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Robin Condliffe

Jul 7, 2026

32:03
Three-letter acronym.
32:04
Yeah.
32:05
[laughs] This is a four-letter one anyway.
32:07
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
32:09
So chronic means long-standing.
32:10
Obstructive means the picture we get when you breathe out.
32:14
So you blow into a machine, and it has a picture of obstruction.

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45:51
What are things either domestically at home or, or in the, in the outside world that, that are sources of air pollution, especially things people can fix?
9:33
Tell us a little bit about then what happens when we take a breath.
9:38
Yeah.
9:39
So you've touched on it already.
9:40
The aim of taking a breath is to get air, which as we've said contains oxygen, into the lungs and to get rid of carbon dioxide, which the body has made.
9:50
So the lungs are like bellows, and you've got to open the bellows to suck in air.
9:57
We have a muscle.
9:57
The main muscle we use is, is not the muscles in the chest, it's the muscle below the diaphragm.
14:12
[laughs]

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