Microbiome Final Exam

Which of the following are everywhere and serve as a good example of how everything is interconnected?

Microbes are trivial to ecosystems, including those in our own bodies.

Which of the following define health?

Which of the following are emotions associated with lower inflammation?

True or false: Vitality and meaning are the essence of life and our immune system has been sensing this for as long as we have walked on earth.

What contains the microbes (and the genetic material) found in various ecological niches, such as the human gut or skin?

True or false: Biophilic Science would serve our best interests.

True or false: The concept that it’s important for children to study, learn, grow and play within natural environments is encompassed in Nature Play.

Which of the following is/are true regarding energy drinks?

True or false: White space contains dysbiotic forces that drive stress and ill-health.

Which of the following refers to the functional parts of the immune system with which we are born?

True or false: Loss of function is not associated with inflammation.

True or false: The inability of the body’s antioxidant defense mechanisms to adequately compensate for the production of free radicals is called oxidative stress.

True or false: Inspiration, forgiveness, and gratitude are associated with lower inflammation.

Blue space is associated with improved physical and mental health.

Which of the following is/are results of spending time in a wooded area rather than an urban area?

True or false: Symbiosis describes living in close proximity with mutual advantage.

True or false: Levels of dysbiosis are not impacted by socioeconomic status.

True or false: There is interaction between environmental and animal microbiotas. A reduction in biodiversity lessons this interaction and may lead to immune dysfunction.

Endotoxins gaining access to the bloodstream can provoke which of the following?

True or false: Fermented foods have no effect on a person’s negative outlook.

True or false: Diversity was a common factor found among the microbiomes of traditionally living people across the world.

Which of the following is/are affected by nutrition?

True or false: Highly processed foods are designed to draw us to them.

Which of the following should we increase consumption of?

True or false: As a biophilist, one should recognize the importance of maintaining the availability of nature close to home as a critical step to protecting people’s experiences of nature and their desire to seek out those experiences.

Which of the following is/are assets associated with nature relatedness?

True or false: The level of nature contact early in life is not as important to health in adulthood ass the amount of nature contact during childhood.

True or false: Heat affects bacteria and leaves them unable to positively impact the immune system.

Which of the following is/are actions of encephalobiotics?

True or false: The biophilic scientist is intent on discovery or on learning how to employ the forces of nature to create a greater harmony for man within his environment.

True or false: Today, science is often being used for technological applications that have nothing to do with human needs and aim only at creating new artificial wants.

True or false: STEM symbolizes the interconnectivity of life.

True or false: Holistic medicine is ecological medicine.

Income level has a/an _________ correlation to dysbiosis?

True or false: According to Hippocrates, physicians were required to understand that a disease identified in a single organ was a disturbance of part of the person.

True or false: Life is consciousness.

True or false: Microbes are the most adaptable organisms on earth, but if bacteria can’t readily adapt to new climate change conditions in an area where humans live and grow food, that is a concern for the wider ecosystem.

True or false: The germ theory fails to address why so many people harbor the microbes that cause disease and yet remain healthy and vibrant.

The primary secret of the microbiome revolution is the whole universe in which we live really _______ what is appears to be.