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Desert Drifting with Cody “Barefoot” Lundin
ACCORDING to the World Health Organization, key causes of hunger are natural disasters, conflict, poverty, poor agricultural infrastructure and over-exploitation of the environment. I would add to...
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Kids are mammals, time we started treating them like it
A child born in the United States today has a one in three chance of entering this world through a surgical incision rather than a birth canal. A recent WHO report found C-section rates in private...
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HUMANS SPEND an awful lot of time and money trying to smell different – over $2 billion a year on antiperspirants and deodorants in the U.S. alone. It’s hard to imagine what that dollar amount might be...
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Ghosts of our African Gut
Every person on earth has two genomes. The genome we inherit from mom and dad is the one we are most familiar, and more or less stuck with for life. Our second genome, the one we initially acquire from...
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Nutrition’s ‘dark matter’
AS ANY reader of this blog knows, the human body is a mash up of human and microbial cells – with the microbial cells outnumbering our own 10 to 1. When you also consider the fact the human genome (our...
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An eaters guide to a healthy microbiome
“I have 15 cows, how many do you have?” Chief Jambiru asked me. “How many cows do I have?” I thought. What an odd question. But I shouldn’t have that so, as I had just asked the Chief how many cows he...
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Killing bacteria and the rise of IBD (in kids)
We’ve all heard by now that over zealous use of antibiotics – both prescriptions for humans and low doses in animal feed – is giving rise to antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. But a potentially...
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Are you carrying the obesity pathogen?
I can remember where I was and what I was doing when it happened. I was sitting in my usual spot at Sound Café in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans sipping coffee on a Sunday morning. It was...
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Slumdog Microbiome More Diverse
I was recently invited to put together a series of slides – or webinar – for a national supermarket chain on things their customers could do to improve the health of their gut microbiome. Once I got...
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A Fecal Transplant from a Healthy Chimpanzee or Average Joe – which would you...
Play along for a moment. The year is 2015 and all hell has broken loose. You’re part of a small band of people wondering the post-apocalyptic streets of downtown Atlanta – staying one step ahead of the...
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Swapping microbes with your dog
We hug them, kiss them, sleep with them, and share our food with them – they are, of course, the family dog. In return, they share with us some of the microbes they pick up as they saunter about the...
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Breaking A Plate for Human Health
It’s difficult to overstate how our growing understanding of the trillions of microbes that live on and in the human body is radically changing the way we think about health and the prevention and...
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Sorry low carbers, your microbiome is just not that into you
I recently posted a scatter plot (below) on Facebook/Twitter of preliminary metadata that we are accumulating as part of the American Gut project – which includes, among other things, a questionnaire...
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Going Feral: my one-year journey to acquire the healthiest gut microbiome in...
Unless you’ve been holed up in a cabin in the Siberian outback, it’s been hard to miss the avalanche of research and associated press coverage ballyhooing the connection between microbes and human...
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