and follow on Facebook and Instagram!Nuestro Aire Nuestra Salud- serie en español con doctora de pulmon y cuidados intensivosBusque podcasts con títulos en español y el logotipo de “Nuestro Aire Nuestra Salud” para ver más episodios en español.

Air Health Our Health is a health podcast hosted by AirHealthOurHealth, with 87 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #9

  Fleeing, Filtering and Finances- a Family lives with Fire

  Jun 1, 202630 minS6

  As we enter wildfire season, I share an interview with Stacie Reveles of the Cystic Fibrosis Research Institute . She is the mother of a child with a complex lung disease that makes navigating the reality of wildfires and a changing climate even more challenging. Listen as she shares her story and wisdom about how to live with the reality of increasing wildfires and how to protect and prepare yourself and your family. Thank you for listening to Season Six of Air Health Our Health. See you back in the Fall! To Do- Learn about hardening your home and creating a defensive perimeter to protect against wildfire from the National Interagency Fire Center . Listen to the episode “Our Health in Wildfire Season” about how to protect health during wildfire or smoke events. Listen to the episode “Fighting Fire with Fire” with wildland firefighter Bodie Shaw for details on prescribed burns and preventing catastrophic fire. Prepare an updated Go Bag for everyone in your family at the beginning of wildfire season with essential medications, clothes, and other basic needs. Strengthen your support and community. We are really all in this together, and we know that bonds of neighborhood and community are vital for surviving crises. This can be by joining an ALA Better Breathing Club if you are living with lung disease. If you are older looking into a Village community in the area which helps seniors age in place with support. Churches can also be a vital source of support and community. Finally, consider a donation to the American Thoracic Society , which helps the world breathe. Note- original interview recorded for the ATS Breathe Easy podcast . Family and Fire Image from Caleb Cook on Unsplash .

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  Episode #8

  The Pain of Pollen- Advice from an Allergist

  Apr 6, 202623 minS6

  Allergies can be miserable, and like other threats in the air, can often be invisible but cause a great deal of misery! For this episode, Dr Sharmilee Nyenhuis from the University of Chicago teaches us about pollen, how it affects us, and how it is changing. Listen and learn! Know your own allergies, and make a plan for that pollen season- avoiding peak pollen times outdoors, rinsing pollen off your face and maybe your sinuses when you come indoors, keeping windows closed and more Check out the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America Home Checklist for Allergies Find a pollen counter that actually counts pollen in real time, not based on historic controls. With climate change, history doesn’t predict what may be going on outdoors The time is always right to run a HEPA filter- if it’s not sweeping the pollen from your air, it will be cleaning out pollution or catching viruses. Share this episode with a friend who suffers from allergies. For more on the interaction of climate change and plant biology, listen to the “Science over Politics” episode from Season One. Consider a donation to the American Lung Association, who works hard to help those with asthma and allergies breathe better ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information go to airhealthourhealth.org . Follow on Facebook and Instagram . Pollen image by Alex Jones on Unsplash

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  Beat the 10% Brain Tax- Indoor CO2 & You

  Mar 2, 202636 min

  When we gather indoors and exhale CO2, levels can rapidly rise and impair our cognitive function, even at levels that are pretty typical for indoor buildings in the US. But solutions are surprisingly cheap and easy! Today I'm joined by Dr. Georgia Lagoudas PhD, MIT grad and Senior Fellow and faculty at Brown University’s School of Public Health, where she brings extensive expertise in biosecurity and indoor air quality. She leads the Clean Indoor Air Initiative at Brown, advancing policy and implementation projects to improve indoor air quality. We discuss CO2 impact on you and your community, and what you can do! To Do- - If you can afford it, consider purchasing a simple sensor that detects CO2 and PM2.5. You want your CO2 level less than 1000, perhaps 800 if you have kids in the home and your PM2.5 average under 5 ucg/m3. Prioritize the PM2.5, but pay attention to the CO2 as well Air Monitor Review Links from Dr Lagoudas- BreatheSafeAir and HouseFresh do reviews, like this one - Find out if your work or child’s school monitors indoor air quality- if not, consider advocating for indoor air quality sensors. It will help reduce absenteeism at work and at school and improve test scores! - Check out the Clean Indoor Air Initiative at Brown to encourage clean indoor air policies at local, state and federal level. You can find there the state guide for clean air . - As always, consider a donation to the American Lung Association! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information go to https://airhealthourhealth.org/co2tax . Follow on Facebook and Instagram .

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  Episode #6

  Agricultural Burning, Air Quality & Community Health

  Feb 2, 202616 minS6

  We all need to eat. We also all need to breathe clean air. Around the country and the world the practice of agricultural burning is used to remove crop residue. This can often be the most efficient or cost-effective from the perspective of the individual farmer, but can also affect the people living and working in the area. Dr Laura C. Myers , M.D., M.P.H is a lung and ICU doctor at Kaiser Permanente who researches people with lung diseases and how air quality and heat can affect them. Join me to learn about agricultural burning and its health impact. We also explore what can be done to minimize this impact while ensuring both a healthy food production and healthy communities. To Do- Where possible, encourage your community to support farmers in alternatives to biomass burning through regenerative agricultural practices. Many agricultural universities across the US are studying this, and supporting up front costs for farmers may help improve their soil, profit margins and keep surrounding communities healthier. Make sure you have clean air indoors- no smoking, vaping, open flames, etc. You can learn more from the “Clean Air Gift Guide” episode from earlier this season. Spread the word about the importance of clean air indoors- reducing pollution from gas stoves, ensuring good air filtration and more can help improve resilience when agricultural burning is occurring. If you or a loved one has asthma or airway disease, make sure they know about clean air resources. Sign up for air quality alerts in your area. Consider a donation to the American Lung Association , which helps patients with airway disease understand the air they breathe and works for clean air for all. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information go to airhealthourhealth.org . Follow on Facebook and Instagram . Photo by Ferdinand Stöhr on Unsplash

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  Episode #5

  From Suicide to Sickness- Adolescents and the Risks of E-cigs and Vaping

  Jan 5, 202627 minS6

  We now have more information about how e-cigarettes can affect adolescents. It is tragic, because kids had really gotten the message that cigarettes are bad for you, but candy-flavored e-cigarettes seem safer and lure them in. Kids who start with e-cigs are more likely to become smokers, use other addictive substances, have depression and attempt suicide. I recorded a Breathe Easy podcast for the American Thoracic Society on this topic with Dr. Laura E. Crotty Alexander , a lung doctor who studies e-cigarettes in the lab. Listen and learn about how e-cigarettes can affect youth in your community and what can be done to help them break free and ideally never get addicted in the first place. What can you do? Learn about how a comprehensive flavor ban may help your state or community with the episode Breaking States Free from Flavored Tobacco & Why it Matters . Post If an adolescent in your life vapes, learn how to talk to them about it in an evidence-based way with the Do the Vape Talk - episode which includes expertise from the American Lung Association, Post Finally, consider a donation to the American Thoracic Society , whose Tobacco Action Committee works hard to protect Americans from the tobacco industry and who recorded the Breathe Easy podcast that is the foundation of this episode. Studies covered in pod Golder S et al. Vaping and harm in young people: umbrella review Tobacco Control Aug 2025. Bauer SE et al. Treatment of Nicotine Use in Adolescents Under 18 Years of Age: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025

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