"Anthropogens" in lifestyle medicine
Colquhoun, D; Dixon, J; Egger, G
Abstract
Chronic disease epidemiology currently lacks the mono-causal focus germ theory provides infectious diseases. However, the discovery of a form of low-grade, systemic, and chronic inflammation (“metaflammation) underlying many, if not all, chronic diseases induced by a range of stimulants labeled “anthropogens” may help change this. Anthropogens are “man-made environments, their by-products, and/or lifestyles encouraged by these, some of which are detrimental to human health.” While an exhaustive list of anthropogens associated with chronic disease may be as elusive as a comprehensive list of “germs” with the potential to cause infection, a broad taxonomy provides a focus for the practice of lifestyle medicine. Such a list is considered here under the acronym NASTIE ODOURS.
| Journal | AM J LIFESTYLE MED |
| ISSN | 1559-8276 |
| Published | 01 Nov 2016 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 232-40 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1559827613512596 |
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