Can you tell us about your journey to start Airable Consumption?
I like to share my journey to inspire others. In this age of unnatural living, we are farther removed from the earth than we have ever been. Consumption is a thousand steps displaced from the original seed. What we consume is manipulated beyond belief, cells turned over and recombined into something we can not trust in our bodies. Additives, mercury, pollutants, microplastics. Sugar, aka crack. And we are driven to gluttony because of this. The addictive spike, the crash, the need for more, more. A bottomless need.
Is this something you’ve experienced in your food journey?
I was always bloated but I was always hungry. Like, I felt undead. I was undead. I was dying. Inflammation, electrolyte imbalances, constant sinus headaches and sore throats, terrible bloating, and I was short of breath all the time. But the doctors said everything was fine. I could see it in my eyes. The impurities.
Despite the stomach upset, I dreamt of eating. My dreams were full of these horrible binges, entire cakes and sticks of recycled butter and dirt and nails, sticking my head right underneath those dispensers for repaving sidewalks and drinking cement.
That is frightening.
It was. Really, they were nightmares.
This was what I carried, like so many, this cave inside me.
Right. What led you to the idea of consuming air?
I think it’s a mistake to understand our ethos as “consuming air.” Airable Consumption is a mindset, not just a lifestyle.
What can you say to critics who argue that airable consumption is ineffective, delusional, or even harmful to participants in the method?
I would argue it is not a method. It’s an embodied truth. Don’t you want to embody the truth?
Yes?
Our approach involves a lot more than air. Really, Diane!
Air is the pinnacle of my spiritual and consumptive lifestyle. I’ve travelled far and wide to understand how to take air into my body that is nourishing and sustaining. I’ve talked to experts in gut health, breath work, nutrition, mitochondria, terrain theory.
Breathe right, live right! I personally use our company’s air filters, one in each room of my loft. Our filters enrich this air and each can be individualized to your body’s needs.
It’s not just about breathing in activated, enriched air, or the techniques we use to bring small amounts of this air into our stomach.
I eat the appropriate amount of proteins, vegetable or vegetable substitutes, lightweight fiber, lipophilic perforated resins, food with air pockets. I love an indulgence, like dates, or a cocoa bean.
I look and feel the best I ever have. Wouldn’t you say so?
Yes, I would. You look amazing.
Thank you.
What is your daily routine?
At 5am, I rise to bells, sit up in bed, and inhale a big gust of cool, filtered air from the filter on my bedside table. Aluminized, ionized filter sucks up the stale air of night and blows it back onto me. Additional eucalyptus particles are key to energizing my morning. Then my gentle morning yoga. Followed by five gulps of water, with activated charcoal and bone dust, at room temperature.
At 7am, I run an easy five to six miles with a portable filter over my face.
At 8am, I head to work at Airable Consumption’s offices, where we have calibrated our filters, lighting, and structural environment to maximize metabolism and skeletal alignment, and therefore productivity.
At 9am, I consume my first solid food, a wonderful spread of internally farm-grown greens.
9-10am, more work.
At 11am, I sleep for an hour in my office. I have no dreams during my sleep. I’m awake one moment and then unconscious the next, then awake again, ready for work. Like a long blink.
Noon. My filter is right besides me. My muscles tingle. My digestive system is in perfect balance. My energy surges at this time of day. A slight, delicate hunger hums through me.
1pm to 5pm, more work, and a cheeky snack of aerated nut spread on barley bread, maybe a tea steeped in deep ocean seaweed.
At 5pm, my husband and I cook dinner together. Always raw.
6pm to 8pm, I have a more relaxed work flow, brainstorming Airable Consumption’s upcoming projects.
At 9:30pm, I drift into sleep over the course of three to four minutes. It’s like a gentle set of hands reaches up around me, warm and soft, and covers my eyes, then covers my mouth, still letting me breathe in and out through my nose, and then I’m pulled down, into my micro-responsive foam, and I’m sinking and then it’s inevitable, I’m asleep and gone and there is nothing, except darkness, my organs swimming around in my body.
I wake up entirely refreshed.
How would the process of Airable Consumption specifically work?
I brought our filter for a demonstration. Yes, come to this side of the table. Here, I’ve clicked the machine on. This is best to do an hour before meal time, and before or after sleep. Purse your lips, like me. Yes, like a duck. Diane, breathe with me!
It has a real tinny sound. The filter machine.
Shhh. We want to relax our shoulders. Relax our bellies. No need to hold it in anymore. Make sounds if you need to. Like that, like a silly horn, or a little sexual even. Now here is the key. Breathing it in, in, in. Let it push the air inside you. Don’t stop. TAKE IT IN. Consume the air!
Taste it, swallow it up, take in that geyser of purified air. Taste the electrolytes? The added minerals, activated charcoal, those antioxidants I mentioned, eucalyptus and peppermint. Now exhale in beat with the machine’s cycles.
It’s okay if we feel a little dizzy at first.
Look. We were hungry before this, remember? Now we aren’t. We are calibrated. We are nourished.
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Z. K. Abraham is a writer and psychiatrist. She is a Scottish New Writers awardee for 2025, and a Reading Round fellow for the Royal Literary fund for 2024-2025. She is published by Clarkesworld, The Rumpus, Fantasy, Fractured Lit, and others. She is represented by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary Agency. Her debut novel My Darling Clementine will be released by Amistad in 2027.