5 Essential Ways Of Surviving The Haze in South East Asia | Ronan Oliveira

You are smoking more than eight cigarettes a day without even knowing. Kuala Lumpur has become the most air polluted city in the world. And on top of that, people in the streets are trying to protect themselves by wearing these surgical masks that are useless against this type of pollution. We went to science to bring you five effective strategies that can help you against the haze. Increase your intake of B complex vitamins. Scientists from Columbia University got a group of volunteers and made them breathe this really bad air and then gave them more vitamin B6, B9 and B12. And it turns out that the combination of these vitamins not only protected volunteers against the pollution, as it also reversed up to 76% of any harm caused to their immunological and cardiovascular system systems in recent air pollution exposure. Increase your intake of omega 3 fatty acids in your diet. A group of scientists in Harvard University found that increasing omega 3 levels can decrease up to 30 to 50% of the inflammation caused by this type of pollution. Stay indoors when you're outside because of the air movement, all these particles, they remain in suspension. But when you are indoors, these particles tend to fall and stay on the floor. Number four, if you want to wear masks and this will be more helpful for people who are outside for a couple of hours, for people who have respiratory problems and are outside or, or if you have any sort of effect if you bad and affected by the haze. The masks that are effective are called N95 or N99. N95. They have this name because they can filter up to 95% of the tiny particles from this type of potion. Air purifiers. This is a more expensive and robust strategy against the haze. But if you want to get one, then you want to look for a purifier that has a label of high efficiency for particularly air hepa. Hepa. The label you're looking for needs to say true HEPA future. These are the ones that are internationally regulated. Check the video description for links with more references if you want to learn more and share this video with your friends and families who are also trying to take care of themselves during the haze. Cheers SA.