Air Pollution Can Cause Genetic Changes In The Brain
Hey Steem fam, just wanted to share this article from The Sierra Club about a study showing that air pollution can make genetic changes in the brain:
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/study-shows-air-pollution-makes-genetic-changes-brain
The heavy metals made it past the blood-brain barrier, and did not take long to cause changes: "'Initially I was even skeptical we could find anything. For example, a smoker has to smoke 20 years to develop lung cancer,' Ljubimova says, 'so I was not sure that in three, six, or 12 months of exposure we would detect changes in these animals’ brains at the genomic level. I was very, very surprised when we found so many changes.'"
The study was done with air that had the pollution levels of Los Angeles.
image from Time dot com
I've said it before and I'll say it again: it doesn't matter particularly if you believe climate science or not; everybody wants clean air to breathe. We need to work together.
Be good, Steemit.
Amen, Phe! Every living being deserves clean air to breathe.
Beautifully put.
Thank you. 😊
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