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For example maltreated children develop higher levels of IL-6 in response to a standardized social stressor TSST when tested as adults in comparison to a non-maltreated control group [ 44 , ], and individuals maltreated as children tend to have higher levels of CRP 20 years later [ ]. Low early life social class SES is similarly associated in adult life aged 25—40 years with increased production of IL-6 in cultures of peripheral blood leukocytes stimulated with ligands for toll-like receptor 3 TLR3 or TLR5 [ ]. Interestingly, negative life events during the first years of life, whether they affect the child directly, or indirectly via traumatic experiences of the mother, also predispose to the autoimmune disease T1D later in life [ , , reviewed in ].

It is likely that this reflects an influence of perinatal adverse life events on subsequent immunoregulation that is equally relevant to psychiatric and non-psychiatric chronic inflammatory disorders. The HPA axis is a crucial immunoregulatory pathway Fig. Numerous animal models have demonstrated associations between prenatal stress and long-term alterations in HPA axis function [ , ].

Observations consistent with this have been made in humans exposed to prenatal [ ] or early childhood stress [ ], or to a childhood background of low SES [ ]. These findings are consistent with the idea that HPA axis changes as a result of early abuse or neglect contribute to diminished regulation of inflammation. Changes to the microbiota impact the regulation of inflammation Fig.

But the microbiota are also modulated by stress [ ]. For example, in rats and rhesus monkeys prenatal stress has effects on the microbiota that persist into adulthood [ 53 , ]. In humans, fluctuations in the microbiota early after surgery may lead to an increased risk of immunoregulatory failure, manifested as graft-versus-host disease [ ], and changes in the microbiota of severely stressed critically ill humans are rapid and prolonged [ ].

These effects of perinatal stress on the microbiota are important for two reasons. First, in animal models, the nature of the microbiota during the first weeks of life has effects on the development of the CNS and the HPA axis that persist into adulthood, and cannot be corrected by reconstitution of the microbiota of adult animals [ , ].

Second, persistent alterations in the microbiota, whether due to lifestyle changes, urbanization, migration or perinatal stressors, also impact immunoregulation. Crucially, these factors affect the immunoregulatory mechanisms that control susceptibility to chronic inflammatory disorders, and that appear to be relevant to the extent of release of psychoactive inflammatory mediators following psychosocial stressors Fig. No doubt these immunoregulatory and psychosocial factors cause other changes too, e. We fully acknowledge the speculative nature of some of the suggestions we make. We considered earlier the evidence that there is a form of inflammation-associated depression, accompanied by raised CRP and IL-6, that is common in rich urban societies [ 56 , 57 ], but probably rare in low-income countries [ 55 ].

This would be in sharp contrast to adaptive depression that possibly plays a role in driving appropriate changes in behavior. It would also change our perception of this defined subset of depressed individuals, and switch attention toward anti-inflammatory strategies. This study compared the effects of an experimental social stressor on adults who had been brought up for all or part of their first 15 years of life in urban or rural environments.

Urban versus rural upbringing correlated with significant differences in activation of the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex, a region involved in control of negative affect and the physiological stress response [ ]. The authors attributed their findings to putatively different levels of social stressors in individuals with an urban versus rural upbringing. Indeed, the protective effects of perinatal and early life exposure to the German farming environment against allergies and early onset IBD were discussed above [ 6 , ], and other recent studies that documented skin microbiota, atopic sensitization and in vitro release of an immunoregulatory cytokine indicate that immunoregulation might be enhanced by living within 2 or 3 km of agricultural land and forests, because of the impact on the immune system of the associated microbial biodiversity [ 30 ].

The authors of the fMRI study did not measure the stress-induced levels of circulating proinflammatory cytokines in the two populations. Interestingly, it was shown previously that the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex, a component of the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex that was more activated by stress in those with an urban upbringing [ ], is also activated in parallel with cognitive changes by an injection of typhoid vaccine, which provides a mild lipopolysaccharide-driven inflammatory stimulus and increased IL-6 [ ].

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This argument can also be applied to the health gradients and background inflammation associated with gradients of SES. In the Whitehall study of UK civil servants, circulating levels of CRP and IL-6 were inversely correlated with employment grade, implying an inverse relationship between SES and background inflammation [ ].

This and other studies show that the SES gradient is associated not only with biomarkers of inflammation but also with inflammation-mediated health deficits such as cardiovascular disease, that increase progressively at every rank below the top of the gradient, despite the fact that at these upper levels, diet and nutrition and healthcare access are not significantly different [ , ].

A similar phenomenon has been seen in rhesus macaques that show a linear dominance hierarchy [ ]. It is generally accepted that the inflammatory mediators are driven by psychosocial stress associated with low SES, but the arguments presented in this review suggest an additional level of control: In other words, the stress resilience of modern urban populations might be reduced because of poor background immunoregulation. Several additional points that lend weight to this view are discussed below.

First, the notion that any position below the top of a dominance or SES hierarchy is associated with long-term inflammation-mediated damage to health is difficult to reconcile with Darwinian medicine. It might be maladaptive for such future breeding stock to receive permanent damage for instance, to the cardiovascular system or ILmediated damage to the hippocampus, cognition and memory earlier in life. Although in many troops of macaques or baboons, subordinate animals have high basal glucocorticoid levels, in other troops of the same species this effect is not seen [reviewed in ].

We should ask ourselves whether the latter, more difficult to observe and record, is the adaptive situation, and the norm in thriving free-ranging communities. The work of McDade presented earlier already hints at the possibility that in a low-income country stress resilience is greatest in individuals who had high microbial exposures in childhood [ 54 ].

