Does Turning Up the Heat on your Water Change Your Gut?
Personal preferences become the parameters of our lives – and most of them, they don’t make much of a difference one way or the other. Does
Personal preferences become the parameters of our lives – and most of them, they don’t make much of a difference one way or the other. Does
It’s becoming common knowledge in scientific circles that our guts, or “second brains,” have a symbiotic relationship with almost every other system in our bodies.
The toxic bioaccumulation in our world has reached a fever pitch. Ten years ago, I was worried. Twenty years ago, I was cautious. Now? I’m
The complexity of the human body makes most of us paralyzed with indecision. Nothing we encounter in this world – the workplace, our love lives,
“Eat an apple on going to bed and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread.” At least, that’s what one Welsh publication advised its
We’re Homo sapiens, not Neanderthals. Although the species diverged around 650,000 years ago, they also existed at the same time, and probably mated. However, we
We as a society are hunting witches – not the kind that cast spells, of course, but the kind that cause digestive distress. From dairy to
The holidays are rife with opportunities to upset our tummies – especially the older we get. As the gut microbiome ages – and absorbs assault
Around 2,700 B.C.E., King Shen Nong of China made a mistake. They say it’s just a legend, but if it’s true… King Shen Nong changed
People are starting to get nervous. The sun is going down much earlier these days, the weather in most parts of the country has started
Personal preferences become the parameters of our lives – and most of them, they don’t make much of a difference one way or the other. Does
It’s becoming common knowledge in scientific circles that our guts, or “second brains,” have a symbiotic relationship with almost every other system in our bodies.
The toxic bioaccumulation in our world has reached a fever pitch. Ten years ago, I was worried. Twenty years ago, I was cautious. Now? I’m
The complexity of the human body makes most of us paralyzed with indecision. Nothing we encounter in this world – the workplace, our love lives,
“Eat an apple on going to bed and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread.” At least, that’s what one Welsh publication advised its
We’re Homo sapiens, not Neanderthals. Although the species diverged around 650,000 years ago, they also existed at the same time, and probably mated. However, we
We as a society are hunting witches – not the kind that cast spells, of course, but the kind that cause digestive distress. From dairy to
The holidays are rife with opportunities to upset our tummies – especially the older we get. As the gut microbiome ages – and absorbs assault
Around 2,700 B.C.E., King Shen Nong of China made a mistake. They say it’s just a legend, but if it’s true… King Shen Nong changed
People are starting to get nervous. The sun is going down much earlier these days, the weather in most parts of the country has started
There’s a parenting cheat code we don’t often talk about… We don’t always have to bear the burden of coming up with consequences. Natural consequences
We know the air outside is polluted. And pollution is…
Micro-contaminants in the air that change the environment around it.
The outside air has pollutants from vehicle exhaust, landfills, pesticides running into water sources, factory smoke, etc. But the indoor air isn’t any safer.
In fact, studies done on the quality of most of our indoor air show that it’s stale, rarely refreshed, and full of every pollutant we bring into the house with us. And since Westerners spend the vast majority of their time indoors, up to 90% in some places, it’s a serious problem that should be factored into the discussion about how pollution affects our health.
“Stay out of it” is pretty much the standard distillation of analysis regarding the prison industrial complex, at least according to most public school curricula.
Not bad advice, certainly.
But in the wake of the great informational tsunami that’s flooded the shores of the West these last few months, and in keeping with our commitment to participate in a capitalist word as consciously and ethically as we can, we can’t help but dig a little deeper into two key facts:
In your wildest dreams, did you ever imagine you’d be begging your children to stare at a screen for eight hours during virtual class time
So this was going to be your year — the year you stop missing the Farmer’s Market by sleeping in on Sundays, the year you were going to stop paying $1.50 extra for organic food at the grocery store, the year you weren’t going to live on frozen veggies.
If you’re like lots of urban dreamers, you may have missed the mark this spring. But urban gardens are definitely still within reach — in fact, they’re trending.