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IQ Air Review vs Air Doctor Review - Watch Before Buying
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Apr 8, 2025
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hey what's up ladies and gentlemen this
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is David Benjamin from WellStar reviews
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and healthy wild 3 today I'm going to be
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reviewing the IQ a now this is the
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health Pro Series model it's sort of a
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um medical grade air purifier filter
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that it it's on Wheels as you can see
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and it has several different filters in
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it so I'm going to share with you my
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experience with the IQ air filter what I
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like and don't like about it and I'm
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going to share with you my experience of
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the air doctor filter what I like and
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don't like about that I've lived in
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environments where the IQ air was
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present and I've lived in environments
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where the air doctor was present so I've
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seen and experienced both filters and I
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also looked up the specs so I'm going to
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share the specs with you so you can get
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an understanding of sort of the
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technical pros and cons of each model of
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each unit so you can make the best
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purchasing decision for the health of
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you and your family so with that being
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said first things first the IQ air is
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more of a medical grade air filter
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whereas the air doctor is more of a
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consumer uh air filter and the reason
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for that is because the IQ air has a
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little bit more testing and validation
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in terms of it's like HEPA a filtration
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so for example the IQ air has what's
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called a hyper HEPA filter whereas the
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air doctor has what's called an ultra
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HEPA filter now they are really claiming
1:22
to do the same thing in fact Air Doctor
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claims that it filters a slightly higher
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percentage they're both like 99
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something %
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99.9 from Air Doctor 99.5 from iqair but
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iqair with that testing actually has or
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with that claim actually has testing
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behind it whereas air doctor doesn't
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have independent claims uh so you're
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just kind of taking their word for it
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now in terms of the square footage that
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each filters the IQ air filters
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11225 Square ft and the air doctor
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filters 1,000 ft so it's very similar
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very close in that regard uh the you
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know HEPA filter like I said is
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basically the same uh each both the air
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doctor and the IQ air each have
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essentially a three- layer filter so
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it's the prefilter the activated carbon
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filter and then at the end of the cycle
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it's the HEPA filter so each of them go
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through this pre-filter carbon filter
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HEPA filter three-stage filtration
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process so it's very similar in that way
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uh you're just looking at a slight very
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very very small difference in terms of f
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efficacy that IQ air has proven and I
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think that's because these are more used
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in a medical grade setting they kind of
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look like medical grade uh devices
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they're they're fairly big and uh the
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air doctor is smaller and more sleek and
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more of a consumer grade home model
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whereas this is you know um just a
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bigger model uh so moving on so uh now
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comparing the price of the uh annual
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filter replacement cost with the IQ air
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you're looking at $396 a year and with
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the air doctor you're looking at 180
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bucks a year so even though you're
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getting 100 ft 125 ft less with the air
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doctor filtration the yearly filtration
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upkeep cost is significantly Less in
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fact less than half of the IQ air to
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maintain $396 a year with the IQ air and
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180 bucks a year for air doctor so a
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pretty big difference there uh now we're
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looking at the price the price of the IQ
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air this is about 1100 1200 bucks
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whereas the air doct is 629 so in terms
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of like a small difference in variance
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with uh you know square footage
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filtering 100t difference 1,00 to 1100
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ft and then maybe a small difference in
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terms of efficacy of uh you know the
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HEPA filter because Air Doctor claims to
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have a little bit different HEPA filter
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technology uh you're literally looking
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at Double the price of air IQ UPF front
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and then more than double the price on a
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yearly basis to replace the filters I'm
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going to share more with you on the
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filters with that in a second because
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that's also there's something about IQ I
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don't really like as much and I'll pop
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it open and show it to you but I want to
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give you the specs first so you can see
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a lay of the land so to speak so um I
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will say the one thing that IQ air
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definitely has over Air Doctor by a long
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shot is that this device has a 10-year
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warranty so they are really built to
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last it's Swiss engineered and I'm a
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huge fan of Swiss and German engineering
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in fact I think some of the best
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products in the world come from
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Switzerland and Germany uh my favorite
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rebounder trampoline the bellicon I I
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did a review on them I'll put that below
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if you're into health and fitness and
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rebounding it's actually a Swiss German
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company and swiss German engineered it's
