29/11/2019
Question :do i really need an air purifier
Answer by Kaif m.
Irrespective of whether you feel uncomfortable or not, at this moment, if you are in Delhi and not protecting yourself with an air purifier or a mask, you are breathing in minute particles which go into your lungs, then into your blood, and get deposited in your brain, heart, liver, pancreas, and other organs. These particles are made of inorganic heavy metals like lead, cadmium, chromium and manganese, which do not belong in the body. Over time they disrupt the normal functioning of these organs, just like if I stuck a piece of lead to my eyeball my eye would eventually become weak. The detoxifying pathways of the body - lymph, liver, colon - which try to remove these particles are like an animal carrying 10 times its weight. They are meant to detox a body living in a clean atmosphere, as humans have lived for most of human history, and not in a 21st century 3rd world city. The toxins coming in a many times more than the toxins excreted.
We are all in this situation until we don't take precautions. Soon we will get chronic diseases that signal gradual bodily deterioration, much before human beings usually get them. I mean not just asthma but being overweight, chronic fatigue syndrome, hormonal imbalance, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's. The ultimate result of accumulated toxicity in the body, of course, is cancer. If you look around you you will already find plenty of people in their 30s upwards having these illnesses.
Before we get these illnesses, we are in any case not functioning to our optimal capacity of brain function or of bodily well being. Toxicity in the brain is probably already causing us unexplained degrees of painful emotions and making life difficult either for ourselves, or for those who live around us. The toll of a toxic life on mental health is something not acknowledged enough.
So there it is my friend. One doesn't have to be coughing all day or getting diagnosed with lung cancer to know that one needs to clean the air one is breathing. Just like one will not pick mud from a dirty puddle on the road and eat it if it doesn't make one immediately sick, one should not breath the air we breath only because it is not making us immediately sick.
When living in the city, the body is chronically toxic and is fighting this toxicity all day to delay the conditions I mentioned above. It is so engrossed in this that the brain doesn't register that something is wrong. A bit like a rat trapped in a maze who is so busy trying to escape that he doesn't register that this is not his normal state. The reason you feel worse after returning from the Himalayas is that the body gets a break and sees a glimpse of what normal human life could be. It becomes slightly cleaner, particularly your lungs because that is where the toxicity is entering you, as far as air pollution goes. When the toxicity returns, they protest and try to expel it out by coughing, rather than pass it onto the blood. Only for a few days, until the old situation returns. The discomfort you feel is actually a sign of health, of the body still fighting it out against the poison, than of illness.
Get a few purifiers and masks :). If you can afford a water purifier, you can afford a couple of air purifiers.
At least one for the room where you sleep and relax in, because that will cover 8 to 10 hours a day if you are getting adequate sleep. And if possible, also for places where you spend a few hours a day or more in.
