Your lungs were built for life, not modern air

You breathe around 20,000 times a day. Most of those breaths happen without thought.

Yet every single one passes through one of the most delicate systems in the human body, our lungs.

A surface area built for absorption

Our lungs have a huge surface area built for maximum absorption, with  roughly the same surface area as a tennis court. Designed by nature to absorb oxygen quickly and efficiently.

Our lungs were not designed to filter, clean or defend against contaminants .

Just to exhale CO2 and draw in oxygen.

The efficiency with which they do this  makes lungs remarkable. It’s also what makes them vulnerable.

We have developed some natural protection, evolved over thousands of years. Our nose hairs  and mucus traps offer some natural protection, trapping larger particles  in the  air we breathe. They are however no defence against modern airborne contaminants many of which  are small enough to pass straight throughthese natural defences and lodge deep in our lungs. Froom there, they  can move into our bloodstream, to other areas of our bodies and organs.

This is why air quality is no longer associated only with respiratory illness, but with system-wide effectsincluding cardiovascular strain, immune stress, and recovery complications.

Our lungs work continuously, never pausing to recover between breaths. As the air around us has changed, it has become increasingly important to recognise what lungs cannot do.

They were never evolved to filter ultrafine particles, adapt to constant contaminant exposure or compensate for polluted air by working harder. That responsibility has to shift outward, into the environments where air is conditioned, circulated, and shared.

The good news is that this doesn’t require a fundamental rethink of how buildings work. Protecting indoor air quality doesn’t have to mean rebuilding systems from scratch. HiboScreen is a solution that is designed to integrate directly into existing HVAC infrastructure, reducing airborne contaminants before they ever reach the lungs.

By intercepting pollution at the building level, lungs are freed to do what they were always designed to do: work without thought, effort and without the burden of modern air.