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engineered in the black forest in
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Germany and it's a Swiss company so um
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you know in terms of quality the 10-year
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warranty is really nice whereas the air
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doctor only gives you a one-year
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warranty so a lot less Assurance in that
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regard I will say however the air doctor
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uh that you know I've uh you know lived
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in the home with actually a few Air
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Doctors not just one a few and I'll get
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to that in a second the reason for that
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there was no issues over two or 3 years
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at all so uh I think the one-year
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warranty uh you know although it gives
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you less Assurance there's several Air
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Doctors in one home running like
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literally 24/7 I kid you not 24/7 I had
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a roommate who was very particular about
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mold and would run these things Non-Stop
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and for two to three years not a single
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issue so um you know I think that one-
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year warranty is probably not much to
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worry about uh but I will say this is
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probably because of that 10-year
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warranty uh probably engineered a tad
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better but I don't think it's 10x better
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not by any chice of the imagination I
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think that's more of a sales pitch to be
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honest with you uh moving on so the
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warranty is better on here uh in terms
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of the noise level this goes up to 69 DB
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whereas the air doctor doesn't really
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specify I will say when you turn this on
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right now it's at a speed three you can
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see the different lights here the uh
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prefilter filter uh 2 and three so
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filter 1 2 and three and it turn red or
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green based on if it needs replacement
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so that's nice to notify you and then
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you just push this up 3 4 5 6 so this is
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six this is the highest setting um it
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does get pretty loud 69 DB is it's
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fairly loud it's not crazy but you know
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you have to raise your voice a little
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bit if you're right next to it but you
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can kind of put it in the corner too so
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it's not a huge deal uh but uh you know
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it's a little loud um moving on so uh
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term now talking about ozone and ions
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this is really interesting I have all
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the specs here so bear with me I didn't
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I don't want to miss anything so the IQ
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Air does not emit ozone or ions and some
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people see this as a positive I actually
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don't personally I love ozone and ions
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and here's why ozone is naturally
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naturally emitted in our atmosphere and
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ozone oxidizes and kills things like
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mold bacteria viruses things like that
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and a very small percentage it's not bad
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people think that it's bad but uh if
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you're a health and wellness geek like
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myself myself and friends like myself we
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literally what we do is Ozone bomb
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specific rooms in the home meaning you
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turn on ozone machine on at a high
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concentration close the door trap it all
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in there and you just do that to kill
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everything so a small degree of ozone
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I'm not worried about at all
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additionally uh the ions that are
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emitted from the air doctor are also a
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good thing because What ions do is
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they're electrostatic they're
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electrically charged particles the IQ
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air doesn't emit ions negative ions to
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be specific the air doctor does now
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negative ions that electrostatic energy
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it actually uh tracks particles and it
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binds to them and when that flows in the
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air and gets back into the filter not
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this filter but the air doctor what that
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does is it makes it easier to trap those
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particles because there's an electrical
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charge now that can be trapped in the
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machine and pulled in but if there's no
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ions going out to trap those things to
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pull them in you don't have as much of a
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a charge electrically speaking to filter
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those particles so I personally believe
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based on Research I've done I've had an
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ozone machine that journees ozone I have
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uh negative ion generators I mean people
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buy these things separately I have I've
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bought air filters I've bought o
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machines I've bought negative ions all
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separately literally three different
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things so to have all that in the air
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doctor is actually really nice uh
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because and also another thing that's
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nice about negative ions is that any
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electronic device cell phones Wi-Fi
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Bluetooth 5G anything that emits
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radiation and EMF electromagnetic
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frequencies are emitting positive ions
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positive ions are also electrically
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charged and they create stress and uh
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basically issues with your health they
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actually cause free radical damage that
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leads to oxidated stress they'll cause
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headaches tension tightness and soreness
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in your body all types of things that's
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positive ions negative ions on the other
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hand are the exact opposite of that so
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for an air doctor to emit negative ions
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in your home it's actually calming it
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helps your breathing uh it traps those
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particles and pulls them into your
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filter better there's a lot of benefits
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to Ozone and ions and it's interesting
