Jeffrey Jaime examines how indoor air quality affects brain health. Poor air forces your body into constant defense mode, and research shows air pollution correlates with dementia and Alzheimer's risk. Even chess grandmasters make worse moves on high-pollution days.
There's more pollen and pollution often in your home than outside. The reason? I think a lot of people have a lot of chronic health issues. Not the whole thing. You know, I'm the air guy, so I'm approaching it from that lens. But you're breathing all this toxic stuff 24 hours a day. So when your body's trying to rest, recover, heal, consolidate memories, work on your gut, work on your muscles, do all its good natural healing process, at night, you're breathing in mold and pollen and toxins and chemicals, so your body's still playing defense all night long. But what do we know at this point about, like, cognition, mental productivity and quality? The best study I know of, and there's a lot, but they took a bunch of grandmaster chess players and they looked at the game theory optimal, like quality of their move. And the quality of their chess moves was very correlated to the air quality. So as the air quality got worse, their performance in chess went down. There's a lot of new studies that tie air pollution to dementia and Alzheimer's.
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