Healthy lifestyle is a term that affects us from many sides, all the ways in which it falls. Most of us associate it most quickly with healthy eating, regular exercise and sufficient rest. Adherence to the principles of a healthy lifestyle is most often driven by the vision of improving physical condition and the associated higher resistance to diseases. Nevertheless, the trend in our population is an ever-increasing number of people prone to various respiratory chronic diseases or allergy sufferers, often among those for whom a healthy lifestyle is not just a theoretical concept. Logically, the question must come, what are we doing wrong? Few people realize in this context that the air quality of the indoor environment in which we have been moving for a long time and which has a significant impact on our health could be to blame. But is it possible to improve the indoor air in your surroundings?

Did you know...

... in the course of a single day, each of us breathes up to 20 thousand times?

... on average, a person consumes more than 15 kg of air, which is several times more than the amount of water and food in the same time?

To begin with, let's explain the issue of air quality better. We asked doc. Dr. Ing. Zdeněk Pospíchal, a forensic expert and an experienced expert in the field of the environment and technical systems, for information.

Air is the most important component of the environment, because we need air permanently for life. The significance of its purity is more than obvious. This applies to both outdoor and indoor air, i.e. the air in our homes, means of transport and workplaces.

Various pollutants are contained in the air. Pollutants are more than 90 percent trapped in the nasal cavity. The organism reacts to them with a runny nose, in the worst case, inflammation of the upper respiratory tract occurs. The organism reacts differently to the inhalation of substances of a material nature according to their size. With particles over 10 micrometers in size, the organism copes better. They usually get caught in the upper respiratory tract and a person coughs them up, spruces them up or swallows them with saliva. In the stomach, possibly in the liver, they are subsequently eliminated.

Our health is worse affected by smaller particles, which are mainly part of airborne dust. It gets into the lower respiratory tract or penetrates into the alveoli, where it can cause long-term, often chronic diseases.

Long-term exposure to air pollution brings with it an increased mortality of the population living in cities from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. It is estimated that respiratory diseases are the causative agent of about 25 thousand of the total annual number of deaths. In direct connection is a shortening of life expectancy, the occurrence of chronic bronchitis, a decrease in lung function in children and adults. That is, a deterioration in the quality of life. There is increasing evidence of the effect of exposure to pollutants on type II diabetes.

Overview of particle size in air

If we look at the increased indoor air pollution, it is mainly caused by two main changes affecting the interiors of buildings. On the one hand, as a result of rising energy prices in the construction and operation of buildings, there is an effort to prevent heat loss by limiting natural ventilation through windows and thus by using air conditioning and controlled ventilation, the result of which is mostly the accumulation of pollutants. At the same time, chemicals are increasingly used in buildings, in new construction materials, in furniture or in used chemical cleaning and cleaning products. At present, we stay indoors for up to 80 percent of the day, exposing our bodies to a burden that it cannot cope with. This fact is manifested by an increase in so-called civilization diseases. These are mainly allergies, asthma, respiratory diseases, vascular problems and cancer.

The open outdoor space is saturated with ionized air particles. However, while outside the ratio of negative and positive ions is basically balanced and therefore optimal for our organism, in a typical urban insufficiently ventilated apartment positive ions, which are independently unsuitable for the organism, predominate. For a better idea, it is possible to give an example where the air in the forest after a thunderstorm contains up to 500 thousand negative ions, while in a city apartment there will be only about 50 of them. Positive ions can enter the lungs at high concentrations, further into the blood and through it into the whole organism, where they can cause adverse reactions such as the release of serotonin and histamine. Increased serotonin levels can reduce lung capacity and the body's ability to absorb oxygen. With this condition comes health problems such as migraine, allergic reactions, excitability, sore throat, cough and others. An increase in the level of histamine can be manifested by heart pain, allergies, hay fever, nausea, insomnia.

The filterless purifier can capture:

Arsenic – is present in the air as a result of burning solid fuels, in winter there was a higher capture on the slats of the air purifier

Cadmium – it is possible to state the influence of combustion of solid fuels and waste in domestic furnaces

Lead – there is a less significant pollutant in the air

Nickel – occurs outdoors practically everywhere

Chromium – occurs in the air differently during the seasons and especially in industrially unloaded localities in the finest fraction – particle size

Conceptual adjustment and overall improvement of the environment and thus the outdoor air is a long-term program and we as individuals do not influence it too much. However, the enclosed interior – i.e. the indoor air – can be significantly improved using technology almost immediately, which is confirmed by forensic expert Zdeňek Pospíchal. A number of his personal surveys prove that a suitable solution for improving the air in the interior are quality air purifiers that can help us get rid of health, especially respiratory problems, allergic reactions and fatigue.

As part of the surveys, GeoCore's ionization filterless purifiers were used, which were able to remove dust particles containing arsenic, cadmium, lead, nickel, manganese or chromium from the indoor air (see box for more info). All these elements have one thing in common – and that is a negative effect on our health. If we look at other metals captured by a filterless ionization purifier – they are not evaluated in terms of health impact, as their impact is minimal. For example, we are talking about titanium, vanadium, iron, cobalt, zinc, selenium and copper.

The most important capability of the BION Fit Spot filterless ionization purifier is the equalization of the ratio of positive and negative ions in the air through the formation of negative ions. To give you a better idea, the predominance of positive ions in the room is caused by a computer, for example. In this case, BION Fit Spot will replenish the air with healthy negative ions and thus contribute to the creation of indoor air that is comparable in quality to the natural environment.

Ionization significantly improves air quality, is beneficial to health, eliminates the appearance of mold, viruses and bacteria, removes dust and other allergens from the air, thereby naturally purifying the air. You may be surprised to learn that it doesn't need any filters to do so. So how does it work? Ionized air binds solid particles from the air to each other and when passing through the purifier, these particles are firmly trapped on the slats of the purifier. And then they can be washed seamlessly once in a while. If you are wondering whether an air with a greater amount of negative ions is able to be perceived by a person, just remember how pleasant the outdoor air is after a thunderstorm. Other environments where you can find a large number of negative ions are salt caves or sea beaches.

It is clear that we must look at the issue of a healthy lifestyle holistically. That is, not only from the point of view of sufficient exercise and a balanced diet, but also the quality of the indoor air in which we spend the most time. The good news is that we are able to influence and improve all these areas individually. For some, strong will and perseverance are required, to increase the quality of indoor air, it is enough to purchase a suitable device that will do the necessary work for us. Over time, the investment will return richly, for example, in the form of improvements in long-term health problems, which we talked about above. And it's worth it.