Air pollution contributes to neurodegenerative diseases, with pathological changes like amyloid beta plaques observed in infants and children.

“there's been a just onslaught of new research that has shown air pollution is contributing to neurodegenerative diseases starting in early life so there was a study in mexico city where air pollution is terrible and children so they've been doing post-mortem um you know studies looking in the brain of unfortunately infants and children and young adolescents that have um that have died for whatever reason and they have amyloid beta plaques in their brain as early as infancy and other you know pathological changes in the brain going on early early in life which is really unfortunate”