The Environment and Health

Photo: Vicky Vinch ON/OFFModern humans evolved 200,000 years ago yet our immediate environment hardly changed until the onset of the industrial revolution about 250 years ago. Antibiotics, plastics, gasoline, and in fact much of what we are exposed to in our environment every day did not even exist 100 years ago. Daily our genes, our skin, our respiratory tract, our intestines, our brains are exposed to relatively new substances compared to exposures for 200,000 years. What a