The Magic of Our Brain's Exposome

Psychology Today | 27.04.2026 21:18
The "exposome" is a word that most of us have never heard. And yet it is of central importance to who we are and who we become. It encompasses everything your body has ever been exposed to—air, noise, grief, drought, inequality, war, touch, laughter. Not just genetics. Not just lifestyle choices. The entire archive of encounters between you and the world, written, molecule by molecule, into your biology.