Show 1424: Breathing Better Despite Pollution, Infections, Asthma or COPD

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This week, we talk with a pulmonologist–a doctor who takes care of people with lung problems. Our topics range from common respiratory infections to the hazards of breathing smoke from forest fires. We also discuss asthma and COPD. Listen to find out how you could be breathing better. You could listen through your local public […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Graydon.
0:01.5	And I'm Terry Graydon.
0:02.9	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.0	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	People's Pharmacy.com.
0:14.7	Most of us don't think much, if at all, about breathing.
0:18.4	It's automatic.
0:19.4	But if you can't breathe, it rapidly becomes a crisis.
0:23.4	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:31.7	Whether it's pneumonia, influenza, or respiratory syncytial virus, lung infections can be serious.
0:40.9	Few of us have heard of human metanumovirus, but it sure leads to a horrible cough that's tough to shake.
0:48.2	Wildfires put a lot of smoke in the air, and that makes breathing difficult.
0:53.1	How can you keep from inhaling particulate matter?
0:56.9	Asthma and COPD interfere with lung function.
1:00.9	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, breathing better despite pollution, infections,
1:06.0	asthma, or COPD.
1:13.9	In the P. pharmacy health headlines, the ultimate measure of public health is death,
1:20.4	particularly avoidable mortality.
1:23.1	A recent study looked at such preventable deaths of adults under 74 in the United States and incomparable
1:29.6	high-income countries between 2009 and 2021. Avoidable mortality included both deaths that could
1:37.9	have been prevented with public health measures and those that should have been avoided with
1:42.5	timely and appropriate medical care.
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