WHO: Breathe Life - How air pollution impacts your body
By World Health Organization (WHO)
Summary
## Key takeaways - **Molecular-sized particles are deadliest**: Air pollution's deadliest weapons are invisible poisonous particles that can be as small as a molecule, slipping unnoticed past your defenses to assault lungs, heart, and brain. [00:18], [00:30] - **Particles breach lung defenses**: With every breath, these tiny particles break through your lungs' protective barriers and trigger inflammation as your body tries desperately to fight back. [00:32], [00:44] - **Pollution sows deep cancer seeds**: The intruders penetrate defenses and lodge toxic compounds even deeper, sowing the seeds of cancer as they sabotage the bloodstream. [00:44], [00:52] - **Plaque-dislodging particles spark clots**: The particle prowlers dislodge fatty plaque built up from your diet, weaving deadly clots that block blood flow to your heart or brain. [00:53], [01:12] - **Pollution steadily expands its hit list**: With each new case of heart attack, stroke, lung disease or cancer, air pollution adds another life to its hit list. [01:14], [01:25]
Topics Covered
- Invisible Invaders Smaller Than Molecules Breach Every Defence
- Particles Rattle Plaque Loose and Weave Deadly Clots
Full Transcript
air pollution it lurks all around us preying on the young and old it slips unnoticed past your defenses and
assaults your lungs heart and brain its deadliest weapons are invisible poisonous particles that can be as small as a molecule with every breath they
break through your lungs protective barriers there they trigger inflammation as your system tries desperately to fight back but these tiny intruders penetrate those defences lodging toxic
compounds even deeper sowing the seeds of cancer they slide straight into your bloodstream sabotaging your entire body they inflame and constrict your blood
vessels increasing blood pressure until one day causing a stroke [Music] the particle prowlers dislodge fatty
plaque that may have built up from your diet they weave clots that can be deadly blockers of blood flow to your heart or brain with each new case of heart attack
stroke lung disease or cancer air pollution adds another life to its hit list let's stop this invisible killer
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