Re:Studies increasingly find links between air pollutants an...
by tpm on Saturday November 01, 2025 @03:45PM
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That's too easy, glutamate is neurotoxic in high doses.
Re:Studies increasingly find links between air pollutants an...
by blueflow on Saturday November 01, 2025 @03:47PM
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What about sugar?
Re:Studies increasingly find links between air pollutants an...
by notmyjob on Sunday November 02, 2025 @02:46AM
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pm2.5 is a metric used in assessing air quality. Amino acid aerosols are not a source of air pollution.
Re:Studies increasingly find links between air pollutants an...
by blueflow on Sunday November 02, 2025 @03:13AM
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amino acids droplets are pm2.5. pm2.5 refers to the particle size.
See what i wrote in the other thread... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784538
Re:Studies increasingly find links between air pollutants an...
by notmyjob on Monday November 03, 2025 @01:26AM
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Pm2.5 is a specific particle size, yes, we do agree on that. Importantly, it is also a common measurement used in assessing air quality. In that context it is typically composed of particles from a set of common sources, like wildfires, industrial sources, automobile pollution, etc…. It is, in the context of air quality monitoring, never composed of amino acids. It seems valid to make claims about pm2.5 and health, even though the claim does not distinguish wildfire pm2.5 from pm2.5 from automobile pollution or other sources. Maybe I misunderstood you to be saying otherwise.
Re:Studies increasingly find links between air pollutants an...
by blueflow on Monday November 03, 2025 @07:07AM
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Yeah but which substances/sources is not given when you just say "Pm2.5". Which is what the article did. And depending on the actual substances you get different health effects or none at all.
I'm sure now some other HN poster will come up with an explanation how Amino Acids are still neurotoxic of some sort.