New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- Bryan Johnson, known for his anti-ageing research, walked out of a podcast recording with Zerodha's co-founder Nikhil Kamath, complaining about discomfort due to the poor air quality.

The American tech millionaire, in a Tuesday post on micro-blogging platform X, lamented air pollution not being a national priority for Indian leaders, claiming that prioritizing cleaning up the air would do Indians more good "than curing all cancers".

If recent studies are anything to go by, Johnson, who visited India in January, won't be off the mark.

A study by the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine on 3 February found a rise in lung ...