The Air You Breathe Can Affect Your Hormones

The air you breathe can affect your hormones. What am I talking about? There's actually great literature looking at air quality and its association with these hormone dysregulation and fertility. But how is that actually the particles and the things you inhale actually get absorbed through your lungs. So things like particulate matter, black carbon, which is the biggest source of black carbon, is actually diesel, which is the reason why diesel is a really big issue when people talk about PM2.5, that is the particulate matter in the air. So you can look that up in your local area. I was in Arizona about a week and a half ago and the PM2.5 there was like 24, which is crazy, crazy high. Some cities over in Asia, Mexico City, for example, have PM2.5 levels in the hundreds. This has been also associated with other things like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide. All these things are particular matters and chemicals in the air that have a direct impact on your hormones.