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because if you look deeper into this the
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medical establishments are the ones
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saying that ozone is bad yet but yet
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ozone is emitted by our atmosphere it's
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not bad at all it's a concentration
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thing and the concentration you don't
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have to worry about with the air doctor
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because it's very small and you're you
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know opening doors and windows and
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things like that when you're in and out
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and that ozone dissipates so you really
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don't have to worry about it it's
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killing stuff and it's dissipating and
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ions they're both a benefit so I
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personally really like that the air
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doctor has the negative ions and the
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ozone because you're getting a benefit
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there that you're not even getting at
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all with the IQ air but there's another
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benefit of the IQ a that the air doctor
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doesn't have so I'll get to that in a
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second so um now continuing uh so here's
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sort of the pros of the IQ a uh you know
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it's a high quality construction 10e
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warranty like I said it has a great
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filtration uh the activated carbon is a
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larger filter than the air doctor uh I
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believe it's it says here 5 lb whereas
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the air doctor is uh I believe it's like
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a uh well it depends on the air doctor
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you get but it's only6 to 3 lb I think
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Apples to Apples it's a 3 lb filter so
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it's a little bit less than half which
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you know makes sense for the price um so
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it's understandable so you're getting
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less of a activated carbon filter now
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what you should know is that the HEPA
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filter roomless particles they both have
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about the same HEPA filter might be
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slightly better as IQ air for more than
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double the price up front and more than
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double the price for filters yearly but
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the activated carbon filter in the IQ
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air is better because it's a bigger
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filter meaning the the bigger the
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filtration media material excuse me the
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more air moves through that the volume
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of the air moves through that and then
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you have better air coming out the other
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end because it goes through a bigger
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filter this is the same principle
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applies to water the more filters you
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have and the bigger those filters and
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the more types of material that filter
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specific things filter that out with
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your water and I'll recommend something
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at the end of this video in that regard
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so you know uh with the IQ air really
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what it comes down to is double the
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price of the air doctor for 100 more
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square feet of filtration you have a
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better activated carbon filter which
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does filter chemicals better however the
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hea filter is about the same that's
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going to filter particles so the
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particle filtration is about the same
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now with the air doctor those particles
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are also good for mold and viruses and
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things so if you're really concerned
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about mold old in viruses and pathogens
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and sort of natural Airborne things I
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believe the air doctor is a better
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choice now if you're more concerned
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about chemicals and things like that the
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IQ air is a better choice they're both
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going to some to some degree filter both
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of those things but the IQ air is going
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to filter your chemicals a bit better
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because it has a bigger activated carbon
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filter now here's what I would recommend
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personally if you want to be financially
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wise and get the best bang for your
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buck
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they really if if you break it
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down the activated carbon filter is the
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benefit to this you get a bigger
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activated carbon filter and a longer
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warranty I don't think the warranty is a
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huge deal to be completely honest based
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on my experience because I haven't seen
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really issues with either one of them
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for years now with that being said
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you're having more chemical fil
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filtration with IQ air and you're having
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more natural contaminant pathogen
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filtration with the air doctor but the
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the the big thing here is remember this
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is double the price up front and double
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the price for filters more than double
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the price really for filters so what I
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would recommend is getting two air
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doctors for the price of one IQ air
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because you're going to filter 2,000 squ
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F feet which is probably going to be
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like a good p a larger portion of your
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home have one in the living room on a
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different level whatever it may be and
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then every once in a while just this is
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what my mom did Growing Up This is an
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old I think it's like a Polish thing or
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something or I don't know because her
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grandparents did this open all of the
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windows and doors in your home even if
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it's winter time air out your entire
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house like once every few weeks or once
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a month and just clean everything out
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that will get all the offc casting all
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the chemicals everything out of your
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home according to the EPA outdoor air is
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3 to 5x meaning 300 to 500% more clean
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and clear and pure than indoor air the
