The Damage of Air Pollution

Unfortunately, air pollution is a reality for all of us. It is produced by so many of the modern conveniences we use very day – cars, electricity and power plants (just to name a few). We are only now even beginning to understand how much of a health concern this air pollution is.

“Research consistently is finding that, when spread out over a given population, the quality of the air has a very significant impact on public health. When vehicles, factories, power plants, and other machines burn fuel, the chemicals they release into the atmosphere react with one another (and other compounds in the air) in ways that can amplify health hazards.

One major study, which followed subjects for 16 years, found that people living in cities with higher levels of fine particulates were at greater risk of cardiovascular death. A difference of 10 micrograms per cubic meter increased the risk of dying from ischemic heart disease (narrowed arteries) by 18 percent, arrhythmia by 13 percent, and cardiac arrest by 21 percent. It seems air pollutants incite processes that lead to high blood pressure, blood clotting, and electrical instability in your heart.

Air pollution might actually cause disease as well. Separate Children ages 9 to 16 who played at least three sports and lived in areas with high ozone concentrations had a 30 percent increased chance of developing asthma. And other work indicates that infants whose mothers were exposed to air pollutants while pregnant might be at a greater risk of low birth weight, pre-term birth, and even death.” – www.mercola.com

The good news is that with the use of Standard Process whole food supplements, we can assist your body in better handling the enormous number of toxins it is exposed to every day.  If you are concerned about exposure to things like air pollution, please call our office for more information on the healthy, safe and effective purification programs we can help you with.