A Closer Look at the Microbiome: What We Know and What We Don’t
The microbiome ecosystem plays a vital role in our overall health and well-being, influencing everything from our immune system to our mood.
The microbiome ecosystem plays a vital role in our overall health and well-being, influencing everything from our immune system to our mood.
The United States Government has made itself clear: When it comes to staying safe from Covid-19, we’re mostly on our own. Our social media feeds
The microbiome ecosystem plays a vital role in our overall health and well-being, influencing everything from our immune system to our mood.
The United States Government has made itself clear: When it comes to staying safe from Covid-19, we’re mostly on our own. Our social media feeds
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
Picture huge, industrialized fields of waving wheat and corn and soy in the American midwest. That’s about the size of our collective understanding of where
If you’ve ever felt your stomach twist into knots and recognized you felt nervous, congratulations. You’re human!
Now that science is getting wise to the brain-gut connection, we’re realizing that we’ve been intuitively paying attention to the subtle signal of the gut for much longer than we knew. But for much of history, we’ve written off gut reactions as illogical, sensitive, and generally unsubstantiated.
Turns out, there are actual, scientific reasons for these sensations that we’ve long assumed to be emotional.
Fad diets have a bad reputation — for many more reasons than what they can do to your gut’s microbiome.
Lots of them forego essential nutrition for the sake of weight loss. Think about low-carb diets.
Lots of them are obviously ill-advised now, but at one point were taken seriously. Like this fad diet found in Vogue magazine in the 1970s.
We hear it all the time – America runs on free market capitalism.
But what does that mean? Is it the same as garden variety capitalism? While we make an attempt to educate ourselves about the world we live in (because the truth is, most of us don’t understand the basic principles of our economy), it’s critical we make this distinction.
The short answer is “no.”