Dr Kiran Agarwal has worked in medicine for over 22 years and specialises in ENT (ear, nose and throat) health. She also works with entrepreneurs and high performers to help them stay well, avoid burnout and maximise their happiness.

I talk to her about:

- The prevalence of respiratory disorders 

- What the main causes of these health issues are - from air pollution to food.

- Solutions - what approaches can help, including:

- Diet - which foods to eat more of and less of

- How easy switches to our cleaning products and routine can help

- The way we breathe - how simple practices can reduce symptoms and even get people off medication, as well as the difference nasal breathing can make

- & more
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#132 | Breathe better, stay well this winter, clean living & more | Dr Kiran Agarwal

This is an archive of The Clean Up Hour. Tonight is the top 25 of 2024 -- the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the dope shit to bring into the new year. Y'all know what's up. Also, for the first time in the history of this show, I forgot to lower the volume of the background music before getting everything finished. I poked around and I think I will still be understandable, but if not, my humble apologies -- blame this new job for having me more tired than usual!

Andre 3000 - Tunnels of Egypt [Moving Day]
ThorHighHeels - equip the estrogen materia in a last bid to save the planet [willems house]
Dom Kennedy - LEANIN [Class of 95]
Keor Meteor - Carl Lewis [Ski Masks Extended/Korv Kiosk/Wurstelbox/36 Paymets/15 Car Pile Up/Short Music Tape 4]
LL Cool J - 30 Decembers [The Force]
Lil B - The Clerk Has Blood On His Hands [The Book of Flame]
Yelawolf - Goodbye Mornin [War Story]
Redman - Pop da Trunk [Muddy Waters Too]
NxWorries - Where I Go (feat. H.E.R.) [Why Lawd?]
RiTchie - Looping [Triple Digits [112]/Quiet Warp Xpress]
Jay Worthy - Can't Do That [Affiliated 2/Magic Hour/Time After Time/Tonite Show 2]
King Krule - Whaleshark [SHHHHHH!]
Ka - Bread Wine Body Blood [The Thief Next to Jesus]
Logic - Interstellar (feat. Lucy Rose) [Ultra 85]
TiRon & Ayomari - Who The Fuck Do You Think You Are? (feat. The Potash Twins) [The Adventures of TiRon & Ayomari]
R.A.P Ferreira - the poem presents a glimpse [The First Fist to Make Contact When we Dap/OUTSTANDING UNDERSTANDING]
Jahmiu - IDKLIFEISWEIRD [Almost Forgot How to Swim]
Common & Pete Rock - Wise Up [The Auditorium Vol. 1]
Tyler, the Creator - Hey Jane [CHROMOKOPIA]
Niko B - dagenham to barking [dog eat dog food world]
ScHoolboy Q - Germany '86 [BLUE LIPS]
Serengeti - they made it [KDIV/mixtape/Palookaville]
John Wells - SCARED 2 SAY DIE (Live) [That Much Bread On Me - EP/whole world burnin' down (deluxe)]
Blu - Precipitation [Love (the) Ominous World/Los Angeles/Out of the Blue/abc/Royal Blu/Other Shades of Blu(e)/The Original Color Blu(e) (Demos)/Back Home Again/Good GOD (the Bonus Songs)/California Soul]
Michael Christmas - Snooter (feat. Lungs & Phiik) [Unsexy]

The Clean Up Hour

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 300 (January 10, 2025): mophead's top 50 of 2024, #25-1

yall ever get a pain in your lung but its super vibey????

