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This really affects me. I have asthma throughout my life and it shows. I think it has made me more sedentary throughout my life. I have actually breathed reall

This really affects me. I have asthma throughout my life and it shows. I think it has made me more sedentary throughout my life. I have actually breathed really well once when I was doing work halfway inside a server farm at Alcatel Lucent (it was one of the monitor rooms so it wasn't noisy). I can notice the air in my house is not fit to breathe and I buy hepa filters for my house. I have thought about using an oxygen tank or some respirator and seeing if that had any measurable affect . I just had an asthma attack today because someone spilled toner on the ground.

Symbiote 9y ago
Where do you live? A city, or a small town, or a village? The difference seems like it would make a big difference in traffic pollution. I know of http://airqualitynow.eu/comparing_home.php http://airqualitynow.eu/comparing_home.php for some EU settlements, and the difference between places can be massive. (Storrington at the bottom has a population of 4000. I don't know the criteria for appearing on that list.)
- zitterbewegung 9y ago
  I mainly commute in the Chicagoland area and live in the Suburbs.
  - santiagogo 9y ago
    I started suffering from exercise induced asthma last year. It sucks, but I've found that with good nutrition, using the correct medications and trying to stay in a clean air environment (air cleanser, HEPA mask, etc), it's very manageable. There is a lot of good recent research out there on how to manage it, but I've noticed that most asthma sufferers and doctors are not even aware of it.
- 52-6F-62 9y ago
  Not OP, but anecdotally— I grew up in a small town (Pop ~5000, now ~6000) in rural Ontario, Canada. I live in the city now. Whenever I visit home I can taste how much sweeter the air is. The difference is palpable— especially in areas where there is limited medium/heavy industrial production and more agriculture and wilderness.
imaginoid 9y ago
I used to suffer from asthma. This book really helped me. Please try it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Close-Your-Mouth-Buteyko-Breathing/dp/0954599616/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Close-Your-Mouth-Buteyko-Breathing/... Conincidentally, I also used to work for Alcatel Lucent and spent much time in their server farms.

Symbiote 9y ago

Where do you live? A city, or a small town, or a village? The difference seems like it would make a big difference in traffic pollution. I know of http://airqualitynow.eu/comparing_home.php http://airqualitynow.eu/comparing_home.php for some EU settlements, and the difference between places can be massive. (Storrington at the bottom has a population of 4000. I don't know the criteria for appearing on that list.)

zitterbewegung 9y ago
I mainly commute in the Chicagoland area and live in the Suburbs.
- santiagogo 9y ago
  I started suffering from exercise induced asthma last year. It sucks, but I've found that with good nutrition, using the correct medications and trying to stay in a clean air environment (air cleanser, HEPA mask, etc), it's very manageable. There is a lot of good recent research out there on how to manage it, but I've noticed that most asthma sufferers and doctors are not even aware of it.
52-6F-62 9y ago
Not OP, but anecdotally— I grew up in a small town (Pop ~5000, now ~6000) in rural Ontario, Canada. I live in the city now. Whenever I visit home I can taste how much sweeter the air is. The difference is palpable— especially in areas where there is limited medium/heavy industrial production and more agriculture and wilderness.

imaginoid 9y ago

I used to suffer from asthma. This book really helped me. Please try it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Close-Your-Mouth-Buteyko-Breathing/dp/0954599616/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Close-Your-Mouth-Buteyko-Breathing/... Conincidentally, I also used to work for Alcatel Lucent and spent much time in their server farms.