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Helsinki alert of biodiversity and health

Leena von HertzenYrjö Jahnsson Foundation, Helsinki, Finland;Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, FinlandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Bruce BeutlerCenter for the Genetics of Host Defence, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, USA
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John BienenstockDepartment of Pathology, Brain-Body Institute, McMaster University Ontario, Hamilton, Canada
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Martin BlaserNew York University Langone Medical Center, University of New York, New York, USA
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Patrice D. CaniUniversité catholique de Louvain, Louvain Drug Research Institute, WELBIO, Brussels, Belgium
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Johan ErikssonDepartment of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Martti FärkkiläHelsinki University and Helsinki University Hospital, Clinic of Gastroenterology, Finland
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Tari HaahtelaSkin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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Ilkka HanskiDepartment of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Maria C. JenmalmDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden
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Juha KereDepartment of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Mikael KnipChildren's Hospital, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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Kimmo KontulaDepartment of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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Markku KoskenvuoDepartment of Public Health Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Charlotte LingDepartment of Clinical Sciences, University of Lund, Malmö, Sweden
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Thomas Mandrup-PoulsenDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Erika von MutiusDepartment of Pediatric Allergy and Asthma at the Doctor von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig Maximilian UniversityMunich, Germany
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Mika J. MäkeläSkin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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Tiina PaunioUniversity of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Helsinki, Finland;National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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Göran PershagenInstitute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
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Harald RenzInstitute of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiochemistry, Molecular Diagnostics, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
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Graham RookCentre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Maria SaarelaVTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Espoo, Finland
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Outi VaaralaNational Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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Marc VeldhoenLymphocyte signalling and development laboratory, Babraham Institute Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Willem M. de VosRPU Immunobiology, Department of Bacteriology & Immunology, and Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Pages 218-225 | Received 17 Oct 2014, Accepted 15 Jan 2015, Published online: 23 Apr 2015

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Figure 1. Biodiversity loss, together with sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy diet, may lead to immune dysregulation, poor tolerance, and ultimately to clinical disease. Modified from (Citation116).
Figure 1. Biodiversity loss, together with sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy diet, may lead to immune dysregulation, poor tolerance, and ultimately to clinical disease. Modified from (Citation116).
Figure 2. ‘We are what we host, and we host what we eat, touch, and breathe’. Outdoor activities in biodiverse environments together with unprocessed food can provide us with microbial exposures necessary for the development and maintenance of healthy balanced microbiota and immunoregulatory circuits.
Figure 2. ‘We are what we host, and we host what we eat, touch, and breathe’. Outdoor activities in biodiverse environments together with unprocessed food can provide us with microbial exposures necessary for the development and maintenance of healthy balanced microbiota and immunoregulatory circuits.

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