Importance of breathing clean air. 

According to the EPA air within homes and other building can be more seriously polluted than outdoor air?

We breathe 50 to 60 pounds of air per day (Harvard Magazine)

A study (7/05) helps confirm that chemical exposure begins in the womb. The Environmental Working Group found that babies averaged 200 contaminants in their blood, including mercury, fire retardants, pesticides, and Teflon.

People living in cities with the dirtiest air died an average two years earlier than residents of cities with the cleanest air. The difference was linked to elevated levels of fine-particle pollution (Harvard Magazine)

About 50% of ALL illnesses are caused by or aggravated by indoor pollution

Ten million Americans have asthma. Asthma and asthma deaths have increased over 30% in the past 10 years.

Short-term health effects of indoor pollutants range from short-term problems of the eye and throat irritation to long-term illness of respiratory disease and cancer.

Based on cancer risk alone, federal scientists have ranked indoor air pollution as one of the most important environmental problems in the US.

Negative Ions

Negative ions have long been known for their ability to refresh people. Brazilian hospitals commonly use negative ion

generators to treat breathing problems. (Soyka, 1991)

In the early 1960’s, Dr. A.P. Wehner used negative ions to treat over 1,000 patients in the U.S. suffering from various

respiratory ills like bronchial asthma, pulmonary emphysema, laryngitis, bronchitis, hacking coughs, and allergies. He

reported that

30.5% of the cases completely disappeared

42.3% improved significantly

20% showed some improvement

7% showed no signs of improvement

Positive ions, which occur in high levels in many indoor environments, inhibit the body’s ability to prevent pollutants and contaminates from entering the vulnerable areas of the respiratory tract. (Kruger 74, Soyka 91, Tchijewski 60)

USDA found that ionizing a room led to 52% less dust in the air and 95% less bacteria.

Journal of Applied Microbiology found that the use of negative ions reduced the presence of airborne viruses by about 40%. (1987)

Former NASA Scientist James B. Beal found that “people have been designed to function properly in an environment that contains certain levels of ionization.” 5,000 plus scientific documents published about negative ions support the conclusion that an overload of negative ions seems to be beneficial. (Soyka ‘91)

However, most negative ion generators produce ozone!

Ozone is a lung irritant. Ozone is an asthma trigger. And yet there are machines that produce ozone being heavily advertised.

Research has shown that there is no safe level of ozone that can be added to the air. “Current evidence of the health effects of ozone suggests that there is no safe threshold concentration for the onset of health responses due to exposure above background ozone concentrations,” H. Sterling Burnett wrote in 1994.

In the United States, 50 parts per billion is the designated acceptable limit for ozone production in the home. Currently, air purifiers are not legally obligated to comply with this standard. A recent University of Southern California study demonstrated that an increase of ozone by only 20 ppb increased school absences by 83 percent.

The advertisers who are selling ozone producing air cleaners are spending millions and millions of dollars to convince you that ozone is safe and healthy in your home. They are dead wrong. Ozone is a clearly established asthma trigger. There are daily ozone health watches on the news that warn parents of children with asthma that they should stay indoors on some days; these health watches look at the ozone levels outside. How can someone tell parents in good conscience that the asthma trigger they are putting in their children’s bedroom is at a safe level? How has “safe” been established here?

A student reporter at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ended up having to go to urgent care after he took the assignment of reviewing an ozone producing air cleaner for the school paper. Hopefully, awareness of the dangers of ozone producing air cleaners will grow, and changes will come. At press time, I am aware of four class-action lawsuits that have been filed recently against the manufacturers, distributors and retailers of ozone-producing air cleaners.

When ozone goes up, even for short periods at levels below current regulatory standards, so does the death rate, According to the Journal of The American Medical Association.

Product Concepts for the Air Power5

5-stage advanced filtration:

Prefilter: Traps large particles—vacuum this clean when it becomes dirty.

Photocatalytic Filter: Destroys particles

Carbon Filter: Adsorbs particles

Nanocopper filter: Attracts particles

HEPA filter: Final stage, traps remaining particles up to 99.97% efficiency.

The Power 5 cleans the air of particles as small as .03 microns. Here is an example of the sizing of various particles:

150 microns Human hair

7.5 micron Visible particles, debris

4.0 microns Tobacco smoke, bacteria, paint pigments

2.0 micron Spores, asbestos, heavy atmospheric dust

.5 microns Bacteria, light atmospheric dust

Negative Ion Generator: Produces negative ions without OZONE! Patent Pending design uses ambient light instead of UV.

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Air Power5 Overview sheet