The concept of Exhibition implies a change in perspective in research into how Environmental risks influence human health and of the interactions that exist between all possible factors during human existence and that the condition possibility to lead a healthy life.
Instead of looking at the consequences that every exhibition in our body could have, the Study of all exhibitions to which a person is subject, from conception to death.
He Exhibition take into account All elements we are exposed to Thanks to our diet, lifestyle and the environment in which we live and work, as well as internal biological factors such as metabolism, intestinal microflora, inflammation and oxidative stress.
A new concept: exhibition
Yes We ask someone from the street what the genes are and what has to do with usS, most people would know that they are related to eye color or the risk of diseases. But if the question is what is the Exposome, Very few people will probably answer.
And is that Exhibition It is a relatively recent concept -it was conceived in 2005 -but that is becoming increasingly relevant to Understand how outside our health: From the air that we breathe to the food we eat or the places where we live.
In particular, it includes all the environmental exhibitions with which we are confronted, from conception to death. Includes factors such as air pollution, ultraviolet radiation, diet, stress, social interactions and even climate. Unlike genome, which is relatively stable, the Exhibition It is dynamic and constantly changes during our lives, giving a unique mark on our health.
For example the Pollution and health committee of the scientific journal The Lancet He warned that pollution was responsible, nothing more and nothing less than, nine million premature deaths in 2022, one in six dead worldwide.
“He Exhibition includes all non -general factors that influence healthFrom physical and chemical agents to social and behavioral environments, “explains Josep Peñuelas, a CSIC researcher at Creaf.