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Nikhil Kamath’s Brother’s ‘Largest Takeaway’ From Bryan Johnson Podcast




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Zerodha co-founder Nithin Kamath on Tuesday shared his “greatest takeaway” from his brother Nikhil Kamath’s podcast with tech millionaire Bryan Johnson: Debunking the parable he as soon as believed that Delhi was the one metropolis in India with an air high quality downside.

Bryan Johnson, recognized for his anti-ageing analysis, walked out of Nikhil Kamath’s ‘WTF’ podcast halfway, citing poor air high quality – regardless that they’d an air air purifier within the room. 

“The largest takeaway for me after assembly Bryan Johnson was debunking the parable I as soon as believed: that solely Delhi in India has an air high quality downside – and that it happens solely in winter. We recorded the podcast in a sea-facing condominium in Bandra, Mumbai, and the AQI (Air High quality Index) was a whopping 160+. If the AQI was this excessive in Bandra, simply think about the degrees within the extra crowded components of the city,” Nithin Kamath wrote in a publish on Instagram.

Following the incident, Nithin Kamath recorded the AQI from his Bengaluru workplace, which is located in a quiet nook of the town. “I used to be shocked to see it studying 120+. Once more, think about how a lot worse it is likely to be within the busier components of the town. What makes issues trickier in Bengaluru is the mud from ongoing development growth and poor roads,” he stated.

The Zerodha CEO made a comparability to the air high quality within the US and Europe saying most cities have an AQI beneath 50.

“Lengthy-term publicity to poor air high quality could cause lung harm, cardiovascular issues, compromised immunity, an elevated danger of most cancers, and extra – all of which in the end have an effect on high quality of life. In Delhi, for instance, the AQI can attain 500 or extra in winter and 200+ in summer season. This has bothered me. Everybody ought to have equal entry to wash air. We appear to have gotten used to the truth that air air pollution is simply part of life, and we’re okay with respiration low-quality air,” he stated.

He additionally talked about that on this case, the property costs throughout the nation ought to be linked to AQI.

“The upper the AQI, the decrease the true property costs ought to be. In any case, by residing in such areas, you’re accepting greater odds of respiratory illnesses, most cancers,” he wrote.

Bryan Johnson on leaving podcast halfway

Regardless of sporting an N95 masks and turning on the air air purifier in a lodge room, Mr Johnson left the podcast with Nikhil Kamath halfway as he was unable to tolerate the room’s air high quality. At the moment, the AQI was round 120. Praising Nikhil Kamath as a “gracious host”, he defined the room was circulating exterior air, rendering his air air purifier ineffective.

Mr Johnson criticised how deeply normalised air air pollution has develop into in India.

“This was my third day in India and the air air pollution had made my pores and skin get away in rash and my eyes and throat burn. Air air pollution has been so normalized in India that nobody even notices anymore regardless of the science of its destructive results being well-known. Folks could be exterior operating. Infants and babies uncovered from beginning. Nobody wore a masks which may considerably lower publicity. It was so complicated,” he wrote in a publish X.

He additionally questioned why India’s management had not declared air air pollution a “nationwide emergency” and cited research on air air pollution’s well being results.

Drawing a comparability to the US, he stated whereas air pollution was India’s silent disaster, weight problems was of the US. “Once I returned to the U.S., my eyes have been contemporary to see what’s normalized to me. I noticed weight problems in every single place. 42.4% of American are overweight and since I used to be round it on a regular basis, I had been principally oblivious to it. In lots of contexts, weight problems is worse than air air pollution in the long run. Why would not American leaders declare a nationwide emergency on weight problems?” he stated.





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