Exposome: understanding how our environment shapes our microbiota
Learn how the exposome connects our microbiota, body, and environment and why it’s essential for the future of healthcare. What the exposome is and how it interacts with the human microbiota? How genes, epigenetics, and environment work together to influence health? How lifestyle, nutrition, and integrative medicine can support the microbiota? Why considering gender, early life, and environmental exposures is key to prevention?
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What if health was more than genetics? What if it was everything we’re exposed to? The exposome represents the sum of all environmental, behavioral, and social factors that influence our biology from conception to death. In this playlist, experts explore how the exposome connects our microbiota, environment, lifestyle, and emotions; offering a new way to understand and prevent chronic diseases. From endocrine disruptors and stress to nutrition, integrative medicine, and early-life exposures, discover how these factors interact to shape health across a lifetime.
Dive into this series to better understand the science behind the exposome and how small, informed changes can make a big difference for global health
Exposome: exposed microbiota puts health at risk
How can we avoid harmful exposures to our health?
Modern life is convenient but not always healthy. In this video, discover how everyday choices around food, lifestyle, and environment shape our long-term well-being and the health of future generations.
Through the lens of the exposome, this talk reminds us that true prevention starts with common sense habits: eating real, minimally processed food; moving daily; protecting mental health; and living more consciously for ourselves and for the planet.
You’ll learn:
- How modern habits and ultra-processed food impact health and inflammation
- Why balance, simplicity, and mindful consumption matter
- How early childhood and parenting shape lifelong resilience
Environmental & integrative medicine: a new way of healing?
Modern healthcare is evolving, moving beyond symptoms to explore how our environment, lifestyle, and mind-body balance influence chronic diseases.
This video explains how environmental medicine (understanding our exposures) and integrative medicine (combining evidence-based non-drug approaches) work together to improve prevention and patient outcomes.
You’ll learn:
Exposome & health: does gender make a difference?
From hormone disruptors to occupational exposures, gender shapes how we interact with our environment and how it impacts our health.
In this video, discover how endocrine disruptors can influence the development of hormone-dependent cancers, early puberty, and reproductive disorders, and why understanding gender-specific exposures is key to protecting future generations.
You’ll learn:
- How endocrine disruptors impact men, women, and children differently
- Real-world examples: cosmetics, construction, farming, and beyond
- Why the exposome must include gender to advance precision prevention
Genome, epigenetics, exposome: how are they different?
Your genes are not your destiny. This video breaks down how genome (your DNA), epigenetics (how gene expression is switched on/off), and the exposome (the totality of life-long exposures) interact to shape health.
From DNA methylation and histones to endocrine disruptors, the microbiota, and windows of vulnerability (like the first 1,000 days), discover how environment and lifestyle orchestrate biology—and why prevention starts with understanding exposures.
You’ll learn:
- Clear definitions: genome vs. epigenetics vs. exposome
- How exposures modulate genes and drive low-grade inflammation
- Practical takeaways to reduce harmful exposures
How to introduce the exposome in consultation?
What if the key to understanding chronic diseases lies in everything we’re exposed to, from stress and diet to pollution and lifestyle?
In this video, Dr. Véronique Mondain, an infectious disease specialist, explains how studying the exposome — the sum of all environmental and behavioral exposures — transforms the way we approach prevention and integrative medicine.