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problem is is that when it's really hot
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or really cold we can't keep our windows
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and doors open all the time because it
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would be incredibly expensive which is
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why we have air filters so I would
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personally recommend if it comes down to
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it IQ Air verse Air Doctor I would
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recommend getting an air doctor because
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it's cheaper and you get almost the same
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filtration not quite but almost and if
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you really want to you know have great
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air filtration get two Air Doctors
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because it is going to be better at
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getting mold the off gasing of chemicals
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you can just open your windows and your
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doors every once in a while and get that
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out of the home but the ongoing mold to
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me that's more scary and dangerous than
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the off gting of chemicals that I can
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literally just open the window windows
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and air things out here and there to get
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off gasing plus I don't really bring a
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lot of chemicals and junk and crap into
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my home I'm kind of a minimalist uh wood
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floors I like uh you know less carpet
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less the less of these types of things
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so there's going to be less off gasing
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overall I mean there's still offing from
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wood floors but regardless when it comes
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down to IQ Air versus Air Doctor I would
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get an air doctor uh and if you really
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want great filtration get two air
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doctors for different parts of your home
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and kind of separate them and space them
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out and air out your home like like I
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said once every few weeks or once a
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month now I want to show you one more
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thing with the air do or excuse me with
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the IQ air um in this video to kind of
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illustrate something that I I didn't
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really like about IQ air uh so this is
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this is how you get the filter so you
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pop this off right here okay you pop
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this off and when you do this this comes
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up like
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this and bear with me as I take this off
14:53
now I don't know how well you can see
14:55
this but these are the filters right
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here now the filters are in here
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and I kid you not I am 100% serious when
15:03
I say this the housing unit for these
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filters is
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styrofoam which you know when I read it
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was like Swiss made and all this kind of
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stuff I'm thinking like okay um it's you
15:17
know got to be like a better housing
15:19
unit and you know seeing these filters
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and this is the official IQ air filter
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by the way just so you know uh you can
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see that in there uh whoops it's kind of
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hard to show on video but it's in there
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uh and it's it's you could the IQ or
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filter logo is right in there so I'm not
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going to get too crazy with it but uh
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having that made of uh that housing unit
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made of a styrofoam uh was kind of a
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downside to me another downside with the
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IQ air that I noticed and I noticed this
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with another filter that I had before
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from a company called HealthWay which is
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actually very very similar to this oddly
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enough like I wonder if it's the same
15:57
manufacturer it's a square box like this
15:59
on Four Wheels I mean it's literally the
16:01
same thing and the filters are very
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similar as well a little bit different
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uh but one of the things I noticed with
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the IQ air that I did not like is this
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new filter in here I kid you not I can
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smell um a chemical off gassing from the
16:17
filter itself which is pretty
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disheartening and frustrating
16:23
because the point of these things is to
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filter chemicals and if the
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manufacturing process is putting
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chemicals I'm going to do that later if
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the manufacturing process is putting
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chemicals or leaving a chemical residue
16:37
in the filters that's not a good thing
16:39
because when I turn this thing on I
16:41
actually smell some of that chemical
16:42
residue and I have a very good sniffer
16:45
very good snipper so uh you know the
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fact that there's chemical offc casing
16:50
on the filter itself it's I don't like
16:52
that it's it's not cool I I never
16:55
experienced that with the air doctor um
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so there's actually some I I can just
16:59
tell there's some chemicals going into
17:01
the manufacturing process with the air
17:03
doctor that are causing a little bit of
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chemical off gessing from the filter
17:07
itself and eventually those kind of get
17:09
worked out but it takes a while and uh
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it's another downside from IQ air so um
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yeah with that being said I would
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recommend Air Doctor long story short
17:20
over IQ air you're going to get more
17:22
bang for your buck and if you're worried
17:24
more about mold and natural pathogens
17:26
Air Doctor I believe is a more effective
17:28
filter because that ozone negative ion
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feature with the HEPA and uh you know
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carbon carbon is better within the IQ a
17:36
but the hea being about the same uh but
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the you know the ion and the ozone being
17:40
better with the air doctor so anyways I
17:42
will link these up below maybe this one
17:44
is right for you uh maybe the air doctor
17:46
is right but I'll link up both the IQ
17:47
air and the air doctor right below this
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video another thing I want to share with
17:51
you if you want to learn more about
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personally vetted I'm a health and
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wellness coach so this is what I do for
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you were like hey I want to find the
17:59
best air filter I want to find the best
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shower filter or the best sink filter
18:02
for water or the best supplements or
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whatever it may be this is literally
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what I do for my clients so what I did
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is I put together a list of about 30
18:09
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18:10
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super high quality and most of those I
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think 20 22 of those Brands right now as
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shipping and special offers so what I
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18:27
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rebounder from the Swiss German
18:35
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18:37
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18:39
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