Air pollution is a much larger killer than I thought! I have noticed a big impact of my indoor HEPA air purifiers.
It’s also good to ‘burp’ your house by opening up windows and doors to let fresh air in.
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Causes and extent of avoidable mortality across the european union: insights for advancing healthy aging
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Yes, this is becoming quite a bit one. I was at a cardiac conference last year where the presenter made a convincing case that air pollution was also a driver of cardiovascular disease. Plus lots of spillover - lung diseases, persistent low-level inflammation etc.
My family also runs air purifiers in our main living room and our bedrooms. (We use the Dyson ones which have a sensor to tell you PM2.5, PM10, formaldehyde, volatile oxygen compounds etc). So together that basically covers at least 1/3 of the day. I also have one in my office, which covers another 1/3 or so. I think we can’t be “perfect” on this, but running a purifier in the room you sleep in seems like a no-brainer.
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A story here in The Guardian about “healthy life expectancy” being in decline.
a child born this morning in Britain can expect to be in good health only until they are 61. The last 20 years of their life will be blighted by illness: dodgy hearts, painful joints, an inability to get about. Our healthy life expectancy has been dropping for years; it is now the lowest since 2011, when records began.
It seems that a huge part of it is economic. Poor living conditions, high stress.
The working-class suburb where I was raised, Edmonton, ranks among the most deprived in the country; the middle-class suburb where I currently live is among the least deprived. I could see them on her map, along with figures suggesting my two small daughters can expect almost a decade more of good health than girls living in my old home, just three miles away.
And the thing that (selfishly) worries me the most:
Scientists increasingly worry about “midlife mortality” in Britain: people in the prime of their lives dropping dead.
In Donald Trump’s America, where life expectancy is plunging, more women are dying between the ages of 25 and 44 than did in 1990.
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So the red countries need to take statins and the purple need to take Rapamycin.
Or you could just be smart and take both. 
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Ha, I think it’s more that we’ve made really good progress in preventing CVD. Statins and blood pressure medications work wonders. So if you deal with early deaths from CVD, you’ll end up with more deaths from other causes. And we aren’t anywhere near as good at preventing or curing cancers.
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