Food and sleep are essential for your health. Not eating or sleeping well can make you feel sick. But the details of how food habits and sleep can make you feel sick or keep you healthy are largely unknown.
Food and sleep are essential for your health. Not eating or sleeping well can make you feel sick. But the details of how food habits and sleep can make you feel sick or keep you healthy are largely unknown.
We want to know how food habits and sleep affect the immune system (the system that fights infections and keeps you healthy). Knowing this will help to improve care, healthy living and will guide the development of new treatments.
> For you: giving you a broader understanding of your health. This may help to better explain your situation to your doctor for better care.
> For anyone with food and sleep related complaints: getting insights that are necessary to develop better care and better treatments
We avoid asking you irrelevant questions (our system recognizes similar health situations as your in the repository and has learnt not to ask questions that are irrelevant)
We ask you questions that given your situation are highly likely to be relevant. Some of these questions are about health issues you may be aware of, but have never been considered to be related to the problem at hand. This can be very informative and may help you next time you see your doctor.
We need your help to better understand how your immune system reacts when eating some specific foods and how it impacts on your sleep.
Do you suspect that you might have a food allergy? Have you ever been diagnosed with a food allergy?
A number of studies point to a relation between food habits and immunology. A study in Europe involving 3206 individuals aged 15-77 years suggests an increase in sensitisation to common allergens, an increase in asthma symptoms, and a reduction in lung function in those eating a diet rich in animal proteins and carbohydrates.
Although the biological mechanisms underlying the association sleep/immune response remain unclear, the immune alterations due to sleep deprivation may contribute to the development of allergen sensitization. Studies have demonstrated that sleep deprivation affects immune function, including an increased susceptibility to infections.