Second, although the confounders are so serious that we cannot yet compare populations from rich and developing countries, we can seek preliminary support for this notion in epidemiological studies that compare urban and rural communities in rich countries. This is reasonable because as explained above, we already know that a rural upbringing, or merely living close to agricultural land and forests, has demonstrable effects on immunoregulation and on chronic inflammatory diseases [ 6 , 30 , ].

Interestingly, a recent very large study of the UK population confirmed a powerful link between SES based on income group and mortality all cause or cardiovascular [ ]. But the slope of the health deficit gradient was strikingly less steep in subjects living close to green spaces. The same was observed in large studies in the Netherlands [ , ]. All these studies imply that green spaces block the detrimental effects of low SES and that the effect is greatest at the lower end of the SES gradient, compatible with increased stress resilience [ — ].

It is curious that the large literatures on urban—rural differences [ 64—70 ], on the protective effects of the farming environment [ 6 , ], and the reduced atopy and increased biodiversity of the skin microbiota of people living within a few kilometers of agricultural land and forests [ 30 ] are not usually included in discussions of the benefits of exposure to green space, perhaps because they fall traditionally within different academic disciplines.

However, these findings all point to a clear biological explanation for the beneficial effects of green space on health and wellbeing. The consequences are equally relevant to psychiatric disorders and to chronic inflammatory disorders. This is not intended to be a comprehensive review.

Had space permitted there are other psychiatric conditions that could have been included in the discussion because of evidence for inflammatory components: Similarly, we do not include a discussion of all the factors known to be relevant to associations between environmental conditions, immune function and physical and mental health.

One additional factor of uncertain importance is delayed exposure to viruses caused by hygienic modern living conditions. Many viruses are harmless when met by neonates, perhaps because of the presence of maternal antibodies, but when encountered later such viruses may trigger inflammatory disorders such as allergies and autoimmunity [ — ]. Lack of vitamin D is also a feature of modern western lifestyles that has a major impact on immunoregulation and has been implicated in schizophrenia [ ] as well as in several chronic inflammatory disorders [ — ], and exposure to modern pollutants such as dioxins might drive proinflammatory Th17 cells via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor [ ].

In conclusion and with these limitations in mind, we suggest here that the pathways controlling brain development, stress responses and mood are so closely related to those controlling immunoregulation that they all need to be considered together. By loosening traditional interdisciplinary barriers in this review, we hope to have focused more attention on the relevance of psychosocial stressors in inflammatory disorders, and more attention on the potential for anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory treatments for psychiatric ones.

Finally, the conceptual framework that we provide suggests a number of areas where further research listed in Table 1 could rapidly cast additional light. He reports the following activities for the previous two years: National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. Evol Med Public Health. Published online Apr 9. Lowry , 2 and Charles L. Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer.

This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Chronic inflammatory diseases autoimmunity, allergy and inflammatory bowel diseases are increasing in prevalence in urban communities in high-income countries. Open in a separate window. The Old Friends mechanism and high-income countries The Old Friends mechanism implies that inflammation is better regulated in low-income than in high—income urbanized countries. Immunoregulation and psychiatric disorders in low-income countries The vicious circle described in Fig. Some unresolved questions, and tentative research approaches.

Suppress activation of microglia e. Can we identify individuals with high risk based on biomarkers then treat prophylactically? Is it beneficial to ensure neonatal exposure to maternal gut microbiota after cesarean delivery? Use existing databases e. Measure cytokine responses to the stressor, and correlate with pACC activation.

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Compare with typhoid vaccine studies. The role of the gut microbiota in the IL-6 response to the TSST or to typhoid vaccine Test patients before and after they receive antibiotics that reduce gut microbiota. Urban versus rural A feature shared by most of the disorders discussed here is a higher prevalence in urban than in rural communities. Allergy The role of migration in conferring risk for allergic disorders has been intensively examined.

Autoimmunity Migration also has clear effects on the prevalence of MS [reviewed and referenced in 88, 89].

Inflammatory bowel disease A definitive study of all first- and second-generation immigrants in Sweden between 1 January and 31 December showed that some first generation immigrants remain partially protected from both UC and CD, presumably by environmental factors encountered in their countries of origin, but the diseases increased in prevalence in second generation immigrants, relative to first generation immigrants [ 92 ]. Psychiatric disorders Depression is particularly interesting in this respect [ 94 , 95 ].

Diet and obesity Migrant status and urbanization also affect the diet, which together with diminished exposure to biodiversity and elimination of helminths will alter the gut microbiome. Perinatal stress and long-term changes to immunoregulation and the brain Immigrants from low- to high-income countries meet a changed microbial environment, with profoundly reduced biodiversity.

Perinatal stress and long-term changes to the intestinal microbiota Changes to the microbiota impact the regulation of inflammation Fig. Stress resilience and gradients of SES This argument can also be applied to the health gradients and background inflammation associated with gradients of SES.

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Gut microbiota composition correlates with diet and health in the elderly. Tremaroli V, Backhed F. Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking. Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

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Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. It's an insane world but in it there is one sanity, the loyalty of old friends. It's best to have an old friend far away, than a new friend nearby that makes you question your care. Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Tell me, why are the old friends kind, And ever the tenderest, too? Youth has no art, but an open mind, And its love is sincere and true. Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both. When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves. Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one. Beautiful memories are like old friends. They may not always be on your mind, but they are forever in your heart. Old stories are like old friends? You have to visit them from time to time. New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets.