Contacts with environmental biodiversity affect human health: links revealed during the initial waves of the COVID-19 pandemic
Bosma-den Boer, M. M., van Wetten, M.-L. & Pruimboom, L. Chronic inflammatory diseases are stimulated by current lifestyle: How diet, stress levels and medication prevent our body from recovering. Nutr. Metab. 9, 32 (2012).
Google Scholar
Rook, G. A. W. Hygiene hypothesis and autoimmune diseases. Clin. Rev. Allergy Immunol. 42, 5–15 (2012).
Google Scholar
Rook, G. A. W., Lowry, C. A. & Raison, C. L. Microbial ‘Old Friends’, immunoregulation and stress resilience. Evol. Med. Public Health 2013, 46–64 (2013).
Google Scholar
Laprise, C. It’s time to take a sustainable approach to health care in the face of the challenges of the 21st century. One Health 16, 100510 (2023).
Google Scholar
Perkin, M. R. & Strachan, D. P. The hygiene hypothesis for allergy—Conception and evolution. Front. Allergy 3, 1051368 (2022).
Google Scholar
von Hertzen, L., Hanski, I. & Haahtela, T. Natural immunity: Biodiversity loss and inflammatory diseases are two global megatrends that might be related. EMBO Rep. 12, 1089–1093 (2011).
Google Scholar
Graham, A. L., Allen, J. E. & Read, A. F. Evolutionary causes and consequences of immunopathology. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 36, 373–397 (2005).
Google Scholar
Klement, E. et al. Childhood hygiene is associated with the risk for inflammatory bowel disease: A population-based study. Am. J. Gastroenterol. 103, 1775–1782 (2008).
Google Scholar
Weinstock, J. V. The worm returns. Nature 491, 183–185 (2012).
Google Scholar
von Hertzen, L. et al. Helsinki alert of biodiversity and health. Ann. Med. 47, 218–225 (2015).
Google Scholar
Rook, G. A. Regulation of the immune system by biodiversity from the natural environment: An ecosystem service essential to health. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 110, 18360–18367 (2013).
Google Scholar
Russell, S. L. et al. Early life antibiotic-driven changes in microbiota enhance susceptibility to allergic asthma. EMBO Rep. 13, 440–447 (2012).
Google Scholar
Sobotková, K. et al. Helminth therapy—From the parasite perspective. Trends Parasitol. 35, 501–515 (2019).
Google Scholar
von Mutius, E. & Radon, K. Living on a farm: Impact on asthma induction and clinical course. Immunol. Allergy Clin. N. Am. 28, 631–647 (2008).
Google Scholar
Tokunaga, S., Hirohata, T. & Hirohata, I. Reproducibility of dietary and other data from a self-administered questionnaire. Environ. Health Perspect. 102, 5–10 (1994).
Google Scholar
Eisenberg, J. N. S. et al. Environmental determinants of infectious disease: A framework for tracking causal links and guiding public health research. Environ. Health Perspect. 115, 1216–1223 (2007).
Google Scholar
Gao, Y. et al. Risk factors for severe and critically ill COVID-19 patients: A review. Allergy 76, 428–455 (2021).
Google Scholar
Hanski, I. et al. Environmental biodiversity, human microbiota, and allergy are interrelated. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 109, 8334–8339 (2012).
Google Scholar
Tischer, C. et al. Interplay between natural environment, human microbiota and immune system: A scoping review of interventions and future perspectives towards allergy prevention. Sci. Total Environ. 821, 153422 (2022).
Google Scholar
Aquino, Y. et al. Dissecting human population variation in single-cell responses to SARS-CoV-2. Nature (2023).
Google Scholar
Hamer, M., Kivimäki, M., Gale, C. R. & Batty, G. D. Lifestyle risk factors, inflammatory mechanisms, and COVID-19 hospitalization: A community-based cohort study of 387,109 adults in UK. Brain. Behav. Immun. 87, 184–187 (2020).
Google Scholar
Tavakol, Z. et al. Relationship between physical activity, healthy lifestyle and COVID-19 disease severity; a cross-sectional study. J. Public Health (2021).
Google Scholar
Gushulak, B. D. & MacPherson, D. W. Population mobility and infectious diseases: The diminishing impact of classical infectious diseases and new approaches for the 21st century. Clin. Infect. Dis. 31, 776–780 (2000).
Google Scholar
Merchant, J. A. et al. Asthma and farm exposures in a cohort of rural Iowa children. Environ. Health Perspect. 113, 350–356 (2005).
Google Scholar
Turunen, M., Iso-Markku, K., Pekkonen, M. & Haverinen-Shaughnessy, U. Results from a national housing quality, health and safety questionnaire. ISEE Conf. Abstr. 2013, 3998 (2013).
Google Scholar
RStudio | Open source & professional software for data science teams. https://rstudio.comhttps://www.rstudio.com/.
Molodecky, N. A. et al. Increasing incidence and prevalence of the inflammatory bowel diseases with time, based on systematic review. Gastroenterology 142, 46-54.e42 (2012).
Google Scholar
Ferrari, A. J. et al. Burden of depressive disorders by country, sex, age, and year: Findings from the global burden of disease study 2010. PLoS Med. 10, e1001547 (2013).
