Nearly every health website offering eternal youth and beauty will sooner or later focus in on gut health and improving your microbiome, as if the microbiome were something that needed fixing. In fact, much of you isn’t you, and that’s okay. For every cell in your...
Jessica Green Green Labs We make decisions every day based on the visible world around us. Yet much of our lives is shaped by what we can’t see. The Green Lab wants people to see the important role microbes, ecology and evolution play in every facet of our...
Published on Jul 13, 2016 Of ‘Profound’ Importance in Proper Social Functioning, UVA Discovers • Researchers determine that the immune system affects – and even controls – social behavior. • Blocking a single type of immune molecule made mouse brains go hyperactive...
Even gut microbes have a routine. Like clockwork, they start their day in one part of the intestinal lining, move a few micrometers to the left, maybe the right, and then return to their original position. New research in mice now reveals that the regular timing of...
Fermenting vegetables is not only easy, it’s affordable and quite possibly the most nutritious and probiotic rich of all the ferments to choose from. If you want to make your own ferments, I would suggest starting with sauerkraut because you will most likely be...