Caseoh Lung Pain electric lofi

Track - Artist
Week 1	- ENiGMA Dubz	
Out of Control	- Taiki Nulight 
The Cure - TRUTH	
Evidence - Kercha	
Animus - Josh Teed 	
Selector	Koya	
LAB GROUP - OLD WAYS (LAZY K BOOTLEG)				
Packet Loss - WUT final				
insight (feat. Stooki Sound)	Black Carl!  	
VONDOO & UGLY LUNGS - Egress				
Limit Dub	Oddkut	
Can't Do We Nothing (BLOCKLAB Remix)	
jura - simon the digger (medicine place script)			
Yung Tumbo - Chmura	
CONTROL - thys    		
Never Serious - Caspa 		
The Curse - Youngsta 		
Tech One - Unkey 			
Magicians - Daggz, Comisar, & Chmura

DRIP REKORDS - Deep Mix Vol. 2

Natch ESS by @inkcubedude, @KageCake, @flardenal, & @epik-bruh
https://soundcloud.com/inkcubedude/natch-ess-this-worlds-a-mess

Natch ESS: "This world's a mess" (Cover, I WON'T REPEAT IT...)

yoyoyoyoyo

had to get a perm to let my roots of fake pimping show, the burn,
but let me learn to earn what i was feigning 
i had some hoes as you may know but most of them smoke crack now 
yo facts i’m amazed that i even made it out unscathed from that, it’s seeming that

demons had a hold on my music i let it play since that 
yo, yo yo yo yo yo 
Jesus Christ got me on the internet flexing over blessings we recieved 
it’s easy to be at ease, appeased by the facts that be known, yo 

i was smoking loud in the soundcloud trenches 
like a ranger it was miles before i would hit the benches,
ROTC had me in shape before i explored dimensions 
shawty sang the delta 8 blues before a intervention 

on a spiritual level is how we steppin,
though that’s a fact facts be known yo, 
yo, facts be known 
i been immersed in murky water something like a gremlin 
or ogre i’m over it, no shrek, 

i would trek a thousand miles to meet God and never ask about the straw that broke the camels neck 
and i don’t backslide lately but who’s to say what the future holds 
yo yo yo yo yo 
he want praying for better days i want new music as my life unfolds  

scriptures foretold, facts be known 
yo facts be known 

~~

every day wake up, perpetuate fast to praise God, scraped pots to get sumn to exchange,
i was on my lonely since i occupied the vacancy of lanes paved by underground greats since 8 
i’m just tryna speak it myself, left my conscience bereft and swept up cleanly 

2 corinthians 2:15 left me transcending 
chasing the spirit never been a trend, 
i been on this ranked duo match w/ Yahweh cleansing sin 
relinquishing things i thought i owed myself like wealth and tryna get people to like me 
i was on the notion of rapping for G O D..

rolled up, holy smoke up in this clearing 
used to rap like suicideboys or some generic flow before the meaning, weeping angels sending doves above me 
reaping sowing the bros who levitate 
thought the flow was wack before it started to catch on,

grew up listening to aphex twin, didn’t have to mention 
this the 4th dimension in action.. word… yo 
i never claimed a faction till i met God in the back of a sheriffs cab ..
just a fraction of the epiphanies bestowed upon the narrative back in the day when i broke 
insane, never been the same shame

Doves (prod. pis.i)

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Jie Sun, PhD, a professor and researcher at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, whose work focuses on immunology and infectious diseases. Among other things, our conversation explores Dr. Sun’s career, recent research his team published on the long-term impacts of COVID-19, and what that could mean for patient care. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact on X (Twitter) (twitter.com/VirginiaHHA) or Instagram (www.instagram.com/virginiahha/) using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

VHHA Patients Come First Podcast - Jie Sun

Lung disease refers to any condition that affects the lungs and can hinder the ability to breathe properly. Common types of lung diseases include asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, and lung cancer.

Send your medical questions to ask@prairiedoc.org.

PDR Pulmonology - Dr. Andrew Ellsworth

Lungs Demo With Jake Vox

*Junkie Radio Exclusive*

B/aYZE:
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Prod. cohkane 

Cover by: snowinginlondon
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B/aYZE - SLEEPY PAT (Prod. cohkane) {Junkie Radio Exclusive}

In My Lungs (prod. by chrxme)

Drum & Bass edit/mash-up of Arkayla's indie anthem, Falling Down with Ruti's Lungs.

Arkayla - Falling Down [Marield Drum & Bass Edit]

Remix of the original track "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" by Florence + the Machine

Original track written by: Paul Epworth, Florence Welch

This track features a sample from “Deep Future Garage” by Janevo, free for use under the Pixabay content license.