Google Scholar
Fetissov, S. O., Averina, O. V. & Danilenko, V. N. Neuropeptides in the microbiota-brain axis and feeding behavior in autism spectrum disorder. Nutrition 61, 43–48 (2019).
Google Scholar
Cani, P. D. et al. Endocannabinoids—At the crossroads between the gut microbiota and host metabolism. Nat. Rev. Endocrinol. 12, 133–143 (2016).
Google Scholar
Kuo, M. How might contact with nature promote human health? Promising mechanisms and a possible central pathway. Front. Psychol. (2015).
Google Scholar
Rojas-Rueda, D., Nieuwenhuijsen, M. J., Gascon, M., Perez-Leon, D. & Mudu, P. Green spaces and mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies. Lancet Planet. Health 3, e469–e477 (2019).
Google Scholar
Wells, N. M. & Evans, G. W. Nearby nature: A buffer of life stress among rural children. Environ. Behav. 35, 311–330 (2003).
Google Scholar
Cox, D. et al. Doses of nearby nature simultaneously associated with multiple health benefits. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 14, 172 (2017).
Google Scholar
Li, D., Menotti, T., Ding, Y. & Wells, N. M. Life course nature exposure and mental health outcomes: A systematic review and future directions. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 18, 5146 (2021).
Google Scholar
Grinde, B. & Patil, G. Biophilia: Does visual contact with nature impact on health and well-being?. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public. Health 6, 2332–2343 (2009).
Google Scholar
McMahan, E. A. & Estes, D. The effect of contact with natural environments on positive and negative affect: A meta-analysis. J. Posit. Psychol. 10, 507–519 (2015).
Google Scholar
Bratman, G. N. et al. Nature and mental health: An ecosystem service perspective. Sci. Adv. 5, eaax0903 (2019).
Google Scholar
Mead, M. N. Benefits of sunlight: A bright spot for human health. Environ. Health Perspect. (2008).
Google Scholar
Wacker, M. & Holick, M. F. Sunlight and vitamin D: A global perspective for health. Dermatoendocrinology 5, 51–108 (2013).
Google Scholar
Charoenngam, N. & Holick, M. F. Immunologic effects of vitamin D on human health and disease. Nutrients 12, 2097 (2020).
Google Scholar
Bell, S. L., Audrey, S., Gunnell, D., Cooper, A. & Campbell, R. The relationship between physical activity, mental wellbeing and symptoms of mental health disorder in adolescents: A cohort study. Int. J. Behav. Nutr. Phys. Act. 16, 138 (2019).
Google Scholar
Stanhope, J., Breed, M. & Weinstein, P. Biodiversity, microbiomes, and human health. In Evolution, Biodiversity and a Reassessment of the Hygiene Hypothesis Vol. 89 (eds Rook, G. A. W. & Lowry, C. A.) 67–104 (Springer International Publishing, 2022).
Google Scholar
Bloomfield, S. F., Stanwell-Smith, R., Crevel, R. W. R. & Pickup, J. Too clean, or not too clean: The hygiene hypothesis and home hygiene. Clin. Htmlent Glyphamp Asciiamp Exp. Allergy 36, 402–425 (2006).
Google Scholar
Reddy, R. K. et al. The effect of smoking on COVID-19 severity: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J. Med. Virol. 93, 1045–1056 (2021).
Google Scholar
Flegr, J., Flegr, P. & Příplatová, L. The effects of 105 biological, socioeconomic, behavioral, and environmental factors on the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and a severe course of COVID-19: A prospective, explorative cohort study. Biol. Methods Protoc. 7, bpac030 (2022).
Google Scholar
Aguilera, M., Vergara, P. & Martínez, V. Environment-related adaptive changes of gut commensal microbiota do not alter colonic toll-like receptors but modulate the local expression of sensory-related systems in rats. Microb. Ecol. 66, 232–243 (2013).
Google Scholar
Vagnerová, K. et al. Interactions between gut microbiota and acute restraint stress in peripheral structures of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis and the intestine of male mice. Front. Immunol. (2019).
Google Scholar
Ege, M. et al. Prenatal farm exposure is related to the expression of receptors of the innate immunity and to atopic sensitization in school-age children. J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. 117, 817–823 (2006).
Google Scholar
Fleming, J. et al. Probiotic helminth administration in relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis: A phase 1 study. Mult. Scler. J. 17, 743–754 (2011).
Google Scholar
Rhodes, R. E., Janssen, I., Bredin, S. S. D., Warburton, D. E. R. & Bauman, A. Physical activity: Health impact, prevalence, correlates and interventions. Psychol. Health 32, 942–975 (2017).
Google Scholar
Bateson, M. & Matheson, S. Performance on a categorisation task suggests that removal of environmental enrichment induces ‘pessimism’ in captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris ). Anim. Welf. (2007).
Google Scholar
Aerts, R., Honnay, O. & Van Nieuwenhuyse, A. Biodiversity and human health: Mechanisms and evidence of the positive health effects of diversity in nature and green spaces. Br. Med. Bull. 127, 5–22 (2018).
Google Scholar
link
