Focus area: Exposome-Diet-Health
The Food and Health Center’s goal with its focus area Exposome-Diet-Health, is to increase knowledge of the connection between diet, exposome (i.e., the total impact of environmental factors throughout a lifetime), and our health.
The complex interplay between environmental exposures and diet is thought to influence the onset and progression of several common chronic diseases – such as diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatism, psoriasis, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.
Within the Exposome-Diet-Health focus area, the Food and Health Center investigates, among other things, how the gut microbiota, the body’s immune system, the gut barrier and metabolism react to, for example, food additives, toxins in food or emulsifiers.
The focus area is run in collaboration with Örebro University’s Pollution and Society profile area and also with the European infrastructure EIRENE, which is the first of its kind for human exposome research. Örebro University plays a leading role and is particularly responsible for the link between the exposome, nutrition, and gut flora.