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Climate change, uncertainty and allostatic load.

D E Crews^1,2, N C Kawa¹, J H Cohen¹

¹a Department of Anthropology , The Ohio State University , Columbus , OH , USA.

Annals of Human Biology

|February 22, 2019

Summary

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Global Climate Change (GCC) intensifies environmental and social stressors, increasing the risk of lifelong elevated allostatic load. This occurs through amplified stress, insecurity, and migration, impacting human health across generations.

Keywords:

Food insecurity climate migration social instability stressors water insecurity

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Area of Science:

Environmental Health
Human Physiology
Climate Science

Background:

Human physiological stability is challenged by environmental stressors.
Allostasis is the neuroendocrine system for stress response, maintaining somatic optima.
Chronic stress leads to physiological dysregulation, termed allostatic load, which increases with age.

Purpose of the Study:

To review pathways linking Global Climate Change (GCC) to increased allostatic load.
To examine how GCC exacerbates environmental and social stressors.
To predict the population-level health impacts of GCC.

Main Methods:

Review of published literature.
Analysis of primary ethnographic case studies.
Examination of climate-related stressors, social instability, food/water insecurity, and migration.

Main Results:

GCC multiplies environmental and social stressors, increasing allostatic load.
Early life exposure to GCC-related social insecurity has significant lifetime impacts.
Food and water insecurity, and migration driven by GCC, elevate allostatic load.

Conclusions:

Global Climate Change (GCC) accentuates environmental and sociocultural stressors.
Populations exposed to GCC face a higher likelihood of lifelong elevated allostatic load.
Intergenerational effects, including historical trauma and epigenetics, may perpetuate allostatic load.