Date: Feb 17, 2019

“Matthew, featured in Something in the Air, a documentary from The Nature of Things, is a busy, athletic 10-year-old. He loves playing outside and just tried out for hockey. But he also has asthma and had to move because he couldn’t breathe in the city.

Matthew didn’t live in Delhi or Beijing — his family had to move from Toronto.”

Watch the episode from CBC here.

You can also visit www.somethingintheair.ca for links to anything referred in the video.

Platinum Air Care Notes:

Here’s a few things that stuck out to us:

Mathew & Family - Asthma - Toronto (Timestamp: 2:10)
“Surprisingly Canada has one of the highest rates of asthma in the world, it’s the number 1 cause of hospital admissions for kids.”

Jeffery Gettleman - Moving to India (Timestamp: 11:20)
”We stay inside a lot, we wear masks when we go outside on heavily polluted days, we have an air filter in our car, we have an air filter in every room of this apartment, and we just spend so much time inside.”
“3,000 people die from air pollution every day in India”

Dogs getting Dementia - Mexico City (Timestamp: 18:30)
“It’s not just us, bad air effects everything that breathes, and that includes our closest companions; dogs”

Canada Study - Higher Risk of Dementia When Living Near Main Roads (Timestamp: 26:03)

Ultra-Fine Particles: Breathing In Particles That Can Go Inside Bloodstream (Timestamp: 30:00)