WHO: Breathe Life - How air pollution impacts your body — Transcript
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- 0:00air pollution it lurks all around us
- 0:03preying on the young and old it slips
- 0:07unnoticed past your defenses and
- 0:09assaults your lungs heart and brain its
- 0:13deadliest weapons are invisible
- 0:15poisonous particles that can be as small
- 0:17as a molecule with every breath they
- 0:21break through your lungs protective
- 0:22barriers there they trigger inflammation
- 0:25as your system tries desperately to
- 0:27fight back but these tiny intruders
- 0:29penetrate those defences lodging toxic
- 0:32compounds even deeper sowing the seeds
- 0:34of cancer they slide straight into your
- 0:37bloodstream sabotaging your entire body
- 0:39they inflame and constrict your blood
- 0:42vessels increasing blood pressure until
- 0:45one day causing a stroke
- 0:48[Music]
- 0:50the particle prowlers dislodge fatty
- 0:53plaque that may have built up from your
- 0:54diet they weave clots that can be deadly
- 0:57blockers of blood flow to your heart or
- 0:59brain with each new case of heart attack
- 1:02stroke lung disease or cancer air
- 1:05pollution adds another life to its hit
- 1:07list
- 1:07let's stop this invisible killer
- 1:10[Music]
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