How modern life's constant exposure to environmental chemicals affects your body.
Every year, between 9 and 12 million people die prematurely through the cumulative effect of such exposures, mainly air and water pollution, heavy metals, synthetic chemicals and workplace carcinogens and particulates. Yet our ignorance about what exactly is going on is breathtaking. “For most exposures, probably the things you’re breathing right now, we’re not really sure what they’re doing,” says Snyder.
Now he and others are attempting to spearhead a revolution in understanding how our environments make us sick. “It might sound similar to what has been done in the past, but now we’ve got this big concept,” says . Its name is exposomics, and big it certainly is – it aims to measure everything we are exposed to throughout our lives and link this with effects on our health. Can that ever succeed?
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