DISCLAIMER:
This is an unofficial remix of “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)” by Florence + the Machine. I do not own the rights to the original song — all rights belong to Florence + and the Machine and their respective copyright holders. This remix was made for entertainment and non-commercial purposes only.

If you are the copyright owner and would like this removed, please contact me and I will take it down immediately.

Florence + the Machine - Rabbit Heart (Squeezeatea Remix)

monks (prod. maurice)

BUFFALO, NY – June 9, 2025 – A new #research paper was #published in Volume 16 of Oncotarget on May 20, 2025, titled “Cigarette smoke and decreased DNA repair by Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group C use a double hit mechanism for epithelial cell lung carcinogenesis.”

In this study, led by first author Nawar Al Nasralla and corresponding author Catherine R. Sears, from the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Occupational Medicine, Indianapolis and the Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center, researchers investigated how cigarette smoke and reduced DNA repair capacity contribute together to the development of lung cancer. They found that when a critical DNA repair protein called XPC is decreased and lung cells are exposed to cigarette smoke, the combination causes extensive damage and significantly increases cancer risk.

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) develops through both genetic and environmental factors. This study focused on how cigarette smoke affects the body’s natural ability to repair DNA. The researchers studied the role of XPC, a protein essential for recognizing and repairing harmful DNA changes caused by tobacco smoke. They found that low levels of XPC — commonly seen in lung cancer patients — made lung cells less capable of repairing DNA. This made the cells unstable and more likely to become cancerous. These changes were most pronounced in normal lung cells, suggesting that the earliest stages of disease occur before cancer is even detected.

The findings support a “double hit” model, where both cigarette smoke and reduced DNA repair work together to drive cancer development. In laboratory experiments, normal lung cells with low XPC levels showed more damage and cell death after cigarette smoke exposure. By contrast, lung cancer cells were more resistant to smoke damage, even when XPC was low, indicating that critical changes had likely occurred earlier in the disease process.

“Our study suggests that cigarette smoke exposure leads to decreased XPC mRNA expression, exacerbates total and oxidative DNA damage, hinders NER, and may contribute to lung cancer development.”

The study also showed that DNA repair ability declined significantly in healthy cells after smoke exposure, but this effect was not seen in cancer cells. In addition, the researchers confirmed that XPC gene activity was lower in actual lung tumor tissue compared to nearby healthy lung tissue. This pattern was consistent across both adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, the two main types of NSCLC.

These results add to our understanding of how lung cancer begins at the molecular level. By showing how cigarette smoke and reduced DNA repair combine to create genetic instability, the research points toward new strategies for prevention. A better understanding of XPC’s role could help identify high-risk individuals and inform future efforts to stop lung cancer before it begins.

DOI - https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28724

Correspondence to - Catherine R. Sears - crufatto@iu.edu

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Keywords - cancer, DNA repair, DNA damage, lung adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group C (XPC)

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Oncotarget

Cigarette Smoke and DNA Repair Deficiency Drive Lung Cancer Development

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GET SUMAIR

STBB 959 - SNOTTERS

CHANGE YOUR WORLD. YOUR FIRST MESSAGE. HELLO.

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Composer working hard to submit some music for Sports, Movies and TV Placements.

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Oncotarget is now indexed by MEDLINE, PubMed and PMC/PubMed.

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in·sight
[ˈɪnsʌɪt]

"(the ability to have) a clear, deep, and sometimes sudden understanding of someone or something."

Welcome to the Insight Podcast.

A space to discuss psychology, science, mental health and more.

I hope these conversations inspire insight and wisdom in you, and help you find clarity, calm and connection.

Enjoy.

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Also doing slowed + reverb music now lol

To those of you looking for the slowed + reverb version of "Benji the Dog" by Mac Miller (RIP), it was copyright claimed after 15,000 plays. If you're desperate for the mp3, dm me here and we can work something out.

I just make what I like to hear 👂🏻🎼
∎  engineer  ∎  graphic designer  ∎

New tracks tagged #lungs