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Immunomodulation by Probiotics Part 1

Dear Friends, We are going to take a breather this week from diving deeper into the details of immunomodulation of the immune system by probiotics, and instead I am devoting this email to many of y...

The Pathogen Pandemic

Dear Friends, Why all the concern over the H1N1 virus with the WHO, the CDC, etc? Annually in the US alone, around 36,000 people die from the flu; and so far less than 200 people in Mexico have die...

Seeding the GI Tract

Dear Friends, Seeding the gastrointestinal tract with good bacteria is smart medicine. It is a critical component to achieving and maintaining good health. In this email I will share with you some ...

Probiotic Naming Shenanigans

Dear Friends, Nomenclature, when it comes to bacteria, can be very confusing; partly because of the evolving technology for classifying organisms, which necessitates giving them new names correspon...

Children as Canaries in Mines

Dear Friends, Remember a couple of emails ago we sited frogs as being the canary in the mine? The common herbacide, atrazine, causes hermaphroditism 100% of the time when exposedto even very small ...

Symbiosis in Action

Dear Friends, As you can see in our “beautiful creature” on the right, we have a picture perfect example of symbiosis in action. Within our gastrointestinal tract we will see further examples of sy...

More Bugs in our Gut than Human Cells in Our Body

Dear Friends, We have finally arrived at the door of the gastrointestinal microbiome, an area of our body that is increasingly recognized as having major ramifications towards securing our health o...

Our Guts Like a Coral Reef

Dear Friends, In our last email we looked at the coral reefs, the tropic rain forests of the oceans, with its myriad of individual coral polyps as the composition of the reefs. Each polyp is a symb...

The Largest Living Organism

Dear Friends, What are the largest living structures of biological origin on earth? The answer is… coral reefs. The Great Barrier Reef, which is really a complex of many reefs, is 92,000 square mil...

Evolution of Life

Dear Friends, Water is the womb of creation. The primordial ocean, the ancient soup of chemicals: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous and sulfur; the elements from which life emerged. M...