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Anthropologically Disrupted Biogeochemical Cycles and the Effect on Sustainable Human Health and Well-Being

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This chapter discusses nitrate cycle disruption and the human health concerns associated with it from a systems perspective. The movement of major nutrients in the environment and human body could be thought of as the anthrogeochemical cycle. The author examines the human health concerns, particularly the unregulated chronic disease concerns, while acknowledging the important biophysiological roles of nitrate and its biochemical derivatives in the human body, the hormesis (low-dose benefit, high-dose toxicity) of nitrate. These issues are discussed relative to multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs) that the system intersects with along the planes of health, well-being, environmental disruption, and human agricultural/economic structures.

Nitrogen is part of a biogeochemical cycle that humanity evolved within. It is important to consider this and to consider the physiological norms of nitrogen cycling that evolved along with that larger biogeochemical cycle when...

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Zeman, C. (2020). Anthropologically Disrupted Biogeochemical Cycles and the Effect on Sustainable Human Health and Well-Being. In: Leal Filho, W., Wall, T., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G. (eds) Good Health and Well-Being. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95681-7_76

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