Show 1433: What Are the Hidden Dangers in the Air We Breathe?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In this episode, our guest, award-winning science journalist Carl Zimmer, describes the hidden dangers in the air we breathe. He begins with the concept of the aerobiome–the collection of living things from ground level to the stratosphere. While that includes eagles and dragonflies, the most insidious inhabitants are those we can’t see. Often, we are […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Graydon.
0:01.5	And I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.0	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	People's Pharmacy.com.
0:14.5	Most of us take breathing for granted, but we're surrounded by an entire ecology of invisible microbes.
0:22.8	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:33.6	You've heard about the microbiome, the collection of bacteria, viruses, and fungi living in our digestive tracts, brains, and skin.
0:42.7	There's also a microbiome in our lungs.
0:46.1	The air we breathe is not sterile. It's full of microbes. Some are beneficial, and some are highly dangerous from COVID to TB. We get sick because we inhale viruses and bacteria.
0:59.8	What should you know about the aerobioom that surrounds us?
1:03.1	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, the hidden dangers in the air we breathe.
1:13.6	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,
1:17.6	Cancer researchers are now recommending exercise
1:20.5	as a way to delay or prevent recurrence.
1:24.0	Observational studies have long suggested
1:26.1	that physical activity could benefit cancer patients.
1:29.6	Now an international group of scientists has completed a multi-site randomized trial confirming this effect.
1:37.5	The 889 patients had undergone surgery and chemotherapy for colon cancer.
1:43.6	The investigators assigned 445 of them to regular
1:48.1	exercise with coaching by a personal trainer for three years. They allotted 444 patients to health
1:55.3	education as a control group. After five years, 80% of those in the exercise group were alive and well. In comparison,
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