How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System

Re:How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System by the_cat_kittles on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:27PM (#16995831)

i have a pet fascination with air quality- not in any real sense, but im always just wondering about it, since its so varied and virtually invisible. are there any simple small tools you know of that are good at get information about air quality. the only thing i see people sometimes use is a particulate meter that tells them the concentration of particulate matter of various sizes. seems like it would be cool to have a kit of different tools to measure things like c02 levels, voc's, particulates etc

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Re:How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System by graeme on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:45PM (#16995987)

You can get CO2 meters quite easily on amazon. They sell them as a commodity for greenhouses measurement.

For particulates, the Laseregg is the best I've found.

Apparently the laseregg 2+ measures VOC, but I'm not sure about that. From what I heard there are no VOC meters available at a consumer level. CO2 is the best proxy, because high CO2 means low ventilation, which prevents venting of VOCs.

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Re:How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System by sitkack on Saturday May 05, 2018 @02:58AM (#17000718)

I think you have it backwards from the cursory research I did by scanning over the datasheets for various sensors. VOC are easier to measure than CO2 and for rooms occupied by people their is a strong correlation between VOC and CO2. VOC sensors qty 1 are 5-12 where CO2 is 40-120. These are sensors themselves, not full devices.

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Re:How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System by tkahnoski on Friday May 04, 2018 @02:24PM (#16996961)

What do you do with the air measurements? Are there things you can do to improve air quality?

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Re:How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System by graeme on Friday May 04, 2018 @02:53PM (#16997226)

I changed a few things as a result:

* I am far more diligent about opening a window at my home and office. In winter I may open one a crack.

* I leave my bedroom door open at night

* I noticed I was getting extremely high AQI index readings when cooking. I was frying things in a pan after previously cooking something else in the same meal (meat, then sweet potatoes). I now wash in between, use coconut oil (less AQI readings) and am more diligent about opening the kitchen door if the AQU gets high

It's kind of like measuring weight. Once you have it stable, you don't really need to do anything. But, keeping the readings alerts you if something ever goes off track.

Also very useful to see that even openings in windows could make large and immediate differences.

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Re:How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System by fossuser on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:45PM (#16995986)

I have one of these that I bought mostly on a whim because I was curious about it.

https://getawair.com

It does a decent job.

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